TreeDots

TreeDots runs three things under one roof: a marketplace where suppliers list excess or imperfect food to businesses at lower prices, a temperature-controlled logistics service, and an admin system for digitising a supplier's own processes.

The commodity is perishable and the inventory is, by definition, irregular. Stock that is listed but already gone, or a delivery window that the cold chain cannot actually meet, is not a bad user experience here: it is spoiled food and a lost customer.

The buyer-facing app is Ionic and Vue, shipping to iOS and Android from a single codebase against a Node backend. Ordering covers catalogues by category, order history and repeat buying, which is most of what a B2B buyer does.

None of it works unless stock, pricing and delivery windows stay in sync between the app and the back office. That synchronisation, rather than the ordering interface, is where the engineering effort went.

• Ionic and Vue buyer app to both stores from one codebase
• Category catalogues, order history and repeat ordering for B2B buyers
• Stock, pricing and delivery windows synchronised with the back office
• Cold-chain delivery windows surfaced at the point of ordering

Buyers order from one app on both platforms, with stock, pricing and delivery windows reflecting what the back office and the cold chain can genuinely deliver.