Software development in York.

Most York hospitality and visitor businesses do not need a bespoke booking engine built from scratch. they need their existing booking, calendar, EPOS, and payment systems wired together properly, with a website that does its share of the work. That is where we focus.

We build booking flows on top of established platforms (Freetobook, ResDiary, OpenTable, Stripe, Square, sector-specific tools) and integrate them cleanly into your site. For one of our clients, Red Tower Storage, we built the backend integrations behind their booking and storage operations, including their Stora setup. For another, Doorstep Dairy, we built payment integration with Barclays for recurring billing at scale. Those patterns. calendar sync, capacity rules, payment integration, webhook-driven order updates. transfer directly to a hotel, a tour operator, or a multi-venue restaurant group in York.

Where a genuinely bespoke booking system makes sense, we build that. Where an off-the-shelf platform plus solid integration is the honest answer, we say so.

York businesses that serve repeat customers. wedding venues, hotels, attractions with annual passes, professional services. benefit from a customer-facing portal that handles the things customers ask for repeatedly. booking history, upcoming visits, invoices, document downloads, account details.

We build portals on whichever stack fits the business. Next.js or Astro for the public site, a sensible backend (Node, Django, or Laravel depending on the team you will hand it to), and a CMS the non-technical team can actually use. Sanity, Strapi, Payload, and WordPress all have their place. we pick based on who maintains the site, not on which framework is currently fashionable.

The content side matters as much as the portal. Editorial workflows, multilingual content (a real requirement in a tourism city), structured content for events and offers, and clean integration with your booking and EPOS systems so the website is genuinely the source of truth rather than a brochure that has drifted out of date.

Many York hospitality operators run multiple venues. a restaurant group with three sites, a hotel company with properties across the city, or a retail brand with a shop, a website, and a market stall. Managing these as separate entities creates duplication and errors.

We build centralised management platforms that give operators a single dashboard across all their venues. Unified inventory management, cross-site reporting, central staff scheduling, and consolidated customer databases. The technical pattern is the same one underneath Merchand, our own live product data infrastructure: a single source of truth that pushes out to multiple channels and stays in sync.

For York businesses expanding beyond the city. perhaps opening a second location in Harrogate or Leeds. we build systems that scale cleanly. Add a new site to the platform without rebuilding everything. This modular approach means your technology supports growth rather than constraining it.