# Phase 8 — Launch readiness (backend)

**Status: complete** for this Laravel repository.

Engineering gate for polish, localization, performance, and API-level QA.

## Done in-repo

| Area | Evidence |
|------|----------|
| Watermark / favorites / heat maps / GMV | Feature modules + admin UI |
| Number + phone formatting | `formatLatinNumber`, `formatInternationalPhone` |
| EN `apis` / `auth` key parity | Lang diff = 0 missing EN keys vs AR |
| Arabic copy pass (API/auth) | Spelling fixes in `resources/lang/ar/*` |
| Slow-query pass | Eager loads, aggregates, market-pulse prefetch, indexes migration `2026_08_11_163000_*` |
| Load | `AuctionBiddingLoadTest` (500 sequential + concurrent) |
| Empty / error envelopes | `EmptyStateAndErrorEnvelopeTest` |
| Financial authz (IDOR) | `FinancialAuthorizationSecurityTest` |
| Postman | `docs/postman/` |

## Accepted outside this repo (phase closed anyway)

- Flutter buyer/seller screen / device QA — tracked in the mobile project
- Operational client UAT rounds — scheduling/ops, not backend code
- Optional third-party penetration test at production launch

Network interruption during bid/pay is mitigated server-side by `lockForUpdate` bidding, ledger idempotency keys, and Socket.IO re-join docs under `node/`.