Ramses Books

A sell-and-rent bookshop with a warehouse behind it

Sector: Retail & e-commerce · Year: 2026 · ramsesbooks.com

Summary

A book retail and rental platform with mobile-first cataloguing, ISBN scanning, label printing and full inventory search across the physical stock.

Challenge

The hard part of a second-hand bookshop is not the storefront, it is getting a few hundred physical books into a database accurately, cheaply, and by someone standing in a stockroom holding a phone.

Approach

Built cataloguing as a phone-first flow: scan the ISBN, confirm the metadata, assign a shelf reference, print the label.
Generated Avery L7654 label sheets directly from the catalogue so the physical stock and the database stay in step.
Added an inventory search that answers the only question staff actually ask — where is this book — by reference number, ISBN, title or author.
Ran an editorial pipeline alongside the shop, with content rules encoded in the generator, including jurisdiction-specific legal constraints.

Outcome

Several hundred titles catalogued through the mobile flow, with desktop, dashboard and mobile search over the same inventory.

Stack

React, TypeScript, Node, MongoDB