Nexus Inventory

A unified, driver-based Laravel package for synchronizing products and inventory across multiple e-commerce channels — Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon SP-API, and Etsy.

Nexus Inventory is not a SaaS platform. It is a drop-in Composer package that lives inside your Laravel application, giving you full code-level control over every sync, every webhook, and every rate limit — for free.

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Why Nexus Inventory?

The multi-channel commerce problem is real and expensive. When a product sells on Amazon, your Shopify stock must decrement in seconds — not minutes. Every channel has its own API, its own authentication scheme, its own rate limits, and its own webhook signature format. Solving this from scratch takes months.

The existing options leave developers stuck:

Option	Problem
SaaS (Cin7, Linnworks)	$300–$500/month, no code control, no custom sync logic
DIY integrations	6–12 weeks per channel, brittle, non-reusable
Channel-specific packages	Siloed — no unified DTO, no cross-channel orchestration

Nexus Inventory fills the gap. It provides a production-grade, extensible foundation — a unified driver interface, a fluent API, distributed rate limiting, secure webhook handling, job batching, and a real-time dashboard — all installable in minutes via Composer.

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Features

🔌 Driver-Based Architecture

Every channel implements the same InventoryDriver interface. Your application code never touches a channel SDK directly. Add support for a new channel (eBay, TikTok Shop, Walmart) by implementing one interface and registering one class — zero changes to the core.

// Identical API regardless of channel
Nexus::driver('shopify')->fetchProduct($remoteId);
Nexus::driver('amazon')->updateInventory($remoteId, 42);
Nexus::driver('woocommerce')->getProducts(now()->subHours(24));

🔄 Fluent Sync API

A clean, chainable builder API for common sync operations:

// Push a single inventory update to specific channels
Nexus::product($product)
    ->updateInventory(quantity: 42)
    ->sync(['shopify', 'amazon']);

// Bulk sync your entire catalog across all channels
$batch = Nexus::catalog($products)->syncAll();

// Monitor batch progress
$status = Nexus::batch($batchId)->status();

⚡ Distributed Rate Limiting

Each channel enforces API rate limits at the key level — not the server level. Run 10 queue workers and a naive implementation blows through your API quota in seconds. Nexus solves this with a Token Bucket algorithm backed by atomic Redis Lua scripting, race-condition-free across any number of concurrent workers.

Channel	Rate Limit	Burst Capacity
Shopify	2 req/sec	40 tokens
WooCommerce	25 req/sec	100 tokens
Amazon SP-API	1 req/sec	10 tokens
Etsy	10 req/sec	50 tokens

📦 Three-Layer Job Architecture

Syncing 10,000 SKUs across 4 channels means 40,000 API calls. Nexus handles this with a structured job hierarchy using Laravel's Bus::batch():

• CatalogSyncJob — Orchestrator. Partitions the catalog, creates the batch, registers then() and catch() callbacks.
• ChannelSyncBatchJob — Channel executor. Acquires rate limit tokens, dispatches push jobs, fires lifecycle events.
• PushInventoryJob — Atomic unit per SKU/channel pair. Implements ShouldBeUnique to prevent duplicate in-flight jobs.

🔒 Secure Unified Webhook Receiver

A single route handles all four channels. Every request is cryptographically verified before processing:

• Shopify — X-Shopify-Hmac-Sha256 — HMAC-SHA256 (base64)
• WooCommerce — X-WC-Webhook-Signature — HMAC-SHA256 (base64)
• Amazon — X-AMZ-SNS-Signature — RSA-SHA1 via AWS SNS (certificate downloaded, domain-validated, cached)
• Etsy — X-Etsy-Signature — HMAC-SHA256 (hex)

POST https://your-app.com/nexus/webhooks/shopify
POST https://your-app.com/nexus/webhooks/woocommerce
POST https://your-app.com/nexus/webhooks/amazon
POST https://your-app.com/nexus/webhooks/etsy

📡 Standardized Event System

Once a webhook is verified, a single InventoryUpdated event fires — regardless of which channel triggered it. Write one listener to handle all channels:

class PropagateInventoryToOtherChannels
{
    public function handle(InventoryUpdated $event): void
    {
        $others = ['shopify', 'amazon', 'woocommerce', 'etsy'];

        Nexus::product($event->product)
            ->updateInventory($event->newQuantity)
            ->sync(array_diff($others, [$event->channel]));
    }
}

Full lifecycle hooks at every stage of the pipeline:

Event	Fires When
BeforeInventorySync	Before each channel push — ideal for safety stock rules
AfterInventorySync	On success — notify WMS, trigger downstream workflows
InventorySyncFailed	On permanent failure after retries — alert Slack, PagerDuty
InventoryUpdated	After every verified webhook
WebhookReceived	Before processing — full audit logging
ChannelThrottled	When a channel API is throttling — broadcasts via Laravel Reverb
ProductImported	When a product is fetched from a channel during catalog import

🗄️ Polymorphic Channel Mapping

Any Eloquent model becomes syncable with one trait — no schema changes to your existing tables:

use Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Traits\Syncable;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Syncable;
    // Adds: $product->channelMappings(), $product->syncTo('shopify')
}

The nexus_channel_mappings table stores each channel's remote ID against your local model using a polymorphic relationship with a composite unique index, preventing duplicate mappings.

💀 Dead Letter Queue

Jobs that exhaust all retries are written to nexus_dead_letter_queue with their full serialized payload and exception detail. No silent failures. From the dashboard you can replay individual jobs or bulk-replay after an API outage — no artisan required.

📊 Real-Time Livewire Dashboard

A Livewire 3 dashboard at /nexus with wire:poll.3s real-time updates:

• Channel Status Cards — Connected / Throttled / Disconnected, with live token bucket fill level per channel
• Sync Job Monitor — Active Bus::batch() instances with per-job progress
• Webhook Event Log — Paginated, searchable log of every inbound webhook with verification status and processing duration
• Dead Letter Queue Manager — Replay or resolve failed jobs with one click
• Real-Time Alerts — ChannelThrottled broadcasts via Laravel Reverb when rate limiting is detected

🔧 Extensible Driver System

Register community-contributed or internal channel drivers without touching the package core:

// In AppServiceProvider::boot()
Nexus::extend('ebay', function ($app) {
    return new EbayInventoryDriver(
        config: $app['config']['nexus.channels.ebay'],
        client: $app->make(EbayApiClient::class)
    );
});

// eBay is now a first-class channel
Nexus::product($product)->updateInventory(10)->sync(['shopify', 'ebay']);

🧩 Normalized Product DTOs

Channel-specific product structures are normalized into a single NexusProduct DTO, eliminating transformation logic from your application:

NexusProduct::fromShopify($payload);     // variants[], inventory_item_id, barcode
NexusProduct::fromWooCommerce($payload); // stock_quantity, variations[]
NexusProduct::fromAmazon($payload);      // ASIN, seller_sku, quantity
NexusProduct::fromEtsy($payload);        // listing_id, skus[], price divisor

The channelMeta field preserves the raw channel payload so channel-specific data (Amazon FBA routing, Etsy listing state) is never permanently discarded.

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Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 12+
• Redis (for rate limiting and queues)
• MySQL 8+ or PostgreSQL

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Installation

composer require malikad778/nexus-inventory

Publish the config file and migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="nexus-config"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="nexus-migrations"
php artisan migrate

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Configuration

Add channel credentials to your .env:

# Shopify
SHOPIFY_SHOP_URL=your-shop.myshopify.com
SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN=shpat_...
SHOPIFY_WEBHOOK_SECRET=whsec_...
SHOPIFY_LOCATION_ID=...

# WooCommerce
WOOCOMMERCE_STORE_URL=https://your-store.com
WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY=ck_...
WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_SECRET=cs_...
WOOCOMMERCE_WEBHOOK_SECRET=...

# Amazon SP-API
AMAZON_CLIENT_ID=amzn1.application-oa2-client...
AMAZON_CLIENT_SECRET=...
AMAZON_REFRESH_TOKEN=Atzr|...
AMAZON_SELLER_ID=...
AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
AMAZON_REGION=us-east-1

# Etsy
ETSY_KEYSTRING=...
ETSY_SHARED_SECRET=...
ETSY_SHOP_ID=...
ETSY_WEBHOOK_SECRET=...

See config/nexus.php for rate limit overrides, dashboard middleware, and queue configuration.

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Usage

Sync a Single Product

use Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Facades\Nexus;

// All configured channels
Nexus::product($product)->updateInventory(quantity: 42)->sync();

// Specific channels only
Nexus::product($product)->updateInventory(quantity: 42)->sync(['shopify', 'amazon']);

Bulk Catalog Sync

$batch = Nexus::catalog($products)->syncAll();

Access Drivers Directly

$product  = Nexus::driver('shopify')->fetchProduct('gid://shopify/Product/789');
$products = Nexus::driver('woocommerce')->getProducts(now()->subHours(24));
$success  = Nexus::driver('etsy')->pushInventory($nexusInventoryUpdate);

Listen to Events

// In EventServiceProvider
protected $listen = [
    \Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Events\InventoryUpdated::class => [
        PropagateInventoryToOtherChannels::class,
    ],
    \Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Events\BeforeInventorySync::class => [
        EnforceSafetyStockListener::class,
    ],
    \Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Events\InventorySyncFailed::class => [
        AlertOpsTeamListener::class,
    ],
    \Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Events\ProductImported::class => [
        CreateLocalProductListener::class,
    ],
];

Make Your Model Syncable

use Malikad778\\LaravelNexus\Traits\Syncable;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Syncable;
}

// Access channel mappings
$shopifyId = $product->channelMappings()->where('channel', 'shopify')->value('remote_id');

Dashboard

Visit /nexus. Secure it in config/nexus.php:

'dashboard_middleware' => ['web', 'auth'],

Queue Workers

php artisan queue:work redis --queue=nexus,default

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Architecture Overview

graph TD
    A[Your Application] -->|Nexus::product / catalog| B(InventoryManager)
    B --> C{InventoryDriver}
    C -->|REST + HMAC| D[ShopifyDriver]
    C -->|REST v3 + Basic Auth| E[WooCommerceDriver]
    C -->|SP-API + AWS SigV4| F[AmazonDriver]
    C -->|OAuth2 PKCE| G[EtsyDriver]

    H[Inbound Webhooks] -->|Signed Payload| I[VerifyNexusWebhookSignature]
    I -->|Verified| J[WebhookController]
    J -->|InventoryUpdated event| K[Your Listeners]
    K -->|Nexus::product| B

    L[CatalogSyncJob] -->|Bus::batch| M[ChannelSyncBatchJob × channels]
    M -->|Token acquired| N[PushInventoryJob × SKUs]
    N -->|Exhausted retries| O[(nexus_dead_letter_queue)]

    P[TokenBucket] -->|Lua atomic eval| Q[(Redis)]
    M --> P

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Database Tables

Table	Purpose
nexus_channel_mappings	Polymorphic map between local models and remote channel IDs
nexus_sync_jobs	Active and historical job tracking with batch IDs and status
nexus_dead_letter_queue	Permanently failed jobs with full payload for one-click replay
nexus_webhook_logs	Audit log of every inbound webhook with verification status
nexus_rate_limit_logs	Per-channel rate limit event tracking for dashboard visibility

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Testing

composer test

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Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for recent changes.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.