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E-commerce·Maison Éclat·6 July 2026
Maison Éclat: Turning an Import Business Into a Store That Prices Itself Right, Every Day
Maison Éclat buys goods abroad in euros and sells them in Nigeria in naira, which means prices have to keep up with a currency that moves every day. We built them an online store plus a private back office that adjusts prices automatically, takes payments safely, and watches competitor prices — so the team spends less time on spreadsheets and more time running the business
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01The problem
Maison Éclat buys its products from suppliers overseas, paying in euros, then sells them to customers in Nigeria who pay in naira. That means the "right" price for anything can change just because the exchange rate moved overnight — and on top of that, other sellers are constantly changing their own prices too. Trying to keep up with both by hand, in a spreadsheet, was slow, easy to get wrong, and left no real room to grow. What the business actually needed wasn't just a website to sell from — it was a proper system behind the scenes to track suppliers, manage stock, and make sure every price was accurate without someone doing math all day.
02The solution
We built Maison Éclat an online store where customers can browse, add to cart, check out, and track their delivery — and a separate, private dashboard where the team runs the business day to day: managing products, suppliers, incoming shipments, and pricing.
The centerpiece is a pricing tool that watches the exchange rate and automatically works out what a fair, profitable price should be. Instead of quietly changing prices on its own, it suggests the update and waits for a person to approve it — so nothing goes live by accident. And once a customer has paid for something, that price is locked in for their order forever, even if the price changes for everyone else the next day.
Payments run through Paystack, and we made sure a payment only ever gets marked as "successful" once, no matter whether it's confirmed instantly, after a redirect back to the site, or through a pay-on-delivery order — so nothing falls through the cracks. We also built a tool that automatically checks what similar products are selling for on other stores, and every week an AI puts together a short summary of what's changed, so the team doesn't have to go check competitor websites themselves. Order updates and delivery confirmations go out over WhatsApp and SMS, and the blog runs on Hygraph so the content side is completely separate from the store itself.
Results
- Checking what competitors charge went from an occasional manual chore to a report that lands automatically every week
- Price updates that used to mean someone sitting down with a spreadsheet now happen automatically — the system suggests the new price, a person just approves it
- Customers who already paid never get caught out by a price change after the fact, no matter what happens to the exchange rate the next day
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