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Four local businesses, four sites we built. Every one is live on the business’s own domain right now, so you can open it and check. Under each one is what it actually does, and nothing it does not.
Lit on Fire Coins
A coin dealer selling US and world coins, bullion and paper money, with live auction shows on Whatnot.
Visit litonfirecoins.com (opens in a new tab)Read the case study: Lit on Fire Coins
What the site does
- An online shop with checkout. Every piece has its own page, and customers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay right on the site.
- Sign in with Apple or Google. Customers sign in to see their orders, tracking and messages without making up a password.
- Live show alerts. Customers can turn on a notification that arrives when the next live show on Whatnot starts.
- Installs on a phone. A “Get the app” page walks customers through adding the store to their home screen, where it opens like an app.
- An owner dashboard. The shop owner signs in on a separate page to run the store.
Coffee Baby
A Dominican coffee cart in Providence, Rhode Island, selling at pop-ups and catering private events.
Visit coffeebabypvd.com (opens in a new tab)Read the case study: Coffee Baby
What the site does
- Order ahead and pay on your phone. Customers order from the menu, pay on the site, and watch a live order board for their name.
- Event quotes with an online deposit. Customers request a catering quote in three steps, then pay a deposit online to lock in the date.
- Rewards. Customers collect stamps toward a free drink.
- Sign in with Apple, a passkey or an email code. Sign in with Apple shows on iPhone, and a passkey lets customers sign in with Face ID or their phone’s own lock. Ordering as a guest works too.
- Installs on a phone. A “Get the app” page shows customers how to add it to their home screen on iPhone and Android.
- An owner dashboard. The owner signs in on a separate page to manage orders, the menu and rewards.
Fanta African Hair Braiding
A hair braiding salon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Family. This is the owner’s mother-in-law’s salon, and it is where the booking and deposit system was first built and first used for real.
Visit fantaafricanhair.com (opens in a new tab)Read the case study: Fanta African Hair Braiding
What the site does
- Online booking with a deposit. Customers pick a style, a day and a time, then pay a $50 deposit online to hold the chair.
- Sign in with Apple or Google. Customers can also sign in with an email and password.
- Customer accounts and booking tracking. Signed-in customers see their appointments. Guests can find a booking with the code from their confirmation email.
- Loyalty points. Every visit earns points toward money off and free add-ons.
- A full service menu. Every style is listed with its starting price and how long it takes, and each one links straight to booking.
The Petal & Threads
A sewing studio in Connecticut making handmade bags, gifts and custom pieces.
Visit thepetalandthreads.com (opens in a new tab)Read the case study: The Petal & Threads
What the site does
- An online shop with a cart. Products are sorted into collections, and checkout takes card payments straight into the studio’s own payment account.
- Custom order requests. Customers describe what they want made and can attach reference photos.
- Customer accounts. Customers create an account to follow their orders and custom requests.
- Installs on a phone, with an offline page. It can be added to a home screen, and it shows its own page instead of an error when the signal drops.
ProCraft VA
A handyman and home repair business in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with a page for every service and free estimate requests.
Built as an app, too
A site can also work like an app on a customer’s phone. Here is what that looks like on the sites above, and which ones do it today.
Add it to the home screen
Customers save the site to their phone and it opens full screen, like an app, with no app store and nothing to download.
Live on Lit on Fire Coins, Coffee Baby and The Petal & Threads
Quick to open again
The site keeps its files on the phone, so it does not fetch everything again on every visit, and a dropped signal shows a proper page instead of an error.
Live on Lit on Fire Coins, Coffee Baby and The Petal & Threads
Notifications
Customers who turn them on get an alert on their phone. On Lit on Fire Coins it arrives when a live show starts.
Live on Lit on Fire Coins
Sign in with Apple or Google
Customers use the account they already have instead of a new password.
Live on Lit on Fire Coins and Fanta African Hair Braiding
Sign in with Face ID
A passkey signs customers in with the lock on their own phone. Sign in with Apple shows alongside it on iPhone.
Live on Coffee Baby
What comes with every site
On all four sites today
- Your own domain, on a secure connection. Every site answers on the business’s own name, over HTTPS.
- Built for phones. Each one has its own phone layout, not a shrunk-down desktop page.
- Customers pay on the site. A checkout, an order, or a deposit that holds a booking, depending on the business.
- Customer accounts. Customers can sign in to see their orders, bookings or rewards.
- A private owner area. The business runs its side of the site from pages behind a sign-in.
- Set up to be found. Each site describes the business to search engines in structured data and publishes a map of its pages for them.
- A home screen icon. Each site carries its own icon for when a customer saves it to their phone.
In every agreement
- A custom site. Designed for your business, not picked off a shelf.
- Online booking with deposits, or a shop with orders. Whichever one you actually need.
- Hosting. We pay for it.
- Your domain. We register it and we pay for it every year. Read the catch section on this one, because we hold it.
- Unlimited changes. New prices, new photos, a new service, a whole new page. You ask, it gets done, and it does not cost extra.
- A support system. Raise a ticket any time. If the site is down or payments are broken we start on it within hours. Everything else we start on within days.
- Marketing creative when you want it. Posts, graphics, ads. We make them. You pay the ad spend to Facebook or Google, we never mark that up.
- Email forwarding on your domain. hello@yourbusiness.com lands in the inbox you already use. Mailboxes are not included.
Two things sit outside it. Ad spend is yours, because it is your money going to the ad platform. And a genuinely big custom build, like a native phone app or an unusual integration with software you already run, is quoted as its own project starting at $500. Everything short of that is a change, and changes are unlimited.
Sign in with Apple or Google, notifications, installing on a phone, rewards and event deposits are on some of these sites and not others, because each business asked for what it needed. Tell us which ones you want and they go into your written quote.
Want one like these?
Tell us about your business and what you want the site to do. You get a written quote before you sign anything.