How to use your website.

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The two halves of your website

Your website is really two things sharing one address.

The public side. What everyone sees: home page, shop, gallery, your story, the Sold wall, the Commissions page. Anyone can look. Nobody needs an account to buy.

Your portal. A private area only you can reach. It's the same address with /admin on the end, and it asks for your password. This is where you add pieces, set prices, see orders, and turn a sale on.

It works on your phone. In fact it was designed for your phone first — one thumb, at a folding table, between customers.

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Your first ten minutes

1. Open your portal. Go to sweetpeasmeadow.com/admin. On your phone, tap the share button and Add to Home Screen so it sits next to your other apps.
2. Sign in with the starter password. Apurv gave it to you separately — it isn't written anywhere on the internet.
3. Choose your own password. The portal makes you do this the very first time, before it lets you in. Type the starter one, then your new one twice. Longer beats clever: purplefoxmeadow is a better password than Pw!7x. At least 10 characters. Write it somewhere safe.
4. Check the prices. Your shop already has 14 listings built from photos of your market table so it doesn't look empty. Most prices are guesses. Go to Pieces, tap each name, fix the price, tap Save. This is the single most important thing to do before you tell anyone about the site.

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A tour of the public side

The little sun-and-moon switch at the top lets visitors flip between light and dark. Both look right; it's their choice.

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Your portal, tab by tab

Across the top of the portal is a row of tabs. Swipe it sideways on a phone.

The little orange numbers on the tabs are how many things are waiting for you.

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Adding a piece

This is the thing you'll do most. From your phone at a market it takes about a minute.

1. Open the portal, tap Pieces, then Add a piece.
2. Tap Add photos. Your camera roll opens. Pick up to eight. They're shrunk down for you — don't worry about size. The first one is the one on the shop page; drag to reorder, or tap Move up.
3. Type a name and a price — just the number, like 48. That's enough to go live.
4. If you have a minute: a one-line description, a proper description, where it came from, materials, size, care.
5. How many you have — 1 for a one-of-a-kind piece. It drops by itself when someone buys. 0 means sold.
6. Pick a category, add tags (comma separated — shoppers can filter by these).
7. Tap Add this piece at the bottom. It's in the shop immediately.

The three switches at the bottom

Quick changes without opening the piece

On the Pieces list, under each name: Mark sold (sold at a market, in person), Relist (you made another), Hide/Show, Put on homepage. One tap each.

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Taking good photos

Your phone is plenty. Photos sell handmade work more than words do.

What works: daylight, near a window or outside in shade. A plain background — the cream tablecloth, a wooden board, a rock. Get close. For jewelry, one photo on the bust or a wrist so people see the size. Take the main photo upright (taller than wide) — it fits the shop's cards best.

What to avoid: flash, a busy table behind the piece, harsh noon sun, blurry shots. If a photo's blurry, retake it — the site can't fix it.

Photos are resized when you upload, so a 12 MB phone photo becomes about 200 KB. You never need to shrink them yourself.

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When someone buys something

What the customer does

1. They tap Add to cart, then Checkout.
2. They choose Ship it to me or Pick it up in West Yellowstone (if you've left pickup on), type their details, and can add a gift note.
3. They tap Place order. This reserves the piece — nobody else can buy it now.
4. They see PayPal and Venmo buttons with the exact amount filled in, and your order number to put in the note.
5. They get a private link to their order page, where they can watch it go from Awaiting payment to Shipped as you update it.

What happens on your side

The order appears in Orders straight away, marked Awaiting payment, and the Overview shows "1 awaiting payment". The piece's stock has already dropped.

What you do

1. Check the money arrived in PayPal or Venmo. They were asked to put the order number (like SPM-20260914-4821) in the note.
2. Open the order, tap Paid in the Status box.
3. Tap Being made if there's making to do. The customer sees this on their order page — a quiet "I'm on it".
4. Post it. Type the carrier (USPS) and tracking number, tap Save & mark shipped. That sets Shipped for you. For a pickup order there's no tracking box — just tap Ready for pickup.
5. Tap Completed when it's delivered. Optional; keeps the list tidy.

What the statuses mean

Nothing bad happens if you skip statuses or go out of order. They're for you and the customer, not the website.

Handy things on an order

Email them opens your email app with their address and order number filled in. Copy their order link gives you the same private page they have, to paste into a message. Print packing slip prints the items and address. Gift note — if they wrote one it's shown in big type: write it on a card and leave the price off. Private note is only ever seen by you ("paid by Venmo, no reference", "wants it by the 14th").

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Getting paid

Your website doesn't handle money. It sends people to your PayPal (paypal.me/sweetpeajewelry) and Venmo (@EmiSue) with the amount already filled in. No card numbers ever touch the site, no fees to anyone new, nothing to set up.

Once a day: glance at PayPal and Venmo, then mark the matching orders Paid. That's the only manual step in the whole thing.

A payment with no order number? Match it by amount and name — both are on the order. Mark it Paid and leave yourself a private note.

Someone says they can't pay? Some computers open the Venmo profile instead of a payment screen. The site already tells them to search for @EmiSue. If they still struggle, tap Email them and sort it out directly. Their piece stays reserved.

Changed handles? Settings → Payment handles. Takes ten seconds and applies to every new order.

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Running a sale, and discount codes

The sale switch

Sales tab → tick Sale is ON → set the percent and a name ("Market day sale") → Save. Every price in the shop now shows the reduced amount with the original crossed out, and a banner along the top says so. Untick to end it. Nothing else to do.

Discount codes

A code is a word a customer types at checkout — FALL10 for 10% off. Share one in your Facebook group or on a card at your table. You can give a code an expiry date and a maximum number of uses. Turn it off any time.

A code doesn't stack on top of a sale — whichever is bigger wins, and the site explains that to the customer.

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Commission requests

The Commissions page on your site (and the "Ask for one like it" button on every sold piece) sends you a request with the person's name, email, budget, what they have in mind, and a photo if they added one. They land in your Requests tab with an orange New.

1. Read it. Tap Reply by email — your email app opens with their address filled in. The request is marked Replied for you.
2. When you've agreed, set it to Taking it on. Or Not this time.
3. Use the note box for what you quoted and when it's due. Only you see it.
4. Done when it's delivered.

The Commissions page tells people how it works on your side: you write back within a day or two with a price, half up front, the rest when they've seen a photo of the finished piece. Change that arrangement any time by telling Apurv.

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Messages and the list

Everything from the Contact form lands in Messages. Unread ones have a purple edge. Tap Reply to answer from your own email. Tap a message to mark it read.

The "leave your email" box in the footer of the site also lands here, titled Join the list. There's no automatic newsletter — when you have new work, write to those people yourself, or post in the Facebook group.

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Kind words

When a customer sends you something lovely, ask if you can quote them, then paste it into Kind words with their first name and town. It shows on the home page under "From people who took one home". You can tie it to a piece. Customers can't post reviews themselves — only you add these — so nobody can be unkind on your website.

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Settings

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Sharing a piece on Facebook

Open the piece on your site (Pieces → View, or just find it in the shop) and tap Share on Facebook. On a phone your normal share sheet opens, so you can share to the group, Messenger, or a text. The link previews properly — the photo, the name and the price show up in the post, and "(sold)" is added to the title once it's gone.

Copy link puts the address on your clipboard for pasting anywhere.

This works for pieces you added five minutes ago, too.

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Everyday jobs, step by step

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When something looks wrong

I changed something and the site still shows the old thing. Pull down to refresh, or wait 30 seconds — the shop is allowed to be half a minute behind so it stays fast.

A photo won't upload. It's probably not a photo (a screenshot of a PDF, say) or it's enormous. Try a different one. JPG, PNG and the photos your phone takes all work.

The portal says "Please sign in" out of the blue. Sign-ins last two weeks. Just sign in again.

Two people say they bought the same piece. They can't have. The moment one order is placed, the piece is locked; the second person is told it sold seconds before and nothing is charged. Whichever order you see in the portal is the real one.

Anything else. Message Apurv with a screenshot. Nothing you do in the portal can break the public site.

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Things you can't change yourself (and what they'd need)

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Words you might not know

Portal / dashboard

Your private back room at /admin.

Listing / piece

One thing for sale in your shop.

Stock

How many of a piece you have. 1 for one-of-a-kind. 0 means sold.

Featured

A piece you've chosen to show on the home page.

Hidden

Saved in the portal but not shown to shoppers.

Tag

A word attached to a piece (bear, bracelet) that shoppers can filter by.

Order number

The code on every order, like SPM-20260914-4821. The middle part is the date.

Tracking number

The code the post office gives you when you ship something.

Discount code

A word customers type at checkout for money off.

CSV

A spreadsheet file. Opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

Domain

Your own web address, like sweetpeasmeadowstudio.com. Optional.