Built by DABA · In-house product
HOME
&
CARE From service business to digital platform.
Home & Care by Manuela is a property-care service on the Costa Blanca, and a digital product DABA designed and built itself: a public website in three languages, and a customer portal behind it. It is not a client project.
- What it is
- A property-care service with its own website and customer portal
- DABA’s role
- Digital design and full build
- Languages
- Dutch, English and Spanish
- Website
- homecarebymanuela.eu
The brand
A local service with its own character.
Home & Care by Manuela looks after holiday homes on the Costa Blanca, and the people who own them. The service is personal, so the digital side had to be too: warm, calm and trustworthy, never a generic template.
DABA’s job was to carry that character through every screen: the website, the sign-in, the portal. One identity, applied the same way everywhere, so the whole thing feels like one business.
The website
A public site for homeowners abroad.
Many of the people who need a service like this live in another country for most of the year. The public website is where they first meet the business, so it explains what Home & Care does, how it works and who is behind it, and makes getting in touch easy.
It includes the pages a service business needs — services, how it works, about and contact — and its legal pages, in a design that stays light.
Three languages
Dutch, English and Spanish, built in.
Owners, visitors and neighbours on the Costa Blanca do not share one language. The site is built in Dutch, English and Spanish from the ground up: one structure, with the content translated for each language. It is part of how the site works, not a translation widget on top.
The portal
A home for the customer behind the website.
Customers create their own account.
A customer registers and signs in. The website grows from a brochure into a place customers can come back to.
A guided first step.
New customers are led through onboarding the first time they sign in, so the business starts with the details it needs.
A profile the customer keeps up to date.
Customers have their own profile, so the business works from details the customer maintains.
Everyone lands in the right place.
Sign-in is role-aware. Owners and admins, staff and customers are each sent to the environment meant for them.
Illustration · sample data only
The foundation
Built so the business can grow into it.
Under the website sits a proper foundation: authentication and a database, with access controlled by row-level security, so people only see what is theirs. Brand, contact details and content are kept in one place instead of scattered through the code, which keeps the whole product consistent as it changes.
Performance was part of the build. The application loads its sections on demand, so the public pages stay light for visitors who never open the portal.
The thinking
Not only a brochure website.
A brochure tells people what a business does. A digital base lets the business actually work online: customers sign in, introduce themselves and keep their own details, and the business has its own side to manage it. Home & Care started as a service and gained a platform; that is the step this case is about.
What exists today
What the product does.
Only what is built and working. Nothing on this list is a promise.
- Website
- A public website with services, how it works, about and contact pages, and legal pages.
- Languages
- Dutch, English and Spanish as part of the structure.
- Customer portal
- Account creation, sign-in, onboarding and a customer profile.
- Sign-in
- Role-aware redirects: owners and admins, staff and customers each reach their own environment.
- Admin side
- An environment for the business to handle its side of the platform.
- Foundation
- Authentication and database with row-level security, central brand and configuration, and sections loaded on demand.
Under the hood
Technology, kept in its place.
What the product is built on. It matters less than what the product does.
- React
- Vite
- React Router
- Supabase: database, authentication and row-level security
- Dutch, English and Spanish content
About this case
Home & Care by Manuela is an in-house DABA product, not client work. The interface on this page is an illustration made for this case: it is not a screenshot and shows no real customer data. The product keeps growing; this page describes only what exists today.
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