Retail platform · 2026
A retail operating system for a working boutique
The system the shop actually runs on: a keyboard-first till, invoices, inventory, customers and trade reports — shipped to the web and packaged as a desktop app from the same codebase.
- Status
- Live
- Role
- Product engineering · architecture · design
- Category
- Retail platform
- Year
- 2026
- Host
- atelier.vinnysvogue.in
Overview
Vinny's Atelier is the operating system for a working boutique. The till is the home screen: a draft invoice that takes garments from the catalogue on a keystroke, applies discounts, settles against cash, UPI or a Razorpay dynamic QR, and prints to the counter's thermal printer. Behind it sit inventory with a stock-movement ledger, customer records ranked by lifetime spend, and reports that read net of discounts.
The problem
The boutique was running its day on a paper book and a phone camera. Invoices were hand-written and unnumbered, stock was whatever the shelf looked like, and a return weeks later had nothing to trace it back to. Off-the-shelf POS software assumed a chain, a barcode gun and a monthly fee — none of which fit a single-counter shop selling one-off pieces.
The solution
We built a single Next.js application around the counter's real workflow, on Postgres with row-level security and an operator allowlist rather than open sign-up. Money is an integer paise type end to end, so no float ever touches a rupee. The same deployment is packaged with Tauri as a Windows desktop app — a shell over the live application, not a second frontend to keep in step. Invoices generate as PDFs and as thermal receipts, and every screen the shop uses is covered by an end-to-end suite that runs against the real database and cleans up after itself.
Technologies
The stack behind it.
Engineering highlights
What made it work.
Keyboard-first till: catalogue, quantities and discounts without leaving the keys
Same codebase ships to the web and as a signed Windows desktop build
Row-level security and an operator allowlist — there is no public sign-up
Money handled as integer paise; no floating point in a rupee figure
Invoices as PDF and as thermal receipts, from one document model
Key features
What it delivers.
Draft invoices with per-line quantity and discount, settled to cash, UPI or Razorpay
Inventory by variant with a stock-movement ledger the till deducts against
Customer records with lifetime spend, searchable by name or phone
Trade reports net of discounts — daily takings, average bill, units sold
Public storefront for the boutique alongside the private workspace
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