The Kingdom Collection

The Kingdom Collection is a modern e-commerce storefront built to showcase Kenyan fashion. This case study covers building a guest-checkout flow integrated with M-Pesa for local payment processing.

Kenyan designers need e-commerce solutions that support local payment methods.

• Build a frictionless guest checkout experience.
• Integrate M-Pesa for payment processing.

• Guest checkout
• M-Pesa payment integration
• Product filtering by category

ReactFlaskSQLAlchemyPostgreSQLCloudinaryM-Pesa

React SPA + Flask REST API

React SPA on Cloudflare Workers talking to a Flask REST API hosted on Render.

Data. PostgreSQL via SQLAlchemy, with schema changes managed by Flask-Migrate.

API. Flask REST API for products, orders and M-Pesa payments.

Auth. Guest checkout, with JWT-based sign-in via Flask-JWT-Extended.

Performance. Product images served from Cloudinary, with preconnects so the first photograph starts loading early.

Accessibility. Semantic markup and keyboard-reachable navigation.

Security. Payments are handled by M-Pesa, so card or wallet details never touch the store's server.

Trade-offs. Chose guest checkout over mandatory registration.

Integrating M-Pesa API with payment confirmation.

Insights into African payment ecosystems.