Distributors
Adding your range to a catalogue. They need pack sizes, case configurations, margins and a reason their stores will reorder.
Website proposal
Two B2B websites built to turn distributor and stockist interest into enquiries. Designed from your brand, built by people, owned entirely by you.
we found you in a Yo‑Chi, and then we read everything
00 · A note before the detail
Please read this part
Justin, Nat,
You said something on Instagram that stuck with me. That you had been burnt by developers sending over mockups generated start to finish by a machine, and that you're sceptical about who to trust next.
Let me answer that first, before anything else in here.
Every design and every line of code on your two websites will be made by a person. Our designer sits down with your brand, your photography and your product, and draws. Our developers write the code by hand. Nothing gets spun up from a prompt and then dressed up to look bespoke.
We do use software to make our own work faster. Project notes, meeting summaries, testing scripts, invoicing. It saves us hours a week and it's how a small team can give you studio quality at this price. None of it goes anywhere near your design, your writing or your build. And if you ever want to jump on a Zoom and watch our designer work, say the word and we'll set it up.
Second thing. We did our homework before writing any of this. We read all thirteen pages of your brief. We went through every page of odough.co, including the ones sitting behind odd URLs. We looked up every chain in your stockist line and every distributor on your wholesale page. The next section is what we found, including eleven specific things on your current site that are quietly costing you credibility with buyers. Some you'll already know about. A few you probably won't.
We're a young studio in Brooklyn and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Here is what that actually means for you. You get the people doing the work, not a salesperson. You pay in stages, and only for work you've already seen. You own every file from week one. And if at any point we're not the right fit, you stop, you keep everything we've made, and you owe nothing further.
We'd be proud to have Daydream Foods as one of our first clients. Nine years of building something that works, and the US launch deserves a site that looks like it means business on day one.
Whatever you decide, thanks for sending the brief. It's one of the clearest we've read.
Ray D'souza
Ray D'souza · NYC Web Design Studio · ray@nycwebdesignstudio.com · 929-633-7217
01 · What we found on odough.co
Checked 10/13/2026
When you look at your own website every day, it goes invisible. So we went through it the way a frozen yoghurt franchise buyer would, on a phone, in a hurry, deciding whether you're a serious supplier. Here is the list. Every one of them is fixed inside the price in this proposal.
At some point the original contact page was turned into the About page, and the real contact page became contact-1. Your single most valuable page, the wholesale enquiry page, now sits at an address no buyer would ever guess and that looks unfinished when you paste it into an email.
How we fix itProper addresses that say what they're: /wholesale, /foodservice, /stockists, /products. Every old address redirected so nothing breaks.
"Home" is the default label the website builder puts there. It's the single line Google shows in search results, and right now it tells a searcher nothing about what you make, who you supply, or where you are. For a brand describing itself as Australia's leading edible cookie dough supplier, that's a lot of ground given away free.
How we fix itEvery page gets a written title and description built around what buyers actually search for. Wholesale, foodservice, bulk, by city, by product.
When a description is missing, Google picks a sentence from the page at random. On your homepage the most likely candidates are "FREE DELIVERY OVER $100" or "SPOON ME RAW". Neither of those is what you want a distributor to read in a search result.
How we fix itA written description for all sixteen pages across the two sites, aimed at the buyer, not the shopper.
A distributor doing their due diligence on you lands here, sees a mostly empty shop, and quietly files you as a brand with supply problems. The products are almost certainly fine. The shop page is just telling a story you didn't intend.
How we fix itOn the new sites, trade availability and retail stock are separated completely, so a paused retail line never implies a paused wholesale line.
This is the big one. A foodservice buyer needs five things before they'll even reply: pack size, case configuration, shelf life, storage, and allergens. None of them are published. So every single enquiry has to start with an email asking for the basics, and a fair number of buyers simply don't send it.
How we fix itA proper foodservice product page per item with all five, plus a downloadable spec sheet, which is the document buyers forward internally.
Being in Yo-Chi and Betty's Burgers is enormous. Yo-Chi passed forty stores last year and is heading for sixty. Betty's Burgers is at seventy four sites and sits under Retail Zoo, the same group as Boost. That list is the most persuasive thing you own, and it's currently an unstyled string of capitals with missing apostrophes and a trailing dash.
How we fix itA proper stockist wall with logos, store counts and links, placed where buyers see it inside four seconds.
There's a good internal reason for this, we're sure. But a buyer who has never met you sees an unexplained third party domain as the only route in, with no phone number and no business address anywhere on the site. For a trade buyer about to put you on a purchase order, that's a small cold spot at exactly the wrong moment.
How we fix itEnquiries routed to justin@daydreamfoods.com as your brief specifies, with a named human, a phone number and an address on the contact page.
A buyer comparing the two pages can't tell what is actually available to trade. Small thing, real friction.
How we fix itOne product database feeds every page, so the trade range and the retail range can never drift apart again.
The hero is missing the apostrophe in World's. The footer, on every page of the site, spells your brand name with a zero instead of the letter O, and still says 2025. These are tiny. They're also the kind of tiny that a careful buyer notices and files away.
How we fix itA full copy proofread across both sites before launch, and a footer year that updates itself so it's never wrong again.
Headings are how a search engine works out what a page is about, and how a screen reader navigates it. On your About page there's no main heading at all, and one that's completely empty. Nobody reading the page would ever notice. Google and screen readers both do.
How we fix itA clean heading structure on every page, checked for accessibility as part of our quality pass.
Which is exactly why the Daydream site is phase one. Right now, a US distributor searching the parent company finds a single unclaimed directory entry pointing at an Australian consumer cookie dough shop. That's the gap this project closes.
How we fix itA US-facing Daydream Foods site that establishes the parent brand properly, with Tub O' Dough positioned inside the range exactly as your brief describes.
Three more things worth a conversation
Your site says "SINCE 2015", your brief says 2017. No view on which is right, but both are out in public at the moment, so it's worth settling before launch.
There's an Australian dessert business already trading as Daydream Dessert. Different name, same category, same country. We build websites, we're not trademark lawyers, so this isn't advice. Just something your advisor may want to glance at before the US launch gathers pace.
Your current shop still sells to consumers. Your brief says e-commerce isn't required on either site. We agree for Daydream. For Tub O' Dough, we'd rather not switch off revenue that's already running, so we've priced an option to keep a simple shop alive on the Australian site. Your call, and it's not baked into the headline price.
02 · How we read your brief
Correct us if we've it wrong
Daydream Foods is the parent and the priority. It's the B2B company a US distributor needs to believe in. It carries the whole range across three categories, it tells the Australian track record as credibility rather than nostalgia, and its only real job is to turn a distributor or a store owner into an enquiry.
Tub O' Dough is the brand people already love. In the US it sits inside the Daydream range as one product line. In Australia it stays standalone, and it needs repositioning from a consumer dough shop into a trade supplier, without throwing away nine years of brand equity or the customers who already buy from it.
They should feel like siblings, not twins. Same quality, same energy, same underlying structure. Different skin. Your brief asked for a shared page framework that can be re-skinned per brand to make phase two faster and cheaper, and that's precisely how we'd build it.
Adding your range to a catalogue. They need pack sizes, case configurations, margins and a reason their stores will reorder.
Froyo, acai and ice cream operators choosing toppings. They need serving ideas, menu applications and a sample.
Already selling you. They need product information and the fastest possible route to reorder.
They tried you in a store and searched the name. They need to find the nearest stockist, and nothing else.
Four different people, one website. The entire structure below exists to get each of them to the right place without making the other three feel lost.
03 · What we'd build
Eight pages per site, sixteen in total
And the wholesale enquiry button is never more than one tap away, on any page, on any screen size.
Your brief asks for motion everywhere, and we agree. Hero video loops, product pours, in-store serving shots, subtle animation as you scroll. Each product owns a colour, so the range reads instantly even at a glance. Every video is compressed and served so it starts fast on a phone on store wifi, which is where most of your traffic will land.
Four different visitors, four routes, one destination. A distributor lands on the range and ends at a wholesale form. A store owner lands on serving ideas and ends at a sample request. A consumer lands on the stockist map and leaves happy. Nobody has to work out which one they are.
Products, stockists, distributors and page content all live in a simple editor your team updates without calling anyone. No developer, no ticket, no fee. We train you on it over Zoom and leave you a written guide and recordings.
04 · Which platform to build on
What we'd pick, and why
Your brief says Squarespace, or something similar that your team can update without a developer. We've priced all three realistic options so you can see the trade-offs rather than take our word for it. Here is the plain English version of what each one actually means for you.
| What matters to you | Squarespace Our pick | Shopify | WordPress |
|---|---|---|---|
| How easy is it for Nat to update | Easiest of the three. Click the text, type, hit save. Closest to editing a document. | Easy for products, slightly fiddlier for page layout. | Very capable once learned, but the most to learn. |
| Stockist map with search by zip or city | Works well through a dedicated locator tool we set up and hand over. | Same approach, same tool. | Strongest option. The map and the data live inside your own site. |
| Product pages with pack size, shelf life, allergens | Good. We build a repeatable product template your team fills in. | Very good. Built for product data by nature. | Best. Every field is exactly what you want it to be, nothing more. |
| Spec sheet PDF downloads | Yes, uploaded per product. | Yes. | Yes, and can be auto-generated from the product data later. |
| Video performance on mobile | Very good. Handles compression for you. | Very good. | Excellent, with the most control, and the most setup. |
| If you ever want trade ordering online | Would need rebuilding on another platform. | Built for it. The natural home if wholesale ordering is on your two year horizon. | Possible, with more work. |
| Keeping the existing Tub O' Dough shop | Yes, rebuilt. Simple and clean. | Yes, and the strongest shop of the three. | Yes, through WooCommerce. |
| What you pay the platform, not us | Around $25 to $36 per site per month, billed by Squarespace. Hosting and security included. | From around $39 per site per month, billed by Shopify. | Hosting from around $12 to $30 per month. You or we handle updates. |
| Who should pick this | You, for both sites. It does everything your brief asks for, your team can run it, and the monthly cost is predictable. | Pick this if trade ordering or a serious consumer shop is coming within two years. | Pick this if you want maximum control and don't mind a slightly steeper learning curve. |
What we'd do if you just asked us straight
Build both on Squarespace. It's what your brief asked for, it's genuinely the easiest for your team to run day to day, and nothing in your requirements needs anything heavier. Your stockist map, your spec sheets, your forms, your video and your tracking all work properly on it.
The one reason to choose Shopify instead is if you can already see yourselves letting trade customers place reorders online within the next couple of years. If that's a real plan rather than a maybe, building there now saves you a migration later. Tell us honestly on the call and we'll tell you honestly which way to go. The price difference between the two is small, and we'd rather you spent it once.
05 · Page by page
The same eight pages on both sites
Taken straight from your brief, with the extras we'd add noted in each row.
Hook buyers fast and route them
Full width hero video at the top. Brand statement. Range preview split by your three categories. A proper stockist wall with real logos and store counts. Why stock us. Distributor teaser. Instagram carousel. Wholesale enquiry button fixed in the header on every screen size. Added: a market switcher so a US visitor and an Australian visitor land on the right contact routes and the right distributor list.
Build trust in a new brand
Founder story, the Australian origins, the mission, quality and production credentials. Added: a short timeline from the first kitchen to the US launch, because a nine year track record is the single best answer to "who are you". Added: a production and food safety strip, which is the first thing a distributor's compliance person looks for.
Show everything, then go deep
All seven products on one page, filterable by your three categories: cookie dough, fruit sauces, nut products. Then a page per product with hero images and video, short description, use suggestions such as drizzle, swirl and layer, pack sizes, storage, shelf life, allergen and dietary icons, and a spec sheet PDF download. Added: related products on every page, and a single downloadable line sheet covering the whole range in one PDF, which is the document distributors forward internally.
Show where to find us
Interactive map with search by zip or city, and a list view underneath for anyone whose map doesn't load. Filter by brand and by state or region. Added: your team updates it from a simple spreadsheet style list, so adding thirty new Yo-Chi locations takes five minutes and no developer.
Convert trade interest
Why stocking you makes a store money. Serving ideas and menu applications. The full distributor list with contact links. The wholesale enquiry form. Added: a distributor router, where a buyer picks their state or country and immediately sees the right distributor with a one click email. Added: a dedicated page for your bespoke flavour development service at 100kg minimum, which is currently a sentence buried on a hidden page and deserves to be sold properly.
General enquiries
Contact form routed to justin@daydreamfoods.com exactly as the brief specifies, plus email, phone, socials and tap to call on mobile. Added: enquiries tagged by type on arrival, so a distributor enquiry never gets lost behind a consumer asking where to buy.
Linked in the footer
Your supplied copy, properly formatted and linked. Paired with the cookie consent banner covering both US and Australian expectations.
Linked in the footer
Your supplied copy, properly formatted and linked.
06 · The part that actually makes enquiries
Without the jargon
Most sites have a single contact form and then wonder why the enquiries are vague. We build four, each asking only what that person can answer, each landing in your inbox already sorted.
Your brief puts it under functional requirements, almost as a utility. We think it's one of the two most important things on the site.
For a consumer who tried the pistachio cream at a Yo-Chi and searched the name, the map is the entire reason they came. They find their nearest store, they go back, that store reorders. The map quietly sells product for you.
For a buyer, the map is proof. Forty two pins across five states says more about whether your product sells than any paragraph you could write.
So we build it to be seen, not buried: a real search by zip or city, filters by brand and region, a list underneath for anyone on a bad connection, and a simple list your team updates in minutes. On the US site it starts honest and small, and grows pin by pin as the launch lands. That growth is itself a sales story, and we'll show you how to use it.
07 · Beyond the brief
Included, not extra
These came out of reading your brief next to your current site and your market. None of them cost extra. If you disagree with any of them, we drop them, no argument.
A single PDF of the whole range with pack sizes, case configurations, allergens and your contact details, downloadable from the product page. This is the document a distributor forwards to their buying team, and the reason a lot of enquiries turn into orders. Almost no small food brand has one ready.
A single clean page you can put behind a QR code on a stand, a sample tub or a business card. Someone scans it at a US expo and lands on the range, the spec sheets and a sample request, instead of your homepage. Yours to reuse at every show.
A download area for stores that already carry you: shelf talkers, social tiles, product photography, serving ideas. Stockists who can market your product sell more of it and reorder faster. Nobody gives their stockists this, and it costs you almost nothing.
Your brief asks for serving ideas on the wholesale page. We'd make it a filterable gallery: by product, by store type, by application such as drizzle, swirl, layer or topping. A froyo operator sees exactly how the passionfruit velvet earns its place on their menu.
One site structure, three audiences. A visitor is pointed to the right distributor list, the right contact route and the right stockist data for wherever they are. Built so a UK section can switch on later without a rebuild.
Every product gets a QR code you can print on packaging, a sell sheet or a sample label. It opens that product's spec sheet directly. A chef or buyer holding your tub gets the allergen and shelf life data in two seconds without finding your website first.
One master list feeds every page on both sites. Change a pack size once and it updates on the product page, the line sheet and the spec sheet. This is the thing that stops the two sites drifting apart in a year, which is exactly what happened between your current shop and your wholesale page.
For the first ninety days after launch, a single page from us each month: visitors, enquiries, which products are driving them, and what we'd change next. Written in English, not analytics speak. No charge, and no obligation to continue.
08 · How we work
Nothing moves forward without your sign-off
This is the part that answers the scepticism. You're never waiting in the dark, and you never pay for a stage you haven't already seen and approved.
A call with you and Nat, then a written sitemap and a content template telling you exactly what copy, photography and video we need for each page, with deadlines. Gate: you approve the sitemap.
Grey box layouts of every page, no colour or imagery, so you're judging structure and order rather than being distracted by the pretty. This is where most problems get caught, cheaply. Gate: you approve the wireframes.
Two visual directions for Daydream Foods, built from your existing brand identity, shown on the real homepage and a real product page, on desktop and mobile. You pick one, or you ask for a third. Gate: you pick a route.
Every page, desktop and mobile, with your real photography and video in place. Revised until you're happy. Gate: you sign off the full design.
We build it on a private link you can open any time. Then our quality pass: every form submitted, every link clicked, tested on iPhone, Android, iPad and desktop, across Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. Gate: you approve the staging site.
Domain connected, redirects live, tracking confirmed, search engines notified. Then a recorded Zoom training session and a written editing guide for your team. Gate: you confirm launch.
What a gate actually means
It means we stop and wait. We don't start the next stage, and we don't invoice for the next stage, until you've said yes in writing to the current one. If at any gate you decide we're not right for this, you can stop there. You keep every file produced to that point, you owe nothing further, and we'll hand over cleanly to whoever comes next. We'd rather that than have you feel trapped halfway through.
09 · Timeline
If we start the week of 10/20/2026
Your brief left the dates to us. These are real and we hold to them. There's one condition at the bottom of this section.
Kickoff call, content template issued, sitemap and wireframes delivered for both brands. We build the shared framework here, which is what makes phase two fast.
Gate: sitemap and wireframes approvedTwo visual directions, you choose one, then full desktop and mobile designs for all eight pages. Revisions run through this week.
Gate: design signed offBuild on a private link, product data and spec sheets loaded, forms tested, tracking connected, accessibility and speed pass, then launch. Training session recorded the same week.
Daydream Foods live, around 11/07/2026The shared framework re-skinned in the Tub O' Dough identity, repositioned for trade, with the Australian distributor structure and the existing shop decision applied.
Gate: design signed offBuild, full content migration, every old address mapped to a new one, QA, then launch. We watch the search console daily for the first week to confirm nothing dropped.
Tub O' Dough live, around 11/21/2026Monitoring, fixes, small changes and your questions answered, for thirty days after each site goes live. Detail in section twelve.
One condition
These dates assume two things from your side: feedback within three working days at each gate, and your copy, photography and video arriving on the dates in the content template. If either slips, we tell you in writing the same week and show you the new date. We'll never quietly let a deadline drift and surprise you with it later.
If you'd rather have both at once
We can run both sites in parallel instead of in sequence and have them live together in around three weeks. It's the same price. It needs more from you in a shorter window, because both sets of content and both approvals land at the same time. Your brief says Daydream first, so that's what we've planned. Say the word and we'll switch.
10 · Investment
All figures USD · one time · no monthly fees to us, ever
Your brief asked us to quote each site separately, so we've. The same work, priced on each of the three platforms, so you can see exactly what the platform choice costs you rather than taking our recommendation on faith.
Step one · choose a platform
Step two · choose a package
Step three · pay as the work is delivered
Every milestone is tied to something you've already seen and approved. You're never paying ahead of the work. Invoices are due within seven days, by bank transfer or card, and nothing is invoiced until the gate before it has been signed off.
Rebuild the existing consumer shop on the new Australian site so your B2C revenue keeps running. Products, checkout, gift cards and discount codes carried across. Add $349.
Your brief says you supply photography. If there are gaps, we'll art direct a shoot remotely: shot list, reference board, and briefing your photographer so every image fits the layouts we've designed. Add $299.
Updates, backups, monitoring, two hours of changes a month and a quarterly review. Month to month, cancel any time with thirty days notice. $149 per month for both sites. Not required, and never automatic.
Platform subscriptions, domain renewals and any third party locator tool are billed to you directly by those companies, not by us, so you keep the accounts in your name. We'll tell you the exact monthly figure before you commit to anything.
11 · Our promises to you
In writing, in the agreement
Within the eight pages and the scope in this document, you get as many rounds as it takes. We don't count them and we don't charge for them. We'll keep going until you look at it and feel proud of it.
The only thing that's not a revision is a new request. A ninth page, a second language, an online store that wasn't in the plan. Those are new work, and we quote them separately in writing before touching anything, so your price in this document never moves on its own. That's the only catch, and we'd rather you heard it from us now than found it later.
Design files, source code, images we optimise, the lot. Every account is created in your name from week one: the platform, the domain, the analytics, the locator tool, the email. Not ours with you added. Yours, with us added, and removable in one click.
On final payment we hand over a written handover document with every login, every file and every decision recorded. If you ever move to another agency, they'll thank us.
This is a one time project price. There's no retainer buried in it, no hosting markup, no licence that quietly renews. You pay Squarespace or Shopify or your host directly, in your own account, at their published price.
The optional care plan exists only if you want it after the free thirty days, it's month to month, and we won't chase you about it.
Your design is drawn by our designer. Your code is written by our developers. Nothing on your site is generated by a machine and passed off as bespoke, and we won't use your brand to train anything.
We do use software to speed up our own admin, notes and testing. That's how we keep the price where it is. It never touches your design, your writing or your build. Ask to watch us work at any point and the answer is yes.
This is the promise that matters most, given what you've already been through. At the end of any of the six stages, if you're not happy, you say so and we stop. You pay for the work completed up to that point and nothing more. You keep every file, every design and every line of code produced so far, with no penalty, no notice period and no argument.
We're not going to hold your project hostage to get paid. If we're not earning the next stage, we should not get it.
12 · Thirty days after launch
Included, per site, at no cost
Every site gets thirty days of real support from the day it goes live. Not a mailbox. Us.
Your brief asks for a short editing guide or walkthrough. We'd rather overdo this part, because a site your team can't update becomes a site nobody updates.
13 · Terms
Plain English, no small print
| What you are buying | Design, build, launch and handover of the websites described in this document, on the platform and package you select, for the one time price shown. Everything listed in sections five, six, seven and twelve is included in that price. |
|---|---|
| Payment | By milestone, as set out in section ten. Each invoice is issued only after you have approved the gate before it and is due within seven days. Bank transfer or card. No payment is taken before the agreement is signed. |
| What a fixed price means | The number does not change for anything inside the scope of this document, however long it takes us. If you request something outside it, we quote that separately in writing and you decide before any work begins. |
| Revisions | Unlimited within the agreed scope, as described in section eleven. New scope is new work and is always quoted first. |
| Ownership | On final payment, full ownership of all design files, source code and optimised assets transfers to Daydream Foods. All platform, domain, analytics and third party accounts are created in your name from the start, so there is nothing to transfer and nothing we can withhold. |
| What you supply | Copy for all pages including the legal ones, photography and video, brand assets, product data and spec sheet content, and the stockist and distributor lists, on the dates in the content template. We advise on length and structure, optimise everything for web, and flag gaps early. |
| Timeline | As set out in section nine, assuming feedback within three working days at each gate and content delivered on the agreed dates. If anything slips on either side, we confirm the revised date in writing in the same week. |
| Stopping the project | Either of us can stop in writing at the end of any stage. You pay for work completed to that point, you keep every file produced, and nothing further is owed. No penalty and no notice period. |
| Third party costs | Platform subscriptions, domain registration and renewal, and any third party locator or email tool are paid by you directly to those providers in your own accounts. We never mark these up and never bill them through us. |
| Our use of the work | We would love to show the finished sites in our portfolio once they are live. If you would rather we did not, say so and we will not. It changes nothing about the price or the service. |
| Confidentiality | Your brief, your product data, your commercial information and anything else you share stays between us. We are happy to sign your own non-disclosure agreement instead of relying on this line. |
| Validity | The prices in this document hold until 10/27/2026. After that we will re-quote, because our schedule and third party prices both move. There is no other reason for the date. |
| The legal bit | This document is a proposal, not a contract. If you accept, we will send a short plain English agreement covering the points above for both sides to sign before any work or payment begins. |
14 · Accept this proposal
Valid until 10/27/2026
Choose a platform and a package above, then press accept. We'll send the agreement and the first invoice the same day, and block the start date in our calendar for seven days while you read them. We'd love a F2F, and we'll as soon as we can get everyone in one place. In the meantime a Zoom walkthrough is the better first step, and we'd rather do that than have you read twenty pages on your own.
This opens an email to Ray with your choice filled in. Nothing is binding until the agreement is signed by both sides.
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