Websites and custom software for Miami small businesses

Miami starts its working day three hours before Los Angeles does. From noon to 5 p.m. in Miami both sides are at work, and that is where calls and screen-share reviews go on the calendar.

The Miami morning comes before our day begins, so it suits written work, such as notes on the preview link or copy for the next page. On a site in two languages, every review covers both versions, so nothing goes live in English alone by mistake.

Hotels and restaurants carry Miami Beach. On the mainland, the cafés of Little Havana and the galleries and bars of Wynwood draw visitors of their own, and Brickell, the financial district, is dense with condo towers that keep real estate offices busy. Coral Gables mixes offices with shops and clinics, and med spas are spread across the county.

Doral, beside the airport, is home to import and export firms and the warehouses they fill. In Hialeah and Little Havana, Spanish is the first language of many customers, and a shop or a caterer anywhere in the county is expected to answer in either one.

The SBA Office of Advocacy's 2025 profile of the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach metro area counts 39,220 small businesses in accommodation and food services, the group that includes caterers. A caterer in that crowd is judged on how fast a quote comes back, in the language the customer wrote in.

Sunbiz is the Florida Division of Corporations' site, where companies and fictitious names are registered. Miami-Dade County's Tax Collector issues the local business tax receipt, which runs from October 1 to September 30, and a business inside a city such as Miami or Hialeah also needs that city's receipt.

The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce serves the whole area, and the Miami-Dade Beacon Council is the county's official economic development partnership. Keep the business name on your site the same as on your Sunbiz filing and your tax receipt.

The site needs its menus in English and Spanish with prices per guest, and an order form that asks for the date and the head count first. A customer who starts in Spanish should get every message after that in Spanish too.

Behind it, the kitchen needs one list of confirmed events by date, with the deposit paid and the balance still due. Most caterers already take cards through a payment processor, and a deposit taken on the site should land in that same account.

Take an invented caterer in Doral that cooks for office lunches and family parties and takes orders by phone and text in both languages. Deposits arrive by bank transfer, and the owner tracks balances in a spreadsheet.

Its site would start from a Growth site at $11,900, with the second language priced in the written plan, and the tier's CRM hook puts every order request in one list. Ordering online with a card deposit, and charging the balance before the event, is payments work, which the price book lists at $34,000 for an app with payments and a customer portal.

If a deposit invoice is enough for now, an automation sprint at $3,800 can send one from the accounting tool the caterer already uses whenever an order request is accepted, and the ordering app can wait a season. The app, when it comes, is paid in three parts under the book's terms: forty percent to start, thirty at the midpoint and thirty at launch.

Beyond catering, the same eight services fit a med spa in Coral Gables or a trading company in Doral.