South West England
Truro is Cornwall's only city: a compact centre of shops, markets, a cathedral, a leading theatre and the Royal Cornwall Hospital, all within easy reach of both coasts. We design and build websites, online shops, booking tools and web apps for Truro organisations, working with them remotely from start to finish.
Local context
Truro grew up in the fourteenth century as a port trading tin, copper, slate and grain, where the Kenwyn and Allen rivers meet to form the Truro River on its way to the Fal. Today Visit Cornwall describes it as a cultural hub with Gothic Revival and Georgian streets, cobbled lanes and a mix of independent boutiques and familiar high-street names. Lemon Street Market gathers shops, cafés and a gallery under one roof, and an outdoor farmers' market sells local produce and crafts twice a week.
Culture is a large part of the city's appeal. Truro Cathedral, built in the Gothic Revival style between 1880 and 1910, is one of only three cathedrals in the UK with three spires and calls itself the home of classical music in Cornwall. The renovated Hall for Cornwall stages West End shows, concerts and comedy, and Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery on River Street holds some of the most significant collections in the county. A food festival in September and Christmas markets in November add to a busy calendar.
Health care is the city's other big draw. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust runs the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske in Truro, alongside West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance and St Michael's Hospital in Hayle, and is currently investing in new building work. For businesses in the city, the hospital means a year-round flow of patients, visitors and staff, quite apart from the summer holiday trade.
Sectors
Boutiques, galleries and craft sellers in the city centre and Lemon Street Market want to reach the customers who found them on holiday. An online shop with gift wrapping, delivery across the country and stock linked to the till keeps those sales coming in winter.
Farmers' market stallholders and Cornish producers can take pre-orders for collection, sell hampers online and manage trade accounts for cafés and farm shops, without spending evenings on spreadsheets.
Venues, galleries, festival organisers and arts groups need ticketing, memberships, workshop bookings and donor records that suit small teams and a large audience spread across the county.
Private clinics, therapists, care agencies and services working around the hospital need appointment booking, secure forms and staff scheduling that keep personal data limited to the people who need it.
Solicitors, accountants, estate and letting agents serving clients throughout Cornwall want client portals, online onboarding and property listings that save a long drive for documents or signatures.
Common requests
Serving a long, rural county from one small city shapes most of the briefs that come from Truro.
A shop that keeps trading after the summer visitors have gone home, with delivery options that make sense for customers all over the country.
Customers ordering ahead and collecting at the stall or the shop, so producers bring the right amount and waste less.
Seat or session booking, member discounts and gift vouchers in one system that a small arts team can run.
Identity checks, document upload and e-signatures handled online, so a client in Penzance or Bude does not need to drive in.
Rotas, visit lists and notes on a phone, designed for staff covering long distances between appointments.
Services
People across Cornwall research Truro shops, venues and services on their phones before making the journey, so we build fast, accessible sites with clear opening hours, events and booking routes.
For care providers, arts organisations and practices, we build booking, scheduling and client systems that match how a Truro team works with people spread across the county.
Visiting staff, stewards and market traders can share one web app on phones and tablets that keeps working on weak rural signal and syncs when back online.
If your Truro business has built a process other Cornish firms would pay for, we help turn it into a subscription product with accounts, billing and an admin panel.
Makers, galleries and producers get online shops with national delivery, gift options, seasonal ranges and trade ordering, built to sell well beyond the city.
We connect tills, ticketing, booking, accounting and email tools so a sale, booking or membership is recorded once and appears everywhere it should.
How we work
Every Truro project runs online, which saves the long road journeys that Cornwall is known for. We talk through your goals on a video call, then share plans, designs and test versions in a client panel where you can comment whenever suits your opening hours.
A written proposal sets out scope, staged milestones and price before any build work starts. We demonstrate each stage, take your feedback, and only continue once you are satisfied.
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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