## 🚀 Feature Request: Product Version History & Inventory Audit Log

[KolaSailaja]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, whenever a product is updated, the previous information is permanently overwritten. Administrators cannot determine what fields were changed, who made the change, or when it occurred. This lack of historical tracking makes it difficult to investigate accidental modifications, monitor inventory changes, and maintain accountability in a multi-admin environment.

Describe the solution you'd like

Implement a Product Version History & Inventory Audit Log that automatically records every significant change made to a product.

Each audit record should include:

• Product ID
• Action performed (Create, Update, Delete, Restore)
• Administrator/User who performed the action
• Timestamp
• Fields that were modified
• Previous values
• Updated values
• Optional change description or reason

Administrators should be able to access a Version History section from the product details page to review all recorded changes in chronological order.

Describe alternatives you've considered

A simpler approach would be storing only the last modified timestamp and the user who performed the update. However, this does not preserve previous values or provide a complete audit trail. Maintaining a dedicated version history offers significantly better transparency, accountability, and easier recovery from unintended changes.

Additional context

Suggested implementation:

• Create a dedicated ProductAudit model for storing audit records.
• Automatically generate audit entries whenever products are created, updated, deleted, or restored.
• Add an endpoint such as GET /api/products/:id/history to retrieve version history.
• Display audit records in an admin-only interface with clear before-and-after comparisons.
• Support filtering by action type, administrator, and date range.

Benefits

• Improves accountability for product management.
• Makes debugging and issue investigation easier.
• Tracks inventory and pricing changes over time.
• Provides a production-ready audit trail.
• Enhances overall reliability and maintainability of the application.

[arcgod-design]

Hi @niharika-mente! I'd love to work on this feature.

My approach:

• Create a ProductAuditLog model to track every change to a product (price, stock, name, description) with timestamp, changed field, old value, new value, and user who made the change
• Hook into product update/delete mutations via middleware or mongoose hooks
• Expose a /products/:id/history endpoint for admins to view full version history
• Build an admin UI panel showing the audit log in a readable timeline format
• Implement inventory-specific logs: stock additions, reductions, order fulfillments

Could you please assign this to me (@arcgod-design)? Thank you!

[KolaSailaja]

@niharika-mente Could you please assign me this opened . As I opened this issue I would you start working on if it aligns with the project goals.