Viplife.az — Online Store

About the project

Viplife runs a chain of physical shops in Azerbaijan, and those shops have run for years on their own sales and inventory system. The client wanted to sell online — but on one condition: the new site could not become an island. It had to work off the same data the shops do.

Building on the system that already worked

Rather than copy the catalogue into a separate system and then fight to keep the two in sync, we connected the site directly to the one the shops already use. That meant:

• Products, prices and stock levels come from the in-shop system
• A change in the warehouse shows up on the site immediately
• Staff keep working in the system they already know — there is no second admin panel to learn

Sign-in with a phone number

Customers sign in with their phone number: on registration and on every login a one-time code goes out by SMS, and the number is verified on the spot. There is no password to forget, fake sign-ups are shut out, and by the time an order is placed the contact number on it is already known to be real.

Two payment providers

We connected two separate card payment providers, and the customer picks which one to pay with. Running two also buys the client something practical: if one provider goes down, sales do not stop — payments simply carry on through the other.

Built to be found

Product pages open fast and are built to rank well in search engines — which mattered, because product pages are how the store earns free traffic from Google.