The challenge
Book publishers often manage their catalog, online store, inventory, orders and website content through several disconnected systems. Product information may be stored in spreadsheets, commerce may depend on a separate plugin, and even a small homepage, menu or promotional update may require assistance from a developer.
This creates duplicated work, inconsistent data and limited operational visibility. For a Bangladesh-based publisher, the challenge is greater because most off-the-shelf publishing platforms do not provide Bengali-first bilingual content, local payment support, district-based shipping or publishing-specific workflows.
Tarbiat Publication required a centralized platform where its team could independently manage books, customers, inventory, orders, website content, payments and fulfillment without making code-level changes.
What we built
Codevioso developed Tarbiat Publication, a centralized publishing and e-commerce platform that brings catalog management, online sales, inventory, content, payments and order fulfillment into one system — giving the publication team complete control over both the public storefront and daily back-office operations.
Key features
- Complete book catalog management with authors, contributors, publishers, nested categories, tags and multiple cover images
- Special packages, promotional bundles, time-limited offers and configurable merchandising
- Dynamic public storefront with faceted browsing, live search, product reviews, wishlist and shopping cart
- Guest and registered checkout with automatic customer account support and order history
- End-to-end order workflow: Pending → Confirmed → Packed → Shipped → Delivered → Returned or Cancelled
- Cash on Delivery and SSLCommerz payment integration with success, failure, cancellation and IPN callbacks
- Stock management with adjustments and a complete inventory movement audit trail
- Customer and CRM management with addresses, account blocking, email verification and password recovery
- Coupon management and district-based shipping zones with automatic delivery-charge calculation
- Dynamic homepage builder, banner manager, nested mega-menu builder and footer editor
- Blog, CMS pages, activities, manuscript submissions, contact inbox and store locator
- Newsletter subscriptions, campaign sending and subscriber CSV export
- Centralized media library with folders and reusable image assets
- Bengali-first and English-secondary bilingual content across the storefront and administration
- Role-based access control with 40+ granular permissions, preset and custom roles, and activity logging
- SEO-ready pages with metadata, Open Graph, canonical URLs, hreflang, JSON-LD, sitemap and redirects
- Real-time admin dashboard with revenue, catalog, customer, stock and order KPIs, sales trends and top-category reporting
