Before moving to custom development, ask what exactly fails in the current system: catalogue management, inventory sync, permissions, speed of change, or business logic.
Before moving to custom development, ask what exactly fails in the current system: catalogue management, inventory sync, permissions, speed of change, or business logic. If the issue is undefined inventory process, a custom site merely moves confusion to a more expensive place.
Specify source of truth for product, price, and inventory and the events that change each. Define what must happen on the site and what can occur in an external process. Custom work justifies itself when unique flows, load, security, or connections cannot be managed on an existing platform, not only because another screen is desired.
Test maintenance: who updates dependencies, handles incident, performs backup, and runs change. Initial development cost is only part of price; long-term operating ability is a selection condition.
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