Flagship Case Study

Vinyl Status: a headless storefront that sells before you scroll

Our biggest build so far — a WooCommerce business rebuilt as a Next.js front end, where customers configure, price and approve custom stickers without a single email exchange.

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The Project

Custom stickers, sold like software

Vinyl Status sells made-to-order stickers, decals and lettering. The old store made customers guess at price and wait on email for artwork checks. We rebuilt the front end from scratch and left the WooCommerce backend doing what it does best.

The result is a storefront that behaves like a product: pick a format, watch the price update, approve a proof, order. Nothing about it needs a support ticket.

Client
Vinyl Status
Sector
Custom print e-commerce
Our role
Architecture & build
Status
Live in production
vinylstatus.com live
Vinyl Status homepage: custom stickers hero, instant pricing and trust signals

Screenshot of the live production store

Impact

Signals you can verify yourself

We don't publish invented metrics. These numbers are read straight off the live storefront.

6,037
Customer reviews on the homepage
4.91/5
Average rating, verified buyers
12+
Product formats in one catalogue
4
Steps from idea to printed order
2
Business days to production
Under the hood

Headless by design, not by fashion

WooCommerce keeps doing what it is best at — products, payments, orders, shipping. A Next.js front end owns the customer experience, deployed globally at the edge.

  • Product data served from the WooCommerce REST API
  • Reviews, photos and proofing wired into the product template
  • Payments handled by the gateway the customer already trusts
  • Image pipeline optimising every catalogue asset
StorefrontNext.js, edge-rendered
Product pagesSSR + streaming
Cart & checkoutSession-aware
↓  REST / CACHE  ↓
WordPress + WooCommerceProducts, orders, tax, shipping
Payment gatewayCard & wallet payments
↑  WEBHOOKS  ↑
Proofing & supportHuman review queue
Review platformVerified-buyer ratings
Email & lifecycleCampaigns & flows

Diagram: logical architecture — verified against the live deployment.

Vinyl Status mobile homepage with promo bar, hero and rating
Mobile hero
Mobile ordering steps on the Vinyl Status homepage
Mobile ordering steps
Mobile first

Most of this traffic is a thumb and a small screen

Sticker buyers decide fast, on a phone, with one hand. The mobile layout keeps the rating, the price and the primary action visible without a single pinch-zoom.

  • Rating and reviews reachable from the first screen
  • Sticky order bar that never covers content
  • Tap targets sized for cold, hurried thumbs
  • Promotions surfaced above the fold, not buried
Second build · arabiclab.io

Arabic Lab: a learning platform, not a PDF course

Arabic Lab teaches Arabic to non-Arab Muslim families through natural acquisition — listening, memorising, speaking, reading and writing in the order a child actually learns a language. We built the platform behind it: the curriculum engine, the family dashboard and the founding-family waitlist.

WordPressCustom pluginAI tutorSpaced repetition3 languages
  • Five-faculty journey: listening, memorising, speaking, reading, writing
  • Personal word bank with spaced repetition and dictionary in the family’s own language
  • Parent dashboard where a guardian approves lesson plans, tasks and community peers
  • Founding-family reservation flow with validation and a WhatsApp community hand-off
247
Founding families reserved
3
Interface languages shipped
5
Learning faculties in the path
Visit arabiclab.io See the platform
arabiclab.io live
Arabic Lab homepage: founding families banner, Arabic language logo and the platform promise

Screenshot of the live arabiclab.io

Selected Work

More problems we’ve solved

A sample from the 79mplus portfolio — every one a WordPress or WooCommerce build with a hard problem at its centre.

Automatic Facebook Order System

Facebook orders flow straight into WooCommerce through the Graph API — no re-typing, no missed orders.

Facebook APIWooCommerce
Custom Printable PDF Creator

Brand-matched PDF documents generated server-side for WooCommerce orders, ready for print or archive.

PluginPDF
MailChimp × Subscriptions Sync

Customers and subscription states kept perfectly in step between WooCommerce and MailChimp, automatically.

MailChimp APISubscriptions
Training Session Booking

Complex availability, session lengths and group rules handled on top of WooCommerce Bookings.

BookingsWooCommerce
Event Registration for Dog Walks

A custom event signup flow with capacity limits and participant details, built on WooCommerce.

EventsWooCommerce
Laser Engraving Designer

A live product designer for customised wallets that outputs production-ready engraving files.

ConfiguratorProduction
Lifestyle Variety Store

A multi-vendor marketplace on Dokan and WooCommerce managing complex inventory with a clean UI.

DokanMarketplace
Automated Room Booking

Appointment-based room scheduling with automated confirmations, built on Booked Appointment.

BookingsAutomation
Multilingual Story Subscriptions

A multilingual subscription reading platform wired to the MailChimp API for delivery and renewals.

MultilingualMailChimp
Bicycle Product Customizer

“Build your dream bike” — live configuration with conditional logic that reduced pre-sale friction.

TM Extra OptionsConfigurator
Customizable Ring Builder

A step-by-step ring builder on WooCommerce product attributes, with live pricing per choice.

ConfiguratorProduct Attributes
Real Estate Payment Model

Payment and listing model rebuilt inside the Houzez theme for a property directory, with Twilio for enquiry notifications.

HouzezTwilio
JSON API Search for a Tyre Brand

A bespoke JSON API integration so a tyre catalogue could be searched by size, brand and pattern from the storefront.

JSON APISearch
Automated Xero Invoicing

WooCommerce Subscriptions turned into Xero invoices automatically for a marketing agency — no exporting, no chasing.

Xero APISubscriptions
Auto Parts Stock Sync

Live stock and pricing pulled from a Megabus parts service so the store never oversells a fitment it cannot ship.

Megabus APIInventory
Strava Integration for Runners

Strava activity data wired into SportsPress so runners could log, rank and compare their performances.

Strava APISportsPress
Course Management with LearnPress

LearnPress course delivery customised with Gravity Forms, so enrolment data and course progress moved as one.

LearnPressGravity Forms
NextGEN Gallery Modifications

Photography gallery customisations for a large image library — faster browsing, cleaner albums, no admin guesswork.

NextGENPerformance
Zendesk & Paddle Customisations

Divi site customisations with Zendesk, Mailchimp and Paddle wired in so support, email and payments all shared one source of truth.

ZendeskPaddle

These are selections from our full portfolio. Want to be the next one? Tell us your problem.

Takeaways

What we would build again, exactly

Show the price early

Any friction between “I want this” and “I know what it costs” is a lost order. Configurability is a feature.

Remove the risk, not just the clicks

A free proof is the single strongest conversion device in custom print. Build the approval loop into the product.

Design for the thumb first

Mobile was the main surface. Every layout decision was made at 390 px before it was allowed to grow.

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