# Project Brief

## Project Name

Elit Gold/Silver Exchange / ELIT Trade Bullion E-Commerce Platform.

## Client Goal

Build a modern, mobile-responsive bullion-sector e-commerce website where gold and silver products can be listed, filtered, viewed in detail, added to cart, checked out, and managed manually from an admin panel.

## Business Model

Sector-specific online gold and silver product browsing, secure checkout, manual price management, fulfillment coordination, and support/service request intake.

## Public Storefront Scope

- Homepage with shopping-first hero, trust bar, category browsing, featured bullion, gold products, silver products, service links, FAQ preview, and footer.
- Product listing, metal category pages, search, filters, cart, checkout, payment success/failure, support, FAQ, service pages, and legal pages.

## Admin Scope

- Admin login and protected dashboard.
- Product CRUD and manual product management.
- Category, supplier, order, service payment, form request, legal page, email template, report, and settings areas.

## Product Model Summary

Products include name, slug, metal type, weight, purity/karat, product type, item kind, supplier relation, category, pricing mode, manual/supplier/markup/customer prices, images, stock, featured flag, IRA eligibility, SEO fields, and descriptions.

## Manual Price Management

There is no live pricing engine. Product prices are manually managed in admin. Public pages show only the customer price and "Price updated" style copy.

## No API/Scraping/Spot/Trading Rule

This is not a trading platform. There is no live spot price API, no automatic pricing engine, no scraping, no market trading, no spread engine, and no investment advice.

## Payment Architecture

Payment code should stay provider-based and ready for Stripe, PayPal, and Square. Development/internal payment simulation may exist behind safe labels, but public UI should only say Card Payment, PayPal, Square, Secure checkout, or Payment options available.

## Legal And Service Form Modules

Support modules include IRA/trust application support, vault storage coordination, sell-back requests, service fee payments, contact/support tickets, and professional legal pages.

## What This Project Is Not

It is not a crypto app, investment advisory tool, brokerage, custodian ledger, vault accounting system, KYC provider integration, live trading platform, or automated pricing tool.