Single-tenant software for Laguna Beach galleries, restaurants, and hospitality — bookings, client records, invoicing, an owner dashboard — built once and owned outright. No monthly platform fee.
Laguna Beach is small and singular — 23,000 residents, the Village, the gallery district, the festivals, fine dining and luxury hospitality perched on the coast. The businesses here trade on taste and relationships, not volume. A gallery sells a handful of high-value pieces a month. A restaurant lives on reservations and private events. A boutique inn turns a few rooms at a premium. The numbers are small enough that every transaction matters and every client is a name, not a row — which is exactly why a generic platform feels wrong here.
The friction shows up in the relationship layer. A gallery tracks collectors, consignments, and commission splits across a spreadsheet and an inbox. A restaurant's private-event bookings and deposits live in email. An inn juggles direct reservations against listing channels and risks an oversell on a festival weekend. The stakes per miss are high precisely because the volume is low.
A Laguna operator doesn't need a high-volume hospitality or retail platform. The fix is a small single-tenant app that handles the three to four workflows this business depends on — a client and inventory record, deposit billing, a calendar that can't double-book — built for a relationship business and owned outright. No rent next year.
An art gallery in the Village. Collectors, available works, consignments, and commission splits with artists live in a spreadsheet and an inbox. We build an internal app: an inventory of works with status and price, a collector record with purchase history, and consignment tracking that calculates the artist's split. Invoicing and the split run from one place instead of two.
A fine-dining restaurant doing private events. Buyouts and large parties come in by email, take a deposit, and land on a paper calendar. We build an event app: a request form on the site, an owner-side calendar with conflict checks, deposit invoicing through Stripe, and an automatic confirmation. The double-bookings end.
A boutique inn off North Laguna. A few rooms booked direct and through listing channels, with cleaning and a festival-weekend oversell risk. We build a booking and turnover view: one calendar of confirmed stays, deposit handling, and a cleaning checklist per checkout. The festival weekend stops being a gamble.
This fits if you run a real Laguna Beach business, you know the three to four workflows eating your week, and you want software you own instead of software you rent. It's not right if you want a multi-tenant product to sell to other galleries or inns — that's a much larger build, and I refer it out.
OC — in-person reachable in about 90 minutes from the San Diego studio, and I make the drive when a build calls for it. An hour in the gallery or the dining room beats a six-page requirements doc.
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