Web design, and everything behind it
Websites that run your business.
We design your website, then join up everything behind it: enquiries, bookings, quotes, invoices and customers, on one system built around how you work. Start with the site; add the rest when you're ready.
- Enquiries straight into your CRM
- Documents signed online
- Quotes accepted with one click
- Bookings taken online
- Invoices synced to Xero
- AI that reads documents for you
Your platform
6 of 34 switched on- Website
- CRM core
- Recruitment
- Documents & e-signature
- Quotes & invoices
- Scheduling & bookings
- Email marketing
Plus anything built just for you
The problem
Off-the-shelf never quite fits. Bespoke costs a fortune.
Most businesses end up running on five tools that don't talk to each other: a CRM, a website, a signing tool, invoicing software and a spreadsheet for everything else. Or they pay for a custom build that takes months and starts from nothing. We do it differently: the foundations every business needs are already built and proven, and we shape them around you.
What you can have
The core, plus 33 modules
Every platform starts with the core. Switch on the modules your business needs; add more as you grow.
The core
In every platform- Dashboard and tasks
- Clients, contacts and companies
- Staff accounts and roles
- Email from your own Outlook
- GDPR: privacy notices, removal and retention
- Settings, webhooks and integrations
Win work
Bring customers in
Website
Your public website, wired to the back office: enquiries, articles and testimonials in one place.
Sales targets
Monthly targets for the business and each person, tracked live against what's invoiced, won and added.
Email marketing
Newsletters and campaigns to your subscribers, clients and contacts, on your brand, with opens, clicks and unsubscribes counted.
Reviews
Customers asked how it went, invited to review you on Google, and low ratings straight to you so you can put them right.
Outreach
Personalised email sequences sent from your own Outlook mailboxes, with replies tracked.
Prospecting
Find the companies that are hiring or buying, and the people to talk to there.
Tenders
Public-sector contracts from Find a Tender: open, upcoming and awarded, with who won.
Deliver
Run the work
Scheduling & bookings
Appointments, shifts, jobs or visits in one diary: who is where and when, booked online and invoiced from the diary.
Time off
Holiday and leave requests, approved by a manager, against each person's allowance, with bank holidays free.
Staff records
The team's directory and each person's HR record: roles, managers, emergency contacts, right-to-work checks and probation.
Projects & time
Every piece of work on a board, with the time going into it, its budget, and the hours invoiced in one click.
Stock & inventory
What's on hand, what's running low and where it went: stock taken out as it's invoiced or used on a job.
Purchasing
Purchase orders to suppliers, emailed from the platform, with deliveries booked straight into stock.
Equipment
Vans, tools and kit: who has them, their MOTs, services and inspections, and what they cost to keep.
Recruitment
Candidates, jobs, pipeline, applications and placements, with AI CV reading and search.
Certificates & compliance
Certificates for companies, staff and candidates, with expiry reminders, plus onboarding checks and references.
Timesheets
Contractors' weekly hours built from the rota, approved by clients from a link, then invoiced and paid.
Communicate
Reach people
Documents & e-signature
Contracts and files kept against each record, sent for signature with a private link and a full audit trail.
Customer portal
A private page for each customer contact: their quotes, invoices and documents to sign, in one place.
Helpdesk
Customers' requests as tickets: raised from your website, answered by email, nothing lost or left waiting.
Knowledge base
A help centre on your website, and the team's own how-tos, written in minutes and searchable.
Forms & surveys
Feedback, quote requests, sign-ups and surveys, built in minutes and answered on a link, with every answer summed up.
Text messages
Two-way texting from the CRM, logged against the person, with opt-outs handled.
Posts drafted from your jobs and articles, published to your company page.
Grow
Get paid and see the numbers
Contracts & renewals
Every client agreement with its value, term and notice period, renewed on time and never left to lapse by accident.
Quotes & invoices
Branded quotes customers accept online, invoices with VAT, payments recorded and what's overdue at a glance.
Xero sync
Invoices, customers and payments kept in step with Xero, both ways, without typing anything twice.
Recurring billing
Retainers, rentals, subscriptions and contracts invoiced on schedule, and emailed for you if you like.
Credit control
Unpaid invoices chased for you by email, polite to firm, with statements in one click and nobody chased mid-dispute.
Expenses
Staff expenses and mileage with the receipt photographed, approved, paid back, and re-billed to clients.
Automations
When something happens, the platform acts: tasks raised, reminders and thank-yous sent, nothing forgotten.
Reports
How the business is doing on one page: money in and owed, the work done, stock, marketing and reviews.
Revenue
Margin, placements and billing reported live from the desk.
Why modules
Custom, without starting from scratch
Building from proven modules changes what a custom platform costs and how fast it arrives.
Weeks, not months
Most of your platform already exists and works. We spend the time on what is genuinely yours.
A fraction of the cost
You pay for configuring and customising, not for re-inventing logins, email, forms and GDPR.
Proven from day one
Every module is already running real businesses. You are never the first to find a bug.
Better every month
When we improve a module, every platform built on it gets the improvement.
Still entirely yours
Your own database, your brand and your domain. Your data is never shared with another business.
Done for you
We don't hand you a login. We build your platform.
Every launch includes the work around the software, so you are live and winning work from day one.
A brand-new website
Designed around your brand and your customers, and wired straight into your back office.
Two promo videos
Short motion videos to launch the new site on LinkedIn, your homepage and your socials.
Your data, moved across
Customers, contacts and records imported from what you use today, so you start with your history.
Set up and connected
Your modules configured, your email, Outlook, texting and payments connected, and your brand on everything.
Your team, trained
We walk your team through it and stay on hand while everyone settles in.
Hosted and supported
Hosting, security updates, backups and new features, with a UK team to call.
How it works
From first call to live in weeks
- 01
Discovery
We learn how your business runs: how work comes in, how it gets done, and where time is lost today.
- 02
Choose modules
We map your needs to proven modules, and scope anything that has to be built for you.
- 03
Customise
Your website, your brand and your workflows, with your data moved across from what you use now.
- 04
Launch and grow
Your team is trained and you go live. New modules can be switched on as you grow.
Industries
Start with an industry we know
Our recruitment platform is complete and running. Other industries start from the same modules, with the pieces specific to you built on top.
Yours, not ours
Your own platform, not a slot in someone else's
Every business we build for has its own private database and its own deployment. One codebase keeps everyone up to date; your data is never shared.
Your own database
Private to you, never shared with another business.
Locked down
Staff-only access, enforced by the database itself.
Your data, always
Export everything, whenever you want.
Your brand
Your domain, your logo, your email addresses.
Pricing
Two prices, everything included
A custom website with two promo videos for £3,000, then £79 a month. Or the full platform, every module included, for £4,000 and £49 per user a month.
Live demo
Meet Halden Recruitment
A demonstration agency running on Staffold. Browse its website, apply for a job, then open its CRM and switch modules on and off to build your own platform.
FAQs
Questions businesses ask us
Let's see what your platform looks like
Thirty minutes: tell us how your business runs, and we'll show you the modules that fit and what we'd build around them.