Independent Software Studio / Est. 2026
ArcSmiths is a San Diego software studio. We design and build the site, the store, the app, and the custom systems behind them — then host it all and keep it running.
Built for
Magnolia Car Wash
Design & build · Booking & loyalty system
Arcbay
Our product · Websites & back office
Mariam Mechael
Design & build · Real estate site & CRM
Align Hair Studio
Design & build · Barbershop & booking
Dote
Our product · NFC keepsake cards
Keepfork
Our product · Ordering platform
Mercado Shores
Design & build · Local business site
Aeldrath
Our product · Original game
Jamul Kiwanis
Design & build · Nonprofit site
Quill Peptides
Design & build · Magento storefront
MP Wholesale
Design & build · Online store
MP Snacks
Design & build · Online store
Our product
Websites, booking, pipelines, loyalty, and staff systems for local service businesses — bespoke, hosted, and fully managed by us. It's the platform behind Magnolia Car Wash, Santee Smog, Mariam Mechael Realty and Align Hair Studio, and it includes PunchBay, our kiosk time clock where staff punch in with their face.
Car wash & detail
A booking site wired to a real back office: customers pick a service and a time on their phone, the shop sees the day’s jobs on a dashboard, and punch-card loyalty runs itself. Staff clock in on a kiosk with their face.
“We get $300 details booked from the website almost every day now.”
Real estate
A realtor’s site built around the agent rather than a listings feed — property search, neighbourhood guides, and a home-valuation funnel, in three languages, on a design that doesn’t look like every other IDX template.
Online store
A storefront selling snacks by the case — real checkout, case pricing, shipping thresholds, and the commercial terms stated up front instead of discovered at the till. Its wholesale sibling runs on the same build.
Some businesses need one of these; others need four of them talking to each other. You don’t have to know which — that’s what the first conversation is for.
Hand-built, fast, and findable on Google — written and structured to turn someone who just looked you up into a customer.
Real checkout with real payments — single items, cases, subscriptions, shipping rules, and tax. Built to sell, not a catalogue with a contact form. Shopify where that is the right fit, self-hosted Magento where it is not.
iOS and Android from one codebase — native feel, push notifications, and the offline states and store-review realities handled. We’re building two of our own right now, for Dote and for Arcbay.
Customers pick a service and a time from their phone at 11pm, and you start the day looking at a list of jobs instead of a voicemail box.
When nothing off the shelf fits — multi-location platforms, dashboards and internal tools, POS and software integrations, and practical AI wired into something that ships.
The unglamorous half that decides whether the rest works: a dashboard for the day, a job pipeline, punch-card loyalty that lives on the customer’s phone, and a kiosk time clock where staff punch in with their face.
ArcSmiths is independent and senior by design. The same people who scope your product write the code and put it in front of users — no hand-offs, no telephone game. We partner with founders and teams, and we build our own products to keep our judgment sharp.
Whether you need a single website, a full business launch — workspace, domain, hosting, the works — or a custom system like Magnolia's booking and loyalty platform, we meet you where you are and take care of everything technical. Fast, but done properly.
We can set up and manage as much or as little as you already have — so you never touch a control panel unless you want to. Every project is different, so we scope each one individually: tell us where you're starting from and we'll come back with a clear, fixed plan.
Start here
The first conversation is free and there’s nothing to sign at the end of it. You’ll get a plan in plain English — what you get, how long it takes, and a fixed price — before any work starts.
