Kadaikodi: The Cart & Commerce Management Platform
Kadaikodi is a unified cart, checkout, catalog, order, and merchant management platform that powers the entire selling surface of a modern commerce business — products and services, B2C and B2B, single storefront and multi-merchant marketplace — from one workspace-native control plane. It pairs a headless cart-as-a-service backend with storefront and back-office operations built on top, so the cart, the catalog, the order, the merchant, and the people who fulfill it all live in one consistent, governed model.
What makes Kadaikodi different
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The cart is infrastructure, not a feature A durable, headless cart and checkout engine driven entirely through GraphQL, so the same cart works from a web storefront, a mobile app, a kiosk, or an AI agent — and survives device switches.
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Products and services in one model A unified catalog treats physical products (with stock) and bookable services (with duration) as first-class offerings under one model, with the same pricing, media, tags, and order lifecycle.
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One order as a single source of truth A full order lifecycle (placed → confirmed → preparing → ready → out for delivery → delivered → completed) with an independent payment-status machine and an auditable timeline.
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Five-role ecosystem Role-aware experiences for Customers, Merchants (cart owners), Workers, Investors, and Administrators, all on the same governed model.
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Merchant onboarding & fulfillment Self-service merchant onboarding and lifecycle, plus worker rosters and task-based dispatch across pickup, delivery, cart dispatch, on-location, and home-service fulfillment.
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Transparent merchant financing Merchants can publish governed investment opportunities and backers can invest in real businesses, with an auditable transaction ledger.
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Built on the Burdenoff platform Auth, RBAC, billing, files, tags, conversations, notifications, i18n, accessibility, and audit are inherited — so every release ships enterprise-ready and multi-tenant by default.
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Ecosystem
Kadaikodi ships a full ecosystem of tools and integrations:
| Tool | Repository | Package |
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| Node SDK | kadaikodi-sdk-node | @kadaikodi/sdk |
| Python SDK | kadaikodi-sdk-python | kadaikodi-sdk |
| CLI | kadaikodi-cli | @kadaikodi/cli |
| Browser Extension | kadaikodi-browser-extension | Chrome Web Store |
| VS Code Extension | kadaikodi-code-extension | burdenoff.kadaikodi-code-extension |
| MCP Server | kadaikodi-mcp | @kadaikodi/mcp |
| Doctor (E2E) | kadaikodi-doctor | — |
| Backend Service | wspace-kadaikodi-svc | — |
All tools default to the production Burdenoff platform. Switch to local or alpha via the BURDENOFF_ENV environment variable (local, alpha, prod). See Environment Selection for details.
Why Kadaikodi?
Most commerce teams stitch their selling stack together by hand — a cart library here, a checkout SDK there, a separate catalog, an order tool that doesn't talk to fulfillment, and analytics scattered across dashboards. Kadaikodi collapses that stack into one consistent, governed model:
- Headless cart & checkout: An API-first engine you build any storefront on top of
- Unified catalog: Products and bookable services as first-class offerings under one model
- Full order lifecycle: One order as the single source of truth, with payment status and an audit timeline
- Merchant management: Self-service onboarding, lifecycle, branding, and per-merchant configuration
- Fulfillment & field operations: Worker rosters and task-based dispatch across multiple fulfillment modes
- Commerce intelligence: Workspace and admin analytics without a separate ETL pipeline
Getting Started
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For Customers
For Cart Owners
For Workers
For Investors
For Developers
For Admins
Documentation Structure
Our documentation is organized to help you find what you need:
- Core Concepts: How Kadaikodi models merchants, offerings, carts, orders, workers, reviews, and investments
- For Users: Guides for all five user types — customers, merchants, workers, investors, and admins
- For Developers: SDKs, CLI, extensions, MCP server, GraphQL API, auth, and integration guides
- For Admins: Deployment, security, monitoring, and operational guidance
- Reference: API reference, changelog, and links to platform documentation