Tokyo Commerce & Supplier Portal: Multi-Surface Storefront and Live Supplier Pricing
A multi-surface commerce platform combining a public storefront, an operations back-office, and a lightweight PIN-gated supplier portal for real-time wholesale price updates.
Node.jsTypeScriptMulti-SurfaceE-Commerce
Context
Wholesale supplier prices and stock availability shift daily. Calling suppliers by phone and updating product catalogs by hand leads to stale prices and canceled orders.
Scope I disclose publicly
- A dedicated, rate-limited, PIN-gated supplier portal where wholesale partners update item pricing and availability directly from their phones.
- Multi-instance storefront and admin services running in isolated Node.js processes.
- Nginx security hardening (strict payload caps, IP rate limiting, and noindex headers) protecting supplier endpoints.
Decisions and trade-offs
- Isolating supplier price-entry into a separate narrow-scope service rather than exposing the main store admin to external partners.
- Optimizing the supplier UI for one-handed mobile speed with minimal payload size.
- The trade-off: running separate services for shop, demo, and supplier surfaces adds process management overhead in exchange for clean security boundaries.
Running in production across isolated services; architecture walkthroughs available on request.
Disclosure: Supplier identities, wholesale prices, and order volumes are confidential.