Show HN: A free online ordering system for restaurants

https://order.storekit.com/product

by benlarcey • 6 years ago

78 20 6 years ago

order.storekit.com

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

Hi HN. I put this together over the last 2-3 weeks to help the many restaurants and retailers currently unable to trade. Whilst many operators in large cities have systems in place to handle a rapid change in operations, there's the very long tail of stores across the country who are very new to online ordering as a concept. So the focus is on simplicity and getting set up as quickly as possible.

Tech stack: Vue.js & tailwind on the frontend, Hapi server.

mister_hn2• 6 years ago

Nice work, will you make it also open source or as package to self-host?

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

It's not on the roadmap right now, the percentage of restaurants with the capability and desire to self-host software is very low.

mikro2nd• 6 years ago

Not so good when "Create store" fails to do anything. (Firefox, Linux)

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

No, definitely not! I couldn't see anything in the logs. So I assume not all required fields were filled out when creating the store. Highlighting those needs some work. Thanks for pointing it out.

d33lio• 6 years ago

If I created this, I'd be very worried this would be used to create a lot of "trivial" fronts for selling drugs or other illicit items... In an obfuscated manner ofcourse.

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

I'm not very worried although it's somewhat of a concern. Restaurant-style online ordering matches drug delivery nicely. However, the KYC required for accepting card payments is a pretty good safety net to catch this.

mkchoi212• 6 years ago

This is awesome guys. There are a lot of things that could be improved upon but the fact that it's free makes this a no brainer for any small businesses that are tight on money. Keep up the great work :)

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

Thanks! We've had ~200 odd signups so far, hopefully some will find it useful. If you have specific improvements, would love to hear them.

lemoncurd• 6 years ago

white text on white background on the signup page might not be such a good choice brother

trynewideas• 6 years ago

Free, "but if you want to take card payments there will be per-transaction charges" — not unexpected, but worth pointing out considering the emphasis on "free" in the headline.

hazz99• 6 years ago

You'll have per transaction charges no matter what service you use - it's charged by the bank.

mixonEPA• 6 years ago

Thanks for letting them know.

aldoreyes• 6 years ago

Excellent idea. Can I use it for another country? Can the currency be changed? Thank you!

known• 6 years ago

Good one during the corona crisis

Kunigaikstis• 6 years ago

I gotta say, I'm really loving all the websites built with Tailwind (assuming this is built with Tailwind UI). It's like going back to 2011 bootstrap everywhere days but so so much better.

mister_hn2• 6 years ago

Nice, but I would also expect a package that I can run on my own server or update with my desires

solarkraft• 6 years ago

Free Software

I think you mean gratis.

sscarduzio• 6 years ago

How many restaurants did you get to join? The only missing thing I can see is a global front page with an index of the nearest available restaurant (for me as a customer).

benlarcey6• 6 years ago

We have around 200 restaurants using the system right now. This would be great, but the problem is you need huge scale for this to be generally useful. I think once/if we hit around 2000, this will be something to think about building.

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