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Six websites for fictional businesses, each built to show a real kind of project: booking, selling, customer portals and enquiries that answer themselves.

Every business here is invented. Bookings and purchases are demonstrations. Use made-up names and test details only: forms and assistant conversations may store what you enter, and shared owner views may display it. Read each demo’s privacy notice before trying a form.

Each demo has a tab on the left edge. Open it to see what that demo shows, or to switch to another one without coming back here.

01 / WordPress · ACF Pro

Vellacourt

Luxury hotel group

Eight hotels across Britain and Europe, with a booking flow, members’ area and a page for every restaurant, spa and event space.

What it shows

  • Hotel directory with filters and a map
  • Rooms, dining, spa and events for each hotel, shown only where the hotel has them
  • Demo booking engine: seasonal rates, room allocations, flexible, B&B, advance and member rates, extras, confirmation, calendar file and self-service cancellation
  • Members’ area with tiers, stays and saved preferences (demo login on the page)
  • Enquiry assistant answering from approved answers only

A fit for: Hotel groups, venues and multi-site hospitality businesses

Open the demo Related: Websites, eCommerce & integrations

02 / WordPress · ACF Pro

The Harbour House

Small hotel and restaurant

An independent hotel with rooms, menus, weddings and events, managed from simple fields, with an enquiry assistant that knows when to hand over.

What it shows

  • Rooms, restaurant menus, weddings, events and local area pages
  • Enquiry forms that are clearly enquiries, not bookings
  • Enquiry assistant: approved answers only, allergy and complaint questions routed to a person
  • Everything editable in plain fields, no page builder

A fit for: Independent hotels, pubs with rooms, restaurants and venues

Open the demo Related: Enquiry assistant

03 / WooCommerce · ACF Pro

Brindle & Salt

Kitchen and homeware shop

An independent shop selling online, with click and collect, trade enquiries and product details the owner can keep up to date.

What it shows

  • Products with materials, care and maker details
  • Made in Devon filter, click and collect, free delivery over a threshold
  • Age check at checkout for knives
  • Demo checkout and customer account, trade enquiry form
  • Essential cookies only

A fit for: Independent retailers moving online or off a marketplace

Open the demo Related: Websites, eCommerce & integrations

04 / WordPress · ACF Pro

Quayward Supply

Trade customer portal

A supplier’s portal for trade customers: orders, reorders, invoices, statements, documents and support in one place.

What it shows

  • Account admin and buyer logins that see different things (demo logins on the page)
  • Orders, one-click reorder and buyer approval limits
  • PDF invoices and statements, documents with permissions
  • Users, invitations and threaded support requests

A fit for: Wholesalers, distributors and suppliers with account customers

Open the demo Related: Operational systems & visibility

05 / WordPress · ACF Pro

Tidemark Barbers

Barber shop

A five-step booking with a first-visit deposit, an owner’s diary, the texts that follow up missed calls, and a sample owner report.

What it shows

  • Booking in five steps: service, barber, time, details, confirm, with a small first-visit deposit
  • Times checked on the server against opening hours, who does what and bookings already made
  • A booking page with a calendar file, cancellation and the texts the booking would trigger
  • The owner’s diary: the day by barber, with online bookings and deposits marked
  • Text-back design: the eight texts a missed caller would get, each under 160 characters
  • A sample 60-day owner report

A fit for: Barbers, salons, clinics and other appointment-led businesses

Open the demo Related: Process improvement & automation

06 / WordPress · ACF Pro

Wrenhollow Cottage

Holiday cottage

A holiday let taking direct bookings: live availability, seasonal prices, the full price before booking, and an owners’ calendar.

What it shows

  • Availability calendar with seasonal pricing and the owners’ blocked dates
  • Minimum stays, deposit and balance, worked out on the server before anyone books
  • A booking page with the payment schedule, calendar file and cancellation
  • The owners’ calendar: occupancy, direct bookings and balances due
  • Enquiry assistant that holds back dates, prices and refunds for the owners

A fit for: Holiday lets and small accommodation businesses taking direct bookings

Open the demo Related: Enquiry assistant

Tell me what you need it to do

Each demo started as a short brief. Send me yours, with what the site has to handle and any date you are working towards.

Design choices show visual treatments, not different functional packages. Business websites start from £3,500 and online shops from £5,000. Booking systems and portals are scoped individually; the £1,500 starting fee is for their scoping brief, not a completed build. The first call is free. Pricing

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Start with what’s getting in the way.

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