The County Cider Company
Cidery / restaurant / event venue · Waupoos, Eastern Ontario
You're running restaurant reservations, cider tastings, gazebo weddings and a cider-club subscription as four separate booking tools on top of Shopify - has that ever caused a double-booking on a summer Saturday?
Why they need it
County Cider is a genuinely multi-revenue-stream operation - bottle shop, tasting room, patio restaurant, gazebo weddings/private events, and a cider-club subscription - built up over 30+ years, but all of that currently runs as separate Shopify apps bolted onto one storefront rather than a single coordinated system. That's a real operational risk: a gazebo booked for a private wedding and a restaurant table reservation could easily collide on the same summer Saturday if the two booking tools don't talk to each other, and staff have no single dashboard showing the day's full picture across all four revenue streams. A unified booking and operations calendar spanning restaurant reservations, tasting bookings, gazebo/event bookings and cider-club subscription management would eliminate that double-booking risk, give ownership one real-time view of a peak summer day, and make it much easier to staff appropriately for what's booked.
Tech gaps
Four distinct booking types - restaurant covers, cider tastings, gazebo/private events, and club subscriptions - run as separate Shopify apps rather than one shared calendar, creating real risk of double-booking the gazebo against a private event during peak wedding season; no single staff dashboard shows the day's restaurant, tasting and event bookings together
Current tech
Shopify platform with several separately bolted-on apps: restaurant table reservations, cider tasting bookings, gazebo/private-event reservations, and a cider-club subscription app
Selling a web app
PlaybookA purpose-built application for one workflow that runs the business, quoting, ordering, booking, or reporting.
- Find the spreadsheet. There is always a spreadsheet everyone depends on.
- One workflow, done properly, in the first release.
- Hosted, backed up, and theirs.
Objections (1)
- “Can't we just use a template?”
- Templates are the reason the spreadsheet exists. If a template fit, you would already be on it.