Web studio in Ottawa
Try your new website before you commit to anything.
After a free consultation, we build a preview of your new website and you test it. If it isn’t right for you, you walk away and owe nothing. If you like it, we agree on the price.
No cost until you decide
Tell us about your business and your current website.
We arrange a time to discuss your needs and what a new website can do for you.
We build a preview of your new website. You test it on your own phone and computer.
Not for you? Walk away, with no cost and no obligation. Like it? We agree on the price and timing.
Your new website goes live. Choose a care package if you want us to look after it.
What we do
Every project starts with a free consultation and a preview you can test. You only commit if you like it.
Free
No obligation
We arrange a time to discuss your needs, look at your current website and show what can be improved.
Try it first
Price agreed after your preview
Building from scratch or refreshing the website you have, we’ve got you covered.
Try it first
Price agreed after your preview
Customers book a time or join the walk-in queue from their phone. Staff run it from one screen.
Try it first
Price agreed after your preview
Customers browse your products, add them to a cart and pay by card on your website.
From CA$99/month
Or yearly, 2 months free
Once your website is up, we keep it secure and current, and keep improving it.
Our work
A family-run hair salon with two shops in Ottawa, Kanata and Merivale.
Customers check in from their phone, watch their spot move, and get an email when it’s almost their turn. A screen in each shop shows who’s next, with a QR code for walk-ins. Staff run the queue, bookings and schedules from one admin page.
This is a real salon’s live system. Look around, but please only check in if you’re getting a haircut.
Sample names on the in-shop screen. We never show real customer data.
After launch
Once your website is up, choose how much looking after it needs. Monthly, or yearly with 2 months free.
Keeps your website secure and current.
CA$99a month
or CA$990 a year (2 months free)
Keeps your website improving.
CA$199a month
or CA$1,990 a year (2 months free)
Larger changes are quoted first. Without a care package, work is billed at CA$110 an hour and quoted before we start.
Each website needs different building blocks, and most small sites stay within the free plans. When yours needs more, these are the services we use and their own prices. They bill you directly; we don’t add anything.
Website hosting and forms
Cloudflare
Free plan: Unlimited page visits; 100,000 form and booking requests a day
More: US$5/month for 10 million requests a month
Email sending (contact form, booking confirmations)
Resend
Free plan: 3,000 emails a month, up to 100 a day
More: US$20/month for 50,000 emails a month
Database (bookings, queue, staff accounts)
Supabase
Free plan: 500 MB; paused after a week with no activity
More: US$25/month for 8 GB, never paused
Spam protection on forms
Cloudflare Turnstile
Free plan: Free
More: Free
Text-message alerts (optional)
Twilio
Free plan: No free plan
More: About US$0.016 a text with carrier fees, plus US$1.15/month for the number
Card payments (online orders, deposits, gift cards)
Stripe
Free plan: No monthly fee
More: 2.9% + CA$0.30 per Canadian card payment
Domain name
Your registrar
Free plan: n/a
More: Usually US$10–25 a year for a .com
Prices in US dollars unless noted, from the providers in October 2026. They can change, so we confirm them with you before anything is set up.
About
Paddle & Pixel is a web studio in Ottawa. We work with local shops and service businesses so their websites hold up next to much bigger competitors: clear information, fast pages and secure forms.
You see your new website working before you decide, the language stays plain, and any outside costs are shown up front.
You test a working preview before you agree to anything.
Your domain, accounts, wording, photos and customer data stay in your name.
No jargon in our proposals, reports or conversations.
You see what any outside service costs before you need it, at its own price.
It depends on what your business needs. After the consultation and your preview, we give you one price, and you decide then.
You walk away. There is nothing to pay and no obligation.
Yes. Your domain, accounts, wording, photos and customer data are all in your name.
Most small websites stay within free plans. If yours needs more capacity, such as more emails or a larger database, you pay the provider’s own price, shown in the running costs table. We don’t add anything on top.
Yes. We can set up a simple admin page for day-to-day details like hours, prices and staff. Bigger changes go through a care package or a quote.
No. Our booking and queue system started in a salon, but our websites are for any local business: shops, cafés, trades, studios and clinics.
Contact
Tell us about your business and your current website, and we’ll arrange a time to discuss your needs. No obligation.
Prefer email?
info@paddleandpixel.com