Africart

The homepage moved category counts, featured products and initial navigation state to the server so first-visible marketplace content arrives in the HTML rather than swapping in after hydration.

At the same time, products and stores gained stable human-readable slugs. Legacy UUID links permanently redirect to canonical URLs while internal cart, wishlist, reviews and realtime logic can continue using the durable UUID identity.

Seller country is read from the authoritative profile rather than hardcoded during Stripe Connect onboarding. Account creation takes a durable database claim first, freezes the country into that claim and uses a deterministic Stripe idempotency key.

If Stripe succeeds but the local linkage write fails, the next attempt searches for the account using creation metadata and can repair the linkage. A country mismatch or restricted seller fails closed before a new payout.

Seller-controlled fulfillment stops at Shipped. That authoritative transition opens buyer confirmation, while the stored buyer code stays out of seller list/detail payloads and notifications.

Confirmation codes use cryptographically secure generation and atomic first-token claims. Database row locks serialize confirmation and dispute races; a dispute freezes payout, and a valid confirmation always enters the centralized payout release/recovery path.

Africart's price comparison now anchors listings to a master product and exact condition, then intersects them with the same location-based delivery eligibility used by the marketplace.

Out-of-stock offers may remain visible but cannot win Best Price. A cheaper listing outside the buyer's area never becomes a comparison offer. Add-to-cart targets the selected seller's actual listing rather than a duplicated price snapshot.

Sellers can define area-level delivery defaults and product-level overrides. A null override means inherit; zero explicitly means free delivery. Checkout resolves and snapshots the authoritative fee on the server so the browser cannot rewrite the shipping total.