North East England
Sunderland makes things. Cars have rolled off the line at Nissan's plant since 1986, ships once filled the River Wear, and a new generation of tech start-ups is growing up alongside the factories. We build the web software that keeps these businesses organised, and we deliver every project remotely, so a supplier on an industrial estate gets the same attention as a start-up in the city centre.
Local context
Sunderland grew on coal, salt, glassmaking and above all shipbuilding, and was once called the largest shipbuilding town in the world. Those yards have gone, but making things has not. Nissan reports that its Sunderland Plant has built more than eleven million vehicles since production began in 1986, with models such as the Qashqai, Juke and LEAF, and its whole range at the plant is now electrified.
The car plant anchors a wider supply chain, and the North East Investment Zone includes the International Advanced Manufacturing Strategic Site across Sunderland and South Tyneside, intended for further advanced manufacturing and green industry. For suppliers, the practical result is constant pressure on quality records, delivery windows and traceability. Paper and email cannot keep up with a customer that schedules by the hour.
On the river, the Port of Sunderland acts as the statutory harbour authority for the Wear and offers dredging, pilotage, towage and stevedoring. In the city itself, Sunderland Software City works to support and grow the North East tech sector by helping people explore digital careers, start businesses and grow them. That combination of heavy industry and new digital firms is what makes software briefs from the city so varied.
Sectors
Tier-one and tier-two suppliers serving the car plant work to demanding call-off and quality regimes. We build portals for schedules and advance shipping notices, non-conformance logs and part traceability that sit alongside your existing ERP.
Firms arriving at or supplying the advanced manufacturing site need onboarding for contractors, permit-to-work records and maintenance histories. A web application keeps all of it searchable instead of filed in binders.
Stevedores, hauliers and storage operators around the Wear handle bookings, cargo records and collection slots for many customers. Shared dashboards and customer logins cut the phone calls asking where a load has got to.
Founders supported through the city's tech programmes often need a working product to test with customers. We help define the smallest useful release and build it on foundations that will not need throwing away.
Electricians, builders, cleaners and repair firms across Wearside lose evenings to quotes and invoices. Online quoting, job booking and payment links give that time back.
Common requests
Most requests from the city come back to traceability, scheduling or getting a product in front of customers.
Batch, serial and inspection data linked to each delivery, searchable in seconds and exportable in the format your customer asks for.
Rotas, planned maintenance and breakdown logs in one system, visible on the shop floor and from home for managers on call.
Hauliers choosing a slot online, with gate staff seeing the day's arrivals and drivers getting a confirmation by text or email.
Accounts, the one feature customers care about and simple billing, ready to put in front of early users and investors.
For trades businesses, templates that price a job consistently and turn an accepted quote into an invoice with one click.
Services
We build websites for Sunderland firms that state capabilities and accreditations up front, which matters when a procurement team is shortlisting suppliers, and that load quickly for customers searching on a phone.
Quality, scheduling and traceability tools built around your plant and your customer's requirements, so information captured on the line is ready for an audit without retyping.
Operators, drivers and engineers can use one installable web app on rugged tablets or their own phones, with large controls, barcode-friendly screens and offline capture where signal drops inside a factory.
If you are a Sunderland start-up building a subscription product, we deliver a first release with sign-up, plans and an admin console, and help you grow it as customers give feedback.
For local makers and trade suppliers we build shops with account pricing, repeat ordering and delivery options that reflect how your products are actually shipped.
We link MES, ERP, accounting and courier systems through stable integrations, and can exchange data in the formats large manufacturing customers expect from their suppliers.
How we work
Our relationship with each Sunderland client runs over video calls and the client panel, which suits manufacturers whose managers rarely sit at the same desk for long. We can schedule reviews around shift patterns and record decisions in writing, so a supervisor on nights reads the same update as the day team.
Before any build starts you receive a written proposal with scope, milestones and price. Each milestone is shown to you working, and you approve it before we move on to the next.
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
Prefer to give the full picture? The quote wizard asks about your business, your current systems and what should change, and we reply with a clear, competitive proposal.