How Barakode helped a tailoring business replace a failing legacy system

A full-cycle tailoring and order-management platform: customers, measurements, orders, inventory, billing, and accounting in one system. It replaced a PHP/Laravel application that had become too slow to use and too brittle to change.

Project overview

Project
Gman Stitching Platform
Client type
Growing tailoring & fashion-retail business
Industry
Tailoring & fashion retail
Timeline
January 2023 – March 2023
Engagement model
Custom Product Build, continuing on Maintenance & Support
Services
Internal Business Systems · Custom Web & Mobile App Development · Cloud, DevOps & Product Maintenance
Gman tailoring platform dashboard shown on screen

From business problem to measurable outcome.

  1. Problem01

    What held the business back

    The existing PHP/Laravel and Vue.js application had severe performance problems and had become effectively unmaintainable. Every business change — a new product configuration, a changed workflow — required a developer.

  2. Solution02

    What Barakode changed

    Barakode ran a full analysis of the existing system first — every pain point, bottleneck, and missing capability — and mapped each business process into a technical specification before any code was written.

  3. Business outcome03

    What changed after delivery

    Approximately 70% improvement in application response time after the rebuild.

What was not working.

The existing PHP/Laravel and Vue.js application had severe performance problems and had become effectively unmaintainable. Every business change — a new product configuration, a changed workflow — required a developer.

That dependency was the real cost. The business could not adjust its own operations without waiting on someone else, and the system was slow enough that staff were working around it.

Goals

  • Replace the legacy stack with an architecture the team can maintain and extend.
  • Restore acceptable response times across daily operations.
  • Let the business configure its own workflows without developer involvement.
  • Bring customers, orders, inventory, billing, and accounting into one system.

What Barakode delivered

Barakode ran a full analysis of the existing system first — every pain point, bottleneck, and missing capability — and mapped each business process into a technical specification before any code was written.

The frontend was rebuilt from scratch in React with Ant Design, mobile-first and consistent across every module, with interactive reporting dashboards. Staff at every level can use it without training overhead.

The backend was rebuilt on Node.js and Express with a REST architecture, Prisma ORM for type-safe queries, and JWT authentication for role-based access. The database was restructured with a normalised schema, referential integrity, and dynamic configuration so the business can change its own settings.

Docker containerisation gives consistent deployment across environments. The system runs on the client's own VPS.

Features delivered

  • Customer profiles & measurements
  • Order management workflow
  • Inventory tracking
  • Billing module
  • Accounting module
  • Reporting dashboards
  • Role-based access control
  • Self-service business configuration
  • Dockerised VPS deployment

Barakode’s role

  • Product strategy
  • UI/UX design
  • Frontend development
  • Backend development
  • DevOps
  • QA
  • Maintenance

What it is built with.

Frontend
React.jsReduxAnt Design
Backend
Node.jsExpress.jsPrisma ORM
Database
MySQL
Cloud
DockerVPS
Integrations
JWT authentication

Inside the product

Screens from the delivered system. No mockups standing in for real work.
  • Gman manufacturing summary dashboard with order, inventory, and performance analytics
    Manufacturing summary — orders, inventory, and performance in one view

What actually changed.

Only outcomes recorded in the project record appear here. Where a number is not verified, it is not published.

  • Approximately 70% improvement in application response time after the rebuild.
  • Legacy PHP/Laravel codebase fully retired and replaced.
  • The client now manages all business configuration independently, without developer assistance.
  • System live on the client's VPS and in active daily use across customers, orders, inventory, billing, and accounting.

What made the project work

  • 01

    Mapping every business process before writing code is what made a three-month rebuild possible.

  • 02

    Making configuration a first-class product feature removed the client's dependency on us for routine change.

  • 03

    Weekly progress reviews on a live staging environment caught misunderstandings while they were still cheap.

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