Northern Ireland
Derry~Londonderry trades across a border, hosts some of the biggest festivals on the island and still makes things for the world from its factories along the Foyle. We build websites, booking platforms, web apps and integrations for organisations in the city and its hinterland, with the whole project handled remotely.
Local context
The city straddles the River Foyle, with the walled Cityside on the west bank and the Waterside on the east, linked by the Craigavon and Foyle bridges and the Peace Bridge. Its seventeenth-century walls are the only completely intact city walls left in Ireland, and County Donegal lies just across the border, a neighbour the city has traded with for centuries. That cross-border pull still defines daily commerce, with customers, suppliers and staff moving between two jurisdictions.
The economy has turned from its shirt-making past towards services, manufacturing and education. Seagate has run a factory in the city since 1993, call and contact centres have been a notable source of jobs, and Ulster University teaches at its Magee campus on Northland Road. Downstream at Lisahally, Foyle Port presents itself as the marine gateway to the north west of Ireland for commerce and tourism, offering cargo handling, stevedoring, storage and a marina on the Wild Atlantic Way.
Culture is a business here too. Derry was the first UK City of Culture in 2013, and Visit Derry calls it a festival city, with a Halloween celebration it describes as one of the best in the world and the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival. Derry City and Strabane District Council is also consulting on its Central Riverfront Project. Events, hospitality and the shops of the north west's main shopping district all depend on booking, ticketing and communication that work smoothly on a visitor's phone.
Sectors
Organisers running multi-day programmes need ticketing, accreditation, volunteer rotas and trader applications in one place. A single system replaces the forms, spreadsheets and inboxes that usually pile up before a big weekend.
Guesthouses, walking-tour guides and restaurants inside and around the walls want direct bookings with deposits, so a festival weekend fills on their own terms rather than through commission-charging platforms.
Producers and hauliers moving goods through the Foyle and across the border need order tracking, dispatch paperwork and customer portals that show each consignment's status without a phone call.
Alongside the university, training companies, tutors and student-housing providers ask for course booking, enrolment and payment tools that suit learners who expect to do everything online.
Shops serving customers from both sides of the border need online ordering, click-and-collect and delivery rules that cope with two postal systems and two sets of shoppers.
Common requests
A border city with a busy events calendar produces some distinctive requirements. These come up most often.
Ticket sales, timed entry and programme pages that hold up when an entire festival audience arrives at once, then sit quietly for the rest of the year.
Orders, invoices and delivery rules set up once for customers in Northern Ireland and in Donegal, so staff stop maintaining two versions of the same process.
Availability, deposits and confirmation messages for walking tours, guesthouses and activity providers, with a calendar the whole team can see.
Contact centres, hospitality venues and event crews with changing rotas, swaps and availability, managed from a phone instead of a notice board.
Services
Visitors planning a trip to the Walled City, and buyers checking out a local supplier, both start on a phone. We build quick, accessible sites that answer their questions and lead straight to a booking or enquiry.
For North West firms juggling cross-border customers, rotas or events, we build the system that matches how the work really flows, rather than bending your team around a generic package.
Stewards, tour guides and drivers working across the city can share one web app on phones and tablets, installed from the browser and updated centrally before each event.
If your idea grew out of running festivals, training or logistics in the north west, we help package it as a subscription product with accounts, billing and an admin area.
For makers and retailers selling into Donegal, Great Britain and beyond, we build shops with the right delivery zones, price display and checkout steps for each type of customer.
We link ticketing, payments, accounting and courier tools so a sale or booking flows through to the books and the dispatch list automatically.
How we work
Our work with organisations along the Foyle is delivered entirely at a distance. We hold discovery and review sessions over video, timed around your busy seasons, and keep every document, design and test link in your client panel so nothing gets lost in email.
The project begins only once you have accepted a written proposal listing scope, milestones and price. Each milestone ends with a demonstration and your approval, which matters when a launch has to land before a festival date you cannot move.
A video call to understand the business, the people who will use the software and what has to change.
Scope, milestones and price in writing. Nothing starts until you accept it.
Each milestone is reviewed with you; progress, files and decisions stay in your client panel.
Go-live when you are ready, then maintenance and hosting if you want them.
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FAQ
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