Fastmart

What Fastmart is

Fastmart is the ecommerce platform we build and run ourselves. It is three things sold as one: a customer-facing storefront, an admin panel deep enough to run the whole business behind it, and — on the packages that include them — native Android and iOS apps. Twelve-plus clients trade on it across ten-plus industries, from skincare and fashion to grocery and pharmacy, and it has carried more than fifty million transactions between them.

It exists because the same request kept arriving. A business with real stock, real suppliers and real delivery does not want a website; it wants the system the website sits on top of. Building that from scratch every time is the wrong answer, and so is a hosted platform whose limits show up six months after launch.

The admin panel is the product

The storefront is what customers see, but the admin panel is where the business is actually run, and it is where most of the engineering has gone. The dashboard opens on real-time graphs — sales trend, revenue breakdown, order status distribution, customer growth and stock levels — so the first screen answers the questions someone opens the software to ask.

Orders can be corrected rather than only observed: status tracking, order locking, invoice editing after the order is placed, cancellations and refunds, each one written to an audit log so the change is attributable. Inventory runs across multiple warehouses with real-time adjustment, barcode generation, purchase and supplier records, and expiry-date tracking for the categories that need it.

Around that sit the tools that grow the number rather than record it — coupons assignable per customer, bulk SMS campaigns, gift offers, combo bundles, flash deals and a reward-points programme — and the reporting that tells you whether any of it worked, with a custom report builder, Excel export and scheduled reports.

The mobile apps

Both packages can be bought with native Android and iOS applications rather than a wrapped web view. They carry push notifications, live order tracking, order history with one-tap reorder and an in-app coupon centre. For a repeat-purchase category — groceries, pharmacy, anything consumable — the app is usually where the second and third orders come from, which is why it is an option on the entry package and not only on the top one.

You get the source code

Every licence includes the complete, unminified source. That is a deliberate commercial position rather than a bonus: a platform you cannot read is a platform you cannot leave, and a business trading on software it does not own is one supplier decision away from a rebuild. Change it yourself, have another team change it, or ask us — but the choice stays yours.

Installation is done for you, and support runs around the clock. The stack is Laravel on the server and Next.js on the storefront, with a documented REST API between them, so the engineers you hire next will recognise what they are looking at.

Security and performance

SSL throughout, two-factor authentication and IP whitelisting on the admin, activity logs, and the standard protections against SQL injection, cross-site scripting and request forgery. On the front, caching layers, CDN delivery, indexed queries and an architecture that scales horizontally — the platform targets sub-two-second page loads, which is the threshold where conversion starts to fall away.

What it costs

Four packages: Plus and Pro, each with or without the mobile apps. We do not publish a figure for any of them, and the reason is the same one that applies everywhere else on this site — what a store costs depends on catalogue size, the integrations it needs, whether data is coming across from an existing system, and how much of the platform you want changed. A published number would be either a floor nobody is quoted or a price the proposal contradicts.

Tell us what you sell and how you sell it and we will quote the package that fits, or tell you honestly that a custom build is the better answer. Talk to our team.