Work / Client
Party Starters
A custom website and full back office for a Cape Town party hire company. Customers build a party list and request a quote, and the team runs services, prices, photos and quote requests from their own admin portal.
- Custom website
- Back office
- Quote system
- Google reviews
- SEO
- Platform
- Custom build
- Back office
- 8 admin sections
- Bookings
- Quote requests
- Reviews
- Auto from Google
The brief
Party Starters had a WordPress site that was hard to find on Google and hard to update. They wanted to vet every booking before confirming it, show off their setups, and change photos and prices themselves without calling a developer.
The takeaway: A website the owner runs herself, with every quote landing on her phone.
What I did
A quote list instead of a checkout
Customers add castles, slush, popcorn, gelato and more to "My Party", choose flavours and options, and see an estimated total. Their request goes to the owner by email and WhatsApp so she can check availability before anything is booked.
Their own back office
A private admin portal with its own login. From one place the team handles quote requests, keeps a client list, edits services, prices, packages and flavours, uploads photos, and updates the homepage announcement and Our Story page. Changes show on the live site straight away.
Google reviews that update themselves
New Google reviews appear on the site automatically, with the option to hide any they would rather not feature.
Built to be found
A page for every service with proper search data, and every old WordPress link redirected to its new page, so nothing they had built up on Google was lost.
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