Commerce / 2026
Kotha's Aura
A full-stack beauty and lifestyle commerce experience pairing a premium editorial storefront with customer accounts, checkout, order tracking and a complete admin operations console.
- Client / business
- Kotha's Aura
- Status
- Production-ready
- Capabilities
- Commerce UX & storefront design, Full-stack product engineering, Customer account & order experience, Admin operations console, Authentication & role-based access, Checkout, payment & order logic, Responsive interface system, Store settings & content operations
The context
Turn a premium lifestyle identity into a commerce system that looks refined and still runs the operational work.
Kotha's Aura is a premium beauty and lifestyle brand focused on skincare, jewelry and curated beauty essentials. The project needed more than a polished storefront: it needed one connected system for discovery, conversion, customer service and day-to-day store operations.
The experience was structured around two sides of the business. Public and customer-facing flows prioritize brand presentation, product discovery and low-friction purchase, while protected Admin flows centralize catalog, order, customer, review, coupon, message, subscriber and store-setting management. Authority stays server-side for pricing, stock, discounts, roles, order ownership and payment state.
Approach → Solution
A system designed around the work.
The result is a React/Vite storefront with search and filtering, product details and reviews, cart, wishlist, checkout, tracking and customer account tools, backed by an Express/MongoDB API with Firebase identity verification, Secure HttpOnly sessions, transaction-safe checkout and an operations console. Store settings drive hero, contact, social, delivery, payment, maintenance and SEO fallback content without hardcoding the business layer into the interface.
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System / Features
- Searchable and filterable product catalog with detailed product pages
- Cart, wishlist and checkout flows
- COD plus manually verified bKash and Nagad payment submissions
- Public order tracking and order-success flow
- Customer dashboard with profile, orders and saved addresses
- Admin product, category, order and customer management
- Review moderation, coupons, contact messages and newsletter subscribers
- Store settings for hero, contact, social, delivery, payment, maintenance and SEO
Technical notes
- React 19 + Vite + React Router 7
- Tailwind CSS 4 + DaisyUI 5 + Motion
- Firebase Authentication with server-issued Secure HttpOnly session cookies
- Express 5 + MongoDB native driver API
- Firebase Admin verification with MongoDB-authoritative roles
- Server-side price, stock, coupon, role and order-ownership validation
- Transactional checkout and order logic with idempotency safeguards
- Cloudinary media support with Vitest + Supertest backend tests
- Separate backend repository: github.com/Taoshif1/kothas-Aura-Server
Current result
A production-ready commerce foundation positioned as a complete beauty and lifestyle store rather than a static storefront. Customers can move from discovery through checkout and post-purchase tracking, while the business can manage catalog, orders, customers, reviews, promotions, messages, subscribers and storefront settings from one connected system.