No cart, no sign-up: a hookah catalogue that takes orders over WhatsApp

Sosyete Nargile sells hookah tobacco, e-cigarettes and hookah charcoal. The shop needed to present hundreds of products from more than twenty brands in a well-organised catalogue and route orders to the WhatsApp line it uses. We built the site that way: visitors move from category to brand to product, and the button on every product opens a WhatsApp chat with a prefilled message naming that product. There is no cart, no account and no checkout. The catalogue lives in PostgreSQL. A password-protected admin panel handles products, brands and categories; price and stock changes show on the storefront immediately, and in-stock and sold-out states update themselves. Uploaded images are converted to WebP and stored in S3-compatible SeaweedFS. We also made a lightweight Android app that opens the panel on a phone.