AUREM | Curated Luxury E-Commerce

AUREM is a full-stack luxury e-commerce platform for curated high-end goods across six categories — Timepieces, Jewellery, Leather Goods, Accessories, Fragrance, and Gifting. Built with a MERN stack and deployed on Vercel.

🔑 Demo Credentials

Try the live store at https://aurem-store.vercel.app

Admin

Field	Value
Email	admin@aurem.com
Password	admin123

Admin can:

• Manage products, categories, orders, users, and coupons
• View revenue charts, top products, and KPIs on the dashboard
• Upload product images, update order status with tracking numbers

Customer

Field	Value
Email	isabelle@example.com
Password	user123

Customer can:

• Browse and filter the collection by category, price, and rating
• Add to bag, apply coupon codes, and checkout
• Track orders, manage wishlist and saved addresses

Coupon Codes

Code	Type	Value
WELCOME10	Percentage	10% off — no minimum
AUREM15	Percentage	15% off orders over £1,000
GIFTED	Fixed	£50 off orders over £300

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🛍️ Core Features

• Authentication — JWT access + refresh tokens via httpOnly cookies, email verification, OTP password reset
• Product Catalogue — Search, filter by category / price / rating / stock, variants, reviews, featured flag
• Cart & Checkout — Persistent server-side cart, coupon codes, COD + Stripe payments
• Order Pipeline — Status tracking (pending → shipped → delivered), email notifications, tracking numbers
• Wishlist — Toggle save with optimistic UI
• Admin Panel — Revenue charts (Recharts), full CRUD for products, orders, users, categories, coupons
• Image Uploads — Cloudinary via Multer (falls back to local disk when unconfigured)
• Emails — Nodemailer HTML templates for order confirmation, shipping updates, password reset

🎨 Brand Palette

Token	Hex	Usage
Champagne	#F5EDD8	Page background
Parchment	#EDE0C4	Cards, navbar, surfaces
Sand Gold	#D9C89A	Borders, dividers
Deep Gold	#7A5C28	Logo, CTAs, prices
Espresso	#2C2418	Primary text, footer
Claret	#6B1F1F	Alerts, "last piece" badges

Typography: Cormorant Garamond (display) + Montserrat (body)

🚀 Deployment

Both services are deployed on Vercel with auto-deploy on every push to main.

Service	URL
Frontend	https://aurem-store.vercel.app
Backend API	https://aurem-backend.vercel.app

• Database — MongoDB Atlas
• Images — Cloudinary
• Payments — Stripe

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend — React 18, Redux Toolkit + RTK Query, React Router v6, Tailwind CSS, Lucide React
• Backend — Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose
• Database — MongoDB Atlas
• Auth — JWT (httpOnly cookies), bcryptjs
• Payments — Stripe
• Uploads — Multer + Cloudinary
• Email — Nodemailer

⚡ Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js v20+
• MongoDB Atlas URI

Installation

git clone https://github.com/InukaWijerathna/AUREM.git
cd AUREM
npm run install:all

Configuration

cp .env.example backend/.env
# Fill in MONGO_URI, JWT_SECRET, JWT_REFRESH_SECRET, CLIENT_URL

Seed the database

npm run seed

Run in development

npm run dev

• Frontend → http://localhost:5173
• Backend → http://localhost:5000

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📄 License

MIT