Ecommerce development in Hyderabad
Hyderabad's pharmaceutical industry depends on a distribution chain of stockists and chemists, much of which still orders by phone or through a sales representative. Moving that ordering online is not a consumer storefront problem. Every item carries a batch number and an expiry date, stock has to be allocated so the earliest expiry ships first, prices and schemes differ by customer, and every invoice has to be right first time.
We build B2B ordering systems for distributors and manufacturers with those rules at the centre. Catalogues with customer-specific pricing and schemes, stock tracked by batch and expiry and synced with the ERP you already run, allocation that respects expiry dates, credit limits checked before an order is accepted, and invoices generated automatically. It can start as an ordering app for your existing retailers and grow into your main sales channel.
Hyderabad's technology economy grew around HITEC City, set up in 1998, and spread west through Gachibowli and the Financial District. It is where Microsoft runs one of its largest research and development centres outside Redmond and where Amazon opened what it described as its largest campus building, in 2019. JLL counts more than 355 global capability centres in the city, the in-house engineering and operations offices of foreign companies, employing over 200,000 people, which makes it the second-largest GCC hub in India. Those centres set the local price of an experienced engineer, and every other employer in the city, startups included, hires against them.
The second pillar is life sciences. Genome Valley, the pharmaceutical manufacturers on the city's edge and a fast-growing set of pharma GCCs make Hyderabad unusual: according to the same JLL research, nine of the world's top 18 pharma, biotech and medical device companies run capability centres here. Software in this world is about records people can trust. Quality teams need to see who changed a record, when and why. Approvals need a named person behind them. A batch, a deviation or a sample has to be traceable from start to finish. Much of that work still lives in shared drives and spreadsheets that have outgrown the job.
So the buyers here are usually one of three. GCC leaders with a mandate from headquarters and a hiring pipeline that moves slower than the roadmap. Quality, clinical and commercial teams in pharma who need a tool built properly and documented as it is built. And the city's own startups and established firms, who compete with those GCCs for every engineer and need senior people on a piece of work long before a hire can join.
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides. Most of the work happens in your repository, your ticketing system and a shared chat channel, which is how most GCCs prefer to run anyway. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code, and the runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go, so your permanent team inherits them.
We are the right fit for the proof of concept that wins your GCC its headcount, a funded build that needs senior engineers before hiring can staff it, or specialist work alongside your team. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and IT services firms can bring us in white-label under their name.
Four ways this arrives.
The ERP updates overnight, the store sells all day, and by morning the two do not match. We build the sync as a queue with retries and reconciliation, decide which system wins for each field, and alert on drift before a customer buys stock you do not have.
Or checkout slows until people give up. We cache what can be cached at the edge, keep live stock checks off the browsing path, load-test the shape of a real launch rather than a steady trickle, and queue anything that cannot scale.
Bundles, B2B price lists, subscriptions, delivery rules by postcode. We build it as a custom Shopify app or with Shopify Functions and checkout extensions so it survives platform updates, or tell you when you have outgrown the theme altogether.
Payment webhooks can arrive twice, late or out of order, and the handler trusts every one. We make order state follow the provider's record, process Stripe and Razorpay events idempotently, and reconcile daily so a mismatch is a report, not a complaint.
An hourly sync with a third-party system reachable only through its API, with values normalised at the boundary so unchanged records stop looking changed.
Read the write-up →Asked by Hyderabad teams.
How do you work with teams in Hyderabad?+
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases fit inside your normal working day. We work in your tools: Slack, GitHub and Linear, or whichever chat, repositories and ticketing your parent company has standardised on, with access through your own accounts. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.
Do you build for pharma and life sciences teams?+
Yes. We build the tools quality, clinical and commercial teams use every day: platforms where every change to a record shows who made it, when and why; approvals tied to a named person; field apps for medical representatives that work without signal; batch- and expiry-aware ordering for distributors; and document search that cites the exact source passage. The design documentation is written as we build, so your teams can see exactly what the system does.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Hyderabad?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Hyderabad at about ₹14 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. That buys a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
Can you build the proof of concept our GCC needs to win headcount?+
Yes. We build one workflow as a small, real product inside your environment, usually in Next.js and Postgres, with usage you can report to headquarters. It starts with a fixed-price two-week piece, so the first working version arrives quickly and costs a known amount. The NDA comes before specifics, and the code sits in your repositories from the first commit, so when the headcount is approved your new team extends it.
Have you built a store like ours?+
We build stores from the parts of commerce that usually go wrong, and those are what we work on every day: syncing with a third-party system that only speaks through its API, handling webhooks that arrive twice, and background jobs that must not lose or repeat work. On a call we will walk you through how that applies to your store.
Shopify, headless, or fully custom?+
Start with Shopify if a theme and a few apps cover you; that is cheaper than anything we would build. Go headless when the storefront must do things a theme cannot, or share a front end with other products. Build on Medusa or commercetools when the catalogue, pricing or order flow is genuinely unusual. Most stores never need the third option, and we will say so.
Can you connect our ERP or warehouse system?+
Usually, if it has an API or can export files on a schedule. We start by agreeing which system owns each field, such as stock, price and order status, because most sync bugs come from two systems both believing they are the source of truth. Then we build the sync with retries, a log of every change, and a daily reconciliation report.
Which payment providers do you work with?+
Stripe, Razorpay, and Shopify Payments when the store runs on Shopify. Choose the one that suits your markets and fees; we earn nothing from any of them. The work that matters is the same for all three: treat the provider as the record of what was paid, handle every webhook idempotently, and test refunds and partial captures, not only the happy path.
How do you prepare for a sale or a launch?+
We load-test the whole journey, from landing page to paid order, at the traffic you expect and beyond it. We find what breaks first, which is usually a third-party script, an uncached page or the stock check, and fix it before the day. During the sale itself, the engineer who did that work is watching the dashboards with you.