Ice cream and dessert shops
An ice cream shop website that sells the new flavor before it reaches the case
Your ice cream shop website takes pre-orders for a drop, party bookings, and gift cards. Start with a logo and a menu photo, and link Square, Clover, or Toast if you use one.
The flavors change faster than the sign
A scoop shop rotates flavors every week, sells in bursts when the weather turns, and books birthdays by text.
- A flavor sells out before the people who wanted it arrive.
- Saturday's heat fills the line, and Tuesday's rain empties it.
- Two birthday parties get promised the same room.
- Gift cards are a paper pad by the register.
- Today's flavors live on a chalkboard and nowhere else.
Drops, parties, and gift cards
The things that fill a scoop shop on a slow day, in one place.
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Today's flavors, typed once
Enter the flavor once and it shows on your site, your Google listing, and your social accounts, then leaves the site and Google when it ends. A social post stays up once published, so each post names its day.
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Pre-orders for a flavor drop
Run a limited pre-order menu with a cap on each item, and see units sold per drop. A drop runs at one location, at menu price, and refunds for a cancelled drop are yours to send.
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Party room bookings
A guest asks for a date, you send a quote, and they accept on a link and pay the deposit. A confirmed party holds the room, and a deposit runs on Appetier Pay.
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Gift cards that sell all year
Guests buy gift cards online, and the console shows what you owe on them. Only an owner, admin, or manager issues a card by hand.
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Rewards for the regulars
Guests join your rewards program when they pay online, and a guest who stops coming gets an invitation back.
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A cart at the park
A cart or truck opens a stop at an address for a set window. Guests order pickup there, inside the window only.
Ready before the next heat wave
No hardware, and no menu retyping.
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Send a logo and a photo of the flavor board
Appetier reads the menu from the photo and takes your colors from the logo. You review the draft and apply it.
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Set your drops, your room, and your cards
Cap a drop, list the party room, and turn on gift cards. Take cards on Appetier Pay, or keep the processor you already use.
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Save a card and publish
Publishing needs one priced item, a location ready to sell, and a saved card. The card is a check, and saving it moves no money.
What a scoop shop pays
One fee on direct orders, and the cold months cost nothing extra.
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Nothing until the orders come in
Growth takes no commission. It is a flat monthly fee set by direct sales, never above $199, and a month under $500 costs nothing.
See pricing04
Drops and specials, announced
Reach guests who opted in with texts and emails the day a flavor lands.
See restaurant marketingYour flavors, on their own ordering page
If your shop has a website, the test drive builds your ordering page from it. Free. Private. No call. An email at your shop's domain needs no card. Any other address saves a card first, and saving costs nothing. Without a site, start free with a logo and a photo of your menu.
Alongside the register you already scoop on
Guests pay on Appetier Pay, and standard payouts to your bank are free. Any PCI compliant processor you already use works too. A party deposit runs only on Appetier Pay. If you ring up on Square, Clover, or Toast, connect it and your menu stays matched.
Ice cream and dessert shop FAQs
What scoop shop owners ask before they sell online.
What does an ice cream shop pay for online ordering?
How do I sell a limited flavor drop?
Can guests book the party room online?
Do gift cards work for a seasonal shop?
Can today's flavors show on Google?
Can a cart sell at a park or a market?
More for a scoop shop
Checks for your numbers, plus the pages behind the drops.
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Direct order savings
See what a month of direct orders keeps for you at your own volume.
See the savings tool02
Loyalty program starter playbook
A plain starting point for rewards a small shop can run.
See the playbook
Sell the flavor before the first scoop
Nothing is charged until direct orders come in, so a rainy week costs you nothing.