E-Commerce Mobile App
A production-grade mobile commerce system built around correct order state, payment reliability, webhook reconciliation, and predictable checkout behavior under failures.
Record Summary
A real-world payments + state machine engineering record (NDA-safe).
Catalog → cart → checkout → payment → order lifecycle → refunds and cancellations.
Duplicate charges, race conditions, webhook delays, and inconsistent client-side order state.
Stable checkout flows with server-authoritative state and reconciliation guarantees.
Problem What broke
Common commerce failures.
- Payment success shown to user while webhook arrives late or fails.
- Retrying checkout caused duplicate intents/charges.
- Mobile network instability produced state divergence (client vs server).
- Refund and cancellation rules were inconsistent across providers.
Fix Engineering
How it was resolved.
- Server-authoritative order state machine (no client-side “truth”).
- Idempotency keys for every payment attempt and order mutation.
- Webhook reconciliation pipeline with retries, signatures, and auditing.
- Consistent refund/cancel API and provider adapters.
Implementation Highlights
Elite without buzzwords.
Order State Machine
CorrectnessExplicit states: Created → PaymentPending → Paid → Fulfillment → Completed / Refunded / Cancelled.
Payment Idempotency
No DuplicatesEvery attempt carries an idempotency token across client and backend, preventing double charges.
Webhook Verification
SignedSignature verification + replay protection + strict event validation before state transitions.
Reconciliation & Audit
ReliableLate webhooks, provider outages, and retries are handled with safe reprocessing and audit trails.
Need a stable checkout under real-world failures?
Payments, webhooks, and order correctness engineered for reliability — not luck.