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View Project →Overview
GetFood4Less is a full-stack real-time marketplace connecting local restaurants, bakeries, and cafés with community customers. Built with Ruby on Rails 8, the system integrates real-time payments, multi-store management, and intelligent dashboards all in a modern and scalable architecture.
The platform blends accessibility and sustainability, enabling businesses to sell efficiently while customers save money and reduce waste. Four user roles support the ecosystem Customer, Store, Business, and SuperAdmin all connected through ActionCable.
Beyond the marketplace, the system integrates Stripe Connect, PayPal, Mapbox, and automated invoice generation. Everything was designed for a real-time, secure and fully auditable experience.
System Architecture
👤 Customer
Browse products, manage cart, checkout via PayPal or Stripe, and view order history.
🏪 Store
Accept or reject orders in real time, set prep times, and notify customers via dashboard.
💼 Business
Manage multiple stores, view transactions, process refunds, and monitor KPIs.
🧠 Super Admin
Global control of users, payments, invoices, analytics, and site configuration.
Core Experience
From guest orders to business dashboards, each role delivers a unified marketplace experience.
Guest Orders
Fast checkout with secure validation and session persistence.
⚡ Instant Flow
No signup needed
💳 Secure Payment
Secure Transactions & Fast and protected
🛒 Session Memory
Auto-restore
Customers
Enhanced control, invoices, and personalized experience.
⭐ Ratings
Review stores & products
🧾 Invoices
Download PDF receipts
🛍️ Reorders
Buy again instantly
Stores
Manage orders, availability and prep time, fully autonomous.
📦 Live Orders
Accept or reject
🕒 Prep Time
Live editable timer
📬 Alerts
Pickup notifications
Business
Multi-store insights, refunds, and AI-powered analytics.
📊 KPIs
Sales & performance
💸 Refund Tools
Webhook-driven
🧠 AI Insights
Smart summaries
Super Admin
Global control of users, payments, invoices, analytics & security.
🧠 Full Platform Control
Users, stores, business
🔒 System Settings
Security & compliance
⚙️ Admin Tools
Refunds & invoice access
✨Key Features
🧑🤝🧑 Multi-Role Access
Customer / Store / Business / Admin
💳 Real-Time Payments
Stripe & PayPal
📊 Dashboards & KPIs
Live analytics & insights
📍 Mapbox Store Locator
Full geolocation module
🤖 AI Assistant
Summaries & automations
🧾 Auto Invoices + Refund Flow
Automated financial pipeline
System Flow
From order creation to commission processing, each step in the GetFood4Less ecosystem is automated and auditable.
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Customer
Places the order and confirms payment.
🛒
Order
Order is created and broadcast in real-time.
💳
Payment
Funds are authorized and captured.
⚙️
Commission
Splits revenue & triggers payout logic.
Enterprise Security
PCI-DSS Compliant Payments
Industry-standard encrypted payment processing.
Rate Limiting (Rack::Attack)
Protects from bot abuse and suspicious traffic.
CSRF & CORS Protection
Secure request validation across services.
Audit Logs
Full traceability for all user operations.
Technical Highlights
Backend
🐍 Ruby on Rails 8
📦 Redis / SolidQueue
🔒 Pundit + Devise
Frontend
🧩 Stimulus
🚀 Turbo Rails
🎨 Sass + PostCSS
Integrations
💳 Stripe Connect
🅿️ PayPal SDK
🌍 Mapbox
Build & Deployment
🧩 esbuild + Stimulus Plugin
📦 Yarn + Node 18
☁️ Cloudinary
Ecosystem Integration
Geocoding & Store Locator
Enables location-based search, city filters, and address autocomplete using Mapbox.
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Admin Dashboard
Food4Less KPIs, sales charts, refunds, store control and system monitoring.
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Realtime Order Stream
ActionCable-powered live feed with jobs and notifications marketplace dashboards in realtime.
View Project →Outcomes & Learnings
Building GetFood4Less has been a cornerstone in my journey as a full-stack developer. It challenged me to design and maintain a production-grade ecosystem, balancing scalability, UX, payments, and asynchronous workflows.
Each module started as an isolated experiment payments, dashboards, geolocation, real-time updates but together they formed a unified, maintainable, and auditable marketplace system.
Next steps include delivery routing, SMS notifications, and a mobile app version powered by the same backend foundation.