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Web design in Ashton-under-Lyne.
Market trade, food and the OL6 counters.

Ashton is market-town retail and a dense independent food trade, in a borough where a lot of businesses run on cash, a card machine from the bank and a notebook. The useful first build here is rarely a website. It is usually the till, because the till is where the day is already being recorded badly.

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Start at the till, not the website

Four things a built till does that a card machine and a notebook cannot, in the order owners notice them.

A Z-report that prints itself

Ten minutes after close, so the day is reconciled whether or not anybody remembered. This is the feature owners mention first, months later.

Sold out in one tap

An availability toggle per item, reachable from the counter, showing true values. Without it the website keeps selling what the counter ran out of at two o’clock.

One menu, everywhere

Counter, kiosk, website and delivery reading the same prices and the same options, so a price change is one edit rather than four.

The owner’s view, separate from the staff’s

Weekly takings, control of the staff passcode, and a password of their own behind a re-authentication step.

Sources, checked 26 October 2026

  1. Star Micronics, Star CloudPRNT Protocol Guide 2.6.0: the client polls the server by HTTP POST

Then the thing the market trade actually needs

  • Collection before delivery Collection is the highest-margin order there is, and in a town centre with footfall it is most of the volume. Build it first and add delivery when you genuinely deliver.
  • A kiosk for the rush, not for show A second till that takes its own orders at peak, off the same menu and the same stock count. It earns its money in a forty-minute window on a Saturday.
  • Cash still counts A system that assumes every order is a card payment is wrong about this trade and will be worked around within a week.

When we are the wrong firm for this

If your business is genuinely cash-and-counter and works, a system can wait. The honest first spend in Tameside is usually a Google Business Profile done properly with real photographs and current hours — free, and it decides whether anyone walking past finds you. We would rather say that than sell a website into a business that does not need one yet.

When you do spend, spend on the till. The website is the cheap part afterwards.

Questions

Before you ask.

Can you build a till for a market unit?

Yes — countertop till, optional kiosk and a kitchen screen, built around your menu and stock rather than rented by the month. We come out to install and train on the counter.

What if most of our sales are cash?

Then the system has to handle cash properly, including a cash declaration at close and a printed Z-report. A design that assumes card-only gets worked around and then abandoned.

Do we need a website at all?

Not necessarily, and not first. If your Google listing is wrong or thin, fixing it will do more for walk-in trade this month than a new site, and it is free.
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Tell us what you need. We will scope it, price it and build it.

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