LiteShop — an online store engine with several warehouses in the core

LiteShop is LIONEX's own product. A modular online store engine on Laravel: the source code is handed over to the buyer, the store is installed on the buyer's server, and several warehouses with a different price for the same product, wholesale price levels and stock accounting work in the core.

The problem it solves

A store with two or three warehouses runs into the limits of a site builder sooner than the owner expects: one SKU sits in several places with a different purchase price, a dealer needs wholesale price levels on the same catalogue, and the platform gives one price per product and a monthly invoice for the right to sell. LiteShop moves that logic into the core: the buyer picks a warehouse option on the product card, the order is split automatically, and the margin is counted for each warehouse separately.

The engine removes a technical loss — recalculating stock by hand, a slow catalogue, duplicate URLs. It does not create demand and adds no search positions: those depend on the assortment, the prices and where people come from.

How it works

1. Handover. The buyer receives an archive with the code and a Docker image; deployment by the instructions takes about 15 minutes.
2. Modules. They are switched on with a toggle in the admin panel, and a module that is switched off loses no data.
3. Theme. Colours, fonts and radii live in a settings file, with no rebuild; deeper rework goes through template overrides. The core is not touched, so updates keep installing.
4. Updates. A copy is created before a module is updated, a rollback is a single action, and the store does not stop while the container is being replaced.

What is inside

• Several warehouses: an SKU across N warehouses, each with its own price, stock and delivery time.
• Stock accounting where every stock movement is a separate record with an author and a timestamp; operations run in transactions, so parallel orders do not break the stock figure.
• Nova Poshta and Ukrposhta: waybills, registers, tracking, a separate sender per warehouse.
• Payment: LiqPay, WayForPay, Monobank, cash on delivery, bank transfer; fiscalisation through Checkbox.
• Wholesale and loyalty: personal prices by customer group, bonus points, coupons of three types.
• Search on Meilisearch with Ukrainian lemmatisation; an SKU is found with spaces and hyphens.
• SEO and feeds: seven sitemaps, sixteen types of microdata, exports to Rozetka, Prom, OLX and Google Shopping.
• An admin panel with five permission sets; the “client admin” does not see the system sections.

When LiteShop is not needed

If you have one warehouse, a few hundred products and no plans for wholesale prices or custom work — renting a site builder will come out cheaper, and we say so in the first email, not after payment. It starts to make sense from two warehouses, from a need for wholesale prices, or when a site builder runs into its limits.

What is still missing

An extension store, extension points for third-party developers and a control panel for instances are in development. An English version of the storefront is planned, Rozetka Delivery and Meest are still stubs, there is no import from OpenCart, and there is no cart reservation with a timer either.

Technically

Laravel 12, Filament 3, Livewire 3, Tailwind 4, Octane on Swoole, MySQL 8, Redis 7, Meilisearch — the stack is industry standard, and any Laravel developer can pick the project up. The measurements were taken on the production of a car parts store, Hetzner cx43. 19.05.2026: first response of the home page — 167 ms, a warm catalogue page — 763 ms, the page compresses from 812 KB to 86 KB. 12.06.2026: 98.3 % Redis cache hits with zero evicted keys, and during a zero-downtime update 299 out of 300 requests answered successfully.

How it differs

Against renting a site builder: the code and the data stay with the buyer, and there is no monthly fee for the right to sell. The model here is a one-time purchase of the engine, with renting it on our hosting as the alternative. Against a theme for OpenCart: a theme changes the look on top of someone else's engine, whereas several warehouses, wholesale levels and a stock movement log are core logic. Against building your own: 42 core modules have already been tested on a live store, and the accounting has 65 tests.