About the client
Dar Al Houssam for Publishing & Distribution is an Egyptian publisher of Mushafs (printed Qurans), educational books and children’s stories. It sells through its own branches, through bookshops on consignment and — since this project — directly online at alhoussam.com.
The challenge
A publisher’s operations are more complex than a typical shop:
- Stock lives in many places — branches, warehouses and bookshops holding consignment stock.
- Products are printed in runs, so availability depends on print schedules, sizes, fonts and bindings.
- Customers order from every governorate in Egypt and expect cash on delivery, promo codes and fast confirmation.
- The team needed one back office instead of spreadsheets for orders, stock transfers, treasury and expenses.
What we built
Arabic-first online store
- Right-to-left Arabic storefront with an English version.
- Catalogue organised by Mushafs, books, children’s titles and educational material, with sizes, fonts and reading variants.
- Search, offers page, bundles, wishlists and product reviews.
- Checkout with saved addresses, governorate and region-based delivery, promo codes and customer wallets.
- WhatsApp contact button and newsletter sign-up.
Back office for the whole business
- Orders from the website and branches in one place.
- Inventory per branch with stock transfers between locations.
- Consignments — stock placed with bookshops, with lines tracked per partner.
- Print runs linked to products so the team knows what is coming.
- Treasury, bonds, expenses and salaries for day-to-day finance.
- Roles and permissions per user and per branch, plus an activity log.
- Built-in SEO fields (titles, descriptions, slugs) for every product and page.
Digital marketing
Alongside the store, MYN managed the publisher’s Facebook presence and ad campaigns, sending social traffic straight to product pages. The page now has more than 13,000 followers.
The QR Mushaf
The store also sells Dar Al Houssam’s QR Mushaf — a printed Quran in which each page carries a QR code that opens audio recitation and tafsir. We built that platform too: see the Moshaf Al Houssam case study.
Technology
Laravel and MySQL on the server, a custom responsive storefront, role-based permissions and an activity log for auditing. MYN also hosts and maintains the platform.
