room707
A storefront for the Baghdad accessories label I run, which was living in Instagram DMs.
The constraint
I founded room707 and was taking every order through Instagram messages — no stock list, no order history, and sales quietly lost in a full inbox. Card payment is not practical here, so a conventional checkout was never the answer.
The hard part
The catalog had to be editable by someone standing in a shop rather than someone in an editor — I run the store as well as build it, and the version of me doing inventory does not want a deploy step. Checkout takes the order rather than a payment: cash on delivery, addressed by governorate, district and nearest landmark, because that is what a Baghdad courier actually navigates by — and every field on it is labelled in Arabic and English at once rather than behind a toggle, so nobody has to find a setting before they can read what is being asked of them.
