Software for shops that run on skill. Butcher first.
The whole day, in one place.
A tired operator can run it. It is ridiculously easy. It makes the shop money.
Butcher is live.
Already live with a working butcher shop — custom processing, farms, shares, weigh and labels. The next shops start themselves.
See the tools.
From a working butcher shop. Product photography — not a demo, and there is no login here.
Already in that shop.
Live today. Not a mockup.
- Their shop site, a public price list, book a processing week
- Farm shares and a waitlist
- Check-in, a shop TV, weigh and labels, cut choices
- Texts when it is ready
- A phone app, The Line, card payments
We can stand this up from tools we already run.
An easy first month. Not a custom operating system. Not a promise to build anything.
Money in
- A quote they can open and pay a deposit on
- Cards online and at the counter
Talk to customers
- Their own website and their own domain
- Texts when something is booked, ready, or due
- Email for the quote, the receipt, the confirmation
- Follow, and a ping if the shop is out today
Run the day
- Bookings, jobs, or a week on the book — plus hours
- Check-in and a shop screen
- Weigh, labels, and a shareable work ticket if they tag product
- A phone app they can install
- A QR and a simple flyer — loyalty if they want people back
Food trucks stay on Frontburner. Founding shops get white-glove on these bones, then the kit gets easier.
How this works.
- 1Raise a hand.Butcher or another shop. Same short form.
- 2James or Eric call you back.They are not the shop’s IT department.
- 350% deposit.We white-glove your shop on the same app. Usually two or three months.
- 4You run the day.Bookings, check-in, weigh and labels, farms and shares.
- 5The next shops start themselves.When the kit is easy enough. Stay-with-us is optional.
Honest numbers.
Founding is one number: $3,000–$8,000 depending on the shop. 50% to start. Pay the rest up front or split it over two or three months.
We white-glove the next two or three shops. After that the kit is self-serve. James and Eric are not the shop’s IT department.
- Founding / white-glove build
- $3,000–$8,000 depending on the shop. 50% to start. Pay the rest up front or split it over two or three months.
- After you are live (optional)
- Stay-with-us $399–$799 a month, or $149 plus $250–$500 if you mostly run it yourself.
- Hourly if you just need a few hours
- $125–$175, capped at four to eight hours a month.
Talk to us.
Same form as founding. If you run a food truck or a restaurant, we send you to Frontburner.
Mail goes to james@getfrontburner.com. James or Eric write back.