Taylor Made Hookbaits

Taylor Made Hookbaits have been rolling carp baits by hand in small batches since 1984, and selling them the way a lot of small brands do: a Facebook post when a batch is ready, then messages back and forth to take the order. That works until it doesn’t. It has no stock control, no record of who bought what, and it asks the customer to wait for a reply before they can spend any money.

We built them a shop. The catalogue lives in Postgres, the storefront reads from it and the admin writes to it, so the range is a database record rather than something hard-coded. Checkout captures delivery details, re-prices every line on the server from the catalogue rather than trusting whatever the browser sent, writes the order, and hands the customer to Stripe’s own hosted page. A signed webhook is what marks the order paid, moves the stock and queues the receipt, so nobody can mark their own order paid by tampering with a redirect.

The part that matters commercially is that the shop can be run without us. Refunds go to Stripe and are only recorded here if Stripe accepts them, so the books cannot drift from the money. Orders print a picking list. Discount codes come off the goods and never the postage, which is how the deals for the lakes Jim supplies actually work. Postage and a shop-closed notice are settings, not a deploy. And because a product type is data rather than a code path, adding a new line grows a shop tab, a card, a product page, a cart line and a priced checkout without anyone touching the code.