The Cure Hot Sauce Co.
A Courtenay hot-sauce maker stocked in ~35 shops across the Island and Sunshine Coast — with no wholesale portal at all. Every trade order runs through an orders@ inbox. We built the channel they’re missing.
Platform
Lightspeed eCom
Sells
Hot sauce, rubs, Worcestershire
Buys wholesale
Grocers, gift shops, restaurants
Today
Retail store + email orders@
The tell
~35 stockists across Vancouver Island — and zero wholesale infrastructure.
The demand is already proven: three dozen shops, oyster bars, and distilleries carry The Cure. The bottleneck isn’t getting buyers — it’s that every one of them orders by emailing Rob, who re-keys it by hand. (A placeholder “222-333-4444” phone number is still live on the contact page — the DIY tell.)
How wholesale works today
No wholesale channel exists
Nav is only: Products · About · Contact · Cart.
A shop owner sees the same retail-priced store a consumer does. No login, no trade pricing.
“Ask them to stock us”
“Don’t see where you shop? Ask them to stock us!”
The one wholesale-adjacent line pushes acquisition onto the customer — a buyer reading it has no button to click.
Orders by email & phone
“…inquiries: orders@thecurehotsauce.ca” · 604-353-9430
Rob hand-keys every order from free-text email. (A placeholder “222-333-4444” is still live in the contact block.)
A wide, volatile catalogue
~35+ SKUs · 2 sizes each · frequent small-batch drops · many “Sold out.”
All that mix-and-match math runs through an inbox, retyped every reorder.
The wholesale channel they’re missing
A self-serve B2B portal bolted onto their existing Lightspeed store — same catalogue, same inventory. Built for a multi-flavour maker: buyers mix-and-match a 12-pack across heat levels, and reorder their exact mix in one click.
Island Affair Giftware
Silver · gift shop
- In stock$90.00/cs–1+
Black Chili Lime
148ml · case / 12
- In stock$108.00/cs–1+
ReapTide (Reaper chipotle)
148ml · case / 12
- In stock$72.00/cs–1+
Goblin’ Green
148ml · case / 12
- Low · ships ~5 days$102.00/cs–0+
SirNacha
148ml · case / 12
- In stock$45.00/cs–1+
Rob’s Rub
250g jar · case / 6
- Backordered$72.00/cs–0+
Worcesterschreier
148ml · case / 12
min order: 4 cases / $300 · mix-and-match any 148ml into a 12-pack
drops straight into fulfillment · 0 emails
Wholesale prices illustrative — The Cure publishes no wholesale pricing; retail prices observed live (June 2026).
One stockist, 30 seconds
Island Affair Giftware in Comox logs in and clicks Reorder: last order. Their saved mixed case loads — Black Chili Lime, ReapTide, Goblin’ Green in one 12-pack, plus a case of Rob’s Rub. The cart confirms it clears the 4-case minimum, shows ReapTide in stock live, applies their Silver-tier price, and checks out — straight into Lightspeed.
The numbers, on the table
To build
$4,000
Portal on top of your Lightspeed store.
To run
$300/mo
Hosting, maintenance, support, ongoing fit.
Payback
~6 of 35
Year one (~$7,600) is covered by moving roughly 6 of your existing 35 stockists to self-serve reordering — before a single new account.
Payback illustrative — modelled on an assumed ~$300 average wholesale order at ~40% product margin; we run it on The Cure’s real numbers on the call.
This is a spec teardown