Custom ecommerce website with its own order dashboard
A custom ecommerce website for Mayabee, a handbag and jewellery shop in Dhaka: English and Bangla storefront, an admin dashboard for orders, cash on delivery, stock and reports.
Relevant if you need an online store or web app with its own admin side.
- Client
- Mayabee
- Role
- Full-stack developer, UI/UX designer
- When
- 2026
- Work
- Astro, PHP API
Google PageSpeed Insights results
mayabeebd.com home page, mobile, tested 23 Oct 2026. Lab test. Google has no real-user data for this new site yet. Open the Google report ↗
- 100
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 96
- Best practices
- 100
- SEO
- Largest Contentful Paint
- 0.9 s
- Cumulative Layout Shift
- 0.003
- Total Blocking Time
- 0 ms
- First Contentful Paint
- 0.9 s
- Speed Index
- 2.7 s
What did Mayabee need?
Mayabee sells handbags and jewellery in Dhaka and delivers across Bangladesh with cash on delivery. The owner needed a shop that looks like the brand, loads fast on a phone, and a back office the team can run without a developer: confirm orders by phone, send parcels with a courier and know how much cash the couriers still owe.
What did I build?
The storefront
- A shop with categories, filters for price, colour and occasion, and product pages with a delivery estimate by area
- Cart, checkout with cash on delivery, order tracking and a wishlist
- English and Bangla versions of every page, with a switch in the header
- Product pages drawn from the database, so a change in the dashboard shows at once
The admin dashboard
- Home: today’s orders and sales, what needs attention, best sellers
- Orders: every order with its status, phone orders entered by staff, invoices and parcel labels
- Delivery and cash: parcels with each courier, cash on delivery collected, payouts recorded, return rate by area
- Products, stock, size guides and a media library that shrinks photos for the web
- Customers, discounts and delivery fees, content and SEO, messages
- Reports for sales, products, customers, areas, coupons and delivery
- Team and activity: four roles (owner, manager, orders, content) and a record of every change
How did I design it?
I designed the storefront and the dashboard myself before writing code, so what the owner approved is what shipped. The dashboard’s wording is plain on purpose: its screens say “Needs your attention” and “Still with couriers”, not accounting terms.
How is it built?
- A static Astro front end for the pages that rarely change, and a PHP API with a MySQL database for products, orders and customers
- Sign-in with email and password, and a confirmation link sent when a new device signs in
- Photos resized to several WebP sizes (AVIF where the server allows), with camera and location data removed
- Deployed to the owner’s shared hosting with one command, without touching the database or uploaded photos
What was the result?
I measured the live site on 23 October 2026 on a simulated phone (390 px wide, 4x slower processor, slow 4G):
- Home page: largest content on screen in 0.8 s, no layout shift, 253 KB over 29 requests
- Shop and product pages: largest content in under 0.9 s with no layout shift
- Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 23 October 2026: Performance 100, Accessibility 100, Best practices 96, SEO 100 (the full report is linked above)
The shop and dashboard are live at mayabeebd.com. Online card and mobile wallet payments are not built yet: orders are cash on delivery.
Common questions
What does a custom ecommerce website cost compared with a hosted store?
A hosted store builder costs less to start, but it charges monthly fees and cannot easily follow your own rules, such as cash on delivery by area or courier payouts. A custom build costs more up front and is quoted after I read your brief. It makes sense when your shop runs on rules a template cannot follow.
Can the shop owner manage products and orders without a developer?
Yes. The shop team adds products, uploads photos, changes prices and stock, confirms orders and records courier payouts in the dashboard. A change shows on the shop at once, and daily work does not need me.
Can a store work in two languages?
Yes. Mayabee runs in English and Bangla across the storefront and the dashboard, with a language switch on every page. Each language has its own pages, so both can be found in search.
Do you build the dashboard as well as the storefront?
Yes. The storefront, the API and the dashboard were designed and built together, so the shop and the dashboard always agree about stock, prices and orders.