At a glance
Misiano Beauty World is a Lagos-based skincare brand built on a clear promise — “the Number One Skincare Products you can trust,” 100% organic and suitable for all skin types. It had a loyal following and a strong before-and-after story, but no real shop: customers browsed products, then had to tap a “Buy via WhatsApp” button and complete every purchase by hand, one message and one bank transfer at a time.
Inventrium rebuilt misianobeautyworld.com as a genuine self-service storefront — a catalogue of 40+ products, a cart, a secure checkout, Paystack card payments in Naira, and shipping zones for Lagos, the rest of Nigeria and international orders — then put it through a pre-launch hardening pass for security, SEO, accessibility and abuse protection before going live.
We took a beauty brand that sold over WhatsApp and gave it a real online store: browse, add to cart, pay by card, get it shipped, without losing the personal touch that built it.
The brief
Misiano Beauty World sells organic skincare — the Snow White range of soaps and creams, the Glow Cream line, face sets, body scrubs, serums, men’s sets and more — to customers who want natural alternatives to harsh chemical products. The brand’s reputation rests on results and word of mouth: its before-and-after gallery and customer testimonials do the selling.
The problem was the buying. The original site was effectively a catalogue with a phone number: every product carried a “Buy via WhatsApp” button, and orders were closed manually over WhatsApp and phone, with payment by bank transfer and proof-of-payment emailed back for confirmation. That works at small volume, but it caps growth: the owner becomes the checkout, every order needs a live conversation, nothing happens out of hours, and the friction quietly loses the customers who simply want to pay and move on.
The brief was to keep everything that made the brand trusted — the organic positioning, the proof gallery, the warm tone, the WhatsApp line for people who still prefer it — but add the one thing it was missing: a store that takes the order and the money on its own.
Objectives
- Replace manual ordering with self-service checkout — browse, add to cart, pay, done, with no WhatsApp message required.
- Stand up a complete product catalogue — the full Misiano range online as a browsable, shoppable shop.
- Take payment securely, in Naira — integrate Paystack, plus a bank-transfer fallback for customers who prefer it.
- Handle delivery honestly — surface shipping cost and timelines up front for Lagos, nationwide and international orders.
- Preserve the brand’s trust signals — keep the before-and-after results, testimonials and organic story front and centre, and keep WhatsApp available.
- Launch hardened and discoverable — secure, accessible, SEO-sound and protected against abuse from day one.
What we did
A cloned storefront with real commerce
The first commit rebuilt the live store on Inventrium’s modular Next.js platform and added the machinery a WhatsApp catalogue never had: a cart, a checkout, Paystack payments and shipping, all in one pass. The shape of the old site was preserved — a banner hero slider, “New Arrivals” and “Featured Products” grids, the before-and-after gallery and a closing call-to-action — but each product is now an item you can add to a basket rather than a prompt to start a chat.
A full, shoppable catalogue
The complete Misiano range — 40+ products across the shop page, from the ₦5,000 Pink Lips Balm to the ₦245,500 Snow White Combo Set — was modelled as a sortable product grid, with the homepage surfacing curated “New Arrivals” and “Featured Products” subsets. The catalogue is content-managed through Sanity, so the brand can maintain products and imagery without touching code.
Paystack checkout in Naira, with a bank-transfer fallback
Checkout settles in NGN through Paystack, taken live with the brand’s production public key so cards are charged for real. For customers who still prefer to pay by transfer, the checkout also carries structured bank-transfer details (Naira and USD/international accounts, with SWIFT/BIC for overseas payers) and the proof-of-payment confirmation flow the brand already used, now built into the page instead of conducted over email by hand.
Shipping zones that tell the truth at checkout
Delivery is modelled as three explicit zones so the customer sees the real landed cost before paying: Lagos (₦5,000, 3–5 days), other Nigerian states nationwide (₦10,000, 3–5 days), and international (₦200,000, 7–21 days). The fee is applied at checkout rather than negotiated afterwards, replacing the old “we’ll let you know the delivery cost” exchange with an upfront number.
Order capture and owner notifications
Orders are captured by the store and routed to the brand’s admin email, so a paid order arrives as a record to fulfil rather than a thread to reconstruct from chat history. The WhatsApp number is retained as a contact and enquiry channel — deliberately, because it is part of how this brand earns trust — but it is no longer the checkout.
Keeping the trust signals that built the brand
The work was careful not to strip out what was working. The Before & After gallery and the Testimonials page were carried over as dedicated, image-led pages, the About page keeps the brand’s own voice, and the contact page leads with the Lagos store address, phone lines and WhatsApp. The new commerce sits underneath the existing proof, not in place of it.
A pre-launch hardening pass
Before launch the site went through a dedicated audit-and-fix pass covering security, SEO, accessibility and rate limiting — the standard go-live checklist for a site that now handles payments and customer data. A follow-up added image loading skeletons so the image-heavy catalogue feels fast, shop sorting so a 40-product grid stays navigable, and a cleaner contact layout, with the live Paystack key wired in for go-live.
What was achieved
- A real online store, not a catalogue — discover a product, add it to a cart, pay by card in Naira and have it shipped, with nothing waiting on the owner being awake.
- The full range online and self-maintained — 40+ products in a sortable, CMS-managed shop the brand can update itself.
- Payments that settle on their own — live Paystack card checkout in NGN, with a structured bank-transfer option preserved.
- Honest, upfront delivery — Lagos, nationwide and international shipping priced and timed at checkout.
- Trust carried forward — the before-and-after proof, testimonials, organic story and WhatsApp line all preserved.
- A hardened, discoverable launch — security, SEO, accessibility and rate-limiting fixes applied before go-live.
Impact
For customers: buying is now self-service and immediate. Browse the full range, see the real delivery cost up front, pay by card in seconds — or by transfer if preferred — at any hour, without having to open a chat and wait for a reply. The proof that made them trust the brand is still right there alongside the shop.
For the business: the owner is no longer the checkout. Orders arrive as records to fulfil rather than conversations to manage, payment is captured automatically, and the shop sells around the clock. The brand can scale order volume without scaling the manual effort behind each sale, and keep WhatsApp for the relationship-led selling it does best.
Strategically: Misiano moves from an informal social-commerce presence to an owned, self-service storefront — the difference between renting attention on WhatsApp and Instagram and operating a real online business. Built on a modular platform with a CMS, the store is positioned to grow its catalogue and commerce capability over time.
Why it matters for Inventrium
This engagement shows us taking a beloved but informal brand and giving it a working e-commerce business — full catalogue, cart, secure Paystack checkout in Naira, zone-based shipping and order capture — on a modern, maintainable stack, then hardening it for launch. It is a clear demonstration of the WhatsApp-store to real-storefront upgrade that a large share of Nigerian small businesses need.