A meat shop, online and delivering daily.
Apang's needed an online store that could handle perishable inventory, delivery windows, and the way Trinidadians actually pay — including cash on delivery. We built a custom commerce stack with local payment options, real-time inventory and a delivery scheduler, then trained the team to run it.
The brief,
in three beats.
What they needed.
Apang's wanted to sell online — but the standard Shopify-plus-Stripe playbook didn't fit. Perishable inventory, time-bound delivery windows, and Trinidad-specific payment preferences (WiPay, cash on delivery) all needed real treatment.
How we tackled it.
Custom commerce stack with WiPay integration, COD support, inventory hooks that respect perishability, and a delivery window scheduler that surfaces at checkout. Built the back-office tools the team needed to actually run this every morning.
What happened.
Daily orders flowing through the new system. The team manages inventory and delivery windows themselves. Cash on delivery handled cleanly without phone tag.
Inside the
engagement.
Local-first checkout
WiPay and First Atlantic Commerce for card payments. Cash on delivery wired into the order workflow — including driver-side cash reconciliation. Apple Pay and Google Pay enabled at the device level for the smaller-but-growing share that prefers them.
Perishable inventory model
Inventory isn't just a count — it's a count by cut, by weight, with shelf-life awareness. Out-of-stock surfaces honestly. Low-stock triggers internal alerts the team actually sees.
- Per-cut tracking with weight variants
- Shelf-life alerts before product expires
- Low-stock pings into the team WhatsApp
Delivery windows
Customers pick a window at checkout, not a date. The system surfaces capacity in real time so the team isn't over-committing the van. Drivers get a route sheet auto-generated each morning.
Training & handoff
Three on-site training sessions with the team — order management, inventory, refunds, edge cases. We left a written runbook and a number to call. Calls have been rare.
The system fits how we actually sell — not how a Silicon Valley platform thinks we should.
The tools
we shipped on.
Capabilities
behind this build.
Other
engagements.
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Trinidad & Tobago
09:00 — 17:00 AST
on business days