Hi OzBargainers,
Long time lurking and rarely post anything on the forum.
I noticed that small food businesses e.g. home cook, takeaway shops, foodtrucks… etc are struggling in promoting their business as there is no supports or tools available with low budget.
There are some digital menu providers like Menu&U (now acquired by MrYum), MrYum, HungryHungry, Abacus, Bopple. However, the fees are quite high with limited functions
So I decided to build a website where food business owners can create, design and complete a website with existing themes in an hour or so and it will come with
What you will get:
- Full website with Digital Menu App with payment function (supporting Apple, Google Pay, Cards, paypal and PayID)
- Full Marketing tools,
- Customer Manager
- Order and Delivery Manager
- Menu and Blog Manager
- Reporting Dashboard (partially working and WIP)
- Accept online Digital Menu, reservation, and web orders.
- Accept Online Order and Delivery.
- Customers can order in restaurant via QR Code Menu app.
My website
https://orderus.au/
Web demo:
- https://bakery.orderus.com.au/
- https://fooday.orderus.com.au/
Menu app - can only use on mobile phone
https://app.orderus.au/HomePage?merchantId=7af3b6d7-4b4f-4c1…
domain will be https://yourbusinessname.orderus.com.au
My goals are to support small food business for free as most of the business owners are family owned. my friend's parents business is doing tough at the moment and there is no other ways to expand or to have a better reach to new customers.
Some of you may ask, how does the business survive if I don't charge a fee. Yes i do on medium to large restaurants but not on small business.
please note, the website/platform is still an minimum viable product* so there will be bugs and limited functions. Also, there is pricing on the website but it's free to create and use for those who early join. Just send me a message via [email protected] and will put you on a free list.
** i am trying to provide my website under Store Domain and associate with but it says store not available in database hence i will leave it blank for now
welcome with all feedbacks
Henry
Looks like a good idea. You could market it as an alternative to Uber Eats, or in addition to. If you could let them use their own domain and have it appear as a normal website, maybe domain mapping or something, then that would set up small businesses good. But really how can you do it for free? If your business grows, how you gonna pay your workers do set this up and maintain it for small businesses who aren't paying you a cent?
I've actually seen similar ideas try to work in Australia and the only ones that succeed are the ones that have online ordering/table ordering through the site, and charge money.