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Ben Gao
Ecommerce consultant
Shopify, BigCommerce, ERP
Most online retailers lose money in the gaps: stock that disagrees between the website and the warehouse, payments reconciled by hand, reports nobody fully trusts. I close them — connecting the shop, the ERP and the payment providers so the numbers agree. Nearly four years of it, inside New Zealand e-commerce.
Four things clients hire me for — explained the way a business owner would put it, not an engineer.
Ecommerce integration
One storefront, one set of numbers
Orders, stock and fulfilment should move between your shop, your ERP and the warehouse on their own. In nearly four years building exactly that for New Zealand retailers, the result was always the same: a sale becomes a pick within minutes, not a spreadsheet reconciliation the next morning.
Shopify and BigCommerce connected to your PoS and ERP
Stock and fulfilment that update within minutes, not overnight
Manual reconciliation gone from the daily routine
Payments
Payments that add up, every time
If the connection drops halfway through a payment, the customer must not end up charged twice. I build the payment layer for Stripe so retries settle once, refunds land where they should, and finance can trace any transaction back to its order.
Stripe connected end to end
Retries that cannot charge a customer twice
Any transaction traceable back to its order
Cloud & modernisation
A rebuild that never stops trading
Replacing a business-critical system in one go is how these projects fail. I move it across in stages, keeping the old one running until the new one has proven itself, and close the doors that were left open to the internet along the way.
Change in stages, with no shutdown weekend
Systems kept off the public internet
Running costs that follow demand, not peak guesswork
Reliability & security
Systems that hold up out of hours
E-commerce does not keep office hours, and neither do the failures. I set systems up to recover on their own, ship changes daily behind automated checks, and keep enough of a record to explain an incident afterwards — with customer data masked and access limited to the people who need it.
Failures that heal without waking anyone
Daily improvements, checked before they ship
Customer data masked, access limited and auditable
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