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Software & Automation Built for Revelstoke, BC Businesses

From Mackenzie Avenue retailers to Big Eddy forestry operations, EduWeb builds the websites, software and automation that let Revelstoke businesses run lean through a tight labour market and a swinging tourist season.

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  • Acute staffing shortages driven by a lack of affordable housing, with businesses described as 'aching for staff' and losing candidates to cities with cheaper rent
  • Loss of established employer functions to relocation over cost-of-living pressure: CPKC is moving roughly 125 rail jobs from Revelstoke to Kamloops citing housing and staff-retention challenges
  • An incoming wave of 100+ temporary BC Hydro workers for the REV-6 dam project is set to further tighten an already strained rental market that local businesses rely on for staff housing
  • Highly seasonal, tourism-driven demand (winter ski season vs. summer visitor season) forces businesses to manage large swings in staffing and cash flow

The Revelstoke Angle

With local employers openly "aching for staff" and unable to compete on cost of living, AI-driven automation — for booking, scheduling, customer service and inventory — is less a convenience than a way to absorb Revelstoke's seasonal tourism swings and REV-6-era demand without hiring into a rental market that can't house the workers you'd need.

Doing business in Revelstoke

Revelstoke isn't a sleepy mountain town anymore. The population climbed to 8,275 at the 2021 Census, up 9.4% from 7,562 just five years earlier, and the growth shows up across the local economy: tourism alone generated $147 million in economic impact in 2019, with more than 1.1 million visitors coming through in the summer season alone. Between the resort at Mount Mackenzie, the sawmills, the rail operations and the dam, this is a working town with several distinct engines running at once — and each one needs different tools to keep up.

That growth is colliding with a housing squeeze that's reshaping who can actually work here. Local businesses describe themselves as "aching for staff," losing candidates to cities where rent is cheaper. It's serious enough that CPKC is moving roughly 125 rail jobs — engineers, yard workers, conductors — from Revelstoke to Kamloops, citing cost of living and staff-retention challenges. At the same time, BC Hydro's REV-6 project at the Revelstoke Dam is bringing in more than 100 temporary workers, which will tighten the same rental market that local employers depend on for staff housing even further.

None of this gets solved by a website alone, and we won't pretend otherwise. But when a business can't add headcount, the software running behind the counter matters more, not less. Automated booking and scheduling, systems that flex between the winter ski rush and the summer visitor wave, tools that cut the admin hours a stretched team spends on manual work — that's where a five-person shop on Mackenzie Avenue or a small forestry operation gets real capacity back without a single new hire.

We build for the businesses actually running Revelstoke's economy: forestry operations like Downie Timber and Selkirk Cedar retooling away from old-growth-dependent logging, tourism operators around the Revelstoke Mountain Resort village, contractors positioning for the roughly $60 million in local spending REV-6 is expected to generate, and the independent retailers and makers downtown and in Arrow Heights and Mackenzie Village. If you're already talking to the Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Commission, Community Futures or the Idea Factory about where this town is headed, EduWeb is the technical partner that turns that direction into working software.

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What Revelstoke businesses tell us

  • × Acute staffing shortages driven by a lack of affordable housing, with businesses described as 'aching for staff' and losing candidates to cities with cheaper rent
  • × Loss of established employer functions to relocation over cost-of-living pressure: CPKC is moving roughly 125 rail jobs from Revelstoke to Kamloops citing housing and staff-retention challenges
  • × An incoming wave of 100+ temporary BC Hydro workers for the REV-6 dam project is set to further tighten an already strained rental market that local businesses rely on for staff housing
  • × Highly seasonal, tourism-driven demand (winter ski season vs. summer visitor season) forces businesses to manage large swings in staffing and cash flow
  • × The forestry sector is being pushed to modernize away from old-growth-dependent operations, requiring capital investment in new equipment and processes
What we build

For Revelstoke's key industries

Forestry and wood products manufacturing (sawmilling, cedar finishing)

Downie Timber and Selkirk Cedar anchor this sector, and both are part of a wider push — backed by close to $1.23 million in BC government funding alongside Big Eddy Machine Shop — to shift local logging and milling away from old-growth-dependent operations. That kind of transition means new equipment, new processes and new compliance requirements, all of which run better on software than on paper. We build production tracking, inventory and reporting systems that help mills document the shift, manage new workflows, and keep operations moving through a capital-intensive retooling period.

Tourism, hospitality and ski/outdoor recreation

Between Revelstoke Mountain Resort and the visitor traffic it draws — 1.1 million-plus in summer alone, on top of a winter ski season, contributing to $147 million in tourism economic impact in 2019 — this industry lives and dies by its ability to handle huge swings in demand with a staff pool that's already stretched thin. We build booking systems, scheduling tools and customer-facing sites that flex with the season, so operators aren't paying for idle capacity in the shoulder season or scrambling to cover peak weekends.

Rail transportation and freight operations

CPKC's move to relocate roughly 125 rail jobs to Kamloops, driven by cost of living and staff-retention pressure, is a hard signal about what happens when a workforce can't be housed affordably. For the freight, logistics and rail-adjacent businesses still operating here, the lesson applies just as much: systems that reduce dependence on hard-to-hire labour are no longer optional. We build scheduling, dispatch and operations software that helps smaller rail-adjacent operators run efficiently with the team they can actually staff.

Hydroelectric power generation and heavy construction

BC Hydro's REV-6 project at the Revelstoke Dam is expected to add 180 jobs by 2029 and roughly $60 million in spending on local goods, materials and services — real opportunity for contractors and suppliers positioned to capture it. It's also bringing in over 100 temporary workers who will compete for the same rental housing local businesses need for their own staff. We build procurement, bidding, subcontractor-scheduling and project-tracking tools that help local construction and trades businesses move fast enough to win REV-6-related work without losing their existing team in the process.

Independent retail and artisan/maker businesses

Downtown Revelstoke, along Mackenzie Avenue and Victoria Road, is built on independent retailers and makers — exactly the kind of small operations hit hardest by staffing shortages, since they don't have the payroll depth to absorb a vacancy while housing costs push candidates elsewhere. We build ecommerce, point-of-sale integration and simple back-office automation that let a small retail or artisan business run smoothly with the two or three people they actually have on the floor, instead of the five they wish they could hire.

How we help

Built for Revelstoke businesses

Staff-Lean Operations Software

Built for businesses that can't hire their way out of the current housing-driven staffing shortage — automation for booking, scheduling, invoicing and customer service that lets your existing team cover more ground without burning out.

Seasonal Demand Systems

Revelstoke's winter ski season and summer visitor season put very different demands on staffing and cash flow. We build booking, inventory and scheduling tools that flex with the calendar instead of forcing you to overstaff one season to survive the other.

Retention-Focused Internal Tools

When cost pressures push a major employer like CPKC to relocate roughly 125 jobs to Kamloops, the businesses that stay competitive are the ones that make their existing team's job easier. We build internal tools and workflow software that cut administrative drag, so retention doesn't depend on hiring you can't do.

Contractor & Procurement Systems for the REV-6 Build-Out

BC Hydro's REV-6 project is expected to put roughly $60 million into local goods, materials and services. We build bidding, procurement and project-tracking software that helps local contractors and suppliers move fast enough to capture that work — while managing the tighter rental and labour market the project's 100+ temporary workers will bring.

Modernization Software for Forestry Operations

With BC funding pushing Downie Timber, Selkirk Cedar and Big Eddy Machine Shop away from old-growth-dependent logging, mills are investing in new equipment and processes. We build production tracking, reporting and compliance systems that document the transition and keep operations running through it.

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Industries we serve in Revelstoke

Forestry and wood products manufacturing (sawmilling, cedar finishing) Tourism, hospitality and ski/outdoor recreation Rail transportation and freight operations Hydroelectric power generation and heavy construction Independent retail and artisan/maker businesses Residential and resort construction

Serving businesses across Downtown Revelstoke (Mackenzie Avenue and Victoria Road), Big Eddy, Revelstoke Mountain Resort village (Mount Mackenzie base), Mackenzie Village, Arrow Heights.

Revelstoke questions, answered

Most of the businesses we hear from are small — a shop on Mackenzie Avenue, a mill crew, a handful of people running a tourism operation near the resort. Software and automation help most when a team is already stretched, which is exactly the position a lot of small Revelstoke businesses are in right now.
It doesn't fix the housing shortage behind the staffing crunch, and we won't claim it does. What it can do is reduce how many hours your existing team spends on manual scheduling, booking, invoicing and admin — so the people you do have go further, instead of you needing to fill a role you can't currently hire for.
Yes. Revelstoke's tourism economy runs on exactly that pattern, and we build booking, staffing and inventory systems designed to flex with it, rather than software that assumes steady, year-round demand.
It applies especially well. Mills shifting away from old-growth-dependent operations are already investing in new equipment and processes — production tracking, reporting and compliance software is a natural part of that transition, not an add-on.
We work with clients remotely as standard practice, and we build every project around your business's real operations and constraints rather than a generic template — so location isn't a barrier to getting something that actually fits how you work.
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