Case study · Manufacturing · furniture hardware · India

Ebco.in: a headless storefront and catalog for a furniture-hardware brand

How I rebuilt Ebco.in as a headless eCommerce platform: a Next.js storefront on WooCommerce APIs, a catalog Ebco's team runs, and CC Avenue payments.

Outcomes

Context

01.
Distributors look products up by part number and specification rather than browsing categories.
02.
Each product category needs its own attributes (dimensions, ratings, compatibility), so a single flat product model did not fit.
03.
Catalog changes went through engineering, and orders arrived by email and phone before being keyed into the operations backend, which slowed processing and introduced errors at every handoff.

Approach

01
Headless WordPress and WooCommerce for the catalog
A proven commerce backend instead of a custom CMS to build and maintain. The storefront reads it only through APIs.
02
A data model per category
Each product type carries its own attributes, so filters and specification views stay accurate across very different product lines.
03
Integrate the operations backend instead of replacing it
Orders flow straight into the system the business already runs on, which removed the re-keying step rather than adding a migration.

My work

Senior Software Engineer at Unico Connect

Built the headless Next.js storefront on WooCommerce APIs, with MUI for the component layer and Redux for client state.
Shipped the shop, filtering and product detail pages, including specifications, enquiries and brochure downloads.
Integrated CC Avenue for online payments.
Customized the WordPress and WooCommerce PHP backend to fit the storefront.
Built reusable component libraries and optimized UI rendering, cutting UI development time and significantly improving page-load performance.
Owned production deployments.

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