A year ago, someone bought a restaurant POS from CodeCanyon.

They came to me for one key addition: reports. Sounds simple.Until I looked at the code.

The UI looked premium…But the data layer was a mess.

• No proper structure
• Missing critical fields like created date
• No consistency in how data was stored

And that’s when it became clear: Building proper reports would cost more than what they paid for the entire software.

Cheap code often looks good on the surface. Especially UI. But the real cost shows up when you try to scale or analyze it.

Have you tried CodeCanyon project before ? What happened after you purchased ?