The challenge bridging the gap between farmers and customers.

Traditional farmer markets have long suffered from the same structural limitations: limited reach, cash-only transactions, no digital presence, and a shopping experience that has barely changed in decades. Small-scale farmers are locked out of the growth that digital commerce has delivered to almost every other retail sector.

Lokbest was conceived as a solution to this problem a platform that would bring the farmer market experience into the modern era, without losing what makes it valuable: the direct connection between the producer and the consumer, the sense of local community, and the authenticity of buying directly from the grower.

The challenge was technically ambitious: build a platform that simultaneously powers an online multi-vendor marketplace, a customer-facing mobile application for store discovery, and a QR code-based in-store shopping experience all integrated into a single cohesive system. No off-the-shelf solution existed. This required custom development across multiple technologies, carefully architected to work together seamlessly.

Magento Multi-Vendor Marketplace — the challenge Lokbest was built to solve

  • Magento 2 multi-vendor marketplace for online selling.
  • Self-serve farmer onboarding and store setup
  • Mobile app with location-based store discovery
  • QR code generation for secure store access
  • In-store product scanning via mobile for instant cart adds
  • Multiple payment methods — online and cash
  • Comydo device integration for physical store QR scanning

How the platform was built :

1. Platform architecture design
Magento 2 selected as the core platform for its ability to handle multi-vendor marketplaces at scale. Webkul’s marketplace module chosen as the vendor management layer — providing the farmer onboarding, store setup, and individual vendor dashboards required without building from scratch.
2. Farmer onboarding system
Self-serve onboarding flow built allowing farmers with no technical background to register, set up their store, upload products, set pricing, and configure payment preferences independently. Designed for simplicity — the system had to be usable by people for whom digital commerce was entirely new.
3. Mobile application development
Custom mobile app built to serve as the customer’s primary interface — location services integration for nearby store discovery, real-time product feeds from the Magento backend, store profiles, and the QR code generation engine that underpins the in-store experience.
4. QR code and Comydo integration
The most technically complex workstream — building the QR code generation, validation, and store access system, then integrating it with Comydo devices installed at store entrances. Each QR code is unique to the customer session and expires after use, ensuring security and preventing fraud.
5. In-store scanning and checkout
Product QR code system built allowing customers to scan individual products and add them to their cart in real time via the mobile app. Checkout flow designed to support both online payment and cash, with the digital cart reconciled at exit — replacing the traditional physical checkout queue entirely.
6. Testing and launch
End-to-end testing across the full customer journey — from app download and store discovery through QR-based entry, product scanning, and checkout. Each touchpoint validated for reliability before go-live, with particular attention to the Comydo device integration which bridges digital and physical systems in real time.