The old way
Looking professional shouldn't cost a small shop this much.
You're running the counter, the books, and the bookings. Sounding professional shouldn't also mean juggling a stack of subscriptions and replying to customers from your own Gmail.
The cost case
One price, not five subscriptions.
A one-time license on your own Cloudflare account. The free tier covers a small shop's whole month of sending.
$249
one-time license
pays for itself in about 2 months
3,000
free sends/month
covered by Cloudflare's free tier
$9,000
saved over 5 years
versus a rented ~$150/mo stack
What you get
Everything a small shop needs. Nothing it doesn't.
An inbox that knows your shop
Teach it your hours, your menu, your booking rules once, and it answers from them — so when someone asks “are you open Sunday?” the reply already knows you close at 3. Not a generic auto-reply: it pulls from the things your shop repeats all day.
It drafts the everyday reply, you just say yes
Booking requests, quotes, and the same three questions all land in one inbox your whole team answers from your own domain — and an agent drafts the routine reply (“here's our price list”, “we've got openings Thursday”) and parks it for your one tap to send. Nothing goes out without you.
Stay close to your regulars
Keep your customer list in a database you own and send what a local shop sends: new hours, a seasonal menu, an event, a “we have openings this week” note. See who opened. A signup form for your website or the counter iPad grows the list; double opt-in keeps it clean.
Working out of the box, then smarter as you go. Point your domain and you've got a shared inbox, a mailing list, and reliable sending on day one — with an agent already drafting the routine reply. Teach it your hours, your menu, your booking rules whenever you like; nothing to wire up to start. Rather not touch the setup at all? We'll stand the whole thing up for you.
Questions
Is it right for a small shop?
- Do I need to be technical?
- There's a one-time setup to deploy it to your own Cloudflare account. You, or whoever runs your website, does that once. After that, day-to-day use is just the inbox.
- What does it actually cost to run?
- A one-time $249 license. Sending runs on Cloudflare's free tier, with 3,000 emails a month before you pay a cent, which covers most small shops entirely.
- Can the whole team use it?
- Yes. There's no per-seat fee, so the shared inbox is open to everyone on the team at no extra cost.
Why builders switch
What shop owners say.
“We look like a much bigger shop now — our own domain, a real mailing list, the whole team on one inbox — for one license instead of three monthly bills.”
Greg Bauer
Owner, Corner Roasters
Sample testimonials: illustrative, pending real customer quotes.
Make a small shop look big, for one price.
One inbox the whole team shares, a mailing list you own, and an agent that drafts the everyday reply before your coffee — set up for you, running on your own account, for one price instead of five.