The same questions, all day
The counter keeps waiting.
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
A shop that keeps selling after the doors lock.
The short answer
Loving Idea builds shops a storefront site that ranks on Google and an AI assistant that answers after close.
One-time: storefront from $1,000; store from $3,500.
The three ways shops lose customers they never meet
Instagram-only means Google-invisible
She finds another shop.
Your next customer searches “gift shop near me.” A feed doesn’t rank. A site does.
Visits don’t repeat on their own
Your best customers forget you between seasons. Nothing tells them the new collection just landed.
The system
Watch one call book itself.
Without · after close
- Unanswered · 8:32
- Unanswered · 8:47
- Unanswered · 9:10
0 kept · 3 walked
With · same night
- Answered · 8:32
- Answered · 8:47
- Answered · 9:10
3 kept · 0 walked
In one evening after close: without an assistant, three shoppers get no answer and go elsewhere. With one, all three get an answer and none walk away.
One after-hours browser — watch her become Saturday’s customer.
She’s at the counter SaturdaySat 10:05 AM
gift shop near me
Paper Birch GoodsVisit
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
New subscriberAsked about stoneware mugs · wants restock news
Her inbox, Thursday
New arrivals — the winter stoneware just landed. First look before the weekend.
- Website· one-time buildThe storefront works nights
- AI Assistant· one-time buildQuestions get answers
- Automation· one-time, per workflowThey come back
Saturday morning: she’s at the counter.
Storefront $1,000–$2,500. Online store from $3,500.
The storefront has no online checkout. A full store is its own project, quoted in writing before anything starts.
See all published pricingWhat moves the price
- Storefront or full store — the cart drives cost
- How much inventory the site reflects
- Automations — each quoted fixed, from $500
Questions retail & boutiques actually ask.
Can you build a full online store?Typically from $3,500.
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.
Do I have to keep inventory updated online?Only if you want to.
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.
What happens to my Instagram?It keeps doing what it does well.
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.
Can the assistant check stock?It answers from what you tell it.
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.
Tell us what you run.
One conversation is enough to scope it.
15 minutes to scope · one fixed quote · replies within 1 business day