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The Adero House
Bespoke menswear for weddings, traditional ceremonies and major events.
I imagined The Adero House as a small, Abuja-based bespoke menswear studio run by Deola Adero, a founder and lead designer working with two tailors.
And I gave the business a few rules that shaped the product:
Customers can bring their own fabric.
Prices on the website are starting prices because the final cost depends on the fabric, construction, embroidery and customization.
The first appointment is where the important decisions happen. Design, measurements, fabric, fit and finishing.
And most importantly, a date isn’t just a date.
If someone needs an Outfit in five days, it doesn’t matter that there’s an appointment slot available. The studio may not actually be able to make it.
That became the problem I wanted to solve.
So I built two clear ways into the business.
Place an Order is for customers who already know what they want.
They select one or multiple outfits, enter their event date, and run the Date Check. The system checks whether the requested date works with the selected outfit and Adero’s production schedule.
If it works, they enter their details, choose an available appointment, add their order information and pay the ₦50,000 deposit through Paystack.
Once Paystack verifies the payment, the inquiry becomes a confirmed booking.
Book a Consultation is for customers who aren’t ready to place an order yet.
They choose what they’re interested in, provide their event date and details, choose an appointment and pay the ₦15,000 consultation fee. If they proceed with an order within seven days, that fee becomes credit toward their ₦50,000 order deposit.
So the two flows reflect two different kinds of Adero customers instead of forcing everyone through the same booking form.
Then the automation takes over.
Once a booking is confirmed, Resend handles the transactional communication.
Customers receive their booking confirmation, appointment reminders and fitting updates. When an order is ready, they’re notified whether it’s being collected or delivered.
Customers can also reschedule within Adero’s rules, with availability checked again rather than creating another round of manual coordination.
And on Deola’s side, there’s the admin dashboard.
The booking becomes an order he can track through:
Consultation → Measurements → Production → Fittings → Ready → Collected/Delivered.
I also built Ask Adero, an AI chat assistant for the questions customers are likely to ask before booking, like pricing and production timelines.
The website handles the coordination.
Deola handles the craft.
And that was the idea behind the whole build:
take “Can I book?” and turn it into “You’re booked.”
Published site: https://theaderohouse.lovable.app/
admin’s dashboard: https://theaderohouse.lovable.app/owner
password: Lovable!@#
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