Case study · E-commerce & Logistics
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Supercharging multi-vendor e-commerce & delivery.

MS Superstores in Trinidad & Tobago wanted more than an online shop — a unified retail marketplace with real-time delivery, where customers shop across vendors in one checkout and track every order live.

InstaExpress mobile app — product browsing and detail screens

The InstaExpress shopping experience — category browsing, live cart and product detail flows.

The challenge

Off-the-shelf wasn't going to cut it.

01

Multi-vendor order aggregation

Orders from multiple sellers in a single checkout — reconciling different product schemas, prices, variants, discounts and seller inventories in real time. No off-the-shelf platform supported it.

02

Complex catalog management

Every vendor had its own attributes — sizes, colors, units, bundles. The unified catalog had to stay fast and searchable as it scaled.

03

Real-time delivery tracking

Customers expect to know where their order is at every moment — integrated GPS tracking, live status updates and complete delivery flow logic.

Our solution

The engineering that made it work.

Unified multi-vendor architecture

A backend orchestrating multiple vendor data streams into a single order pipeline — flexible API layers normalizing disparate inventories, with dynamic pricing logic combining line-items across varying taxes, discounts and seller fees.

Scalable database & performance stack

AWS RDS for structured, consistent transaction data with an optimized schema that reduces read/write contention during peak order flows — consistency balanced with scalability.

Native cross-platform apps

Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, with responsive UI/UX built around live order status, delivery ETAs and vendor browsing — a fast, mobile-first journey that minimizes abandoned carts.

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Backend & integrations

Magento 2.4 as the commerce engine, MySQL and PHP for server logic and API integrations, and real-time event handling driving order status and delivery feed updates.

Impact

What it delivered.

≈90%

revenue increase soon after launch — driven by the marketplace and delivery experience.

Faster ops

Automated workflows and real-time tracking cut manual handling and delivery delays.

Built to scale

More vendors, products and regions supported without major rework.

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Novanexom delivered our vision for an all-in-one retail delivery platform. Their team was responsive, technically sharp, and met every deadline and estimate.

Ravil SookhooCEO, InstaExpress
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