Ayana is a South African womens fashion retailer selling online and through its own stores. One support number and one mailbox cover both sides of the business, but a query about a store account is handled somewhere else entirely.
Official contact channels
- Telephone: 087 350 8250
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact form at ayana.co.za/pages/contact
- Store finder at ayana.co.za/pages/find-a-store
- Help and FAQ, delivery and returns pages on ayana.co.za
The contact form is worth using over a plain email because it asks you to choose a subject, and the choice routes the message. The options Ayana lists are store experience, product related, online shopping query, find a size, in store, delivery query, return query, general query and other. Picking the closest one gets a specific answer rather than a general reply.
The number is an 087 line, which is non geographic and charged as a standard call from anywhere in the country. Ayana publishes no head office street address for customers, so written contact goes through the mailbox or the form.
What this organisation provides
The range is curated womens clothing, covering dresses, tops and shirts, t-shirts, track tops, knitwear, skirts, shorts, pants, jeans, jackets and coats, matching sets and a denim range. Ayana runs new arrivals and sale sections and applies free shipping on orders over R500, so the threshold is worth checking before splitting an order.
Address and operating information
Ayana trades both online and through physical stores, which are listed on the store finder rather than in a printed branch list. Stock differs between the online store and a given shop, so an item seen online is not guaranteed to be on the floor, and the find a size option on the contact form exists precisely because sizing questions are common on a curated range.
Support and escalation routes
For a purchase, a delivery or a return, start with Ayana support and quote the order number. If it is unresolved, a dispute about goods, a refund or a delivery goes to the Consumer Goods and Services Ombud on 0860 000 272, with the National Consumer Commission above it.
A store account is different and this is the part people get wrong. Ayana offers an apply for credit option, but the in store credit card programmes for retailers in this group are administered by Tenacity Financial Services, which lists Ayana among the brands whose card programmes it manages. That means a question about your balance, a statement, a debit order or arrears goes to the card administrator rather than to the shop, and an unresolved credit dispute goes to the National Credit Regulator on 0860 627 627 or the National Financial Ombud Scheme South Africa on 0860 800 900, not to the consumer goods ombud.
Sources
- Ayana contact page: ayana.co.za/pages/contact
- Ayana store finder: ayana.co.za/pages/find-a-store
- Tenacity Financial Services, listing the retailer card programmes it manages: tenacityinc.co.za
- Consumer Goods and Services Ombud: cgso.org.za