MaterialMart — Construction Materials Marketplace with Admin Panel

MaterialMart is a ready-to-deploy construction materials marketplace for hardware stores, dealers, and suppliers. Customers browse cement, steel, bricks, tiles, plumbing & electricals, place COD orders, and manage their account. You get a full admin for products, orders, banners, blog, and settings and Docker-friendly deploy.

Features

• Modern storefront: banners, categories, deals, testimonials, blog

• Catalog search/filters, product detail, wishlist, cart

• COD checkout with delivery address + optional GSTIN

• Account: orders, invoice PDF, addresses, profile

• Admin: products (incl. CSV), orders, catalog, banners, testimonials, blog, customers, site config

• Optional freight/pincode zones

• Transactional email via SMTP

• Seeds, Docker, installation + user docs

Why buy this

1. Built for building materials, not a generic fashion theme

2. Faster go-live than a blank MERN starter

3. COD-first — fits Indian site-delivery retail

4. GST-aware lines + invoice PDF

5. Content tools (banners, blog, testimonials) included

6. Operator-friendly admin with search

1. Docker / VPS deploy path documented

Who it’s for

• Building material dealers & hardware stores

• Regional suppliers / distributors

• Agencies customizing client ecommerce

• Startups building a materials marketplace

• Developers learning a real full-stack MERN

Tech stack

React (Vite) · Node/Express · MongoDB · JWT · Tailwind · Zustand · Nodemailer · Docker

Installation (short)

cd server && cp .env.example .env && npm i && npm run seed && npm run seed:banners && npm run dev

cd client && cp .env.example .env && npm i && npm run dev

Full guide: docs/INSTALLATION.md in the package.