GiftGalaxy Blockchain NFT Integration

I’m ready to take my existing e-commerce store, GiftGalaxy, into the web3 era. The immediate priority is to mint NFT certificates on Ethereum for every product we sell. These certificates must be available in two ways: automatically bundled with a purchase and as a standalone collectible that shoppers can add to their carts.

The core tasks I need completed now are:
• Smart contract development for ERC-721 certificates, structured so it can later dovetail with ERC-20 reward logic and an on-chain review module.
• A simple, gas-efficient minting flow that can be triggered from our checkout API or manually from an admin panel when we list a “certificate only” SKU.
• Front-end hooks (React/Next.js) that pull token metadata and show ownership status inside each customer’s account page.
• Basic IPFS or similar decentralized storage for metadata and imagery, keeping the assets future-proof.

After this milestone goes live we will expand into ERC-20 loyalty rewards and on-chain verified reviews, so clean, modular code and clear documentation are essential. If you are comfortable with Solidity, Hardhat/Foundry, web3.js or ethers.js, and have previously integrated NFTs into a production commerce stack, I’d love to see how you would approach this first phase and prepare the ground for the next two features.