ORBT Labs
Temecula · Stripe-direct shop

Stripe-direct ecommerce in Temecula.

A custom storefront wired straight into Stripe — your brand, your data, your domain. Built for the wineries, wedding venues, and Old Town makers that put Temecula on the map.

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01 — Why this, here

Temecula sells a place people drive an hour to reach.

Temecula retail is built on Wine Country and the weekend trip out to it. A winery off the Rancho California stretch selling club allocations, a reserve bottling, and the branded glass people take home. A wedding venue with a small line of keepsakes and gift boxes. An Old Town maker turning a tasting-room favorite into something shippable. The product is a souvenir of a day in the hills, and that day is the whole reason it sells.

Shopify drains the day out of it. The wine-club page looks like the t-shirt page looks like the candle page — same theme, same cart, same checkout, none of it knowing it's selling a memory of Wine Country. For a winery whose brand is the view from the crush pad, routing the club through a generic platform is the leak. It flattens the one thing the buyer is actually paying for.

Stripe-direct keeps the place on the page. Stripe moves the money — including the alcohol-shipping tax math that Shopify apps charge monthly to handle. The layout, the type, the product pages, the club signup, the cart, the receipt email — written around your label. You pay Stripe's processing fee and nothing else. No monthly platform rent, no app store, nobody between you and a member who joined because they loved the visit.

02 — What we build

The whole shop, written from scratch.

  • Custom storefront on your domain — catalog, inventory, cart, and a checkout flow written to match the brand instead of a theme drawer.
  • Stripe wired in directly — payments land in your account from day one. No Stripe Connect markup, no platform layer taking a slice on top of processing.
  • Transactional email through Resend — confirmation, shipping update, receipt — written in your voice, sent from your domain, signed by you.
  • Up to roughly thirty SKUs at this tier. A brewery with twelve current cans plus glassware fits. A biotech merch run with fifteen pieces fits. Larger catalogs we quote separately.
  • Product schema and entity markup so Google and the AI engines can read the catalog properly — important when a customer asks ChatGPT for a recommendation.
  • No theme to migrate, no app store to rent from, no platform breakage when somebody pushes a release on the other side of the country.

From $5,500 · ~3 weeks · Owner-operated.

03 — What this looks like

Three Temecula shops, three shapes of the same build.

A Wine Country winery off Rancho California. A wine club with recurring shipments, a reserve allocation, plus the branded glass and tote from the tasting room. The club runs on Stripe subscriptions directly — no billing app skimming a cut on every member. Stripe Tax handles the alcohol-shipping rules state by state. Inventory shows when the reserve is actually allocated out. Tasting-room pickup is one of the options for the locals.

A Temecula wedding and event venue. A small keepsake line — a branded blanket, a welcome-box kit couples buy for guests, a gift card. The pages match the venue's brand and the look of its real photography exactly, not a theme with a logo dropped on top. Gift cards and physical goods sit in one checkout. We wire it in about three weeks and hand off to the events coordinator.

An Old Town maker. A tasting-room favorite turned shippable — an olive oil, a small-batch jam, a spice blend from a Redhawk kitchen. Six to eight goods, each page reading like a shelf talker: where it's from, what to do with it. The checkout takes one screen. The receipt sounds like the maker wrote it, because they did. No platform fee on a food-margin business.

This works when the catalog is small enough to design around, the brand carries the sale, and you want the code in your own account. It does not work for a thousand-variant inventory, a full warehouse system, marketplace seller logins, or a stack of twenty Shopify apps. For that, Shopify Plus is the honest answer and I will tell you so before you sign.

The studio is based in San Diego. Temecula is reachable for an in-person in about seventy-five minutes, whether the meeting is in Wine Country or Old Town. Most of the build runs remote. The handoff lands on your domain, with your Stripe keys, with the source in a repository you own. One person does the work — that is the point of the price and the speed.

This page was drafted from a structured brief and hand-reviewed before launch. The work itself is custom, owner-operated, never templated.

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