How do we work with a company in the United States?
The time difference. Istanbul is 7 hours ahead of the US East Coast in summer and 8 hours ahead in winter. That looks like an obstacle at first, but it leaves a shared window on business days: US Eastern mornings fall in the Istanbul afternoon and evening. We hold meetings, demos and decisions in that window. The rest of the time the team moves forward in writing, so when the US side wakes up, a summary of the previous working day, the open questions and the next step are already waiting. With a team on the Pacific coast the window is narrower, and in that case we cut the number of meetings and move decisions into the written flow.
The project we delivered. For Leonix, which sells heavy-duty truck parts in the US market, we built the store, the supplier panel and the admin panel as a single platform. Buyers find a part by OEM number and see price and stock before adding anything to the cart. Behind the scenes, suppliers upload products from Excel and no product goes on sale without Leonix approval. The details are told in the related success story. The project covered the typical needs of a business selling online in the US: a searchable catalog, accurate stock, card payments and an operations team that manages everything from one screen.
Payments and data. We take card payments through Stripe. An order is created only from a verified payment notification, the amount is refunded automatically if payment arrives after stock has run out, and the buyer is shown the current price if it changed during checkout. These are part of the design. On the data side, because the United States has no single federal law, state laws and sector-specific rules are assessed per project together with your legal counsel. On the technical side we make access restrictions, audit logging and retention periods enforceable. We do not provide legal advice.