Websites and software Every business Clay Township
Your busiest Friday looks great until the delivery app statement shows up and takes a cut of every order.
Direct online ordering for Clay Township businesses, with the delivery apps pulled into one menu and one ticket flow, and more orders that are fully yours.
7
Businesses in clay township
Listings a customer can find here
57%
With no website
4 with nothing for Google to rank
43%
With an email listed
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In Clay Township
Colony Tower Complex, Clay Township
Clay Township
It is Friday night in Clay Township and the counter is buried. A row of tablets chirps from different delivery apps, one ticket printed twice, a driver is waiting on an order that never came through, and a regular who lives down the street is ordering through an app that charges you for the privilege.
With direct ordering on your site and Google listing, that regular orders from you, pays you and picks up at the window you set. The apps still bring new guests, but they feed into one system, one printer and one menu you change in one place.
Month end looks different. More of your regulars order direct, your menu matches everywhere, and the kitchen works from one clean ticket flow instead of a noisy pile.
Tap the ones that sound like your week.
57% of Clay Township businesses have no website, so a business with real pages for each town starts ahead of 4 competitors.
Businesses here (dark bars) and across the six counties (light bars).
Clay Township first, Metro Detroit below
Clay Township first, Metro Detroit below
Clay Township first, Metro Detroit below
The names a customer compares you with, by Google review count.
We look at your POS, menus, apps, tablets and monthly statements.
Ordering on your site and Google profile, tied into your POS and kitchen printers.
One menu, one feed and the right settings on each delivery app you keep.
Bag inserts, receipts and texts that invite repeat guests to order from you.
What we report every month: Direct orders versus app orders, Commission paid each month, Repeat guests, and Order errors and refunds.
Delivery apps are good at finding new guests and handling drivers, and they charge for both. Direct ordering is better for regulars, who already know you and do not need an app to find you. Most restaurants do best keeping the apps for reach and moving regulars to direct ordering over time.
Your POS decides a lot, since Toast, Square and Clover each have their own ordering tools and fees. The size of your menu, modifiers, how you handle delivery and how many apps need to feed one system all add work. We quote a fixed setup fee after a short call and a look at your statements.
Most POS systems can take DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders straight in, or through a middle service that merges them. That means one printer, one menu and fewer missed tickets. It also lets you pause every channel at once when the kitchen is slammed.
You do not need a driver team to offer delivery on direct orders. Many ordering platforms can call a courier from the delivery networks on demand, so the guest orders from you and a driver carries it. You keep the guest and pay a delivery fee instead of a full commission.
The apps rarely share contact details, so your only touchpoint is the bag. A simple insert, a sticker with your ordering link and a reason to order direct next time all work. Once a guest orders direct, opt-in texts and a loyalty reward bring them back.
Great reach with almost no setup, but every order pays a commission and the guests belong to the app.
Full control on paper, but costly to build and maintain, and most guests will not download another app.
Direct ordering through your POS, the apps cleaned up into one flow, and a plan to move regulars direct.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Clay Township businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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