The challenge
Running an online bookstore involves much more than listing books and accepting orders. Progga needed to coordinate a growing catalog of titles, authors, publishers, stock levels, customer orders, payments, delivery, promotions, and website content—all from one reliable system.
Generic e-commerce solutions could handle basic product sales, but they were not designed around the needs of a Bangladesh-based book retailer. Important requirements such as Bengali-friendly content, local payment gateways, location-based delivery charges, book-specific catalog details, and flexible promotional management required a more tailored approach.
Progga therefore needed a complete digital commerce platform that would simplify daily operations, provide better control over its online presence, and allow the team to manage the entire customer journey—from discovering a book to receiving the order—without depending on developers for routine updates.
What we built
Codevioso developed Progga, a modern online bookshop and e-commerce management platform designed to simplify book discovery, sales, inventory, fulfilment, and digital content management. The platform gives the Progga team full control over its customer-facing bookstore and day-to-day operations from a single administration system.
Key features
- Structured book catalog management covering authors, contributors, publishers, categories, tags, editions, and multiple cover images
- Book bundles, special collections, promotional campaigns, limited-time offers, and configurable product merchandising
- Responsive online storefront with advanced filtering, instant search, customer reviews, wishlists, and shopping cart
- Seamless checkout for both guests and registered customers, with automatic account creation and order history
- Complete order lifecycle management: Pending → Confirmed → Packed → Shipped → Delivered → Returned or Cancelled
- Cash on Delivery and SSLCommerz integration with secure handling of successful, failed, cancelled, and IPN payment responses
- Real-time stock control, manual inventory adjustments, and a traceable history of every stock movement
- Centralized customer management with saved addresses, account controls, password recovery, and purchase records
- Discount coupons and district-based delivery zones with automatically calculated shipping charges
- Flexible homepage management for featured books, new arrivals, bestsellers, offers, banners, and promotional sections
- Customizable mega menu, navigation structure, footer content, and other storefront components
- Blog, informational pages, activities, manuscript submissions, contact messages, and store-location management
- Newsletter subscriber management, email campaign delivery, and CSV export
- Organized media library with folders and reusable images for books, banners, and website content
- Bengali-first experience with English-language support across both the storefront and administration panel
- Role-based team access with granular permissions, configurable roles, and detailed activity tracking
- Built-in SEO capabilities, including metadata, Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, hreflang, structured data, sitemap, and redirects
- Insightful admin dashboard featuring sales, revenue, inventory, customer, and order KPIs, along with trends and category performance
