The project
Project overview
Timeless Luxury is a New Zealand retailer of pre-owned luxury watches, running an automated pipeline that imports stock from a Japanese wholesale platform (eLADY) into its Shopify store. As their freelance developer, I’ve done a run of work keeping that pipeline reliable.
It started with a diagnostic: product images had silently stopped appearing, with listings still publishing on schedule but every image failing to process. I traced the pipeline end to end (the wholesale feed, the PHP cron jobs pushing products into Shopify over its GraphQL API, and the remote image URLs Shopify was meant to fetch) and pinned the failure on a change at the third-party image host that was blocking Shopify’s media fetcher, rather than anything broken in the client’s own code.
From there the work continued across several more fixes. I resolved an inventory sync bug where stock changes were being missed because the upstream feed only held recent updates for a short window, adding a daily reconciliation pass against the full catalogue feed so nothing slipped through, and I repaired the order fulfilment flow so it ran reliably end to end.
