Brendon Rice
All work

Love in a Box · E-commerce and admin

A boutique store,with AI underneath.

A custom gift box store for a Brisbane boutique. Customers shop and pay on the site; behind it, the owner costs and builds every box, with AI helpers that fill in product details, supplier details and product copy for a person to check.

Client
Love in a Box
Role
Design and build
Type
Store and admin
Live
love-in-a-box.com.au ↗

The brief

Sell the boxes, and make them easier to put together.

Love in a Box puts together gift boxes and pamper packs. Each box holds several items from different suppliers, and before one can go on sale someone has to record every item's cost and weight, check it all fits, work out a price and write the product copy.

So the build is two things: a store that matches the brand, and an admin that takes the slow work out of adding products. The AI helpers fill in the forms; a person checks and saves everything they produce.

Pink plush toy and gift items on the Love in a Box heart pattern
Brand imagery

How it works

From a supplier link to a box on sale.

Paste a link. Check it. Save it.The admin does the reading and the maths. The owner makes the decisions.

  1. Adding products

    Paste a supplier's product link and the site reads the page and fills in the name, SKU, price and weight. A person reviews the result before saving it.

  2. Designing a pack

    Pick a box and add items. The designer totals the cost and shipping, applies the markup, and runs a fit check against the box's inside dimensions.

  3. Product pages

    Each box lists what's inside, with a name, short description and icon for every item, drafted by AI and edited field by field.

  4. Checkout

    Shipping and payment happen on the site with Stripe's embedded payment form and discount codes. Stripe's webhook marks the order paid and emails the customer and the owner.

  5. After the sale

    Customers see their orders and request returns from their account. The owner handles refunds and returns in the admin, and a Google product feed is built from the catalogue.

AI in the admin

Four helpers, built into the admin.

Product details from a link

Name, SKU, price, weight and bulk pricing pulled from a supplier's product page.

Supplier details from their site

Contact details, shipping policy, type and region pre-filled from the supplier's website.

Product descriptions

Copy drafted from a few starting details, then edited before it goes live.

What's inside

A name, short description and icon for every item in a box, editable field by field.

AI suggests, a person approves. Nothing the helpers produce is saved until someone has checked it.

Stack

What it runs on.