Multi-Vendor E-commerce Platform

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Building a scalable and efficient multivendor e-commerce platform involved several challenges:

Vendor Management: Creating a system where multiple vendors can manage their products independently, while still having a unified storefront.
Payment Integration: Implementing Stripe to handle payments securely for both customers and vendors, including payment splitting.
Product Filtering and Search: Implementing a robust product search and filtering system to handle large product catalogs with multiple categories and vendors.
Order Management: Ensuring that vendors can only view and manage orders related to their products without accessing others' data.
Scalability: Ensuring the platform can handle multiple vendors, a growing product catalog, and increased traffic over time.

Here’s how I tackled these challenges:

Vendor Management: Implemented a role-based access control system using Django’s authentication system, allowing vendors to manage their products while admins have full control.
Payment Integration: Integrated Stripe Connect for secure payment splitting between vendors and customers, with webhooks for automatic order status updates.
Product Filtering and Search: Used Django ORM and Elasticsearch for fast and accurate product searches and filtering.
Order Management: Ensured that each vendor could only manage their own orders, using ForeignKey relationships in the database to secure order data.
Scalability: Optimized the app with Redis caching and pagination for large product catalogs, ensuring scalability as the platform grows.

Here are some screenshots of the project: