A full e-commerce store, a custom admin dashboard, the BLOM Academy course platform, and email plus WhatsApp automation — all running on one Supabase backend. I built it, and I still run it on an active retainer.
- E-commerce
- Custom Admin
- Course Platform
- WhatsApp + Email
- What it is
- A full online store, a custom owner-run admin, and the BLOM Academy course platform — one login, one system.
- The stack
- React, TypeScript and Tailwind on Supabase. PayFast for payments, n8n for the automation, WhatsApp and email for the customer.
- Status
- Live in production at blom-cosmetics.co.za. PayFast running. Active retainer — I still maintain it.
I built a clean storefront with real product photography, instant cart updates, and a checkout flow that's mobile-first from the ground up. Real ZAR pricing, real PayFast at the till.
Stock syncs in real time against the backend, so a customer never hits an out-of-stock surprise at checkout — and BLOM never sells something they can't ship.
- Real-time inventory
- Mobile checkout
- PayFast live
- Custom discount logic
Instead of paying a monthly fee for a generic dashboard, BLOM got a custom admin they own outright: edit prices, descriptions and images live, manage orders, and watch sales analytics in one place.
Low-stock alerts and order statuses surface the moment they matter — no spreadsheets, no plugins, and zero monthly platform fees.
- Live product editing
- Order management
- Low-stock alerts
- Owner-editable
BLOM teaches as well as sells, so the Academy lives inside the same platform. Students browse courses, work through lessons, and pick up their materials without ever leaving the site.
On the admin side it's the same story: schedule courses, track students, and upload lesson materials from the dashboard BLOM already knows.
Every order kicks off a chain automatically: a branded PDF invoice, an order-ready email, and a WhatsApp confirmation straight to the customer — all wired through n8n.
It's the invisible part of the build, and it's the part that quietly saves hours every single week.
- WhatsApp order updates
- Branded email
- PDF invoicing
- n8n
The store, the admin, and the Academy all run off one Supabase backend BLOM owns. No Shopify-style cut on every sale, no plugin subscriptions. Orders confirm, invoice, and notify the customer on their own. It's live, it's in production, and I still maintain it on an active retainer.
- 1 backend
- Store, admin and academy, unified on Supabase
- 24/7
- WhatsApp and email order automation, hands-off
- Live
- PayFast in production on blom-cosmetics.co.za
Tell me what you're building. No pitch, no pressure — just a plan.