Case
Tipsy Pickle: a Shopify store, a booking platform and Toast ordering
Merch, court bookings and food orders in one place.
At a glance
- Client
- Tipsy Pickle
- What they sell
- Pickleball and golf simulator time, Tex-Mex food and drinks, merch
- Who buys
- Players, groups and private event hosts in Charlotte, NC
- Platform
- Shopify
- What we built
- Shopify store
- Custom booking platform at app.tipsypickle.com
- Toast integration for food orders
- Design
- Our partner studio
- Live store
- tipsypickle.com
The brief
Tipsy Pickle is a venue in Charlotte, NC where guests play pickleball indoors, use golf simulators and bar games, and eat from a Tex-Mex kitchen and bar. They spend money there in several ways: court time, food, merch, gift cards, catering and private events. The venue wanted one site that took all of them, and its staff needed one place to run the bookings.
What we built and why
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One Shopify site for the venue and its merch
The venue's pages and the merch store are one Shopify site, so a guest reading the menu and a guest buying merch are in the same place. We built the store inside the main site, not as a shop beside it.
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Bookings on a platform of their own
Court and simulator bookings run on a custom platform at app.tipsypickle.com, which the site's Reserve button opens. The Shopify site sells, and the platform holds every reservation.
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A rate for every hour and day
What a court or a simulator costs depends on the time of day and the day of the week. We built the platform to charge the rate of the slot a guest picks, and the site lists the rates by time slot before anyone books.
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One slot, one booking
A court or simulator slot cannot be booked twice. Staff open and close courts and simulators and manage reservations in the same platform guests book through.
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Food through Toast, merch through Shopify
We connected Toast for food orders, so food went through a restaurant system and merch through Shopify's checkout. Each kind of sale stayed in the system made for it.
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