Coffee shops in Ireland
A website for your café, wherever in Ireland it is
Built first from what is already public, put live, then sent to you. You look at the finished thing before you decide. €690 to keep it, one payment, nothing to sign.
The short version
Cupán Studio builds websites for independent cafés, coffee shops, roasters, café-bakeries and coffee carts, and only for them. It started in Dublin and builds for a café in any county now. Send the name of your shop and a link, or wait and see whether a link to a finished site lands in your inbox unasked. Either way you get a six-page site on a real URL before anybody asks you for money. If you want it, it is €690 and it goes on your own domain within a day (a .ie takes a little longer). If you don't, it comes down in fourteen days and nothing is owed.
In Dublin? That page says the same thing for Dublin shops.
What is different if your café is outside Dublin
Very little, which is the point. Four things are worth saying plainly.
- Nothing to travel to. The site is built remotely from what is already public: your Google listing, your Instagram, your reviews, your menu and your own pages. I do not visit, and there is no brief, discovery call or meeting to arrange. You are in Sligo or Skibbereen and the process is the same as it is for a shop in Rathmines. How it works has the three steps.
- The same price. €690 once, or €435 and €79 every four weeks if you would rather never touch it. It does not depend on the county.
- Your Local Enterprise Office is your own. Grant offices are run by local authority area, so the office to ask about the Grow Digital Voucher is the one for your county or city, not Dublin's. More on that below.
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.iedomain if you want one. A.ieis a manual registration that needs proof of an Irish connection that only you can give, and it is priced separately on the pricing page.
Every site I have built so far is for a shop in County Dublin, and I would rather you heard that from me. What is on the work page is four made-up shops, built to test the system: Bean & Gone, The Proving Room, Half Nine and Wickwood Roasters. They are live pages you can open and click through, every page of them. The 77 cafés I counted for the Dublin websites count were all Dublin shops, and I make no claim about any other county. This page was built with the same system, so you are already looking at the work.
What a café website needs, and what this one has
My own reckoning of what someone standing in a street with a phone wants from your site: are you open, what do you sell, where are you, and what does it look like inside. A café site earns its keep by answering those four on a small screen and by being easy enough to change that the hours are still right in March.
- Hours. Every day you open and every day you don't, bank holidays handled, changed by you from your phone without asking anyone.
- Menu. Every item, every price, readable on a phone. Imported from your PDF or a photo of the board, not retyped.
- Find us. Address, Eircode, map, phone, Instagram, and the same details written into the page as schema.org markup, the structured form search engines read.
- Home and About. What you do and who you are, in your words, with your photos.
- Contact. A form that lands in the inbox you already use, and a
hello@yourshopaddress to go with it.
It is static HTML on Cloudflare's network, so there is nothing to render before the text appears, it is laid out at phone width first and widened from there, and there is no monthly SEO bill on top.
The same markup, the menu as text and an llms.txt are what AI assistants read. The free check reads any café's site that way in a few seconds, yours included, and stores nothing.
Forty items, and not one of them typed in: that menu came off a photograph of the board. The Proving Room, a made-up shop I built to test the system, and every page of it is there to click through.
Bakeries, roasters and coffee carts too
The same six pages carry a café, a bakery, a roaster and a cart, and that is the whole reason one price works. What changes is what goes on them.
- Coffee shop or café. The standard set: menu, hours, where you are, a bit about the place. Bean & Gone is that one.
- Café-bakery. The menu page does the counter, sections and all, and you swap this morning's photo in from your phone. The Proving Room runs to forty items in eight sections.
- Roaster. The menu page becomes the coffee list: origin, process, notes, bag sizes, and the wholesale prices by the kilo beside the counter ones. If you already sell bags somewhere, the site links to that shop rather than pretending to be one. Wickwood Roasters is that one.
- Coffee cart or trailer. Where you are parked today sits across the top of every page, and you change it from your phone before you open. Half Nine is that one.
Not restaurants, not pubs, not anything else. Coffee is the whole list, which is why the six pages never need re-inventing and why it can cost €690.
What a café website costs in Ireland
€690, once.
Domain, hosting, SSL, the hello@ address, the panel you edit it from, the menu import, a printable brand sheet for your sign-maker, a screenshot manual, and the changes you want once you have seen it.
One payment. No monthly bill unless you want one. If you would rather never touch it, it is €435 now and €79 every four weeks and I keep the hours, the menu and the photos current for you. Cancel with one email.
For comparison, the Irish prices published for a hospitality site, read on 14 September 2026: Nua lists a small business package "starting at just €799" and a larger one "starting at €1499"; NexusCloud lists "Starting from €800" and "Live in 2-4 weeks". The full table of published Irish prices has the rest, with the date I read each one. See the full pricing for what is in the price and what a domain costs.
Grow Digital Voucher: ask your own Local Enterprise Office
If someone has told you a Local Enterprise Office grant will cover this, start here. The Trading Online Voucher closed to applications at 5pm on Friday 13 December 2024. What replaced it is a Digital for Business project and then a Grow Digital Voucher worth "50% of eligible costs with minimum grant aid of €500 up to a maximum grant of €5,000 per application".
Your office is the one for the local authority area your premises is in. Whether a café website fits is their call, so ask before you spend anything. The full guide for a café has the terms quoted.
If it does nothing for you, you don't pay for it
In your first 60 days live, if the site hasn't brought you one thing you can point at, an order, a booking, a phone call, an enquiry, or a review that mentions it, I keep working on it, free, until it does. Or ask for your money back: you get all €690 and the site stays yours.
How it works for a café anywhere in Ireland
I build it from what is already public.
Your Google listing, your Instagram, your reviews, your menu. A few days. You do nothing, and nobody visits.
I send you one link.
It opens a finished, live site with your name on it. Send it to whoever else has a say.
You decide.
Yes: €690, your own domain within a day (a .ie a little longer), a walkthrough of the panel if you want one. No: it comes down. Not now: tell me and I leave it.
Questions café owners outside Dublin ask
- Do you build café websites outside Dublin?
- Yes. Cupán Studio started in Dublin and builds for an independent café, coffee shop or roaster in any county now. The work so far is the four made-up shops on the work page, built to test the system, so I would rather say that than imply a list of clients in your county.
- How much does a café website cost in Ireland?
- From Cupán Studio, €690 once, or €435 and €79 every four weeks with the updates done for you, wherever the café is. Published Irish prices for a hospitality site in September 2026 run from €799 (Nua) and €800 (NexusCloud) upwards, and the full table goes from €60 a year to €5,000.
- Do I need to meet you?
- No. The site is built from your Google listing, your Instagram and your menu, so there is no visit, no brief and no call unless you ask for one. If you say yes, the walkthrough of the panel is optional.
- Can I get a grant for it?
- Possibly, and only by asking before you spend anything. The Grow Digital Voucher pays 50% of eligible costs and needs a Digital for Business project first. Whether a café website fits is for your own Local Enterprise Office to decide. The guide for a café has the terms quoted.
- Which Local Enterprise Office is mine?
- The one for the local authority area your premises is in, at localenterprise.ie. The guide lists the four Dublin offices with their numbers; for anywhere else, use the site to find yours.
- Can I have a .ie domain?
- Yes, if you can show an Irish connection, which only you can. A
.ieis a manual registration, so it takes a little longer than a.com, and the price for each is on the pricing page. The domain is registered in your name either way. - What if I already have a website?
- I build the new one anyway, free, and you open the two side by side on your phone before you decide anything. If yours is fine, say so and this one comes down in fourteen days.
- Can I change the menu and the hours myself?
- Yes. Every site comes with a panel: text, photos, hours and menu, edited by you on your phone, saved and live at once. No developer, no invoice, no waiting. There is a short manual with a picture of every button.
Want one for your shop?
Send me the name of your café and a link to it. Google Maps, Instagram, Facebook, whatever exists. You get a link back with a finished site on it.
Free. Nothing to sign. No call unless you ask for one.