# Fashion Mart — current progress

Updated: 15 November 2026 (Asia/Dhaka).

## Phase 10 - Remaining access features and compact permissions completed

- Owner explicitly selected all four Coming Later features for real DB flow: Delete Product, Export Products, Change Order Status, Change Customer Status. They are now assignable with existing module-view dependencies and fresh endpoint/service checks. No real grants were changed. User Access groups use three columns above 1200 px, two at 901–1200 px, one below; existing group toggle/partial selection behavior is preserved.
- Product List/Details exposes permission-controlled Delete confirmation. It requires matching product code, current version and reason. Permanent deletion is limited to zero-stock products without incoming/correction/POS/Wholesale movements or online-order item references. Product/variant locks serialize changes; category selected-image references are cleared with version increment, an immutable deletion audit survives, and private image files retire after commit. Used products remain available for inactive status instead of deletion.
- Export CSV streams real product/physical-variant/category/rate/stock/status records in small chunks, supports current q/category/status filters, includes retired variants and neutralizes spreadsheet formula prefixes. It has separate products.export access, throttling and private/no-store download headers; no export includes actors or customer data.
- OnlineOrder table stores immutable contact/address/item/payment/amount snapshots and versioned fulfilment status. /admin/orders list/detail/status routes now use saved DB records. Allowed transitions retain the established preview flow; courier/tracking required for shipping, reasons required for all updates, stale/terminal/unknown transitions rejected. Status/history writes are atomic and private actor IDs never render. Status changes do not post stock, money or refunds.
- /admin/customers list/detail/status uses real non-staff/non-developer User records (customer/wholesale). Active/Suspended changes are versioned/audited; suspension rotates remember token and revokes stored sessions/reset tokens. These controls cannot target staff or Super Admin even with forged IDs. There is no implicit account role/permission change. Wholesale approvals/support remain clearly marked demos; their record links now stay under protected /orders/preview and /customers/preview routes instead of breaking real numeric detail URLs.
- Storefront checkout/account/order data remains demo and is not imported. Customer-facing authentication/order creation API integration is a later phase; empty live admin tables are intentional until real records arrive. This scope was stated to the owner before implementation. New migration 2026_11_15_020030_create_online_orders_table.php applied locally (21 total); online orders/status events/deletion events verified empty. No actual product deletion, status/grant change or test business data was made locally.
- Validation: 35 focused tests / 1265 assertions, full backend 340 tests / 3822 assertions, Pint and staged/unstaged whitespace checks pass. Coverage includes historical/stock/order-linked deletion refusal, stale code/version, category-cover invalidation, filtered/formula-safe CSV, transition/tracking/reason rules, immutable amounts, customer suspension/session revocation, developer privacy, separate grants, rollback and escaped output. HTTP protected routes redirect guests, CSS returns 200, status PATCH without CSRF returns 419. Temporary 8001 server stopped. Browser layout visual verification/MySQL concurrency remain untested. Existing user staging preserved; no commit/staging/deployment.

## Phase 9 - Dashboard and website settings completed

- Activated all six previously Planned controls: Brand Name & Logo, Layout & Display, General Settings, Header & Navigation, Partner Logos, Footer & Contact. Each has a database-backed form and independent settings feature grant requiring settings.view. Existing Super Admin-only security/staff/access controls are unchanged. Settings home/sidebar now link to permitted controls and show Restricted for unavailable grants.
- Brand name/monogram/raster logo applies to dashboard views and storefront branding. Layout controls dashboard density, 200/220/240 px sidebar, 12/13/14 px body font and validated accent color. General controls page metadata/tagline; Header controls announcement visibility/text/link and up to 12 ordered local navigation links, shared by desktop/mobile menus. Partner controls heading/description/visibility and up to 20 name/image rows, add/remove/move up/down; saving an empty/hidden group removes demo logos. Footer controls description, email/phone/address and copyright; contact page displays saved contact data. Other product/order/customer storefront data remains demo.
- SiteSetting group JSON records use version checks, transactions and private before/after audit events. Uploaded PNG/JPG/WebP assets are limited to 2 MB/3000 px; SVG/arbitrary path inputs are rejected. Partner IDs are server generated and ownership checked; failed saves clean new uploads and replaced/unreferenced assets are retired after commit. Public image endpoint serves only referenced image hashes. No stored markup executes; navigation paths are local-only, CSS/font values restricted. Developer actor data is private.
- Added read-only /api/v1/storefront/settings and hashed image endpoints. Only website-safe group values are exposed; dashboard layout/audit/actor IDs are excluded. Next root server layout fetches with no-store/timeout and supplies a client settings context; routes render dynamically, so deployment needs the Next server. Refresh the browser after saving. FASHION_MART_BACKEND_URL points at the browser-accessible Laravel HTTPS origin in production; development defaults to 127.0.0.1:8000. Added frontend .env.example. Production backend failures suppress sample partner logos; development keeps the initial demo fallback until saved settings exist.
- Applied 2026_11_15_014353_create_site_settings_table.php locally (20 migrations total). Both new settings/audit tables remain empty; no owner branding, content, business records, accounts or grants were changed for verification. Temporary backend 8001/frontend production 3001 servers stopped; pre-existing services unchanged. Existing staged changes preserved; no commit/staging/deploy.
- Validation: full backend 330 tests / 3611 assertions, including 7 settings tests / 103 assertions; frontend 39 tests, typecheck and production build pass. Covers all six saves, stale forms, user grants/revocation, branding/layout application, public data privacy, invalid CSS/paths/assets, partner order/empty state/forged IDs, upload cleanup and transactional rollback. Frontend parser tests exercise local menu links and bounds. HTTP API/assets/home/contact 200, protected settings redirect guests and POST without CSRF returns 419. Settings/image UI JavaScript syntax and staged/unstaged whitespace checks pass. Browser/mobile/native print visual review is still blocked by Computer Use browser URL safeguards; concurrent MySQL settings writes remain untested.

## Phase 8C - Wholesale collections and Parties Ledger completed

- Receive Payment now selects a saved Party, a specific outstanding invoice or opening due, amount/date/method/reference/note, then Review -> Confirm & save -> immutable receipt/print. Inactive Parties can pay existing debts. Party search returns 20 results and outstanding invoice selection returns 50, with exact WH-code lookup for older invoices. Payment History offers paginated RC-code/Party/reference search. Party Details and unpaid invoices link to collection/ledger only when permitted.
- New wholesale_payments records store Party/contact snapshots, target, integer amount, before/after target due, receipt details and private actor. Opening due and initial invoice received values remain unchanged. Invoice List/Details now derive total paid/status/current due from initial received plus later collections, and preserve original historical amounts. Initial receipts remain on their invoice and appear once in the ledger; Payment History lists separate collections explicitly.
- Direct wholesale.payments + wholesale.view protects payment review/create/history/receipt/store; wholesale.ledger + wholesale.view independently protects statements. CSRF and write throttles apply. Party -> invoice locks serialize collection; fresh target ownership, Party version, expected due, positive amount/no overpayment, date and reference are checked. UUID replay bound to actor/canonical payload is rechecked after the Party lock before stale balance checks. No stock changes or receipt edit/delete routes. Payments record already-completed external receipts, without gateway transfers.
- Ledger combines original opening debit, invoice debits, initial invoice credits and later receipt credits. SQL window sums produce deterministic date/type/ID running balances before date filters/pagination. Date-range brought-forward, range debit/credit, closing balance and page carry are shown. Dates are normalized across SQLite/MySQL, and signed casts avoid unsigned subtraction issues. Each printable statement is explicitly a numbered page, with full-range totals; full multi-page export is not implemented. Receipt links respect payment permissions.
- Applied additive migration 2026_11_14_174638_create_wholesale_payments_table.php to local MySQL (19 total). MySQL was stopped; restarted its existing configuration/data with approved filesystem escalation, without reinstalling/reinitializing or changing Windows security. Payment table verified empty. Read-only application ledger query executes on MySQL with zero rows/balance, without creating a Party or receipt. Temporary HTTP server 8001 stopped after verification; MySQL left running for local work.
- Validation: 71 Wholesale feature tests / 650 assertions; full backend 323 tests / 3196 assertions; all 53 JS helper tests pass. Covers review without writes, opening/partial/full collection, unchanged initial values, overpayment/stale/cross-Party rejection, replay/conflicting payload/actor, maximum invoice receipt, date boundaries, status updates, ledger carry/pagination, escaping/developer privacy, rollback and independent grants. Existing preview tests were adapted to saved records while preserving selection/escaping/sidebar coverage. Pint and staged/unstaged whitespace checks pass; HTTP login 200, protected collection/ledger redirects and CSRF 419 verified. Concurrent MySQL contention and browser/native print visual QA remain untested.
- Report and stop. Wholesale return/cancellation/payment reversal policy remains undefined; do not silently apply POS rules. Frontend/portal API, online Orders/Customers DB integration, reservations, verified onboarding and recovery remain later. Existing user-staged work was preserved; no commit/staging/deployment was performed by the assistant.

## Phase 8B - Wholesale Invoice and stock posting completed

- Owner explicitly approved credit, partial and full payment, stock deduction at confirmation, later collection against due and no overpayment. Implemented Create Invoice -> saved Active Party search -> real products/variants -> editable negotiated rates/quantities -> discount/delivery/payment -> Review -> Confirm & save -> immutable invoice/print. Invoice List uses persisted records with search by code/Party/product/SKU, status filters and pagination. Party Details links to invoice creation when active and permitted. Draft/edit/cancel/returns and separate collections are outside this increment.
- WholesaleInvoiceController read endpoints return active products/current enabled variants with integer catalog prices/stock, variant-priority private images and active Party contacts/version/opening date. Wildcards are escaped; exact SKU prioritized; searches return up to 20 products/Parties and refresh accepts up to 100 product IDs. No Products/Manage Parties grant is needed for invoice lookups. All write/catalog routes require wholesale.invoice plus wholesale.view; reading invoices requires wholesale.view. Recording received money additionally requires wholesale.payments, while invoice-only staff can post credit invoices. No real grants changed.
- WholesaleInvoices locks Party then products/variants in stable ID order and atomically stores invoice, line/payment snapshots and stock balances. Opening due remains separate and unchanged. Rechecks Party version/status, date after opening, current catalog quote, availability, quantities, negotiated positive rates, expected total, discount and payment limits. Supports 100 distinct variants / 10,000 units; gross/payable/adjustments capped at 1,000,000,000,000 minor units. Received cannot exceed this invoice; Bank/Mobile receipts need a reference. Payment is a record of money already collected externally, not a gateway charge.
- UUID replay is actor/payload bound, rechecked after Party lock before stale checks, and does not repeat stock/payment. Network uncertainty freezes the reviewed payload and offers Retry same invoice. Invoice and line snapshots preserve Party contact/product/code/SKU/options/catalog and negotiated rates, initial received/method/reference, and stock before/after; developer actor is private. No live Party IDs are passed into the remaining demo payment/ledger pages.
- Applied additive migration 2026_11_14_173316_create_wholesale_invoices_table.php locally (18 migrations total). MySQL's generated composite index name exceeded its identifier limit; replaced with a short explicit name, verified partial new tables were empty, removed only those empty failed-migration tables under locks/row-count guard, and reapplied successfully. Verified the composite unique index and zero invoice/line counts. Existing business rows were not altered. Temporary HTTP server 8001 stopped; prior services remain unchanged.
- Validation: 53 focused Wholesale backend tests / 507 assertions; full backend 305 tests / 3053 assertions; all 53 JS helper tests pass. Pint, JS syntax and whitespace checks pass. Tests cover credit/partial/full amounts, no overpayment, stale Party/price/stock, inactive/retired products, multi-line rollback, replay/conflicting actor/payload, separate payment permission, immutable escaped snapshots, list/search/filter/pagination and private images. HTTP login/new assets return 200, guest invoice paths redirect, and POST without CSRF returns 419. MySQL migration verified; concurrent MySQL contention, browser interactions and native print visual QA remain untested.
- Report and stop. Next increment: real Receive Payment against invoice/opening due, payment receipts/history and Parties Ledger, including concurrency/overpayment guards and initial-receipt deduplication. Portal/API, online orders, reservations and verified onboarding remain later. Phase 8A and 8B work are uncommitted; no staging/deployment.

## Phase 8A - Wholesale Party records completed

- New Party and Party List now use persisted WholesaleParty records instead of fixtures. Added Details, Edit, status filtering, escaped name/contact/mobile search, exact WP-code lookup and 20-record pagination. Shared compact Wholesale styles remain; live pages do not load the demo writer or embed fixture records. Existing invoice/payment/ledger pages remain clearly marked previews and do not receive real Party IDs from live Party actions.
- Creation saves contact details, normalized Bangladesh mobile, active status and immutable opening due/date. One Party per normalized phone; server-generated display code WP000001 is based on the saved ID. Opening due is stored as integer minor units, from zero to BDT 999,999,999.99. Opening date must be between 2000-01-01 and the current Dhaka date. Editing can change contact/status only, with version checks against stale forms. These business records do not create or link portal login accounts.
- Create uses actor/payload-bound UUID replay; duplicate retry cannot create a second Party or opening amount, including after contact edits. Unique database constraints also handle concurrent phone/key collisions. Party writes and append-only before/after audit events commit together or roll back. Developer actor identity is recorded privately and never rendered. Existing direct wholesale.parties plus wholesale.view grants protect all six routes; no new roles, real grants or accounts were created.
- Applied additive migration 2026_11_14_170506_create_wholesale_parties_table.php to local MySQL (17 migrations total). Both wholesale_parties and wholesale_party_events are empty. No business data was seeded or altered. Temporary verification server on 8001 was stopped; existing services remain unchanged.
- Validation: 25 focused tests / 244 assertions and full backend 277 tests / 2790 assertions pass. Coverage includes exact amount boundaries, phone uniqueness/normalization, replay/conflicting actor, stale edits, protected opening values, contact/status audit, transaction rollback, search/filter/pagination, escaped HTML/history, guest and direct-feature authorization. Pint and whitespace checks pass. HTTP login/CSS return 200, protected Party paths redirect guests and POST without CSRF returns 419. Visual browser review and concurrent MySQL contention remain untested.
- Report and stop. Next proposed increment: Wholesale Invoice using these saved Parties and real product/variant stock. Confirm credit/partial/full payment rules before implementing invoice posting, then connect Receive Payment and Parties Ledger. Frontend portal/API, online orders, reservations and verified onboarding remain later. No commit, staging or deployment.

## Phase 7 - POS returns/refunds, cancellation and stock corrections completed

- Owner explicitly approved partial returns, original discount/tax-adjusted refunds, optional restocking for sellable goods, no restock for damaged goods and cancellation only before any return. Implemented invoice -> Return / Refund or Cancel sale -> review -> save -> linked return receipt, plus Products -> Stock Corrections. Existing invoices remain unchanged and display derived returned/cancelled status, linked receipts, refunded total and net retained; Sales List shows these statuses too.
- New direct grants: pos.refund, pos.cancel, products.adjust, each with the existing module-view dependency. Complete Sale/Add Stock grants alone cannot use these controls. Cancellation can be independently allowed without Return / Refund or Complete Sale. No real grants were changed; developer actor IDs remain hidden from user-facing records.
- Original payable (not cash received/change) is allocated across invoice lines by original gross-price weight in stable line-ID order, with cumulative integer floors. Within each line cumulative returned quantity receives its exact allocated share, so repeated partial returns eventually refund exactly the original payable. Original discount/tax and rounding are preserved; PHP uses overflow-safe integer proportions and JS uses BigInt. No operator-entered refund amount is trusted; expected quote/version are rechecked. Zero-cent allocated items can still be returned.
- pos_returns and pos_return_lines keep immutable reason/method/reference, quantities/restock choice, refund and before/after balances linked to original sale lines. Original invoice labels/prices remain the receipt source. Cancellation restores every unit and refunds the whole net payable; any previous return blocks cancellation. Full-return/cancelled forms cannot be reopened. Returns can restock draft/inactive/retired variants without enabling them. Product List/Details totals now include physical stock in retired variants; Details exposes those variants separately.
- StockCorrections supports a signed, non-zero delta up to 1,000,000 units and required reason, stores product/SKU/options snapshots and before/after balances, rejects stale expected stock and any resulting balance below zero/above 1,000,000,000. Search/variant selection and separate paginated audit history include retired variants. Corrections are append-only; no edit/delete route. New deliveries still use Add Stock.
- Transactions serialize returns on the sale and then lock products/variants in ID order. Corrections lock product then variant. Refund, receipt lines and stock commit together or fully roll back. Actor/payload-bound UUID replay is checked again after acquiring locks, before stale-state validation, to handle concurrent retries; saved returns/corrections cannot post twice. Foreign invoice line IDs, over-return, wrong quotes, duplicate lines, invalid payment references and protected inputs are rejected. Refunds are manually recorded payments already made externally; there is no gateway refund or money transfer.
- Applied additive migration 2026_11_11_134752_create_returns_and_stock_corrections.php to local MySQL (16 migrations total). Confirmed local pos_returns, pos_return_lines and stock_corrections counts are all zero. No real sales/refunds/business balances, user grants or security/dependency settings were changed. Existing MySQL remains running; temporary web verification server stopped after checks.
- Validation: full backend 256 tests / 2606 assertions pass; 32 return/POS/inventory/product-editor JS tests pass; Pint, JS syntax and whitespace checks pass. New tests cover repeated partial cents, tax/discount shares, damaged/no-restock, cancellation rules and separate grants, replay/conflict/revocation, stale forms, rollback/stock limits, foreign lines, protected inputs, historical escaping, retired stock visibility, correction history/search/pagination and read-only receipts. Login/assets return 200, protected return/correction routes redirect guests, and POST without CSRF returns 419. MySQL schema/empty ledgers verified; concurrent MySQL contention and visual browser/print QA remain untested because browser access host is unavailable.
- Report and stop. Next proposed module: Wholesale (Parties -> Invoice/stock -> Payments -> Ledger), in separate owner-approved increments with credit/payment business rules clarified first. Storefront/customer/order integration, reservations and held/credit POS sales remain later. No commit/staging/deployment.

## Phase 6 - POS full-payment sales and stock deduction completed

- Owner authorized the proposed next POS increment. /admin/modules/pos and /admin/pos now use saved active products and current enabled variants, private POS image routes, category/name/code/SKU search (20 matches; exact SKU prioritized), cart-product refresh, real price/stock and an initially empty bill. Existing compact responsive layout and named colour/size selection are retained. No Products-module grant is needed for POS catalog images.
- pos.sell is now assignable (requires pos.view). Open POS alone allows catalog/history/invoices; saving requires Complete Sale. Fresh per-request checks and CSRF/throttle apply; no real staff grants were assigned. Customer name/optional phone are invoice snapshots, not new customer accounts. Super Admin actor IDs are retained in audit but not displayed in sales/invoice UI.
- Additive migration 2026_11_11_132238_create_pos_sales_tables.php applied to local MySQL. pos_sales stores payment/bill snapshots; pos_sale_lines stores product/code/SKU/options, price/quantity and before/after stock. Sale/line/balance updates commit together under product then variant locks in ID order. Inactive/draft/retired/missing products, stale prices, insufficient stock or invalid payment roll back the whole sale. UUID replay is bound to actor/canonical payload and never deducts twice, even after product changes.
- All amounts use integer minor units; tax is basis points, rounded half-up after discount, and browser uses BigInt for exact tax multiplication. Server recomputes the total and checks quoted price/expected total. Full-payment only: Cash supports received/change; Card/Mobile require exact amount and external payment reference. This records a manually completed external payment, with no gateway charge or verification. Discount and tax are manual inputs defaulting to zero; no tax policy was inferred. Max 100 variants / 10,000 total units per sale, bill/payment max 1,000,000,000,000 minor units. Credit, held sales, returns/refunds, saved-sale cancellation and reservations are not implemented.
- Review freezes the submitted bill; uncertain saves retain the same key/payload for Retry same sale and block closing the review. Known validation errors allow returning to edit/refresh catalog. Unsaved navigation warns. Success opens a stable saved invoice with Print invoice; Sales List searches invoice numeric ID/customer/phone/payment reference/product/SKU and paginates 15 rows. Saved invoices include all lines for printing and cannot be edited/deleted through HTTP.
- Validation: full backend 225 tests / 2226 assertions pass; 29 POS/inventory/product-editor JS tests pass; Pint and JS syntax checks pass. HTTP login and POS assets return 200; protected POS catalog/history redirect guests; POST without CSRF returns 419. New tests cover payment rounding/full payment, cash change, permissions/revocation, duplicate replay/conflicts, stock/price/status failures and rollback, snapshot history/escaping, exact-SKU priority, bounded search, multi-product stock, Add Stock after sale and FK protection. Concurrent MySQL requests and browser click-through/print preview remain untested; browser access host is unavailable.
- Local MySQL was initially stopped. Started its existing MySQL 8.4.3 server with the existing my.ini/data directory after sandbox write denial required tool escalation; no configuration, dependencies, credentials or security settings changed. Existing nonfatal MySQL component/ICU warnings were observed; server became ready on 3306. Migration and empty sales/lines (both zero) checked; no real sales/payments/stock were seeded or changed. Temporary verification web server is stopped after checks; MySQL remains running for local development. No commit/staging/deployment.
- Report and stop. Next decide return/cancellation/correction rules before extending sales, then proceed to Wholesale and authenticated storefront APIs in separate owner-approved phases. Other dashboard/Wholesale/order/customer/storefront business flows still use fixtures.

## Phase 5 - Add Stock and incoming stock accounting completed

- Owner explicitly authorized DB-driven Add Stock. Replaced its demo route/data with persisted product search and on-demand variant loading, exact-SKU jump, multi-product quantities, colour/size filters, bulk fill across 15-row pages, review, CSRF-protected Save and receipt redirect. Unsaved navigation warns; uncertain saves retry the same frozen payload/key.
- Applied additive migration 2026_11_10_192412_create_stock_accounting_tables.php to local MySQL: product_variants.stock defaults to zero, plus stock_entries and stock_entry_lines. No real business receipt/stock/grant was seeded or changed by the assistant. MySQL ledger counts are zero after migration; existing product variants gain zero balances.
- Positive Purchase / Opening stock / Other entries record business date/reference/note, actor ID and product/code/SKU/colour/size plus before/add/after snapshots. Products then variants lock in ID order; ledger and balances commit together or fully roll back. UUID submission keys are unique and bound to actor plus canonical payload, including safe duplicate replay. Max 1000 distinct variants / 1,000,000 incoming units per entry; max balance 1,000,000,000 per variant.
- Stock History searches reference/product/code/SKU with 15 receipts per page; saved receipts have 30 variant lines per page and stable historical labels. Actor identities are not displayed, preserving protected developer-account invisibility. Existing products.stock + products.view permissions guard every stock route; no real grants changed.
- Product List, Details and Edit now show canonical current stock including inactive variants. Product edits cannot set quantities or silently retire a stocked variant; disable sale availability instead. Zero-stock retirement/restoration keeps its existing identity. Current inactive/draft variants may receive stock without activation; retired/missing variants cannot. Ledger foreign keys protect referenced variants from deletion.
- Validation: full backend 201 tests / 2016 assertions; 21 inventory/product-editor JS tests; Pint, JS syntax and diff whitespace checks pass. Local MySQL migration/schema checked. Live login/assets return 200, protected stock routes redirect guests, POST without CSRF returns 419. Isolated tests cover permissions/revocation, multi-product/inactive stock, idempotency/conflicts, invalid quantities/limits, rollback, before/after snapshots, literal search, escaping and pagination. MySQL concurrent contention was not exercised. Browser visual/click-through QA is pending because the browser access host remains unavailable.
- Runtime recovered after owner reported disabling the blocking Windows control: PHP 8.5.12 / Laravel 13.40.0 and required extensions now work. Earlier exact official PHP packages were hash-verified but Smart App Control blocked both 8.5 and a TEMP-only 8.4 probe. Assistant did not change security settings, PHP installation/PATH or dependencies. WSL installation remains unauthorized. Existing user-owned servers were not stopped.
- Report and stop at this phase. POS/Wholesale/storefront business flows still use fixtures. Before posting sales, agree and implement stock deduction, reservation, return/correction and reversal rules in a subsequent phase. No commit, staging or deployment.

## Phase 4C - Category product-image cover control completed

- Owner authorized this increment. Category Edit now offers separate upload or a linked product image. The gallery shows only current products in that category, with name/code search, 12-image pagination, persisted selection outside the current page, safe labels and preview. New categories must be saved before selecting a product photo. The server-rendered form works without JS; JS switches previews/source, checks upload size/type and warns about unsaved changes.
- Added nullable categories.product_image_id FK with nullOnDelete in a locally applied additive migration. A selected product photo is referenced, not copied. Existing uploaded covers remain independent fallback and can be replaced/removed without deleting product assets. Shared cover resolution checks category membership and file availability, preferring the linked product photo and then upload. Missing both yields 404/empty preview; no demo/unrelated image fallback. Category list thumbnails and product category-preview URLs support linked covers.
- Source writes require products.categories and products.view dependency. Validation scopes image IDs to the category, prohibits selection on new categories and rejects bad IDs. Service rechecks ownership/file existence under product -> category -> image locks. Product edits now lock affected categories in sorted order. Product moves or selected-image removals clear the old category reference and increment version/updated_by atomically. Unselected-image deletion leaves the chosen cover intact. Failed product/category writes roll back references and clean only new uploads; uploaded fallbacks survive automatic invalidation.
- Legacy metadata requests retain existing selections. Stale forms cannot restore changed/removed relationships. No role grants, real product/category selections, PHP installation, Windows security settings, dependencies or public API exposure were changed by the assistant. Stock/POS/Wholesale/storefront integration remains later.
- Validation: full backend 182 tests / 1840 assertions, including 13 new cover tests; Pint, new JS syntax/CSS, live MySQL migration and guest/asset/CSRF checks pass. Existing category/product preview tests also pass. Browser visual QA remains pending because its access host is unavailable. Temporary verification server stopped; user's server not stopped. No deployment or Git commit.
- Report and stop. Next: real Add Stock/stock ledger, with stable current/retired variant identity and agreed stock adjustment/reservation rules before posting sales.

## Phase 4B - Product List and Edit completed

- Owner authorized this increment. Product List now queries real products/categories/current variants/images; module navigation redirects to it. Search name/code/SKU, category/status filters, date/name/active-price sorting, aggregate metrics and 15/30/60 pagination are server-driven. No fixture/error fallback. Compact responsive existing styles are reused, with no introductory hero or large typography. Add Stock is still a separate preview; real IDs are not routed into its fixture data.
- Existing create editor now also loads products for Edit: general fields/category/type/code/status, stable variant IDs, prices/enabled states/manual or auto SKUs, retained/new images, cover/gallery ordering and colour/exact-variant image choices. Existing photos do not require upload. Successful saves open real Details with List/Edit links; buttons and routes enforce view/create/edit separately. Unsaved edits warn before leaving; Reset restores loaded values.
- products.edit is now an assignable known feature, with products.view dependency. No local grant was assigned by the assistant. GET editor and PATCH write require edit, fresh per-request checks, CSRF and throttle. Category cover preview requires view, while category management remains separate. User roles/designations still grant nothing.
- Added products.version/updated_by and product_variants.retired_at in an additive migration, applied to local MySQL. Transactional saves lock the product, reject stale versions, retain matching IDs/SKUs, retire omitted combinations without deleting them and restore the original identity on reintroduction. SKU uniqueness/reservations/retries remain enforced. Stock stays zero/unrecorded pending its phase. No existing local product content, user or grant was edited by the assistant.
- Gallery ownership and variant identity are scoped to the edited product. Foreign IDs/protected fields/duplicate SKU/invalid options are rejected. New uploads are cleaned on failed/stale saves; old removed files and links are cleaned only after successful persistence. Colour/variant/gallery priority persists. Tests cover no-reupload editing, gallery reorder/replacement/removal, single/variable changes, retire/restore, permission/revocation, stale/missing versions, ownership, rollback and real list filtering/pagination/escaping.
- Validation: full backend 169 tests / 1712 assertions, 14 product JS state tests, Pint, JS/CSS, routes, MySQL migration and live guest/asset/CSRF checks passed. Existing no-DB preview tests now explicitly pin their SQLite transaction connection while the real list/module path uses DB. Browser visual QA remains pending because the access host is unavailable. The temporary test server was stopped; the user's server was not stopped. No dependency, Windows protection change, deployment or commit.
- Report and stop. Next small increment: choose a linked product image as category cover (including invalidation when that image/product category changes); then implement real stock accounting after agreeing its rules. POS/Wholesale/storefront integration remains later.

## Phase 4A - Add a Product persistence completed

- Owner authorized the next incremental job. Existing Add a Product UI now reads only real categories and saves products/variants/images to MySQL. No fixtures, sample records or local-storage fallback. Product-code generation is editable and unique. Category FK keeps linkage on rename; creators may preview category covers without category-management access.
- Four additive catalog tables applied locally: products, product_variants, product_images and product_variant_images. Single products have one default variant; variable products require the full declared colour x size set, allow 1000 variants, preserve per-variant price/status, and validate normalized combinations (including size zero). Unique option signatures avoid MySQL collation folding distinct labels. All prices are positive with at most two decimals. Stock is deliberately zero/readonly, with nonzero submissions rejected until the stock phase.
- Manual 4-5 character alphanumeric SKUs are unique globally; auto SKUs are finalized server-side as five unambiguous characters with database constraints, reserved manual codes and bounded collision retries. Duplicate product codes prevent repeated saves from creating a second product. No role inheritance or automatic grants were added.
- Gallery upload/reordering/cover plus colour/exact-variant assignments persist. Up to 20 verified JPG/PNG/WebP files, 5 MB each, 50 MB total and 6000px dimensions; every image reference must belong to the product upload set. Variant images override colour images, then gallery. Private files are served only under products.view. No public API image delivery or category product-image picker yet.
- CSRF, server create permission, throttling, explicit field whitelists, DB transactions and upload cleanup protect the write. Browser submits multipart metadata/files, retains state on errors and disables double submission. Draft and Activate both require valid catalog data; status affects the catalog only. Success opens the real /admin/products/{id}/saved readback, with paginated variants, escaped text and matching images. Product List/Edit and stock/POS/Wholesale/storefront remain their existing previews for subsequent phases.
- Verified: full Laravel 157 tests / 1585 assertions; product creation 28 cases plus 2 updated UI-rendering cases; 12 JS state tests; Pint, syntax/CSS, route mappings, local MySQL migration and live HTTP guest/asset/CSRF checks. New local tables still contain zero product/variant/image records; test data stays in isolated SQLite. Browser visual QA is pending because the access host is unavailable. Temporary verification server stopped; the user's server was not stopped.
- Project php-development.ini now permits 64M POST and 20 files; user should restart php-dev.cmd to load new limits. Smart App Control remains enabled and existing PHP installation unchanged. No dependencies, deployment or commit.
- Report and stop here. Next stage: real Product List and Edit, followed by category product-image cover linking and then stock persistence as separate steps.

## Windows PHP startup resolved with protection enabled

- Owner explicitly declined disabling Smart App Control. No Windows security/privacy setting was changed, no PHP installation replaced and no dependency installed. Official archive SHA-256 and all 63 installed binary hashes match as recorded below.
- Confirmed PHP -n runs normally. All composer.lock-required extensions plus MySQL/PDO SQLite, image upload/test GD and intl load under Smart App Control. Only optional global curl/sqlite3/xsl extensions were causing the observed warnings.
- Added backend php-development.ini and php-dev.cmd. The runner uses the PHP already on PATH and process-local environment variables, preserves Laragon/global settings, and enables the seven project extensions. Default starts 127.0.0.1:8000; arguments support Artisan/test/PHP options. Adds --no-reload for Artisan serve because Laravel normally filters out PHPRC and the extension-directory variable when spawning its server child; restart after .env edits.
- Verified with this configuration: full 129 tests / 1340 assertions, loaded ini/modules, local MySQL migration status, warning-free temporary server startup, login HTTP 200, category guest redirect, asset 200. Smart App Control registry state remains 1 (enabled). The test server is temporary; existing user server was not stopped by the assistant. Use the runner after Ctrl+C on the old server.
- Updated existing startup instructions and README. Products/Variants/Images persistence has not started.

## Phase 3 - Categories completed; Windows PHP diagnosis history

- Follow-up diagnosis: backend login subsequently responds HTTP 200, but Code Integrity logs also block php_xsl.dll, php_curl.dll and php_sqlite3.dll. Downloaded the exact official PHP 8.5.12-1 NTS x64 archive to TEMP for verification only. Its SHA-256 matches php.net's published `2a36a2edcb7a5b9252f638fd5e4cf84d7f6e066092654220dc0b63e5cf4e9723`; all 63 installed official EXE/DLL files match their archive contents, including php.exe, php-cgi.exe, php8.dll and the blocked extensions. No reinstall or file replacement is needed. Smart App Control remains enabled; the owner explicitly declined changing that system-wide security setting. No security setting has been changed by the assistant.
- Authorized next phase implemented: real Category create/edit, collection, unique name within collection, stable ID/slug, shop order, website visibility, cover upload/replacement/removal, and independent homepage placement/order. Search, pagination, empty state, safe form feedback and saved homepage ordering reuse the compact category UI. No demo category seeding/fallback. Product-image choices await real Products; storefront/API and product/POS fixtures remain unchanged.
- Direct products.categories permission protects every read/write/cover endpoint, with products.view dependency. CSRF, write throttling, explicit fields, validated JPG/PNG/WebP uploads (5 MB / 6000px), generated private storage paths, transactional updates and stale-form version checks are in place. Failed writes clean new uploads; old covers are cleaned after a successful commit. Private cover delivery needs no public storage link. Category creator/last editor are recorded; no delete action was added.
- Additive categories migration applied locally. Fixed MySQL's 64-character index-name limit by assigning a short explicit name. Verified the newly created partial table was empty before recreating only that table and rerunning the migration. Existing user/grant/business data were untouched.
- Validation before the OS block: full Laravel suite 129 tests / 1340 assertions, category subset 27 tests / 165 assertions after migration repair, 8 category-state tests, Pint, new JS syntax, CSS parsing, HTTP guest redirects/assets and CSRF-less POST 419. Browser visual QA remains pending: browser access host unavailable.
- On 10 November 2026 the user reported Windows blocking backend startup. Read-only diagnosis confirms PHP cannot launch (0xC0E90002); Code Integrity 3077 names unsigned php8.dll under Smart App Control policy VerifiedAndReputableDesktop, with VerifiedAndReputablePolicyState=1. No PHP process/listener on 8000, and login HTTP cannot connect. No Windows security policy was changed. Resolve local PHP runtime before further runtime work.
- Report this phase and stop before Products/Variants/Images persistence. No dependencies, deployment or commit.

## Password policy adjustment

- Minimum password length is now 8 characters for Super Admin setup and staff creation/password changes. Letters, numbers, confirmation and the 72-byte maximum remain required. Form hints, setup prompts and startup instructions match the policy.
- Verification: setup and staff management tests passed (32 tests, 264 assertions), including acceptance of 8-character passwords and rejection of 7-character passwords. Pint passed.

## Phase 2 — real User Access Control completed

- Owner authorized phase 2. Replaced the old role-matrix navigation with Settings → Dashboard Settings → User Access Control (`/admin/settings/access`), plus user-specific GET/PATCH `/admin/settings/users/{user}/access`. Staff list/edit pages link directly to Access. The old `/admin/settings/roles` route remains protected and redirects to the new control; it no longer serves fictional role grants.
- Selector/search/pagination and the editor use real ordinary staff, excluding Super Admin and customers. Only the active authenticated Super Admin can assign/revoke access, with current-password confirmation and CSRF protection. Protected/non-staff/unknown target IDs return 404; ordinary users cannot view or write these controls, including their own grants. Designations remain labels only.
- A metadata catalog groups known permissions by Dashboard/POS/Products/Wholesale/Orders/Customers/Settings. Module selection toggles available feature checkboxes, supports partial state and Clear selection, and enables required module view when choosing a child. Server normalization enforces the same dependency even without JavaScript. Assignments are explicit keys in `user_permissions`, never wildcard/role inheritance. Unimplemented action keys are disabled as Coming later and rejected server-side, preventing pre-grants to future functionality. Settings account/security/grant management stays reserved to Super Admin.
- Saves replace only the chosen user's grants transactionally and record actor/subject plus added/removed keys in new `user_access_events`, applied locally via additive migration. No-op saves create no audit noise. A per-user keyed snapshot version rejects stale forms and cross-user version substitution. Invalid/duplicate/planned/unknown keys, privileged payload fields and incorrect/missing current password are rejected. No account profile/verification/status is changed by granting access; pending/inactive staff can have access prepared without being activated.
- Existing server route checks query grants afresh, so revocation applies on the next request. Allowed modules/sidebar links, product create/stock shortcuts and the wholesale invoice-create shortcut reflect access. Brand/Workspace navigation leads to an allowed module when Dashboard is denied. Verified signed-in staff with no grants see `/admin/no-access` instead of being sent to an unavailable Dashboard. Business data and transactions remain demo previews; real mutation endpoints must receive their own matching permission checks as their DB phases are implemented.
- Validation: full backend suite **99 tests / 1148 assertions** passes, including 18 new access-control cases and the complete currently assignable feature matrix. Covered grant/revoke isolation, dependencies, denied privileges, stale writes, protected targets, pending/inactive state, no-op audit, rollback, no-access landing, malformed feedback and legacy redirect. Pint, JS syntax and CSS parsing pass. Assets return 200; guest routes redirect to login and CSRF-less update is 419. Browser visual/click-through review remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. Existing real users/grants were not seeded or changed by the assistant. No dependency, deployment or Git commit.
- Phase 2 is complete; report to the owner and stop. Next intended phase is Categories → Products/Variants/Images → Stock persistence, in small stages after the owner's next instruction. SMS-verified onboarding/recovery and frontend API remain pending.

## Phase 1 — real User Management completed

- Owner authorized this phase only, with a report before proceeding to phase 2. `/admin/settings/users` now lists actual database staff instead of the old JSON fixture. Added create, edit and Active/Inactive controls with compact responsive Blade views, search, status/mobile-verification filters and 15-row pagination. Settings navigation highlights all related pages; actual staff pages no longer display the Design preview badge.
- Only the authenticated Super Admin can enter any staff-management route. All managed queries exclude Super Admin and customer accounts; their IDs and unknown IDs return 404 for edit/update/status. The protected developer account is absent from the staff list, search and totals and cannot be changed through these controls. No delete operation was added.
- New staff records have normalized unique BD mobile/email, a strong confirmed hashed password, designation and status. They remain mobile-unverified with no grants or local-bootstrap privilege. Designation grants no permission; privileged request fields are rejected and services assign only explicit profile fields. SMS, verification approval, notifications and permission assignment are outside this phase. New unverified staff cannot sign in even when login OTP is Disabled; verification/onboarding awaits the SMS adapter and a controlled flow.
- Profile updates preserve verification when the normalized phone is unchanged, preserve password on blank input and retain existing permission rows. Changing phone clears phone verification; changing email clears email verification. Phone/password changes and deactivation revoke target sessions/remember token, invalidate pending staff/login OTP and remove affected password-reset tokens. Reactivation does not verify a number or grant access.
- Added `user_management_events` in an additive migration, applied locally. Create/update/status changes save actor/subject/event and changed field names in the same transaction; no password/hash/OTP values are stored in audit. Existing user records were not edited or seeded by the assistant.
- Validation: 16 new staff-management cases pass; full Laravel suite passes **81 tests / 672 assertions**. Includes forbidden actions, hidden Super Admin/customer scope, persistence/normalization/hashing, validation and privileged fields, no automatic SMS/grants, profile preservation, credential/status revocation, protected IDs, filters/pagination and HTML escaping. Pint passes. Staff CSS parses and serves HTTP 200; unauthenticated staff routes redirect to login and CSRF-less create is 419. Browser visual/click-through review remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. No dependencies, deployment or Git commit.
- Phase 1 was completed and reported; the owner then authorized phase 2, now completed as recorded above.

## First local Super Admin access — latest fix

- Owner reported being locked out because first-account creation required an unconfigured SMS provider. Added `php artisan app:setup-super-admin --local` so the owner can enter their own credentials privately in the local terminal and then sign in. The command is interactive-only, APP_ENV=local only, requires login OTP Disabled, and refuses to create another Super Admin. Standard SMS-verified setup remains available without the flag.
- Added nullable protected/hidden `users.local_bootstrapped_at` and applied the additive migration. Local bootstrap records this timestamp and leaves `phone_verified_at` null. Central `User::canUseAdmin()` is used by authentication, admin middleware and permission checks: the marked first Super Admin can access the local environment while unverified; ordinary unverified staff and production access receive no exception. Credentials are still hashed, confirmed and validated; no web setup endpoint, automatic account, fixed password or SMS send was added.
- User must run the documented command and enter name/email/mobile/password/confirmation; the assistant has not chosen or stored a password or created a real account on their behalf. Docs/Necessary_CMD.md now leads with this working first-login path. Production use of the local account still requires real phone verification through a future controlled flow.
- Tests exercise local bootstrap → password login → dashboard/Settings, no SMS or false verification, non-local rejection, second-owner protection, enabled-OTP refusal, non-interactive refusal, guarded fields and denial to unverified local accounts in production/ordinary staff. Existing SMS setup tests remain. No dependency, deployment or Git commit.

## Mobile OTP login toggle — latest implementation

- Owner requested Settings-based Mobile OTP Enable/Disable for login. Added Settings → Dashboard Settings → Login Security (`GET/POST /admin/settings/security`), linked from the sidebar and Settings overview. This is a DB-backed control, not a memory-only preview. Only active, verified staff Super Admin can reach it; saving requires current-password confirmation, CSRF and request throttling. Enabling requires a configured SMS adapter; disabling remains possible without one.
- Initial saved state is Disabled, matching the prior password-only login behavior. Disabled uses mobile/password for existing verified staff. Enabled validates password, then sends an `admin-login` OTP and remains a guest until successful verification. Added a compact OTP page with verify/resend/back-to-login controls and a shared auth layout. Ordinary users and Super Admin follow the same OTP requirement when enabled; no public account creation was added.
- Added `login_security_settings` singleton/version and `login_security_changes` actor/old/new audit records in one additive migration, applied to local MySQL. Setting changes apply to future logins; existing sessions remain active. Pending challenges are session-bound, carry no plaintext password/code and recheck policy version, account/phone/status and password fingerprint. Policy change or expired/revoked credentials require fresh password entry; SMS failure never grants login. Resend/verification have per-IP HTTP throttles plus existing phone quotas. OTP and current-password inputs are not flashed.
- This toggle controls staff login MFA only. Account-creation mobile verification and first Super Admin setup still require SMS verification. No provider is selected, no real account or SMS was created, and local setting remains Disabled/version 0 with no setting-change audit records. Storefront accounts remain demo. Authenticator MFA, full user management/access UI and account recovery remain later work.
- Validation: setting permission/current-password/provider checks, persistence/audit, disabled password login, enabled OTP login, wrong/expired/replayed OTP, missing context, provider failure, policy/password/status changes, identity override attempts and resend are covered by feature tests. HTTP login/assets 200, protected setting/invalid pending redirects and CSRF-less setting POST 419 pass; both CSS files parse. Pint passes. Browser visual/click-through QA remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. Docs/Necessary_CMD.md and backend README explain the control and its scope. No dependency, deployment or Git commit.

## Authentication and OTP foundation — latest implementation

- Owner requested authentication, direct user authorization and SMS mobile verification at account creation, then explicitly chose provider-independent preparation because no SMS provider is selected. No external SMS, account invitation, purchase or credential transmission occurred.
- Added `/admin/login` (normalized BD mobile/password) and POST logout with session rotation/invalidation. Only active, mobile-verified staff can authenticate; customers, unverified or inactive users cannot enter admin. Every admin route now requires login and a known direct user permission; Admin/Manager labels grant nothing. Permission registry and `user_permissions` storage support the forthcoming checkbox management UI. Staff/role preview routes are Super Admin only; current forms remain in-memory demos.
- Added user access fields, protected Super Admin marker, query visibility scope and guarded/hidden privileged attributes. Module view is required for feature access; new/unknown keys default deny. Permission changes are queried afresh rather than cached. Main module links and routed sidebar links are filtered. Actual user-management detail/list/export endpoints are future work and must use the protected visibility scope. Protected audit logging and Super Admin MFA/recovery are not implemented yet.
- Added `SmsSender` boundary with a disabled runtime sender. `PhoneOtp` stores only an HMAC-derived hashed code, never returns/logs it, binds it to phone/purpose, expires at five minutes and consumes it once. Five failed attempts, 60-second resend spacing and five sends/hour/phone are enforced with persistent database cache and DB/cache locks; resends invalidate old challenges. Delivery failure leaves no usable new challenge. SMS mock implementations are test-only.
- Added interactive `php artisan app:setup-super-admin`: strong confirmed password, validated mobile and delivered OTP are required before account creation. It refuses a second bootstrap and has no skip-OTP/demo path. With no provider configured it refuses setup. Local users and OTP challenge counts remain zero; admin now redirects to login and cannot be entered until provider onboarding is complete. Public staff registration, customer registration API and every-login SMS MFA were not introduced. Storefront accounts still use the existing demo mode.
- Applied both additive access/OTP migrations on local `fashion_mart`. Database sessions use 30-minute lifetime; database cache now persists rate limits across requests. Tests remain SQLite in-memory/array cache/session, separate from local data. Default credential seeding was removed. Production cookies are secure; admin responses use no-store/frame denial/nosniff/referrer headers, and production HTTPS receives HSTS. Live deployment security still needs its own review.
- Next slice: direct User Access Control UI and controlled staff onboarding, then provider-specific SMS adapter/real delivery once docs are supplied; client registration and frontend API follow later. Collect API docs/auth, sender/OTP route approval, response codes/message IDs, delivery report/webhook, rates/balance/IP rules. Account creation must remain pending until verification; public endpoints need per-IP anti-abuse limits in addition to phone quotas.
- Validation: 44 Laravel tests pass (383 assertions), covering login/logout, allowed-module landing, inactive/unverified/customer denial, throttling, session rotation, direct grants/revocation, protected fields/visibility, OTP binding/expiry/replay/attempt/resend/delivery failure, and protected bootstrap. Existing demo feature tests now explicitly authenticate an in-memory Super Admin before testing sample business pages. Pint passes. HTTP checks show login 200, guest admin redirects, unauthenticated JSON 401 and missing CSRF 419; CSS parses and MySQL migrations Ran. Browser access host remains unavailable. No frontend edits, dependency additions, deployment or Git commit.

## Access-control direction — latest owner instruction

- Authorization is USER-BASED. Admin/Manager/etc. are optional designation labels only and grant no permissions. The older role-matrix UI has now been replaced by real per-user grants.
- The developer's Super Admin identity is a separately protected system capability, not an assignable designation. It has full control over ordinary staff, including Admin. Other users must not list, search, count, export, view or modify this account through UI or direct server/API requests. Their password reset, assignment and account-management flows must not expose or modify it. Keep protected audit records accessible to Super Admin; invisibility does not remove accountability.
- Access is assigned directly to each selected user by Super Admin. Default deny for other users; an Admin label alone does not grant anything. Ordinary users cannot edit their own grants, assign Super Admin or alter the protected account. Customer/wholesale portal membership does not grant staff-module access.
- Access UI: select user, then checkbox groups by module with nested feature/action checkboxes (view, create, edit, delete, stock entry, payment receipt, export as applicable). A module group checkbox selects/clears its current feature grants; partial selection is indeterminate. Save explicit known feature keys, not module wildcards. Newly introduced features stay denied until explicitly allowed, except for Super Admin.
- Server checks must enforce each permission on reads/writes/direct URLs/API endpoints as well as filtering navigation and buttons. Respect minimum view dependencies; revoke access on subsequent requests and invalidate cached permission results when grants change. Do not trust permissions or special-account flags submitted by the browser.
- Storage and assignment UI are implemented: existing `users` with protected Super Admin capability and designation; known permission registry and direct `user_permissions` assignments. No role-based authorization or role-permission inheritance. SMS-verified onboarding remains pending.

## DB-driven preparation — current stage

- Owner authorized preparation for DB-driven work and selected Laragon MySQL/MariaDB with database name `fashion_mart`. Existing local installation is MySQL 8.4.3; PHP has `pdo_mysql`. No MySQL server was listening initially, so the installed server was started in the background using its existing `my.ini` and data directory. Other databases were left unchanged.
- Created the previously absent `fashion_mart` database with `utf8mb4` / `utf8mb4_unicode_ci`. Local ignored `.env` and committed `.env.example` target MySQL on `127.0.0.1:3306`, with database-backed sessions. APP_KEY was preserved. Cache stays array and queue stays sync until needed.
- Ran the three existing scaffold migrations (users/password reset/sessions, cache, jobs). No sample user was seeded; no real login, role grants, business tables or API integration has been implemented. Existing staff/customer/demo accounts remain presentation fixtures and must not become real users by copying their demo credentials.
- Login/logout, protected Super Admin setup command and server permission checks have now been implemented as described above. Next are the direct permission management UI and controlled account onboarding. Establish customer identity separately from staff access; wholesale Party is linked to an approved customer profile, not used as a login credential.
- Then implement Categories → Products/Variants/Images → Stock, followed by Customers/Parties and POS/Wholesale/Online Orders. All channels must share canonical variant IDs and stock. Product/variant images and homepage category placement must retain their existing relationships; short SKUs require DB uniqueness and retry on collisions.
- Before posting sales, agree stock reservation/deduction/release and return rules, wholesale pricing, opening balances and payment/refund rules. Preserve order/invoice price and address snapshots. Replace each module's fixtures with real persistence in small verified slices; live API failures must never silently fall back to demo data.
- Preparation validation: all three migrations Ran; twenty existing Laravel feature tests (225 assertions) pass using the separate in-memory SQLite test configuration. Dashboard, Settings, POS and Products return HTTP 200 with the new MySQL session configuration. Updated `Docs/Necessary_CMD.md` and backend README for MySQL startup/fresh setup. Browser visual QA remains pending from the UI phase. No deployment or Git commit.

## Settings overview — latest UI update

- `/admin/modules/settings` now displays compact Dashboard Settings and Website Settings panels, with restrained typography, icons and responsive columns instead of the generic empty module placeholder.
- Four overview links open existing User Management, Roles & Permissions, Categories & Images and Homepage Sections previews. The sidebar Homepage Sections item also links to the existing category placement editor. Other settings are clearly marked Planned; brand name is read from the existing configuration. No DB, API, persistence or business actions were added.
- Validation: four dashboard feature tests (66 assertions), Pint, CSS parsing and HTTP checks for Settings, its control destinations and stylesheet passed; the homepage anchor exists. Visual/browser interaction review remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. The stopped local backend preview was restarted at `http://127.0.0.1:8000` for review. No deployment or Git commit.

## Agreed structure

- `fashion-mart-frontend`: Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS; separate storefront.
- `fashion-mart-backend`: Laravel backend, admin and REST/JSON API together. The owner has authorized UI work and now DB-driven preparation; local MySQL/session foundation is ready. Business persistence, real authentication and API integration are the next implementation stages.
- No separate API app/directory is needed. Complete the demo frontend first.
- Keep typography restrained and implement small, reusable components in reference-video order.
- Each colour × size combination has its own variant ID, SKU, images, price and stock. Future APIs must supply those values.

## Implemented

1. Shared header/sidebar/mobile navigation, search, footer and wishlist.
2. Homepage slider with arrows/dots/keyboard control; quick links directly below it; New Arrival and all eight category sections in reference order.
3. Shop navigation by collection/subcategory, search and sorting. Price/colour/size filters match the same in-stock variant; cards show that variant's photo/price. URL state and pagination (12 items) support refresh/history.
4. `/product/[id]`: breadcrumb, details, colour/size/SKU/price/stock, quantity, gallery thumbnails, full/detail views, zoom, size guide and related products. Selected variant is included in the URL. Gallery accepts multiple source images; current demo has one source photo per colour plus a clearly labelled cropped detail view.
5. Variant-aware persistent cart, guest checkout with Bangladesh phone validation, area-based delivery totals, demo COD and immutable confirmation. Successful checkout clears the bag atomically; duplicate submission is idempotent.
6. Demo login/register/reset, profile, address book (add/edit/remove/default), checkout autofill and My Orders with details/status. History preserves up to 100 validated local orders, migrating the earlier single confirmation. Signed-in orders retain their account identity independently of the optional contact email; guest/older orders are matched by checkout email.
7. About, contact, delivery, returns and privacy pages. Contact supports bulk/partnership topics; forms only preview responses.
8. Bulk Order, Work With Us, Community and Newsletter sections; responsive CSS, focus styles, native modal keyboard handling and reduced-motion support.
9. Work With Us now shows a three-row partner logo carousel matching the supplied layout reference, with previous/next buttons, swipe/keyboard browsing, responsive columns and reduced-motion support. `src/data/partners.ts` supplies 24 clearly labelled sample logo assets from `public/images/partners`. Replace these with approved actual partner logos later. Backend controls remain undecided until the owner provides directions; no backend work has started.

## Demo boundaries

- Demo password: `DEMO2026`; passwords are never saved. These are local UI previews, not secure authentication.
- Browser storage: `fashion-mart:demo:v1` and `fashion-mart:accounts:demo:v1`. Use sample contact/address details.
- No live authentication, email, newsletter subscription, payment, courier, order or enquiry is sent.
- Shipping defaults: Dhaka city ৳80, outside ৳150, free at subtotal ≥ ৳2,999. Final business policies, product measurements and support details need confirmation before launch.
- Images are temporary reference assets. Replace with approved Fashion Mart images before production.
- Live integration must discard demo storage/data and use Laravel as the authority for prices, inventory, authentication and orders.

## Verification and next work

- TypeScript and production build have passed during implementation.
- All 29 automated tests pass (`npm test`): checkout, history migration, account ownership/storage restore, combined variant filtering, URL round trips, pagination, sorting and safe auth return destinations.
- Final HTTP checks passed for 18 routes and 37 rendered internal links, filtered/paginated listings and invalid product/page 404s. All 129 checked source/rendered image/font assets exist; 220 variant IDs/SKUs are unique.
- Review fixes and evidence are recorded in `FRONTEND-REVIEW.md`: mobile slider clearance and wishlist access, checkout return after sign-in, saved-address validation feedback, dialog focus/loading states, touch/readability improvements and empty gallery fallback.
- **Still pending: visual and click-through browser QA** at mobile/tablet/desktop sizes. The browser tool was unavailable/blocked in this environment; HTTP checks are not a substitute. Review typography, overflow, gallery zoom, account/address actions and the complete cart → checkout → confirmation → My Orders journey in a supported browser.
- Optional later features: dedicated wishlist page, coupons, reviews and store locator. Existing wishlist works in its dialog.
- **Authorized backend scope: dashboard design only.** Five modules are POS, Wholesale, Products, Factory and Settings. Website Settings is managed under Settings; there is no separate Website module. Wait for the owner's module-control instructions before implementing business logic, database features or APIs. Confirm business content/assets before live operation.

## Resume locally

From `fashion-mart-frontend`, run `npm run dev`, then open `http://127.0.0.1:3000`. A reset can stop the preview process even when source files remain intact. Do not start a second server if port 3000 already belongs to this project.

## Backend dashboard design — 8 November 2026

- Laravel is installed in `fashion-mart-backend` with a custom Blade dashboard; no default Laravel dashboard template is used.
- `/admin` displays five icon/name module links in the very top bar above the Workspace breadcrumb (no module cards), eight fixed-width summary cards, sample sales/channel charts and recent orders. Summary grid uses 232px tracks and auto-fill based on available device width.
- `/admin/modules/{module}` is a design preview: loads a separate sidebar partial for the active module and leaves its future controls unspecified. Module links appear only in the shared top navigation above Workspace > Dashboard, never as a left-sidebar list or dashboard cards.
- Brand is bound to preview configuration (`DASHBOARD_BRAND_NAME`) and links back to the dashboard. Settings DB binding will follow the owner's requirements.
- Mobile sidebar navigation, scrollable top module bar and clickable developer name/email/web/phone footer are included.
- No migrations, authentication, live figures, module business actions or API work has been performed. Default Laravel model/migration stubs are untouched scaffolding.
- Five feature tests (66 assertions), Blade compilation, JS/CSS syntax, Composer validation and HTTP checks for eight pages/four assets passed. Direct browser visual review remains pending because browser access is unavailable.
- To preview: from `fashion-mart-backend`, run `php artisan serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8000`, then open `http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin`.
- UI preference: no decorative page-intro banners on dashboard/module pages. Business overview heading, tagline, date box and Today at a glance intro were removed. Content begins directly below the breadcrumb with compact top spacing; accessible page titles are visually hidden.

- Sidebar now uses a reusable compact accordion component: 1px bottom borders, chevron expand/collapse, one open menu at a time and nested sub-items. The Dashboard group contains Overview; each module has its own two demo menu groups awaiting owner-defined controls. Brand/header spacing is reduced and the sidebar promotional footer is removed. JS logic checks passed for exclusive expansion, collapse and sub-item selection; live browser interaction review remains pending.

- Owner-defined sidebar menus are now added: Products has Add a Product, Product List, Add Stock; Wholesale has Create Invoice, New Party, Party List, Parties Ledger. Settings has Dashboard Settings (Brand Name & Logo, Layout & Display) and Website Settings (General Settings, Header & Navigation, Homepage Sections, Partner Logos, Footer & Contact). These are design-only menu controls; business forms/DB actions are not implemented. Remaining unspecified module menus retain demo labels.

- Removed the standalone Website module from the top navigation and module registry, and deleted its sidebar partial. The old /admin/modules/website path now returns 404. Settings → Website Settings and all storefront features remain available.

## POS UI design preview

- `/admin/modules/pos` now renders a compact POS screen rather than the generic module placeholder: catalog on the left, bill on the right; no decorative page-intro banner.
- 12 sample products, 57 exact colour/size variants, unique SKUs and 14 local images. Variant picker respects price/image changes and sold-out stock; exact SKU search can add its matching variant.
- Demo cart supports quantity/removal, customer selection/in-memory customer addition, discount/tax, payment-method presentation, received/change amounts and a receipt preview. Initial bill has two sample lines. Mobile layout stacks the bill and adds a View Bill shortcut.
- All POS state is in memory; no sales, payments, customers, inventory or database records are saved. No API/write endpoint was added. Business controls and persistence await further instructions.
- Five Laravel feature tests (66 assertions) and seven POS Node logic tests pass. Blade/JS/CSS checks, the POS HTTP response, ES-module MIME and all 14 images passed. Real browser interaction/visual QA remains pending: browser access host is unavailable.
- Existing preview server was already running and was reused. Open `http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/modules/pos` or click POS.

## Product categories design preview

- Owner clarified that four colours/sizes are examples, not limits. The future Add a Product form must generate arbitrary colour-by-size combinations (for example 6 x 8 = 48), with each variant's own SKU, price, stock and images. The Add a Product form is not implemented yet.
- Products now has a Categories sidebar link: `/admin/products/categories`. Compact responsive category list, name/collection/order/visibility controls, product-image selection, local cover-file preview and a linked-product storefront preview. Add/edit/apply/reset/search work in browser memory only, with explicit preview labels. No DB writes, upload endpoint or live storefront integration.
- Eight categories and 64 products are copied from the existing storefront demo, retaining the same category/product identifiers and 72 matching local images (temporary reference assets). Product-image choices are restricted to the selected category. Renaming preserves category identity and linked products. These checked-in fixtures have no runtime dependency on the frontend folder; the future API will be the shared source of truth.
- Seven Laravel feature tests (81 assertions) and five category-state tests pass. Blade compilation, JS/CSS parsing, HTTP 200 for the page and all 75 category assets passed; fixture names/images/product mappings match the current storefront. Browser visual/click-through QA remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. The existing port-8000 server was reused.

- Added owner-requested homepage category placement controls in the same Categories screen: Show on homepage, Where to display, and Order within this area. Four areas are after slider/quick links, after New Arrivals, main category sections (current default), and before Bulk Order / Wholesale. Shop order and general website visibility remain separate; website-hidden categories cannot appear on the homepage. A compact full-page flow preview shows all categories in their selected area/order and highlights the currently edited category, with its matching cover image. All changes remain browser-memory previews; the separate storefront is not modified or connected yet.
- Homepage placement filtering/order/preservation/invalid-input checks pass: eight category-state tests and two category feature tests (18 assertions), Blade compilation, JS/CSS syntax and HTTP page/default-order checks. Browser visual QA remains pending. The future API must use this placement/order alongside the common category identity; no artificial four-category/variant limit.

## Add a Product design preview

- Owner reaffirmed UI first. `/admin/products/create` is now linked from Products → Add a Product. No DB-driven work started. General info/category with matching cover preview, short/full descriptions, multiple local image selection, cover/order/remove controls, single-product pricing/stock/SKU, and colour-by-size variants are implemented as browser-memory UI only.
- Arbitrary colour/size combinations, individual SKU/price/stock/active state and multiple variant images; shared colour images; fallback priority variant → colour → product gallery. Regenerating preserves matching combinations' edits. Search/colour filtering, bulk edit of all filtered variants and 20-row pagination support bigger matrices. Load Example shows 6 × 8 = 48 variants. Photos are temporary reference assets; no artificial four-option cap.
- Product preview changes image/price/SKU/stock together for the selected variant. Publishing checks include the current option matrix, category/photos, active variants, unique SKUs, positive two-decimal prices and whole non-negative stock. Draft permits incomplete content. Both Save buttons only open explicit preview dialogs; no product/upload/stock records, API calls, DB writes or localStorage. Category management opens separately; neither preview persists changes across pages/refreshes.
- Eight product-state Node tests and nine Laravel feature tests (100 assertions) pass. Blade/JS/CSS and HTTP product page/four asset checks passed; all six sample image sources already exist locally. Direct browser QA remains unavailable (browser access host unavailable). Existing port-8000 server reused; no new server or deployment.

- Owner requested short SKUs without hyphens: Add a Product now auto-generates five-character uppercase alphanumeric codes independent of product code/colour/size. Generator excludes ambiguous 0/O/1/I/L, reserves retained valid variant SKUs and skips occupied codes. Matching valid manual SKUs remain unchanged; old long SKUs are replaced when regenerating while preserving other edits. Manual inputs allow 4–5 letters/numbers, normalize to uppercase, and exclude separators. The simple product gets an independent generated SKU with a regenerate button; SKU table column is narrower. Ten product-state tests and two product feature tests pass, plus Blade/JS/CSS and HTTP checks. This is still UI-only: global uniqueness across products must be enforced by a DB unique constraint/retry when that phase is authorized. Existing storefront/POS fixtures are unchanged.

## Product List and Add Stock design previews

- Products now opens the actual catalog UI at `/admin/modules/products` or `/admin/products`. Product List and Add Stock are real sidebar links. The common `config/inventory.php` preview contains 64 products / 220 variants with stable, unique five-character SKUs, matching existing category/product IDs and local photos. It is a checked-in snapshot, with no frontend runtime dependency. Some sample products are draft, low-stock or out-of-stock to exercise the controls. Other storefront/POS fixtures remain unchanged and are not live-synchronized.
- Product List includes compact summary metrics, product/code/SKU search, category/status/stock filters, sort, page size/pagination, price ranges, variant/stock totals, a details dialog showing each exact variant image/SKU/price/stock, and links into Add Stock for a product or exact variant. The low-stock demo threshold is 3 units per active variant; physical stock totals include all variants.
- `/admin/products/stock/create` supports reference/date/source/note, product search or exact-SKU Enter selection, colour/size filters, variant pagination, quantity fill across filtered pages, and projected current + added stock. A shared in-memory entry retains quantities across product selection and allows per-line removal, per-product clear and clear-all. Summary and receipt preview show multiple products/variants without changing current stock. Zero/blank entries are omitted; invalid/negative/fractional/overflowing quantities block preview.
- UI only: no DB, API/write endpoints, uploads, stock records or browser storage. Add a Product draft/publish previews and category edits do not persist into this demo list. Stock entry resets on refresh/navigation; previewing it does not apply changes to the list or POS.
- Six inventory logic tests and thirteen Laravel feature tests (126 assertions) pass, including product/variant preselection and unrelated/unknown selection handling. Blade, JS/CSS syntax, four HTTP routes and all 67 inventory assets passed; 220 demo SKUs are unique and five characters. Existing port-8000 server reused. Browser visual/click-through QA remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable.

## Factory deferred; Wholesale flow planning

- Owner deferred Factory. Its module registry entry/top navigation and Production Today metric are removed for now; `/admin/modules/factory` returns 404. Stock source no longer offers Factory Production. The unused sidebar/icon source is retained for a possible future return. Active modules: POS, Wholesale, Products, Settings. Dashboard now has seven sample metrics with the same responsive fixed-width layout.
- Wholesale flow was proposed with six controls: Create Invoice, Invoice List, New Party, Party List, Receive Payment, Parties Ledger. The owner subsequently authorized all six UI pages; DB work remains deferred.

## Wholesale control pages

- All six pages are implemented under `/admin/wholesale`: `/parties/create`, `/parties`, `/invoices/create`, `/invoices`, `/payments/create`, `/ledger`. The Wholesale module redirects to Create Invoice. Each control is linked in the compact module sidebar; party/invoice query parameters are validated for correct ownership when preselecting a receipt.
- Shared read-only demo fixtures: `config/wholesale.php` has 12 fictional parties, 16 invoices (including drafts) and 7 receipts. Products/variant images and short SKUs come from the existing `inventory.products` fixture. Two explicit sample wholesale rate overrides are supplied; other defaults use the demo catalog rate and remain editable, pending the owner's real pricing rules.
- New Party: business/contact/mobile/email/address, opening due/date, active status and record preview. Party List: search/status/balance filters, pagination, details, Invoice/Payment/Ledger links, sales/received/opening/current due. Inactive parties cannot be selected for new invoices but remain accessible for collections/ledger.
- Create Invoice: party/date/due-date/note, quick New Party popup, exact-SKU Enter addition, multi-product colour/size quantity picker, variant-specific editable rate/quantity, discount/delivery/received, separate previous and invoice dues, draft and invoice document previews. Duplicate variant selections merge; quantities cannot exceed current demo stock. Load Example previews two lines. Quick Party is retained only in this page's memory.
- Invoice List: party/status/date/search filters, pagination, invoice/print preview, payment and ledger links. Receive Payment: specific outstanding invoice or opening due selection, full/partial amount, date/method/reference/note, projected balances and receipt preview. Amounts cannot exceed the selected due; payment date cannot precede the debt date.
- Parties Ledger: party/date range filters, brought-forward balance, debit/credit/running balance, pagination, invoice/receipt details and printable statement preview. Draft invoices never affect due or ledger; inline and later receipts are counted once. All sample party ledger balances match the outstanding invoice/opening targets.
- Shared document dialog/print styling and party fields are reused across pages. No decorative hero/large typography; responsive split layouts, scrollable tables and mobile controls follow the existing admin shell.
- UI only: no DB/migrations, write endpoints, network writes, local/session storage, stock posting, new records or actual payments. Every document is marked DEMO / NOT POSTED. Standalone form/quick-party/invoice/payment changes are not synchronized across navigation and reset on refresh/leaving. Print is a user-triggered browser action, not an automatically generated PDF.
- Validation: 17 Laravel feature tests (179 assertions) across module/product/inventory/Wholesale pages and 8 Wholesale state tests pass. Pint, Blade compilation, JS/CSS parsing, seven HTTP paths, six control links and four new assets passed. Browser visual, interaction and print QA remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. Reused the existing port-8000 server; no deployment or Git commit.

## Orders, Customers, Users and Client Portal

- Owner approved continuing the four-part UI plan. Active top modules are now POS, Wholesale, Products, Orders, Customers, Settings. Factory remains deferred and Website Settings remains under Settings. Orders/Customers open their own list pages/sidebar contexts; User Management and Roles & Permissions are under Settings → Dashboard Settings.
- Admin routes: `/admin/orders` and `/admin/orders/{id}`; `/admin/customers` and `/admin/customers/{id}`; `/admin/customers/wholesale-approvals`; `/admin/customers/tickets`; `/admin/settings/users`; `/admin/settings/roles`. `ClientPreviewController` serves a reusable `admin.client-space` view; unknown/mismatched detail IDs return 404. All routes are read-only UI previews.
- Orders: search/status/channel filters, pagination, customer/item/payment/shipping details, invoice/print preview, status timeline/history, constrained next-status controls, courier/tracking and reason validation. Order and payment statuses remain separate. Status previews do not change inventory or execute collections/refunds.
- Customers: profile/order/payment history and receipt previews, active/suspended state, wholesale approvals/rejections with Party linking, and customer-filtered tickets. Approval requires a pending active customer and an unassigned Party link. Ticket conversation/status/reply controls only edit local page state; nothing is sent.
- Staff Users: add/edit/name/email/role/status previews, unique staff email and last-active-owner guard. Roles: protected Owner matrix, editable known permissions, create-role preview and view-permission dependency. These are presentation controls, not real authentication/authorization or access grants.
- Frontend `/account/portal` extends the existing demo account and cart providers. Header/footer Account links now open it; legacy Profile/Addresses/My Orders remain available. Sample-account buttons create/sign in `customer@example.com` or `wholesale@example.com` using the existing fixed `DEMO2026` preview password. Existing account/cart persistence is unchanged; no passwords are saved.
- Portal: overview, scoped order list/details/status history, invoices/receipts with Print/Save PDF, support ticket creation/replies/reopen, and reorder availability review. Ordinary accounts do not see another account's fixture records; unknown/suspended accounts are handled. Reorder uses current catalog price, exact variants and remaining cart capacity; it does not clone old invoices or payments.
- Approved wholesale portal accounts use their linked Party's invoices, receipts and ledger; invoice-inline receipts and later receipts are included once. Business applications stay pending in local preview and grant no access. New wholesale requests/reorders require a review preview and do not enter the retail checkout. Unapproved accounts cannot open the trade workspace.
- Shared fictional fixtures: `fashion-mart-frontend/src/data/client-space.json` contains eight customers, sixteen online orders, eight tickets, sample staff/roles, product snapshots and a copy of the existing Wholesale demo records. `npm.cmd run sync:client-demo` copies it to backend `public/demo/client-space.json` (loaded by `config/client-space.php`), compiles dependency-free helpers from frontend `src/lib/client-space.ts` into backend `client-space-state.mjs`, and copies the existing Wholesale presentation helpers into the frontend. These are checked-in snapshots with no cross-directory runtime dependency or API.
- UI only: no DB/migrations, server writes, real account/invitation, authorization grant, order/stock posting, money movement or message delivery. New admin changes, ticket replies, business applications and wholesale requests are page-memory previews and reset on refresh/navigation; admin and frontend edits do not live-sync. Old frontend demo account/cart/order storage continues as before. The fake fixture email scoping is not production authentication; the future Laravel API must enforce authenticated ownership and permissions.
- Validation: 37 frontend tests, TypeScript and production build pass. Twenty Laravel feature tests (225 assertions), Pint, Blade compilation, JS/CSS checks, ten new admin paths/four assets and frontend portal HTTP 200 pass. Canonical/admin fixture copies match. Browser visual/click-through/native print QA remains pending because the browser access host is unavailable. Existing ports 8000 and 3000 reused; no owned preview server, deployment or Git commit.