Pricing
Published, because hiding it wastes both our time.
Most studios make you book a call to find out whether you can afford them. Here are the numbers. If they do not fit your budget you have saved an afternoon, and we would rather you knew now.
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Ordering audit
Free
Before anything is built or bought: what the delivery apps are actually costing you, and what direct ordering would save.
- Your current commission and fees, totalled
- What direct ordering would save you each month
- What switching would actually involve
- Written up and yours to keep, either way
No obligation, and no charge if you decide to do nothing.
What we build
Three answers to three different questions
These are not sizes of the same thing. Pick the one that matches the sentence you would use to describe your problem.
I need to exist and be found
A real website for a business that has a Facebook page, a half-finished draft, or nothing at all. Findable, current, and yours.
- Four to six pages, written with you
- Rendered to static HTML so search engines read it without running code
- Correct on a phone, because that is where people will open it
- Google Business and local search set up properly
- A contact form that actually reaches you
I need to take orders and get paid
Your own ordering system. Customers order and pay on your site, and you keep the margin the apps were taking.
- Your menu, your branding, your domain
- Card payments through Stripe, straight to your account
- An order screen your staff can actually use
- Confirmation emails to you and the customer
- Built for a phone, because that is where orders come from
- Found on Google under your own name
I need it built around how we work
Accounts, memberships, bookings, internal tools, or talking to the software you already run. Scoped and priced on its own.
- Scoped and quoted individually
- Customer accounts and sign-in
- Bookings, memberships or subscriptions
- Integration with your existing systems
- Same ownership terms: the result is yours
Most clients come to us for ordering. If you are not sure which of these you are, that is what the first conversation is for.
Fixed price, agreed in writing before anything starts. Half up front and half on launch - the deposit books your build week, which is a real thing to sell when the build genuinely takes a week. Two rounds of revisions on the agreed scope are included; anything beyond that is quoted separately, which is the honest version of how this works rather than a surprise on the invoice. All prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable taxes.
Hosting is included in the care plan, so there is no second bill and no surprise when you get busy. Your domain stays registered in your name and billed to you at cost, usually $20 to $40 a year.
Keeping it running
Care plan
One plan, priced to what it has to cover - $50 for a site, $100 once it is taking money. Like insurance, not like tiers.
For a Presence site
- Hosting included, no separate bill
- Security and dependency updates
- Daily backups, restore tested
- We fix it if it breaks
Changes are quoted separately rather than bundled - at this price a monthly hour would be labour billed below every other rate we charge.
Once it takes payments
- Everything the $50 plan covers
- One hour of changes each month
- Priority response on anything broken
- Payment and order pipeline monitored
A system that takes money and is nobody’s job to maintain will break, and the broken version carries our name.
The care plan starts with every build - it is part of the scope, not a separate sale. After launch it is month to month and you can cancel any time; there is no lock-in and never will be. The first 30 days are included in the build price as launch warranty, because charging you to fix our own launch bugs would be wrong.
Why it is one price
The ordering build is a product, not a project
It is $3,500 every time because it is the same build every time. That is only possible while it stays one thing, so here is exactly where the line sits - and anything on the right is quoted honestly rather than squeezed in and resented later.
In the fixed price
- Your full menu, with options and modifiers
- Pickup and delivery windows you control
- Card payments through Stripe, into your account
- An order screen for the kitchen or the counter
- Your branding, your domain, your photos
- Two rounds of revisions on the agreed scope
Quoted separately
- Customer accounts, loyalty or memberships
- More than one location or menu
- Talking to your POS, or importing years of records
- Table booking, events or ticketing
- Photography and menu copy we produce for you
None of this is off the table - it starts at $5,000 and gets its own scope and its own number. Keeping it out of the fixed price is what keeps the fixed price real.
How payment works
Half, then half
A written scope and a fixed price
Exactly what gets built, what does not, and what it costs. You approve it before any money changes hands. The scope is the contract - it is what makes the price fixed rather than optimistic.
Build, with something to look at every week
You get a live link from week one and it updates as we go. No month of silence followed by a reveal, which is how both sides discover a misunderstanding too late to fix cheaply.
Launch, and you are shown how to run it
We hand over the admin area and walk you through it on a call that gets recorded so your staff can watch it later. Domains and accounts are in your name, not ours.
Deposit due when the scope is signed, balance on launch. Interac e-transfer or card. The deposit books your build week, which is a real commitment on our side rather than a formality - and if we do not deliver what the scope describes, it comes back. That is what a written scope is for.
Fair questions
Including the awkward ones
Why not just use Squarespace or Wix?
If you are going to build it, do - they are good tools and we will tell you so on the first call rather than sell you something. The catch is finishing. We meet far more half-built drafts and three-year-old Facebook pages than we do finished Squarespace sites, and an abandoned site costs more trust than no site at all. Part of what you are paying for is that it gets done, and that it still works in a year. Past that, no builder will take a deposit, hold real availability rules, remember a returning customer, or talk to the software you already run.
Can AI not do this now?
AI builders have genuinely taken over the bottom of this market and we are not trying to compete there. What they do not produce is a payment webhook that verifies its signature, a permissions model that holds up, or a system that still makes sense when your business changes next year. We use AI tooling daily - it is a fast assistant and a poor engineer.
How much does it actually cost?
A Presence site is $1,500 fixed, plus $50 a month to keep it running. An online ordering build is $3,500 fixed, plus $100 a month once it is taking payments. Anything outside that starts at $5,000 and is quoted on its own. The audit that tells you whether any of it is worth doing is free. On comparisons, honestly: the hosted ordering platforms already operating in Winnipeg - iOrders, Clover, DoorDash Storefront, Square Online - run roughly $100 to $200 a month, so over three years the money is close to a wash and the real difference is that you own what we build. The American platform selling restaurants this same pitch charges $249 a month plus 5% of every order, or $499 flat, which is the number usually quoted at you; it is true, and it is not the local one.
How long does it take?
Live in two to three weeks. The build itself is about a week; the rest is calendar time waiting on your menu, your photos and your Stripe verification. We tell you at scoping exactly what we need from you and when, because that is the only part that actually decides the date.
What if I already have a website?
Common, and often the cheapest option is to keep it and build the functional piece alongside it. We will look at what you have before recommending a rebuild, because a rebuild is the expensive answer and it is not always the right one. If what you have is a draft you stopped working on, that is the usual case and a Presence build is what fixes it.
What happens if you disappear?
A fair question to ask anyone small, and the reason everything is in your name. Your code sits in a repository you own, on hosting you control, using Stripe and Supabase accounts registered to you. Any competent developer can pick it up. We document it so that they can.
Get the actual number for your project.
The scoping conversation is free and ends with a written price. No pressure to proceed, and the scope document is yours either way.