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Approach

A storefront is only the part customers see.

Two ways of looking at the same idea: what a working online store is actually made of, and what disappears from your week once you have one.

Inside an online store

The storefront is the easy part — this is the rest of it.

Most stores look fine and fall apart behind the scenes. What makes one actually work is the catalogue, stock, payments, shipping and notifications all reading from the same place.
  1. CustomerFinds you, browses, and places an order.
  2. WebsiteThe storefront and the front door.
  3. Landing PageWhere campaign and ad traffic arrives.
  4. Your StoreOne catalogue. One source of truth.
  5. Orders & StockStock adjusts the moment an order lands.
  6. PaymentsCaptured, reconciled and traceable.
  7. ShippingRates, options and tracking for the customer.
  8. NotificationsThe customer is told without anyone typing.
  9. Store AdminWhat sold, what is left, what is owed.

One catalogue. One source of truth. Everything else reads from it instead of being re-typed into it.

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Before & after

Still taking orders by hand?

The same order, before and after the store exists. This is what the build is actually buying you.

Before

Six people, five apps, one long afternoon.

Today
  1. 1Customer asks for the price in a DMSomewhere in an inbox with 40 other unread messages.
  2. Someone checks whether it is in stockBy walking over and looking, or by asking a colleague.
  3. The order is written down by handFrom a message, while serving someone else.
  4. The spreadsheet gets updatedIf they remember. And if they have the file open.
  5. The customer is messaged againManually. Usually after they have already asked twice.
  6. Nobody knows what actually soldStock, revenue and open orders all disagree by Friday.

After

One system. Nobody re-types anything.

With DevHub
  1. Customer orders from the storePrice and availability already on the page, at 2am, unassisted.
  2. The order is recordedComplete, structured, timestamped, and impossible to misplace.
  3. Stock updates itselfCounts drop instantly. Low-stock alerts fire on their own.
  4. Payment is captured and trackedReconciled against the order, with a status you can query.
  5. Shipping is calculated at checkoutThe customer picks an option and sees the real cost.
  6. The customer is notifiedOrder confirmation and updates, with no one typing them.
  7. The admin panel is already currentOrders, revenue and stock — accurate, live, in one screen.

If you are currently selling through DMs and tracking stock in a spreadsheet, a proper store replaces both.

Start your store

Stop taking orders by hand.

Tell us what you sell and how orders reach you today — including the parts held together by DMs and a spreadsheet.

Prefer something quicker? Email hello@devhub.it.com.