Beaded Affair

Beaded Affair started as a one-of-a-kind earring shop and has grown into a much wider handmade goods store: earrings and denim jackets stay strictly one-off (once a piece sells, it's gone), while scrunchies, bags, bookmarks, and other smaller items are made in limited runs from whatever fabric is on hand, closer to small-batch than singular. That distinction runs through the platform itself, since stock has to update in real time at checkout no matter which model a product follows, so nobody ever orders something that's already sold. Running a 200-plus product catalogue like that by hand doesn't scale, so the platform includes a proper back office too: a custom admin dashboard, separate from the CMS, for managing products, packing orders, tracking revenue, and keeping the whole operation running without digging through spreadsheets.

For customers

• Product browsing across a 200+ item catalogue, spanning earrings, denim jackets, scrunchies, bags, bookmarks and more, with category filtering, search, and a customer wishlist
• Virtual try-on preview on select earrings, so a shopper can see how a piece looks before buying
• EFT checkout with live stock validation, no card details handled on-site
• Two stock models on one platform: strictly one-of-a-kind earrings and denim jackets, alongside small-batch items made while the fabric lasts
• "A Good Cause" and "ReWrapped" collections: charity-linked and upcycled product lines
• Local hand-delivery in George, or nationwide shipping via Pudo locker or PostNet
• Order confirmation, payment-status, and shipping emails throughout the order lifecycle
• "New Arrivals" mailing list customers can subscribe to from the footer or a sold-out product page
• POPIA-compliant privacy policy, terms, and returns pages