Force Supplier

A wholesale network that needed real onboarding, not a contact form.

Force Supplier (operating as FDW, a dual-entity FD&W / Force Retailer business) runs a B2B affiliate and wholesale network. That means onboarding partners with sensitive identity data (including SSNs for tax/compliance purposes), managing an affiliate hierarchy, and giving non-technical staff the ability to edit site copy without ever touching code.

A standard ecommerce auth library wasn't the right fit for the affiliate/invite model this business actually runs, so the auth layer was built directly rather than bolted on.

A custom auth layer and a full content-editable CMS.

• JWT auth via jose: a hand-built authentication layer instead of NextAuth, fitted to the affiliate/invite onboarding flow rather than a standard consumer login.
• Encrypted onboarding: a /invite/[token] flow that collects and encrypts sensitive onboarding data (including SSNs) at rest, not just in transit.
• Admin panel: affiliate management, invite generation, and product administration, backed by Prisma over Postgres.
• Text-only CMS: a SiteContent Prisma model exposing roughly 30 editable text fields across the homepage, product pages, and the request-access flow, so copy changes don't require a deploy.
• QuickBooks integration: bookkeeping-sync built out for the business's accounting workflow (payments integration was separately and permanently denied by Intuit for this business category, a known constraint handled outside the codebase).

A live wholesale network with real affiliate operations.

forcesupplier.com runs its affiliate portal, admin panel, and encrypted onboarding in production today. Non-technical staff can update site copy directly through the CMS, and the custom JWT auth layer handles the invite-based onboarding model the business actually needed instead of forcing it into a generic signup flow.