You've just clicked around a working demonstration of Coniston Shooting Ground running on modern rails — built by SSDev using your real experiences, prices and session times. This page explains what you saw, and how it becomes real.
← Back to the demonstration siteCinematic video from your own photographs, your real prices, and a page for every part of the business — experiences, corporate, vouchers, the shop, the lodge.
Guests pick an experience, see live availability on your actual slot grid, pay a 50% deposit and get instant confirmation with a calendar invite — at 9pm on a Sunday, without anyone answering a phone.
Every booking in one place: confirm, cancel, block out dates for weather or private events, adjust prices, and let the emails send themselves. Try it — any login works.
Your experience grid holds roughly seventeen bookable sessions a week across clay experiences and lessons — at your prices, that is in the region of £140,000 a year of bookable capacity, and today every one of those bookings has to happen through a phone that's answered office hours, six days a week.
| In the demonstration | In your live system |
|---|---|
| Bookings stored in your browser | A real database — every booking, guest and payment, backed up continuously |
| "Pay deposit" button (no charge) | Secure card payments — deposits taken at booking, balance flagged for arrival |
| Email previews in the console | Real branded emails that send themselves: confirmations with calendar invites, 48-hour reminders, cancellations, voucher delivery |
| Demo login (any password) | Proper owner and staff logins with roles and an audit trail |
| Demo voucher codes | Real voucher sales online, delivered by email, redeemed automatically at checkout |
| Availability & blockouts page | The same — live: block a slot and the website stops selling it that second |
| Seeded example bookings | Your genuine diary — with your existing bookings migrated in on day one |
| This static demo site | Your domain, fast hosting, SSL, search-engine ready, GDPR-compliant data handling |
Foundations. Domain, hosting, database, payments account, and the site design signed off with you — the demonstration you've seen is the starting point, refined with your feedback and photography.
The booking engine. Live availability, deposits, confirmations, reminders, manage-booking links, voucher redemption — tested end to end.
The owner console. Bookings, calendar, blockouts, pricing, emails, corporate enquiries — set up with your team, on your phones and the lodge computer.
Migration & training. Existing diary bookings loaded in, the team shown the ropes (it's simpler than a till), and a quiet parallel-running week.
Go live. The new site replaces the old one. Phone bookings carry on working exactly as before — they just get typed into the console instead of the diary.
Fixed-price quote after a scoping call — the range depends on payment provider choice, voucher migration and how much of the existing diary we bring across.
Hosting, security, backups, support, and a monthly allowance of development time — seasonal pricing changes, new offers, whatever the ground needs. No web agency hourly-rate surprises.
If the system doesn't demonstrably pay for itself in captured bookings and saved admin in year one, we'll say so — the console reports it either way.
SSDev is a software development firm that builds and operates production systems for government-linked and enterprise clients — regulatory communications platforms, national tourism analytics platforms, and AI voice systems, all running today with SSDev as the managed operator. A booking engine for a working shooting ground is exactly the shape of thing we do: build it properly, then run it so you never think about it.
Reply to the email that brought you here, or write to us directly — we'll walk the demonstration together on a call and answer everything.
luke@ss-dev.co.uk