Rekindled

Soy candles poured into rescued china and 70s pottery, sold one piece at a time from a small studio in Leeds.

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Measured, not claimed

The brief

Every Rekindl candle is a one-off: a rescued vessel, filled once, never repeated. A standard shop template treats products as stock with a quantity. Here a piece that sells has to vanish from the basket of everyone else at that moment, and still stay on the site as a record of what was made. The old contact form had also been losing every enquiry.

The build

A lamp-lit storefront on the shared studio toolkit: warm brown-black, candle ivory and one amber accent. Every card says one of one, or sold. A stock lock stops the same piece selling twice when two people check out together. Stripe and PayPal take the payment. A markets page lists the next stall dates with event markup for Google. In the admin, the owner photographs a piece anywhere, picks a style, and the image studio replaces the background and light while leaving the candle untouched.

The result

A shop that looks like the candles do, sells each piece exactly once, and tells people which market to find the stall at this week. Enquiries now arrive in an inbox instead of disappearing.

What we built

One of one and sold marks on every piece
Stock lock so a piece cannot sell twice
Stripe and PayPal checkout
Markets page with event markup
AI image studio for product photos
Enquiries stored and emailed

Laravel 13 Livewire 4 Filament 5 MySQL 8 Stripe PayPal

What every site gets

Traffic dashboard. Visitors and pages, without Google Analytics or a cookie banner.
Enquiries inbox. Every form message stored and emailed, spam throttled.
Reviews on the site. Google or Trustpilot reviews synced nightly and marked up for search.
Search health. Titles, descriptions, sitemap and structured data audited on every deploy.
Checked every five minutes. Uptime and certificate monitoring with an alert to Luke, not to you.
Nightly backups. Database dumped before every deploy and every night, kept for 14 days.
Your own admin panel. Edit words, images, prices and pages yourself.
Care plan. Updates, fixes and small changes each month, from GBP 49.

99.91% uptime across 16 sites over the last 30 days, measured from outside the server by a machine at another company. How a site is run · Live status page ↗

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