Use case

Live Commerce
Streaming and Checkout in One Codebase

The hard part is not the stream. It is keeping the live room, inventory and orders in sync in real time — split that across two systems and you will be reconciling forever.

Where this business gets stuck

Streaming and storefront are separate systems

One SaaS for streaming, another for commerce, an integration in between. Pinning a product, changing a price, decrementing stock — each one lags.

Platform fees eat the margin

Streaming on someone else's marketplace means commission plus service fees. Past a certain volume, self-hosting is simply cheaper.

Host tooling is an afterthought

Pinning products, watching live numbers, moderating chat — the host needs all of it mid-stream, not in a separate admin panel.

The modules that carry this use case

DTok ships twelve modules. These are the ones doing the heavy lifting here.

RTMP streaming & playback

Go live, quality switching, reconnect on drop

Product showcase

Pin and unpin mid-stream, highlight the item being discussed, jump to detail

Cart & orders

Checkout, payment, order state, shipping addresses

Chat & gifting

Real-time bullet comments, gift effects, leaderboards

What you would do instead

Stream on an existing marketplaceTraffic is there, but so is the commission — and the customer data and the rules belong to them.
Buy streaming SaaS plus a separate storeThe sync problem between the two never goes away, and the monthly bill has no ceiling.
Hire an agencyLive streaming quotes run high, because concurrency and transport are a specialty.
DTokOne-time purchase, source is yours, one codebase across six platforms, self-hosted

Questions people ask

How many concurrent viewers does it handle?

The client is not the bottleneck — concurrency depends on your streaming origin and CDN. DTok ships the client and the contract; we advise on the streaming side against your expected peak.

Can it integrate with our existing ERP or store?

Yes. Products, inventory and orders sit behind their own interface layer, and pointing that at an existing backend is the common case. We confirm the shape of your APIs before you buy.

What does a host need to go live?

A phone. Camera push works on both iOS and Android. For production setups you can push from an external encoder instead.

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