Night Shift Bar Co.
A mobile cocktail bar in Austin that takes event requests and sells home-bar kits online. One WordPress site: an Elementor landing page, a WooCommerce shop and card checkout.
- Platform
- WordPress, Astra child theme
- Page builder
- Elementor
- Shop
- WooCommerce, block checkout
- Payments
- Card on a hosted payment page
The brief
The owner wanted a site that looks like the bar feels at night, gets event requests from a phone in under a minute and sells the same kits the bartenders use.
Child theme first
Brand colors, fonts and buttons live in an Astra child theme, so theme updates never wipe them.
Landing page in Elementor
Hero, packages with prices, signature menu, reviews and an event request form. Font sizes and spacing set separately for phones.
Shop built with hooks, not edits
Five products in three categories, a percentage badge on sale items, a best-seller badge, trust badges under the button and a Shipping & returns tab. Everything is in a small plugin and one template override, nothing is changed inside WooCommerce.
Payment that can't be faked
The order is marked paid only after a signed webhook or a server-side check with the payment provider. Opening the return link by hand does nothing. Repeated webhooks are ignored and refunds go back through the provider.
From the first screen to a paid order
How it was checked
Speed work was done on a separate, deliberately heavy Elementor page: render-blocking files 15 → 9, CSS 449 → 266 KB, layout shift (CLS) 0.298 → 0.001, all images given sizes and lazy loading except the hero.
This is a concept project, not client work. The bar, the people and the reviews are invented, photos are from Unsplash. The site was built and tested on a local WordPress install with a sandbox payment provider.