Category: Business Operations
Year: 2023
Status: Built

CarpetCareManager

The project that shaped my direction.

My first independently built full-stack business application: a management system for carpet-cleaning businesses covering customers, orders, deliveries, staff access, reporting and PDF documents. I built it as a portfolio project to test whether I could take a complete business application from idea to working product.

Source

ReactExpressMySQLSassSWR

Problem

I wanted to explore how the daily workflow of a carpet-cleaning business could be handled inside one application instead of across separate tools. The project became an exercise in designing and building the complete flow myself — from customer and order creation to delivery management, reporting and user access.

Key features

Order management with search, status tracking and scheduled work

Inventory and stock management for cleaning supplies and equipment

Three-step workflow for creating customer orders

Carpet size calculator based on length and width

Delivery management with order lookup and status updates

Business dashboard with orders, revenue and cleaned-area statistics

PDF generation for orders and customer history

Customer management with duplicate checks based on phone numbers

JWT authentication with owner and production access levels

Technical approach

I built the frontend with React and Sass and the backend with Node.js, Express and MySQL. SWR handles client-side data fetching, while JWT and Argon2 are used for authentication. The application includes searchable order management, a three-step order wizard, delivery workflows, PDF generation, business statistics and owner-restricted user management.

What I’d improve

This was my first large self-built application, so parts of the codebase and architecture reflect how I worked at that stage. Today I would structure the frontend and backend more deliberately, introduce clearer reusable modules and contracts, improve test coverage and simplify several implementation patterns. The experience from this project later influenced how I approached the architecture of Luxyco.

Solo project
Ownership: Full stack
Scope: Orders · Inventory · Delivery
Core areas

Other products

Luxyco

Operational software built around the complete workflow.

react-lite-daterange

A lightweight date range picker without the dependency chain.

Nexigo

Invoice management built for everyday business use.

Questions about CarpetCareManager?

I’m happy to share more about the technical decisions and implementation behind the project.

info@dejangogov.com