Elev8depictionsHow we work
A working demo of your B&B, country inn or wedding venue, live on a real URL, before you pay a penny. By the time you approve the deposit, the demo is already built. By the time you pay the balance, the booking engine is integrated and the site is live.
The same four phases for every B&B, inn or wedding venue we build for. Scroll through, the visual on the left updates as you go. On mobile they stack, same content.
Before we design anything, we audit where your bookings are actually leaking. Where the booking engine handoff breaks visual trust. Whether your Google Business Profile is complete. How your site reads on mobile (where 68% of B&B and 73% of wedding venue searches start). Which OTAs are taking your guests and how much commission they're skimming. If you're a country inn in Shropshire we look at the other country inns in Shropshire. If you're a wedding venue in the Cotswolds we look at the Cotswolds venue field. Then we map out the real opportunity.
We build a working demo around your actual guest journey. For B&Bs and inns that means a date picker above the fold, room cards on the homepage, a booking engine widget that visually matches the rest of the site instead of breaking trust mid-flow. For wedding venues that means real wedding galleries front and centre, transparent pricing where possible, and a short three-to-five-field enquiry form. You don't get a Figma mock-up. You get a live, clickable website on a URL you can share with your business partner, your manager, your spouse, your gut.
You see the demo live with your photography, your rooms or spaces, your real prices. We refine until you're genuinely excited about it. One round of direction (the big "move the booking widget higher" notes), two rounds of refinement (room descriptions, FAQ wording, gallery order), all included. We'd rather get the owner voice right than ship the site early. If the booking engine integration needs tweaking before launch, we tweak it now, not after you've paid.
Your new site goes live, your booking engine (Freetobook, Little Hotelier, eviivo, RoomRaccoon, Inn Style, Calendly or HoneyBook) is integrated and styled, and your Google Business Profile gets a completeness pass. 50% on approval, 50% on launch. No retainers you can't escape. A handover session walks you through editing room descriptions, swapping photography and answering FAQ updates, then you own it. Hosting and domain stay in your name. Optionally the £49/month Care Plan keeps an eye on uptime, backups, monthly Google posts and small edits.
Most hospitality clients add the Care Plan when their site goes live. It's £49/month, cancel any time. We handle hosting, security, daily backups, content edits up to 30 minutes a month (think: room price updates, FAQ tweaks, new gallery photos), one Google Business Profile post a month to keep your profile active, and a same-day call back when something needs sorting before the weekend rush.
First five hospitality clients pay 25% less. In exchange you publish a Google review post-launch and let us use your build as a case study. That review and that case study become the proof that helps the next B&B owner or venue manager find a studio that builds for direct bookings instead of OTAs. We're actively booking these slots now.
Buckatree Hall is the flagship demo, built using this exact process. Walk through it before you commit.
See the Buckatree demo ↗