Combraided is a fashion brand and private-label manufacturer producing customisable menswear for international retailers. The DTC site showcases collections, tech packs and sample workflows for wholesale partners sourcing from India.
International retailers need a reliable India-based manufacturing partner with brand-forward storefronts for their private-label lines — plus a clean B2B sampling workflow.
A combined brand storefront + manufacturer portal: consumer collections on the front, buyer-side tech packs, sample-order tracking and wholesale pricing behind authentication.
Combraided combines a consumer brand storefront with a private-label manufacturing portal where international retailers review tech packs, track sample orders and see wholesale pricing. The site is a Next.js application backed by Shopify for commerce and a Node.js service on AWS for manufacturer-side workflows, with authentication cleanly separating the two audiences.
Shoppers browse the brand collections while wholesale partners log in to a manufacturer portal for sampling and pricing.
A single Next.js application with Tailwind CSS renders public pages statically and portal pages on the server behind auth.
Shopify holds the product catalog, cart and checkout for consumer orders so payments stay on a proven platform.
A Node.js service models the production side: tech packs per style, sample-order lifecycle, and wholesale price lists per partner.
Partner accounts, sample orders and status history live in a managed database; tech-pack documents and fabric imagery live in object storage.
Deployed on AWS with automated builds so the small team can ship catalog and portal updates without downtime.
A retailer discovers a style on the public collection page, pre-rendered by Next.js from Shopify catalog data.
The retailer signs in to the partner portal; Next.js verifies the session and server-renders partner-specific pricing.
The portal fetches the style's tech pack via the Node.js service, which returns a signed URL to the PDF in object storage.
The retailer places a sample order with sizes, fabric and quantity; the service persists it and emails the production team.
As sampling progresses, the team updates status and the retailer sees it in the portal with email notifications.
Consumers on the same site purchase finished garments through Shopify checkout, independent of the wholesale flow.
Maintaining one Next.js app with route-level auth kept design and content consistent and halved the maintenance burden versus two separate sites.
Shopify is excellent at retail checkout but has no concept of tech packs or sample runs, so those were built in Node.js rather than bent into Shopify metafields.
Tech packs encode proprietary patterns and construction details; serving them from private storage with expiring links protects IP while keeping downloads simple.
Pre-rendering the storefront delivers fast, SEO-friendly pages for buyers sourcing from India, while the portal stays fully dynamic where freshness matters.
“CodeLamda shipped Combraided's storefront + buyer portal in one build. Consumer collections and wholesale tech packs under one roof, with clean auth separation. Clients can sample from it the day we launched.”
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