Tres Finds: credit card, debit card and Afterpay checkout, and the admin off their plate.

The problem

Customers claimed items during Live, then paid by bank transfer through DMs. That meant chasing payments, and every drop ended with hours of matching orders to the shipping invoice and sending tracking numbers by hand.

Some buyers also wanted to pay by credit or debit card, or split their payment, and bank transfer was the only option.

What I built

• A WooCommerce shop with price-code products, so customers check out for the exact code they claimed on Live. The team can add new codes themselves.
• Afterpay, credit card and debit card checkout, with bank transfer kept for orders taken outside the website.

• Claude workflows for the post-drop admin: matching the Australia Post invoice to the right orders, marking them complete and sending each customer their tracking number.

The first week

The new website launched on 9 October 2026 and passed A$10,000 in website sales in its first 7 days. By day eight, across four TikTok lives, it had taken 96 orders for 337 items. That’s about 24 orders per live, with customers buying three to four items per order on average. Orders taken outside the website by bank transfer come on top.

On the admin side, the shop’s orders were checked against two Australia Post invoices automatically. Every matched order got its tracking: 36 orders were completed or given their missing tracking in one go, and 33 customers got it by email without anyone typing a number.

Parcels with no website order were set aside for Angel and co instead of being guessed at, which makes it easy to spot parcels for orders taken outside the website.

The results

The first week was a strong start. The real test was whether it would last, so we compared the two full weeks before buyers could pay on the website with the first three full weeks after.

What the chart shows: before the website, live sales ran at about A$9,850 a week (A$9,930 and A$9,775). The switch week, when buyers started paying on the website from Friday 9 October, came in at A$12,665. The three full weeks after made A$18,459, A$14,330 and A$15,480, about A$16,090 a week. Every week after the switch beat both weeks before it.

Most of the growth came from bigger lives, not just more of them. Each live drew 28% more buyers, each buyer took home 13% more items at about the same prices, and each hour on Live sold 21% more.

Payment got faster too. Bank transfers used to take one to two days to come in, Angel estimates. On the website, half of buyers have paid within 10 hours of the live ending.

How buyers pay now

Afterpay quickly became the most popular way to pay on the website, at 43% of website payments from 4 October to 3 November. Afterpay baskets were also about a quarter bigger than credit and debit card baskets.

What the chart shows: of 313 website payments, 43% were Afterpay, 27% Link (saved credit or debit card details), 23% credit or debit card and 6% Apple Pay. Apple Pay was switched off in mid-October so the checkout could ask every buyer for their TikTok username. Google Pay was under 1%.

Not every buyer moved over. About a third of live sales are still paid by bank transfer, outside the website, so bank transfer stays available for orders taken in DMs. Buyers who prefer it keep paying the way they’re used to, and the website handles the rest.

What’s next

Payment isn’t the slow part any more. 84% of website buyers pay within a day of the live, but very few pay in the first hour, because they can’t check out until their tally arrives in their DMs. The first big wave of payments comes one to three hours after a live ends, as the tallies go out.

So the next way to get paid faster is to send tallies faster.