DDD Architecture for PHP E-Commerce Systems
Catalog, Order, Payment, Inventory: e-commerce domains belong in separate Bounded Contexts, not crammed into one monolith. Jardis gives your shop system the architecture that carries from context one to multi-channel scale.
The More Channels You Add, the More Fragile the Monolith Gets.
Shopware, Magento, custom builds: without domain boundaries, every payment change becomes a risk to orders, inventory and shipping.
The shop monolith breaks on every change
Catalog, pricing and orders share the same tables. A price change breaks checkout. A new shipping model pulls side effects through half the codebase. On Black Friday, that is not a bug, it is lost revenue.
Vendor lock-in to Shopware or Magento
Business logic is tangled with framework code. Switching or upgrading means months of rewriting because domain rules live inside controllers and plugins. Discount logic, shipping rules, return handling: all glued to the framework.
Inventory and orders are inseparable
Stock management depends directly on the order system. Cancellations create race conditions in the warehouse. Multi-warehouse or dropshipping integrations become a nightmare because there is no clean domain boundary between stock and orders.
Orders, catalog, payment — each domain on its own.
The Jardis Builder generates physical domain boundaries for every e-commerce domain. Not a guideline, but an enforced package structure.
Catalog, Order and Payment as Separate Packages
Each Bounded Context becomes a standalone package with its own dependency structure. Order cannot access Catalog tables, Inventory cannot reach Payment data. The builder enforces this separation at the filesystem level. Adding a new sales channel or switching frameworks only affects the relevant domain.
Order, payment and shipping through Domain Events
OrderPlaced, PaymentConfirmed, ShipmentDispatched: the builder generates events and their handlers as typed PHP classes. No direct calls between domains. Inventory reacts to OrderPlaced, Shipping to PaymentConfirmed. New subscribers like a promotions engine or loyalty program plug in without changing existing domains.
80% of the code generated, ready to deploy
The builder generates multi-channel-ready PHP infrastructure per domain: Catalog, Order, Payment and Inventory each get their own CQRS structures with commands, queries and repository pipeline. Your team writes the shop logic: discount rules, fulfillment workflows, return handling and payment routing.
See what three files turn into.
Three definition files in, a complete bounded context out. Browse the generated code.
# Database Schema — Sales Bounded Context
# This file defines the persistent storage structure.
schema:
domain: ECommerce
boundedContext: Sales
tables:
order:
columns:
id:
type: integer
primary: true
autoIncrement: true
public_id:
type: uuid7
unique: true
customer_email:
type: string
length: 255
status:
type: string
length: 32
default: "draft"
total_amount:
type: integer
currency:
type: string
length: 3
default: "EUR"
created_at:
type: datetime
updated_at:
type: datetime
nullable: true
order_item:
columns:
id:
type: integer
primary: true
autoIncrement: true
order_id:
type: integer
foreignKey:
table: order
column: id
onDelete: cascade
product_name:
type: string
length: 255
sku:
type: string
length: 64
quantity:
type: integer
unit_price:
type: integer
line_total:
type: integer
Why E-Commerce Teams Build on Jardis.
From first shop to multi-channel platform. Jardis grows with your system.
Every E-Commerce Domain Its Own Package
Catalog, Order, Payment, Inventory, Shipping: standalone Bounded Contexts. The catalog team deploys product data without the order team having to coordinate a release. Parallel work without merge conflicts.
New Domain in Minutes Instead of Weeks
Promotions engine, loyalty program, return management, new payment provider? Define the schema, start the builder. Commands, queries, events and repository pipeline are ready before the first line of shop logic gets written.
No More Vendor Lock-in
Hexagonal architecture separates domain logic from framework code. Laravel, Symfony, or switching from Shopware to custom: business rules stay unchanged. The builder generates the adapters, the domain stays portable.
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Answers to the most important questions about Jardis in the e-commerce context.
Yes. Jardis is built for brownfield scenarios. You generate individual Bounded Contexts and integrate them step by step. The builder produces PHP code with hexagonal architecture that coexists alongside existing shop code. Existing plugin logic and theme customizations stay intact while you migrate domain by domain.