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The middle, broken

You sell an experience and a bottle. Most distillery sites sell neither.

The margin in spirits is not really in the bottle on a bottle shop shelf. It is in the person who does the masterclass, buys two bottles on the way out, and comes back with four friends at Christmas. That whole chain starts with a website that can take a booking, and most cannot: it is an email address and a hope.

  • Tastings and masterclasses have capacity, session times and minimum numbers, and a contact form handles none of it
  • Gift vouchers are a serious revenue line in November and December and usually have to be posted by hand
  • Bottle sales need age verification and per-state spirits shipping rules
  • The bar and the distillery are different businesses on the same site and get muddled together
  • Private hire and corporate events are the biggest bookings and are the hardest thing to enquire about

The website should sell the seat, then the bottle, then the voucher. In that order, because that is the order the money arrives.

Typical projects

What we typically build for spirits.

Indicative ranges from real spirits briefs we've matched in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific.

Tasting room bookings
Typical price
$5,500 – $13,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks

Real bookings for tastings, tours and masterclasses, with session capacity, deposits and the no-show defences that make them stick.

  • Sessions, capacity and minimum numbers
  • Deposits and cancellation windows
  • Automated reminders that cut no-shows
  • Group and private bookings
Gift vouchers and gifting
Typical price
$4,000 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

Instant digital vouchers that redeem cleanly at the bar or against a booking, which is most of your December.

  • Instant delivery, scheduled sending
  • Redeem against bookings or bottles
  • Balance tracking and expiry rules
  • Corporate and bulk vouchers
Bottle shop and subscriptions
Typical price
$7,000 – $17,000
Timeline
5–8 weeks

Direct spirit sales with the compliance built in, plus a club for the people who want the seasonal releases.

  • Age verification at checkout
  • Per-state spirits freight rules
  • Limited and seasonal releases
  • Subscription for release drops
Bar site and private hire
Typical price
$4,500 – $11,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

The bar treated as its own venue: menus that change, table bookings, and a private hire enquiry that actually qualifies.

  • Editable cocktail and food menus
  • Table bookings
  • Private hire with capacity and packages
  • Events and seasonal programming

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Why FindDevs for this

Built by Australians who know your sector.

The booking is the product.

A distillery site lives or dies on whether someone can book a masterclass in under a minute on their phone. Everything else on the page is in service of that.

Spirits compliance, handled.

Age verification, licence display, and freight rules that differ by state and by product. Our developers have shipped alcohol before, which means these are scoping questions rather than launch-week surprises.

December is not an edge case.

Gift vouchers, corporate orders and gift packs are a huge share of the year for a distillery. They get built as a first-class part of the site, not a plugin added in November.

Three quotes, Australian developers.

Fixed-scope quotes in 24 hours, and you own the code, the accounts and the customer data.

Tech we know

The stack our matched Spirits developers actually use.

Send us a brief and we'll match you with developers experienced in your specific stack, not generic full-stack tourists.

Shopify WooCommerce Stripe Square Tock Klaviyo Sanity WordPress Xero Google Business
What good looks like

Your website is the first impression.

In this industry the site is judged as a piece of design in its own right. These are the shapes a good one takes.

The booking is the product, an example spirits website design
The booking is the product
Session times, capacity, a deposit at booking and automatic reminders. Deposits are what turn a booking into an attendance.
Sell the room, then the bottle, an example spirits website design
Sell the room, then the bottle
The still is the hero image because the experience is the margin. Everything on the page serves the tasting booking.
The bar as its own venue, an example spirits website design
The bar as its own venue
A distillery and a gin bar are two businesses sharing a brand. One site, two clear paths, no muddling.

Illustrative designs, not client work. Your build uses your own photography, brand and content.

Real briefs we've matched

Three illustrative examples.

Names lightly anonymised. Outcomes from real engagements through the FindDevs network.

Hobart, Tas
A gin distillery and bar
Masterclass bookings

Deposits and automated reminders replaced an email inbox. No-shows on weekend sessions dropped sharply.

Adelaide Hills, SA
A small-batch distillery
Vouchers + bottle shop

Digital vouchers removed the December scramble of posting physical cards, and redemption is tracked properly.

Melbourne, Vic
A city gin bar
Bar site and private hire

Private hire enquiries now arrive with date, headcount and budget attached instead of "do you do functions".

"Our masterclasses were being booked through an email address and a spreadsheet, and we were losing seats to no-shows every weekend. Three quotes back in a day, all from developers who had built booking systems before. Deposits alone paid for the build."
Priya · Co-founder, gin distillery · Hobart
FAQ

Common questions.

Yes, and you should insist on it. Sessions with real capacity, a deposit or full payment at booking, your cancellation window enforced automatically, and reminders before the session. Deposits are what turn a booking into an actual attendance, particularly for weekend sessions.
Issued instantly by email, optionally scheduled to arrive on a date, redeemable against a booking or against bottles, with balance tracking so a partial redemption leaves the rest available. If you also sell corporate vouchers in bulk, that is worth mentioning at scoping because it changes how they are generated.
Generally yes, with age verification, your licence displayed, and freight rules that respect per-state restrictions and courier rules for spirits. Some carriers and some destinations have limits, so the build encodes what you can actually ship rather than letting someone order something that will be rejected.
Almost always one site with two clear paths, because they share a brand and the SEO benefit of one domain is real. What matters is that someone arriving to book a table is not made to read about copper stills first, and someone booking a tour is not shown a cocktail menu. That is an information architecture problem, and it is worth solving properly.
Tasting room bookings run $5,500 to $13,000. Vouchers on their own are $4,000 to $9,500. A bottle shop with compliance is $7,000 to $17,000. If the budget only stretches to one, build the booking system: it is the thing that fills the room, and a full room buys bottles.
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Spirits developers across Australia.

We match Australian developers from every major city and remote-first teams nationwide. Pick your city, we've already got developers there.

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