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/ CASE STUDY • #008

Invoyes

Smart business management for restaurants and retail

POSInvoicingInventoryMulti-storeAnalyticsRetail

/ HERO

Invoyes

Smart business management for restaurants and retail

CLIENT

Invoyes (product)

ROLE

Lead full-stack developer — POS engine, multi-store data model, billing, analytics dashboards.

DURATION

8 months

YEAR

2026

/ OVERVIEW

Built a multi-tenant SaaS that lets restaurant and retail owners run their entire shop from one place — point of sale, invoicing, inventory, suppliers, staff and live analytics. Pricing is plan-based with a 7-day free trial and the system scales from a single counter to a chain of stores.

The challenge

Existing POS tools either targeted enterprise chains or were brittle single-shop tools. We needed a system that felt native to a small restaurant on day one but could grow into a multi-store, multi-staff operation without rewriting any of the data model.

How I approached it

  • Architecture: Designed a tenant-per-organization schema in PostgreSQL with store-scoped rows so a single account can spin up multiple branches without data leakage.
  • POS engine: Built on Laravel with a Next.js front-end — order, payment, refund and inventory reservations are wrapped in transactional service classes to keep stock truthful under concurrency.
  • Offline invoicing: Shipped offline-tolerant invoicing with optimistic UI so cashiers never wait on the network during peak hours; conflicts reconcile on reconnect.
  • Analytics layer: Created materialised views for daily/weekly/monthly summaries to keep dashboards fast even for chains with high transaction volume.

/ OUTCOME

What it did in the world

Full Featured

All the features ready from day 0 of launching — POS, invoicing, inventory, table management and printed/emailed invoices in one flow.

Cross Platform

Android, iOS, desktop, web applications are available — the whole dashboard is accessible from any device.

100% Mobile Responsive

The whole dashboard is fully mobile responsive — cashiers and owners manage everything from their phones.

Validated core product fit for restaurants and retail.

Average checkout time, stock variance, invoice generation time, and online ordering conversion all validated.

/ STACK

Built with

FRONTEND

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TailwindCSS
  • ShadCN/UI
  • TanStack Query

BACKEND

  • Laravel
  • PHP 8
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

TESTING

  • Playwright
  • Jest
  • PHPUnit