E-commerce · Software licensing

GoSoftwareBuy — Software Licence Store

A digital-goods store: licence catalogue, checkout, automated key delivery by email and a refund and support workflow.

Web Application Website Design

Laravel MySQL Stripe Automated delivery

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Screenshot of the GoSoftwareBuy — Software Licence Store website

GoSoftwareBuy sells genuine Microsoft Office and Windows licences. Selling a digital good changes the shape of an e-commerce build: there is no shipping, but delivery has to be instant and reliable, and every key can only ever be sold once.

What it does

Product catalogue across editions, platforms and licence types
Checkout with card payment and order confirmation
Automated licence key delivery by email within minutes of payment
Key inventory that cannot double-allocate a licence
Refund and money-back-guarantee workflow with support ticketing

The hard part

Key allocation under concurrency. Two customers checking out at the same moment must never receive the same key, which means allocation has to be locked at the database level rather than handled in application code after the fact.

The work

What a web application project involves

Applications rather than websites: systems with users, roles, permissions and a workflow that has to survive contact with the way a business really operates. These are the projects where the interesting problems are behind the screen — who is allowed to approve what, what happens when two people edit the same record, and what the numbers have to reconcile to at the end of the month.

Discovery first: the process is mapped as it actually runs, including the exceptions people work around
Data model designed before screens, because that is what everything else has to live with
Role-based access, audit trails and the reports the business is judged on
Built on Laravel with MySQL, deployed to hosting in the client's own name
Handover of source code, database and documentation — the system stays movable