Design around the real catalogue.
Law books have their own conventions — publisher pricing, edition changes, discount structures — the platform is built to hold that correctly rather than force-fit a generic product model.
A bookstore, reimagined
TopperMart
Good books deserve a good way to find them.
An online storefront for a real law-book shop in Delhi’s Daryaganj.
Commerce engineeringCatalogue & pricing systemsProduct designInventory operationsIn development
01 / THE CONTEXT
The world behind
the work.
TopperMart starts from an actual bookshop in Daryaganj that has sold law books for years, not a hypothetical retail concept. The project brings that real inventory, and the buyer who already knows what they're looking for, into a proper online storefront.
02 / THE FOCUS
A considered
way forward.
Rebuilding the platform on Starduxe's own infrastructure so pricing, MRP, and stock are handled correctly for how law books are actually sold, discounted, and restocked — not adapted from a generic e-commerce template that doesn't fit the category.
Thoughtfully
put together.
The priorities that shape the product and the experience.
Make discovery match how buyers search.
A law student or practitioner searches for a specific title or subject, not a browsing experience — the storefront is built around finding that book fast.
Build the operations, not just the storefront.
Stock, pricing, and catalogue management are engineered as seriously as the customer-facing pages — a shop that looks right but can't be run correctly isn't done.
Behind the build.
The decisions that shaped how this was actually put together.
The catalogue shapes everything downstream
Law books have conventions a generic e-commerce model handles badly: publisher pricing and discount structures, editions that supersede each other, titles that are effectively the same book in a new year. Modelling that correctly determines how much manual work the shop does every week afterwards. Getting it wrong produces a store that looks finished and is painful to actually run.
Built for a buyer who already knows what they want
A law student or practitioner usually arrives searching for a specific title or subject, not browsing for inspiration. That shapes the storefront toward fast, precise finding rather than discovery-led merchandising — a different product from a fashion or lifestyle store, even though both are 'e-commerce'.
Rebuilt on the platform deliberately
The project is being rebuilt on Starduxe's own platform rather than continued on its earlier CMS. Being willing to change a foundational decision when it stops fitting — rather than adding workarounds indefinitely — is usually cheaper over the life of a product, even though it looks like lost time in the moment.
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