Website design for cafés and coffee shops
Most people open a café or coffee shop website to check three things fast: what's on the menu, whether you're open right now, and how to order ahead and skip the line. We design and build the site around those three. Nothing is due until you decide to launch, and for most cafés that means the Website launch, $499 once.
We usually recommend the Website launch: up to 5 pages, $499 once.
The menu as real text, hours that are always right, and order-ahead and beans right at the top.
Espresso drinks, tea, food, milk options and their upcharges on a real page that loads quickly on one bar of signal. Oat, soy and almond milk get named plainly (almond is a tree nut, and some guests need to know), and the pastry case carries the allergen notes you or your bakery give us. When the seasonal drink changes, it's a quick edit, and search engines can read every item.
A clear Order ahead button on the first screen and in a sticky bar on phones. It opens your own ordering page, so the ticket prints on the same tablet behind the bar as your walk-in orders, and the regular who orders at 7:40 every morning never has to look for it.
Weekday and weekend hours, early closes, holiday changes and when the kitchen stops making food, written as text on every page. Nobody should have to call to find out whether you're open at 3 p.m. on a Sunday, or whether breakfast sandwiches end at eleven.
The roast of the week with its origin, process and tasting notes, bag sizes and grind options, and a button to wherever you already sell beans or subscriptions. If you send coffee boxes and pastry trays to offices, or supply other cafés wholesale, a page says what you offer, the lead time and how to ask.
Photos of the space, the bar and the people behind it, with the story of the place and where your coffee comes from. Then the practical part, said plainly: Wi-Fi, outlets, laptop-free hours if you keep them, and whether calls are fine inside. Remote workers search for exactly this, and answering it online saves your baristas the same question at the counter.
Your name, address and phone written the same everywhere, page titles that name your neighborhood, and a home page light enough to load for someone deciding on the sidewalk between you and the chain across the street.
Sample sites for made-up businesses, designed to show what we do: open one on your phone and try it. On your site, booking and payment buttons open the tools you already use.
Most cafés fit on a handful of pages: home, the menu, beans with subscriptions and wholesale, your story, and a visit page with hours and Wi-Fi. That's the Website launch: up to 5 pages for $499, paid once when you launch.
Your order-ahead and point of sale keep running the counter, and the site's buttons open them, along with your loyalty program, gift cards, bean subscriptions and reviews. We take no commission on your orders, and if you switch providers we update the link.
It's hard to read on a phone, invisible to search, and wrong the day oat milk changes price. A text menu stays readable, searchable and easy to change.
If someone has to hunt for the ordering link, they'll walk in and wait in line, or go to the café whose button they found first. It belongs at the top of the page and within a thumb's reach on a phone.
Many people check your Google listing first and your website second. When the two say different things they don't know which to trust, and sooner or later someone arrives at a locked door with their laptop bag.
It's lovely, and it loads slowly for the person standing outside on a weak signal. A good still photo and a fast page do more during the morning rush.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have.
Screenshots for computer and phone and a private preview link (2 to 3 business days with priority, overnight with rush). Ask for changes in plain words until it's right.
Pay the fixed launch fee only when you're happy. With the care plan, we put the site live on your domain and look after it; without it, we hand you the files to host yourself.
One fee, paid once when you launch, from $499. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote.
A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well.
$499
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteRecommended
A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say.
$999
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Website, plus:
A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right.
$2,000
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Pro, plus:
Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features.
Let's talk
a fixed quote from our team
Get a custom quoteEverything in Signature, plus:
See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start.
No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first.
Once it's paid for, the site and its files are yours, and a domain we register is in your name. Let us host it, or take it anywhere.
Most cafés choose the Website launch: $499 once for up to 5 pages, and nothing at all until you've seen the free draft with your own menu on it and want to go live. The launch fee doesn't cover hosting: that's the optional care plan, $49 a month or $490 a year, which also registers and renews your domain. Without a care plan we don't host the site; you get its files to put wherever you like. A roaster with wholesale, subscriptions and several locations may suit the Pro launch. All our prices are public.
Yes, through the ordering system you already use. We put an Order ahead button where people look for it and link it to your Square, Toast, Clover or other ordering page, so orders reach the bar exactly as they do now.
In most cases, yes. Instagram shows the mood, but it's slow at answering hours, menu and directions, and plenty of people search before they visit without ever opening the app. Keep posting the latte art there; the website is where someone new finds out you're open, what a cortado costs and where to park.
Yes, by linking the shop or subscription service you already use, such as a Shopify shop or your point of sale's online ordering. We design the beans page, the roast notes and the buttons; payments stay with the provider you chose.
Send us the change in plain words and we make it. The care plan includes 4 small edits a month, which covers most seasonal menu swaps and holiday hours.
The basics are built in: page titles that say coffee shop and name your neighborhood, your address and hours written so search engines can read them, and pages that load quickly on phones. Nobody can promise a place in the results, and local searches also lean on your Google listing; the Google Business Profile add-on keeps that current, and SEO & AEO care handles the ongoing search work.
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Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email hello@ciderwebsites.com.
You pay only when you launch.
