The same questions, all day
Hours, parking, “do you have it in a medium?” Every call answered mid-sale is a customer at the counter kept waiting.
For retail & boutiques
The short answer
Loving Idea builds shops and boutiques a storefront website that ranks on Google, an AI assistant that answers “are you open?” and “do you carry this?” around the clock, and automations that bring customers back for the next drop.
Storefront sites — your story, hours, bestsellers, no online checkout — are one-time from $1,000. A full online store with payments and shipping is a bigger build: typically from $3,500, quoted in writing after we scope your catalogue.
Sound familiar?
Hours, parking, “do you have it in a medium?” Every call answered mid-sale is a customer at the counter kept waiting.
Your next customer searches “gift shop near me.” A feed doesn’t rank. A site does.
Your best customers forget you between seasons. Nothing tells them the new collection just landed.
The system
Sunday, 8:30 PM. The shop is dark; a customer is browsing.
One after-hours browser — watch her become Saturday’s customer.
Your story, categories, bestsellers and gift cards — findable on Google and readable on a phone.
HerAre you open Family Day? And do you still carry the stoneware mugs?
Your assistantOpen 11–4 on Family Day. The stoneware mugs are in the shop this week — want an email when new colours land?
HerYes please!
It answers from what you approved — and captures an email for the one thing it can’t answer.
Your customer list
Her inbox, Thursday
New arrivals — the winter stoneware just landed. First look before the weekend.
Saturday morning she’s at the counter, phone out: “You said you had these in stock.”
What it costs
A storefront that sells your story — no online checkout — starts at $1,000. A full online store is its own project: products, payments (built on Stripe — money settles straight to your account, card data never touches us), shipping and taxes push it well past a storefront. Typically from $3,500, scoped and quoted in writing before anything starts.
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FAQ
Yes — products, payments, shipping and taxes make it its own project: typically from $3,500 depending on your catalogue, quoted in writing after we scope it. Payments run on Stripe, so money settles straight to your account and card data never touches us. Most shops start with a storefront site and add the store once demand shows up.
Only if you want to. A storefront that sells your story and bestsellers needs a fraction of the upkeep of a live-stock catalogue — and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits your shop.
It keeps doing what it does well. The site catches the Google searches Instagram can’t, and gives your bio link somewhere that actually sells.
It answers from what you tell it. Live stock-level answers need your point-of-sale connected — some POS systems allow that and some don’t, so we check yours and say plainly what’s possible and what it costs before you decide.
15 minutes to scope · one fixed quote · replies within 1 business day