The Salted Table

Sophie wanted a calendar where a guest picks a class and a date, sees how many seats are left, and pays, with a waitlist for full dates and a cutoff for late cancellations. The booking app already in her Shopify store had no waitlist, and it kept limited-seat classes on a $129-a-month plan. She also wanted The Salted Table and Salt Culture to read as one brand.

Each class has its own page, and each date its own seat count. Adding a seat holds it for 20 minutes while the guest pays on Shopify, and the booking is confirmed when Shopify reports the order paid. A guest can cancel from the confirmation email up to seven days before the class, and the refund runs back through Shopify without anyone touching it. The freed seat is offered to the waitlist, with 24 hours to claim it.

An open-source content management system on a modern web framework, with Shopify behind it for products, cart, checkout, payment and orders, the platform her shop already ran on. Classes, dates, recipes and pages are edited in one admin, where site traffic and Shopify sales report side by side. The database and every image are backed up every six hours.

thesaltedtable.co was a parked GoDaddy page until October 9. It now carries a fall calendar of eleven classes across three series (Little Chefs, All Chefs and Adult Chefs), three Salt Society tiers, private weekend tables, and the shop. A bar across the top of every page switches between The Salted Table and Salt Culture, and the site uses Salt Culture's type and buttons, so the two read as one shop.