Restaurants, cafes, shops and studios win or lose customers on a phone screen. We build technology for retail and hospitality in Edmonton, the kind diners and shoppers actually use: direct online ordering, bookings that cut no-shows, stores that stay in step with the till, and a Google Business Profile that shows the right hours.
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Third-party ordering and delivery apps bring orders but keep the customer's details and take a large cut of every ticket. Regulars who would happily order direct cannot find a way to, so you pay commission on your own customers.
A Friday table for eight that never arrives, or a long colour appointment left empty, is revenue you cannot sell twice. Phone bookings carry no deposit, no reminder and no record of who did it last time.
Stock counts, prices and menu items live in the point-of-sale system, and someone retypes them into the website. Customers order things that sold out at noon, and the online price is still last season's.
Holiday hours, a new menu or a closed patio never reach Google Business Profile. Customers arrive at a locked door, leave a one-star review, and the listing slips below competitors who keep theirs current.
Pickup and delivery ordering on your own site, with menus or products you edit, modifiers and allergen notes, time slots that respect kitchen capacity, and card payments handled by the payment provider so card numbers never touch your server.
Platforms & e-commerce band: $9,000 – $28,000Customers book a table, chair or class online, get a reminder by text and pay a deposit where you require one. Staff calendars, service lengths and buffer times are set once, and repeat no-shows are flagged before the next booking.
Automation: from $2,500 per workflowStock and price sync between the till and the online store, web orders routed to the kitchen printer, gift card balances that work in store and online, and daily sales pulled into one report. We work with the system you already have.
Automation: from $2,500 per workflowHours, holiday closures, menus, photos, booking and order links kept current on Google Business Profile and Bing, with review replies and location pages on your own site that help you appear when someone nearby searches.
SEO: from $1,000/monthA fast site with the menu or range in text rather than a PDF, the address and hours where a phone user sees them first, and clear buttons to call, book, order or get directions.
Websites band: $4,500 – $12,000PIPA, Alberta's private-sector privacy law, covers the customer details you collect through bookings, orders and loyalty sign-ups: collect what you need and protect it. CASL covers promotional email and text messages, which need consent, sender identification and a working unsubscribe. If you sell packaged food, CFIA labelling and licensing rules may apply depending on what you sell and where it goes. This is general information, not legal advice.
In detail
Start with the path customers already take: they search, check the hours, look at the menu or products, then call, book, order or walk in. The technology that matters makes each of those steps work on a phone and keeps the details correct, before anything clever is added on top.
For a cafe that means a menu in plain text, correct hours on Google and a way to order ahead. For a salon it means online booking with reminders. For a shop it means stock online that matches the shelf. Each is a modest project, and each is easier once the one before it works. The usual starting point is a site from our website design service, built so staff can change a menu or a price in minutes.
Direct ordering on your own site keeps the customer relationship and the order history with you. Customers choose items, modifiers and a pickup or delivery time, the kitchen gets the ticket, and the payment provider handles the card. Delivery apps still help with reaching new customers, but regulars can be moved to direct ordering.
Retail has a different shape: products, variants, stock and shipping or in-store pickup. We build on Shopify or WooCommerce, depending on what you sell and who will run it day to day. Our work includes a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform for an Alberta specialty food producer. Anyone selling food online also needs room for ingredient, allergen and storage details on every product page. Online stores sit in our ecommerce website design band.
By making a booking a commitment rather than a note by the phone. Online booking that takes a card or deposit for large groups and long appointments, sends a reminder the day before and lets people cancel with one tap means cancellations arrive early enough to rebook the table or chair.
The rules stay yours: which bookings need a deposit, how late someone can cancel, and how many no-shows before a customer pays up front. Staff see the day on a tablet at the host stand or front desk. Booking reminders follow different CASL rules from promotions, so we keep the two message streams separate.
Your point-of-sale system is good at taking payment at the counter, and replacing it is rarely worth the disruption. The useful work sits around it: syncing stock and prices with the online store, routing web orders to the kitchen, and pulling daily sales and labour into a report you read before the next shift.
Where the till offers an export or an interface, we connect to it; where it does not, we say so before quoting. A daily sales dashboard in Power BI or Excel, built through our data analytics service from $4,500, shows sales by hour against staff on the floor. AI can draft product descriptions or sort supplier invoices, with a person approving anything customers see; that work falls under AI automation.
A restaurant or shop website costs $4,500 – $12,000 and takes four to six weeks. An online store or ordering platform costs $9,000 – $28,000 over six to ten weeks. Booking, sync and reminder workflows start from $2,500 each, and local search work starts from $1,000/month. Every project gets a fixed quote first.
| Option | Best for | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant or shop website | Menus, hours, calls and directions | $4,500 – $12,000, 4–6 weeks |
| Online store or direct ordering | Selling products or taking pickup and delivery orders | $9,000 – $28,000, 6–10 weeks |
| Booking, sync or reminder workflow | No-shows, stock mismatches and manual re-entry | From $2,500 per workflow, 2–4 weeks |
| Local search and Google Business Profile | Being found by people nearby | From $1,000/month |
Local search is a sensible first step for a restaurant, because the Google listing is often the first thing a customer sees; SEO services cover the profile, reviews and location pages. The full bands are on our pricing page.
Direct online ordering on your own site falls in our Platforms & e-commerce band, $9,000 – $28,000, over six to ten weeks. The range depends on menu complexity, modifiers, delivery zones, kitchen printing and whether orders connect to your point-of-sale system. A simple menu site that links to an existing ordering tool fits the $4,500 – $12,000 website band.
Rarely. A point-of-sale system that staff know and that takes payment reliably is worth keeping. We build around it: stock and price sync with the online store, web orders to the kitchen, gift cards that work in both places and daily reporting. If your system has no export or interface, we tell you before quoting.
Yes. We build on Shopify or WooCommerce, depending on what you sell, how many products you carry and who will run the store day to day. Shopify suits teams who want the platform to look after hosting and updates; WooCommerce suits businesses that want more control over a WordPress site. We explain the trade-off before you commit.
Yes, as part of local search work from $1,000/month. That covers hours and holiday closures, categories, menu and booking links, photos, review replies and the location pages on your site that support the listing. We also keep your Bing listing consistent. You stay the owner of the profile, and we work through manager access.
Yes. Promotional email and text messages to customers need consent, a clear identification of who sent them and a working unsubscribe. Receipts, order confirmations and booking reminders are treated differently from promotions. We set up sign-up forms that record when and how consent was given, and we keep promotional lists separate from transactional messages.
Payment processing fees, delivery app commissions, ad spend and software subscriptions such as Shopify plans are paid to those providers, not to us. We do not supply point-of-sale hardware or replace your till. Product photography and menu copywriting are quoted separately if you need them. Everything that is included is written into the fixed quote.
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Send a few lines about your restaurant, shop or studio and what customers struggle with. We reply within 24 hours and quote a fixed price for the first step.
