Case Study

Blink Posters

A poster commerce platform built to convert browsing into orders, support custom-print sales, and keep catalog operations moving

  1. Help shoppers find the right art faster with multilingual browsing, structured categories, collections, and visual filters
  2. Protect conversion with dynamic product configuration, persistent cart state, discounts, and multiple payment paths
  3. Keep catalog and fulfillment operations moving with admin controls, bulk imports, order filters, and printable production workflows

Overview

What it had to solve

The challenge was reducing product-finding friction, making framing and size decisions easy enough to buy, supporting custom print orders without breaking the checkout flow, and giving the business team proper control over catalog and fulfillment operations. Blink Posters is a production storefront where customers browse products across categories and collections, configure size and frame combinations, pay through multiple checkout options, and track their orders through their accounts while administrators manage products, categories, homepage curation, imports, and order operations from a protected backend connected to payments, Firestore data, media workflows, analytics, and SEO infrastructure.

Focus areas

What had to work

Focus

Reduce Product-Finding Friction Across a Large Visual Catalog

Blink Posters is structured to help visitors discover products quickly instead of getting lost inside a flat storefront.

Focus

Make Framing and Size Choices Easy Enough to Buy

The storefront is optimized for the purchase decisions that actually matter in wall art: size, frame, and presentation.

Focus

Protect Conversion Through Checkout and Payment Flexibility

The commerce layer is built to carry buying intent through to completion instead of losing it at the payment step.

Focus

Run Standard Commerce and Custom Print in One Storefront

Customers can purchase standard products and create upload-based custom print orders without leaving the same commerce flow.

Focus

Keep Catalog and Order Operations From Becoming a Bottleneck

The backend is built so the commercial team can keep products, promotions, and fulfillment moving without constant developer involvement.

Modules

What was built

Reduce Product-Finding Friction Across a Large Visual Catalog

Blink Posters is structured to help visitors discover products quickly instead of getting lost inside a flat storefront.

  • Support English, Georgian, and Russian with a multilingual storefront and localized navigation
  • Guide shoppers through category and subcategory structure, curated collections, and dedicated product detail pages
  • Add smart filtering across orientation, color, and frame style to help users narrow visual products quickly

Make Framing and Size Choices Easy Enough to Buy

The storefront is optimized for the purchase decisions that actually matter in wall art: size, frame, and presentation.

  • Calculate pricing dynamically based on selected size and frame combination so customers understand the commercial impact of their selection immediately
  • Use quick-view product modals for faster add-to-cart actions without forcing full page navigation
  • Present dedicated product pages with collection context, visual detail, and buyer-relevant configuration controls

Protect Conversion Through Checkout and Payment Flexibility

The commerce layer is built to carry buying intent through to completion instead of losing it at the payment step.

  • Keep a persistent cart with saved quantities, selected variants, shipping details, discount support, and order summary
  • Run a complete checkout flow with card payments, installment payments, loan-based payment flow, and courier payment option
  • Support bank selection where applicable, including TBC, Bank of Georgia, and Credo, with automatic order creation and storage after checkout

Run Standard Commerce and Custom Print in One Storefront

Customers can purchase standard products and create upload-based custom print orders without leaving the same commerce flow.

  • Support registration, email and password login, Google sign-in, order history, order status visibility, and address book management
  • Let customers upload their own image and configure orientation, size, and frame for custom print orders
  • Include live preview controls such as zoom, move, and reset before adding the custom item to cart, then process it through the same checkout and payment pipeline

Keep Catalog and Order Operations From Becoming a Bottleneck

The backend is built so the commercial team can keep products, promotions, and fulfillment moving without constant developer involvement.

  • Manage products, multilingual categories and subcategories, featured homepage curation, visibility, pricing, and deletion from a secure admin environment
  • Handle CSV import and export for bulk updates plus an order dashboard with server-side filtering, pagination, status updates, shipping labels, and printable A4 production sheets
  • Run on production-grade foundations including SEO metadata, schema, sitemap, robots, Meta Pixel analytics, Firestore-backed APIs, caching, and revalidation strategy

Screens

Key screens

Multilingual catalog and collection discovery

Storefront

Multilingual catalog and collection discovery

The English, Georgian, and Russian storefront experience with category navigation, filters, and curated collection presentation.

Dynamic pricing and framed poster configuration

Product Detail

Dynamic pricing and framed poster configuration

Product pages and quick-view flows showing size and frame selection, pricing changes, and fast add-to-cart interaction.

Cart, coupon, checkout, and payment flows

Checkout

Cart, coupon, checkout, and payment flows

The commerce flow covering persistent cart state, shipping details, discounts, bank selection, and supported payment methods.

Customer accounts and uploaded-image print workflow

Account and Custom Print

Customer accounts and uploaded-image print workflow

Login, order history, address management, and the custom print builder with image upload and live preview controls.

Catalog management and operational order dashboard

Admin

Catalog management and operational order dashboard

The protected admin system covering products, categories, CSV workflows, order filtering, status control, and printable production documents.

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