Installable app or custom portal
Which one does your business need?
Two ways to go beyond a website, both shown here with Cedarline Yoga, a fictional two-room studio in Edmond. One puts you on your customers’ phones. The other takes a chore off your plate.
Installable app
$399 add-on to your website
Your website, one tap away on their home screen.
- Who it’s for
- Places people come back to every week: studios, gyms, salons, cafés. Your booking or ordering tool already works; you just want to be on their phone.
- What customers and staff see
- Customers get your icon on their phone. It opens full-screen to today’s schedule, menu or hours, keeps working on a weak signal, and can remind them before class. Staff see nothing new.
- Time to build
- About a week, built alongside your website.
- Upkeep
- Nothing extra. It updates whenever your website does.
Custom web app / portal
From $3,500 + App Care from $149/mo
Sign-ins and tools built around how you actually work.
- Who it’s for
- Businesses where a manual process eats the week: subs arranged by group text, pauses handled by email, a spreadsheet of who hasn’t been in lately.
- What customers and staff see
- Members sign in to manage bookings, pauses and receipts. Staff request subs and take attendance. You get a dashboard of members, fill rate and revenue, connected to tools you already use, like your booking system or Stripe.
- Time to build
- Typically 4–10 weeks, depending on what it connects to.
- Upkeep
- App Care, from $149/mo and required with any web app: hosting and database, backups, security updates and small changes.
Not sure?
Most businesses start with a website and the installable app; a portal makes sense when a manual process is eating your week.
Cedarline Yoga is fictional: names, numbers and data in both demos are invented. Prices are Longship Studio’s current prices.