The biggest challenge was integration with the catalog of 55 Mln products and 4+ products. If we upload such an amount of Data to nopCommerce the size of DB will be more than 600Gb and thе price of the SQL Server maintenance will be > 1000 USD per month

The customer wanted to store just data about orders and the catalog information wasn't important for him, so we decided to implement a GraphQL bridge for the catalog and replace nopCommerce Catalog pages. We used our Search plugin for this purpose. Also, add to cart action was replaced in order to add products to nopCommerce before adding them to the shopping cart. So customers basically use all the features on nopCommerce and were able to go through nopCommerce checkout and separate catalog DB and bridge was hidden from them.

Customer was able to reduce maintenance cost
Simplify architecture
Use additional advantages of Search plugin(filters, selected filters, quick view, etc...)

Techniques:

GraphQL, C#, TSQL, CSS, SAAS, JS

Platform:

nopCommerce