CropConex

Overview

CropConex is a B2B commodity marketplace digitizing the global coffee and agricultural supply chain. It connects farmers, cooperatives, exporters, and international buyers on a single platform — replacing fragmented, paper-heavy processes with a seamless digital workflow from harvest to delivery.

Key Features

• Marketplace & Contracts: Buyers and sellers negotiate, finalize, and track commodity contracts digitally with version history and structured approval workflows.
• Harvest Tracking: Lot-level traceability from farm to export, including quality assessment scores and grading records at every step of the supply chain.
• Inventory Management: Real-time stock levels across warehouse locations, with movement history and low-stock alerts.
• International Payments: Multi-currency payment processing via Stripe (global cards), Trustshare (escrow for commodity contracts), and Chapa (local Ethiopian payments).
• AI-Powered Recommendations: Muvi integration matches buyers to the most relevant listings based on purchasing history and preferences.
• Logistics Coordination: Shipment tracking, export document generation (phytosanitary certificates, customs declarations), and delivery confirmation workflows.

Architecture

Built on a microservice architecture with Go services handling performance-critical operations (inventory, payment processing) and Express.js for business logic services. A GraphQL API gateway unifies all services into a single endpoint. The Nuxt.js front end uses server-side rendering for SEO and fast initial load. Infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling EC2 groups, RDS PostgreSQL, and S3 for document and image storage — all containerized with Docker and proxied through Nginx.