Sites and Servers

A cafe website people check before they leave the house.

Are you open? What's on the menu? Can the dog come? A good cafe site answers all three in the first screen on a phone, then gets out of the way. Most cafes fit Starter: five pages, $1,490 inc GST, paid once.

Starter, for most cafes

Five pages covers it: home, menu, functions, about and contact with the map and hours. $1,490 inc GST, then $175 per extra page, say for separate breakfast and lunch menus or a second location.

Price a Starter site

Shop, if you sell online

Five pages plus a shop with cart, checkout, shipping and 20 products loaded. Beans by the kilo, gift cards, hampers. $2,490 inc GST, running on Standard hosting at $39 a month.

Price a Shop site

Cafe website questions

We already have Instagram. Why a website?

Instagram's great for showing off the food. It's hopeless for finding your hours, the current menu or whether you take bookings. The website holds the stuff that doesn't change daily and links to Instagram for the rest.

How much does a cafe website cost?

$1,490 inc GST for a five-page Starter site. Add a shop for beans or gift cards and it's the Shop package at $2,490. Hosting starts at $25 a month. The configurator tallies it all before you commit.

Can I change the menu myself?

Yes. Change a price, add a special, mark a dish vegan, all from your login. The handover walkthrough shows how. Rather email it through? That's a small edit at $100 an hour inc GST.

Will the cafe show up on Google Maps?

The map listing comes from your Google business listing, which you manage with Google, not from the website. What the site does is back it up with the same name, address, hours and menu, marked up so search engines can read them. Map position depends on distance, reviews and relevance. Nobody can promise you a spot.

Can people order food through the website?

The site links to whatever ordering you already use. A full takeaway ordering system built into the site is a bigger job, which we'd quote separately.

How soon can I see it?

Within 7 days of paying, on a private address you can pull up on your phone behind the counter. Menu and the other pages follow on the same address.

Do you take the photos?

No, photography isn't in a package. We work with the photos you've got and point you to a local food photographer if you need more. What we won't do is fill your site with stock photos of someone else's coffee.

Menu, hours, map. The coffee does the rest.

Price up a five-page cafe site in about a minute.