TIENDA.UPGRADE.EC

tienda.upgrade.ec is our own hardware store for businesses: we built it and we run it. It’s the live proof of what we deliver to our ecommerce clients — a first-party store, fast and fully integrated with local payments, nationwide shipping and electronic invoicing. It’s not a demo: it’s a real business selling hardware from 18 brands.

The challenge

Selling hardware online in Ecuador isn’t uploading products to a template: you have to charge with local methods, invoice with the SRI, coordinate shipping nationwide and keep a large catalog ordered. Many stores outsource so much they lose control of their data and operation. We wanted the opposite: an owned store proving you can have it all integrated and under control.

What we did

• First-party store: the infrastructure, catalog and data are ours, not a third party’s.
• Integrated local payments — PayPhone and Datafast — to charge the way Ecuadorian customers pay.
• Nationwide shipping with Servientrega, integrated into the checkout flow.
• Electronic invoicing with the SRI via Contífico, no double data entry.
• A catalog of 18 hardware brands structured to browse, search and scale.

Results

• A real store selling B2B hardware with payment and shipping solved end-to-end.
• A full 18-brand catalog, ready to grow without breaking the structure.
• Our own testbed: what we validate here we take to our ecommerce clients.