Your own app for retail stores

The app for your store — walk-ins become regulars.

The customer loved it — and buys online next week anyway? Your own app brings them back: a stamp card, a deal push, reserve and pick up. With no algorithm in between.

30-second check · free, no strings attached · answer usually the same day

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Mayer's Paper Co.
Stamp card8/10

Tap to stamp — 2 more to your reward

Stack of four handmade soap bars tied with twine on a wooden board+1 stampPurchase $24.90 · today 10:20 AMnew
Open my stamp codeshow it at the register
HistoryStamps & vouchers
+1 stampNotebooks & folders · Tue 4:40 PM
$10 voucher redeemedon the fountain pen · in March

Tap around — this is roughly how your future app will feel.

Free estimate

What should your store app do?

5 questions · 30 seconds · then a concrete proposal with a fixed price.

Step 1 of 5

What should your app be able to do?

Pick what would do the most for your store. — pick as many as you like, every feature shows what it adds.

Always included: an iPhone and Android app in the stores, a web version, release under your own name, hosting, updates and support.

Part of the base packagetake as many as you like — it stays at $4,000
Extensions — extra modulesaround +$900 per module
Deeply wired — integrations & AIaround +$2,500 per integration

Pick a feature — we will explain right here what it does day to day.

$4,000–$6,500Base package · fixed price after our call
01Try it as a customer

Stamp your way to a voucher.

Every purchase is one stamp — tap and see why customers come back:

Mayer's Paper Co. · Loyalty card

6 / 10
★★★★★★78910

No cardboard, nothing to forget — and you see who comes how often.

02Feature by feature

What the app for your store can do.

Tap through the building blocks — on the right you see how it looks in your store app.

Mayer's Paper Co.Digital stamp card
Stamp card8 of 10
★★★★★★★★910

2 more purchases until the $10 voucher

Stamped recently
Stack of four handmade soap bars tied with twine on a wooden board+1 stampPurchase $24.90 · today 10:20 AMnew
+1 stampNotebooks & folders · Tue 4:40 PM
$10 voucherin your account from the 10th purchasesoon
The stamp arrives on its ownTapped at the register — the voucher is in the app afterwards.
03Every store knows it

The dead Tuesday. Rescue it with one push.

Pick a deal — and see what happens on your customers' phones and at your register:

Your dashboard · Tuesday 8:55 AM

On your customers' phones

Pick a deal on the left — the push goes to every app customer.

Shop owner arranging a knit scarf on the shelf before opening, handmade ceramics and framed prints around her
Scene: the store before opening8:50 AM

The stock is in, the window looks right — now everybody just has to know about it.

One push at the right moment brings regulars into the store — no ad budget, straight onto the lock screen.

A read: from the shop floor

What a store app really does — and what it doesn't fix.

Saturday works, Tuesday doesn't. That's rarely the fault of what you stock — it's that on that particular morning nobody knows the trip to your store pays off today. Your own app doesn't change what sits on your shelves. It changes the distance between your shelf and your regulars' pockets.

312of 480 app customers had read the Tuesday push by noon
10purchases to the $10 voucher — the card counts along on its own
from $4,000a full app with a stamp card and deal pushes — extend it any time

A quiet Tuesday is a timing problem, not a price problem

The mechanism behind it is unspectacular, and that's exactly why it holds. Just before nine you decide what's front and center today: 15% off the gift baskets, double stamps, or the new pen collection. At nine the message is sitting on your app customers' lock screens. By noon 312 out of 480 have read it. No print ad and no boosted post reaches that at this price, which is to say at no price at all.

Said honestly: a push is not a magic wand. It brings in people who already like you — not the ones who have never walked in. Walk-in traffic still belongs to your window, your corner and word of mouth. The app works on the second visit, the fifth and the twentieth. That sounds like less than growth, but it's the part you can actually plan.

Points cost you something once. A price war costs you every time.

Closeness is the one thing the marketplace can't ship

Against the big platforms you don't win on price and you don't win on selection — that's settled. You win on the trip somebody saves because the notebook is already set aside. On the advice about which pen survives a ten-year-old's handwriting. On the gift wrap you put around it before they leave.

Only that closeness used to end at the door: the moment your customer is outside she's everybody's customer again. An app extends it. Reserve before you head out. The deal item that sits behind the register until 6:00 PM because it won't work out before closing. The receipt that's still in the app weeks later when the zipper on the pencil case gives up after all. None of it is spectacular — and that's exactly what brings people back to you.

The stamp card that doesn't get lost

The cardboard card is the most honest example: it works as long as it's in the wallet. After the third stamp it's in the car or in the recycling. Digitally the card just counts along — ten purchases, then the $10 voucher is in the account and the next one starts on its own. And for the first time you see what you used to only sense: who comes every other week, who hasn't been in since spring, and which deal actually got redeemed.

Before you start there are a few things to settle, and honestly so: who explains the code at the register when there's a line on Saturday? And what happens in the first month, when only a handful of customers have the app? That's why most stores begin with the core instead of everything — stamp card and deal push from $4,000, a finished app in both stores, ready in about two weeks — and build on when the regulars come along: more blocks, and at some point the connection to the register. That it goes this fast comes down to the tools: we build with modern tooling including AI — faster and cheaper, while the care stays handwork.

You know which weekday sags at your place — we know how an app picks it up. 30 seconds, and we have your case in front of us.

04No buzzwords — do the math

What is one extra visit per quarter worth?

Move the sliders and the total follows.Worked example
Regulars with your app200
Average ticket$18
Regulars with your app200
One extra visit per quarter eachat a $18 ticket

≈ $14,400 in extra revenue a year — from a stamp card and deal pushes alone.

The big chains run exactly this math — that's why every one of them has an app. Now your store can too.

Half a minute · you end up with a proposal and a fixed price

One project. Every device.

This is how the listing for your app will look once we submit it. Type in your name, pick a color — the preview on the right picks up both straight away.

Your brand color
iPhone appListed in the App Store, under your name
Android appOn Google Play, with your logo and your colors
Browser & adminAccess with nothing to install, plus your own admin area
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Search the shelves …
StationerySchoolGifts
Composition notebooks, wide ruled10-pack$6.90
Fountain pen “Classic”$34.90 · with engraving−1+
Stack of four handmade soap bars tied with twine on a wooden boardHandmade soaphandmade · 4 oz$6.50
Wicker gift basket with red wine, cheese, salami, crackers, olives and grapesGift basket “Wine & Cheese”packed and ready$39.00
Reserve — $87.30today until 6:00 PM · at the register
Wooden shop counter with rolls of gift wrap and kraft paper bags, ceramics on the shelves behind
Pickup at the register412 Main Street · Mon–Fri 9 AM–6 PM
Held until 6:00 PMReserved items wait at the register with your name on them.
Mayer's Paper Co.
Stamp card8 of 10
★★★★★★★★910

2 more purchases until the $10 voucher

Stack of four handmade soap bars tied with twine on a wooden board+1 stampPurchase $24.90 · today 10:20 AMnew
+1 stampNotebooks & folders · Tue 4:40 PM
$10 voucher redeemedon the fountain pen · in March
Open my stamp codeshow it at the register
The 10th purchase releases the voucherIt lands in your account afterwards — the next card starts on its own.
Settings
Stamp alertstell me when a stamp is added
Voucher alertas soon as the card is full
Mayer's Paper Co.
Mayer's Paper Co.9:00 AM

Tuesday deal: −15% off everything

Today only until 6:00 PM — in the store.

DealsNewGifts
Display table by the shop window with hardcover notebooks, pens and pencils
Window display12 new pieces
Wicker gift basket with red wine, cheese, salami, crackers, olives and grapes
Gift basketpacked and ready$39
Wooden shelves with colorful notebooks, cups of colored pencils and rolls of washi tapeNew on the shelf6 items addednew
Pen collectionin the store from Tuesdayfrom $34.90
Push settings
Deal daysA push in the morning when a deal is running
New arrivalswhen something lands on the shelf
Reservation readyas soon as it's at the register

Notebooks, a fountain pen or a gift basket packed and ready: reserve it in the app and pick it up in the store — held until 6:00 PM with your name on it. The stamp card counts every purchase, and after ten the $10 voucher is in your account. Deal days arrive as a push before they're over. The receipt lands digitally in the app instead of on a paper roll — still there weeks later. more

Ratings & ReviewsSee All
4.819 Ratings
The cardboard card can go2 weeks ago
S. Ortiz

The stamp card counts every purchase on its own, and after the tenth the $10 voucher was sitting in my account. The cardboard one I used to leave at home every single time.

The receipt was still there1 month ago
marci_78

I wanted to exchange a fountain pen and had thrown the paper receipt out long ago. The purchase was still in the app and that was enough at the register. The coupons sit right next to it.

What’s NewVersion History

Version 1.2

Deal push: the Tuesday deal lands on the phone at 9 AM. The first time it went to 480 app customers — 312 had read it by noon.

Just a preview — your name, your logo, your colors. Screenshots come from the app on this page; figures and reviews are placeholders.

Built once, available everywhere: your customers download the app from the store, you run everything from a browser.

05Proof, not promises

What we build is out in the app stores.

Six apps of our own, used by real people every day. What you see here are the untouched store screenshots and preview videos — exactly what anyone downloading them gets. Click through the shelf.

ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 1ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 2ScanFood — original App Store screenshot 3
ScanFoodFood scanner

Scan a barcode and see at a glance what is actually inside: nutrition, additives, a clear verdict — and AI that recognizes whole meals from a photo.

Real listings — the buttons open the actual store pages.

„Amazing how it turns my phone into a fully working security camera“
Cam&Cam · plumblv · App Store
„No frills, intuitive - does exactly what it should“
ScanFood · Kassiwest · App Store
„This app is far better than any baby monitor. Outstanding support!!!“
LooLoo · Egkel · App Store

Reviews taken from the App Store, word for word.

Your app goes out the very same way: under your name, with your logo.

06Behind the studio

Who actually builds your app?

No off-the-shelf builder, no chain of anonymous contractors: an owner-run development studio that designs, codes and looks after apps for retail stores itself.

20 yrs web · 8 yrs apps 6 apps of our own iOS · Android · web Fixed price in writing

Have a nice day — an owner-run development studio: the person you deal with is the developer himself.

We are in the stores ourselvesWe publish and operate our own apps — you can see which ones further up. Going through store review month after month teaches you what really matters.
Everything under one roofConcept, design, code, store submission and day-to-day operation — nothing is handed to subcontractors or shipped offshore. If it says Have a nice day, Have a nice day did the work.
You talk to the developerAt the other end sits the person who actually writes your app. No ticket system, no call center — in German, English or Russian.
More than 20 years of experienceOver 20 years of web development and 8 years of apps for iOS and Android — the ones in the stores above are the latest result of that work.
A fixed price before we startWhat the project costs is agreed in writing before the first line of code exists. No surprises from a timesheet.
Speed from modern toolingWe work with current technology and AI assistance. That is why we measure projects in weeks rather than quarters and stay below what agencies charge — every single line still gets reviewed by us.

A stamp card, deal pushes or both — what does more for your store?

5 questions, 30 seconds — then you get a concrete proposal with a fixed price for your store.

Free, no strings attached · usually an answer the same day

07The road to your app

From a conversation to your store app.

1

Tell us about your store

What you stock, who your regulars are, what you want to reach — one conversation is enough.

2

Proposal and fixed price

What the app does, how it looks, what it costs — clear and honest.

3

Preview on your own phone

You tap through your app early — we adjust it until it fits.

4

Into the stores

We handle the App Store and Google Play — under your store's name.

5

We stay on it

New deals, new ideas — a direct line to us.

08Set packages, set prices

What does it all cost?

There is no hourly billing and nothing added on afterwards: you choose a package, you get a fixed price for it, and you know in advance what is included. Even Start is a complete app — the larger packages add features and deeper technology, not better quality.

Included everywhere: App Store, Google Play and the browser — along with hosting, updates and support. The only difference is the feature set.

Start

A complete app, not a stripped-down version

from $4,000

ready to submit in 2 weeks

  • In the App Store, on Google Play and in the browser
  • Published under your own name
  • Every core feature of your trade, fully built
  • Push messages to your customers
  • Hosting, updates and support included
The most common choice

Business

More features, more automation

from $10,000

usually 3–4 weeks

  • Everything in Start
  • Extra modules, cut to fit how you work
  • Admin area: edit content and offers yourself
  • Reminders and routines that run on their own

Complete

Woven tightly into your systems

from $20,000

from 4 weeks, depending on scope

  • Everything in Business
  • Connections to your point of sale, calendar, inventory system and more
  • AI features, custom interfaces, an area for your staff
  • Continuous further development

Rather not pay a large sum up front? Then subscribe.

from $199 / month

  • We build it, run it and maintain it; you pay monthly
  • Updates, new features and support are part of it
  • The source code stays with us at first and becomes yours once it is paid off in full

Depending on the feature set, projects land between $4,000 and roughly $30,000 — how far your app goes is your call. We name the fixed price after a short conversation, free and without obligation.

The three packages are typical sizes; anything in between is possible too. The math: base package $4,000, each additional module about +$900, each connection to an existing system about +$2,500. The shows what every single feature costs.

Where do the speed and the price come from? We work with current tooling, AI included — the time we save goes back into the price, the care stays handmade.

09What people ask us

Common questions about a store app

The next Tuesday doesn't have to be dead.

A free first conversation — no sales pressure, just an honest proposal with a fixed price for your store. Your inquiry is read by the developer himself — no sales team in between.

Rather talk it through

We usually reply the same day · your fixed price comes in writing — then take your time to decide.

Customers browsing a warmly lit gift shop while the owner smiles behind the wooden counter, candles and plants in the foreground
Scene: Tuesday evening, the store is full5:30 PM

Your store app

Free, no strings attached