A real online store for The Little Beehive, wired to the register you already use. Built so summer and January stop being holes in the year.
The Little BeehiveKinley Blackwell
Keegan SullivanFounder, Handled
September 3, 2026keegan@handledagency.co
864-688-9885
Nobody can find you online. And the people who do find you have nowhere to buy. Those look like one problem. They are not, and the second one has to go first.
Fixing visibility before you have a store is just paying to send strangers to a page that cannot take their money. So we build the store, connect it to the register you already run, and then point traffic at something that actually converts.
Ten years in business and people still search your category and land on somebody else. Social is doing all the work, and even a sale post barely moves.
The site you built yourselves does the job of a business card. It cannot take an order, so every sale still has to walk through the front door.
Ten years of regulars is the asset here. Most shops your age are trying to buy an audience. You already have one, it just has no way to spend money on a Tuesday night.
Foot traffic is the whole business right now. So when foot traffic stops, revenue stops with it. By your own read, that is roughly three months in the summer and two after Christmas.
An online store does not replace the shop. It gives you something to sell through in the five months the shop cannot: early access for regulars, a clearance push in January, and "we ship now" all summer.
This is the Upcycle, our standing offer for local shops with a website that is not pulling its weight. You own the site and the domain. Hosting is $50/mo, locked for life, and it never goes up as long as you host with us.
Best fit if the content is fine and it is the look and the phone experience letting you down.
Best fit if you want to start clean and get found, but selling online can wait a season.
Best fit if the point is to sell in the months the doors are quiet. This is the one that solves the actual problem.
No product limit and no per-item fee. Our old boutique build ran past a thousand products on one register sync, so bring the whole floor. Seasonal stuff too.
Same total either way. No interest, no financing company, no credit check. Numbers below are for Rebuild + Commerce.
Done in about three weeks and paid off before the summer. Simplest option if the cash is there now.
Nothing due to start. Build begins on the first payment, and the store is live and selling long before the last one. After month 10 you are on the $50 hosting and nothing else.
The site goes live in week 3 either way. You are not waiting ten months for a store, you are just spreading what it cost.
The build is a one-time cost. This is what happens after launch, and you can switch between the two whenever you want.
If you are bringing a full floor of inventory online, somebody has to keep it current or the store goes stale by October. If that somebody is going to be you, take the $50 and keep the difference.
You are on Lightspeed, which is good news: you keep it. Nobody is asking you to relearn your register. But Lightspeed sells several products under one name, and they do not all connect the same way.
| If you are on | The store runs on | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Lightspeed X-Series most likely |
Shopify, official two-way sync | Products, inventory and orders move both directions on Lightspeed's own supported integration. Cleanest path. |
| Legacy eCom or Onsite | A different bridge, quoted then | That integration does not exist on the older products. We would price the workaround, or move you to a platform that does sync, and you would see the number before agreeing to it. |
So the first thing on the schedule is a look at your Lightspeed account, not an invoice. If it turns out the sync needs a workaround, the price changes before the work starts, not after.
We have shipped this exact build on Square, past a thousand products. Lightspeed to Shopify would be our first. That is why it gets its own checkpoint up front instead of a promise here.
Any of it can be added. None of it is a surprise line item, and we quote it when you ask, not before.
We build your homepage, upcycled, and send it to you. No cost, no commitment. You decide with a picture in front of you instead of a description.
Confirm the plan and the sync path. Per-page interview. Design for home, category, product and cart, then your approval.
Pages built, catalog pulled in, inventory sync running, checkout wired and tested against a sandbox.
Real end-to-end test purchase with a confirmation you can see land. Then DNS cutover, live, and the walkthrough with your staff.
Getting found is not a separate product we sell you later. Most of it is built into the site itself, which is why the build comes first.
Google Shopping needs a working store, so it arrives with Commerce. The rest lands with Rebuild and up.
Once it is live and we can see which products actually move, we will know where a review push or a small local ad budget would pay for itself. That is a conversation with your real numbers in front of us, and it is a much better conversation than the one we could have today.
The quickest win here is not an ad. It is ten years of regulars finally having a link they can send to a friend.
No deposit, no commitment. We take what you have, upcycle the homepage, and send it over. If you like it, we talk about the rest. If you don't, you keep the mockup and we go away.
Give me about a day and your homepage, upcycled, lands in your inbox. If you want to tell me which Lightspeed plan you are on in the meantime, that is the one answer that changes the price.
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