Case study · Education & publishing
ClimaxPrime
Connecting schools, publishing teams and business operations.
- Business management platform
- Education & publishing
- School & customer portal · Staff workspace · Writer & editor portals
- Laravel · Vue · Inertia · MySQL · M-Pesa
01 · Project overview
What was built, and for whom.
ClimaxPrime is a business management and education publishing platform built by CodeWave for Climax Prime. Schools can browse books, request custom exam papers, pay through M-Pesa and access their orders. Behind the portal, staff manage sales, customer relationships, exam production, warehouse fulfilment and finance, while writers and editors work through dedicated role-based portals.
- Climax Prime, an educational books and exam publishing business
- Selected project
- School & customer portal, Staff workspace, Writer & editor portals
- education erp ecommerce payments web
02 · Business challenge
The problem, as the business experienced it.
Book sales and custom exam production involve schools, sales staff, writers, editors, warehouse teams and finance, each needing a clear view of their part of the order.
A book order and a custom exam request take different paths. The platform needs to support both: stock and fulfilment for books, and writing, marking schemes and editorial review for exams, with the right access for each team.
- Schools need one place to order books and request custom exam papers
- Writers and editors need a coordinated exam production workflow
- Sales and warehouse teams need order visibility appropriate to their roles
- Customer payments and finance records need to stay connected to operations
03 · Our approach
How we got from the problem to the system.
CodeWave built a Laravel and Vue platform joining a school-facing shop and exam request portal with order management, ExamFlow publishing workflows, CRM, warehouse operations and finance.
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Separate roles and responsibilities
Structured access around customers, sales staff, managers, writers, editors, warehouse staff and accountants.
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Build the school portal
Connected the book catalogue, basket, exam requests, customer orders, M-Pesa payments and downloadable documents.
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Connect the publishing workflow
Built ExamFlow tools for exam orders, writer assignments, paper preparation, marking schemes and editorial work.
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Bring operations together
Linked order management with CRM, warehouse fulfilment, payment records, finance and management dashboards.
04 · Solution architecture
Layers of the system.
Clients at the top, the core application in the middle, integrations and data underneath. Green marks the integration layer where the system meets the outside world.
People & portals
- School & customer portal
- Staff workspace
- Writer portal
- Editor portal
Business modules
- Orders
- Books
- CRM
- ExamFlow
- Warehouse
- Finance
- Payments
Integrations & documents
- M-Pesa STK Push
- PDF invoices & receipts
- Spreadsheet imports & exports
Application & access
- Laravel
- Vue & Inertia
- MySQL
- Role-based permissions
05 · Key features
What the system does.
School & customer portal
Browse books, request exams and follow orders through a dedicated account.
ExamFlow publishing
Coordinate exam papers, marking schemes, writer assignments and editorial review.
Customer & sales management
Keep customer relationships, sales activity and order records in the staff workspace.
Warehouse & fulfilment
Manage book stock and fulfilment with access for warehouse managers and assistants.
Payments & finance
Connect M-Pesa payments, customer documents and finance workflows to business operations.
Role-based workspaces
Give schools, writers, editors and internal teams access appropriate to their responsibilities.
06 · Technology
The stack behind it.
Chosen for the job — mature, supportable and straightforward to host and staff for in Kenya.
- PHP Laravel
- Vue Inertia Tailwind CSS
- MySQL
- M-Pesa PDF generation Spreadsheet import & export
07 · Business impact
What changed for the business.
Outcomes are described qualitatively. Figures are published only when verified by the client and approved for release.
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Schools can access book orders and custom exam requests through one portal
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Writers and editors have dedicated publishing workspaces
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Sales, warehouse and finance work from connected business records
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Permissions reflect each team's operational responsibilities
08 · Screens
Interface illustration.
A representative illustration of the interface, not a live screenshot — no client data is shown.
From request to ready.
ExamFlowSchool portal → Publishing team → Fulfilment
Requested
School brief
Grade · Subject · Term
Writing
Paper & marking scheme
Writer workspace
Review
Editorial checks
Editor workspace
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