Retail · Health-food stores
GGI · Gopal.
A management system for health-food stores, under the Gopal brand: point of sale with barcode scanning, stock, purchasing, customers with store credit, reports and electronic tax invoicing. It ran until October 2026 and has since been shut down.
- Result
- One store used it daily. Shut down in October 2026.
- Time
- Until October 2026
- Built with
- React, TypeScript, Go, FastAPI, AFIP, AWS
How the project went
Why they called us
Gopal, which supplies natural products to health-food stores, wanted to offer its own system to shops that were running without one.
The problem they had
Sales written down by hand, no stock control and invoicing handled elsewhere. Any generic system was too complex for the counter.
How we solved it
We designed the product around the register: scan, charge and give change in seconds, with store credit and customer accounts. Everything else (stock, purchasing, reports) feeds off that.
Technical approach
React and TypeScript on the front end, Go with PostgreSQL on the back end and our own relay for the tax agency's SOAP services. Infrastructure on AWS behind Cloudflare, with Firebase authentication.
Impact
One health-food store used it every day at the counter, with more than 1,500 sales recorded. The service was shut down in October 2026.
How long it took
The redesign for health-food stores, with the register and an eight-section menu, shipped in June 2026. The service was shut down in October 2026.
What we needed from the client
Gopal brought the industry knowledge and the contact with the stores; we ran the product, the infrastructure and technical support.
Process friction
Medium: a system for shops without a system demands that every screen be obvious. Several features were simplified or hidden until charging took seconds.