Towpath About Seven core products, one small UK company Cambridgeshire · est. 2025
The company behind PayCamp, GotAPal, ServicePay and more

We build the software
that runs small businesses
like yours.

Seven core products · Cheap to start, polished to ship
No. 01 What we make Status on each

Small tools,
one for each job.

Every product does one job. Use the one that fixes today's problem; the rest are there when you need them. Six are fully open today. ServicePay is in early launch.

Run your operation

PayCamp

Run a marina, campsite or holiday park from one screen: the booking diary, enquiries, invoices, electricity billing from meter readings and card payments. Guests enquire and you confirm; online self-booking for pitches is on the roadmap. From £49/mo with PayCamp Payments, or £69/mo on your own Stripe.

Get found

GotAPal

A free UK directory of trades and local services: more than 100,000 businesses listed from public records, free to claim, with no lead fees and no commission. Reviews are confirmed by email before they count. Top Pal is paid featured placement at £15/mo, always labelled Featured.

Get paid · Early launch · opening area by area

ServicePay

Quotes, jobs and invoices for UK trades, plus a register of every tool you own and a certificate board for property compliance. In early launch, onboarding trades area by area. £39/mo for up to 3 people.

Your front door

3 Wee Pages

A three-page website for a trade or small business. You build it by answering plain questions, see all three pages before you pay, and a person checks it before it goes live. £149 to launch, then £49 a year.

Stay connected

UniversalContacts

One live contact profile behind every touchpoint you hand out: NFC touchpoints from £24, plus printed business cards, stands, banners, boards and signs. Update it once and every one stays current, and people can send their details back. The profile is free.

Keep everyone in one place

CentralContacts

One shared address book for the whole business. The people in it can correct their own details through a private portal, and each record keeps its lawful basis and an audit trail. Free for individuals; £9.99/mo for a team of five, then £3/user.

Buy & sell · Open now · free

The Boat Market

A UK boat marketplace, free for private sellers and brokers: no listing fee, no commission and no time limit. Buyers contact sellers directly. The Boat Market does not handle the money or check sellers, and says so.

Free public tools

GotMyNumber, CheckAPostcode and more

Free tools for people rather than businesses: check who called, check an area, check your bin day, use your data rights or keep a safe record. Boaters get The Boat Index and Boat Safety Hub.

Built to order

Websites & software

The same workshop builds websites and software for other businesses, from a small site to the system a business runs on, and WipeTrail, our own platform for IT asset disposal operators.

No. 02 The story From one marina to sixteen products

It started
on a widebeam.

No incubator, no investor deck. A laptop on a fold-down table, a marina next door, and a kettle on the stove.

Hamish and the team build software from Apple Of My Eye, a 55ft widebeam at Huntingdon Boathaven on the River Great Ouse. Living aboard gives a front-row seat on the small things that keep a marina running: bookings, invoices, meter readings, the wrong VAT rate.

PayCamp came first, and Huntingdon Boathaven is one of its founding customers. Tradespeople wanted a way to get found and get paid, which became GotAPal and ServicePay. Then came a simple website (3 Wee Pages), live contact touchpoints (UniversalContacts), a shared address book (CentralContacts) and a place to buy and sell boats (The Boat Market). Living on the water also produced the boating sites, The Boat Index and Boat Safety Hub, and the same habits built free public tools such as GotMyNumber and CheckAPostcode.

Seven core products so far, each with its own published price. Some are fully open and some are opening in stages, and each product page says which. The same workshop also builds sites and software for other businesses: see the client work, or read about bespoke software.

Every product has to earn its keep on the first day. If it doesn't make your week easier or your invoices get paid faster, we shouldn't be charging you for it.

Hamish Lowry-Martin Co-founder, Towpath Digital · River Great Ouse
No. 03 How we work Software does the repetitive work · people check what matters

Built fast,
then checked.

That is how we keep good software affordable. Tooling does the repetitive work, and a person checks the parts where a mistake would reach a customer, such as every 3 Wee Pages site before it goes live. How we build and check, in detail.

I. Cheap to start

Honest, published prices.

Plain numbers, no "request a quote" wall, no lock-in. Most of our products start free or close to it, so you can try the thing before you trust it. 3 Wee Pages is £149 to launch and £49 a year after that, and GotAPal listings are free to claim.

II. Polished to ship

Checked where it counts.

Tooling drafts the repetitive work quickly. A person then checks what a customer will rely on: names, prices, contact details and the edge cases. We sell the finished result, not the automation.

III. Your data, your domain

You own what's yours.

Your data is yours and your domain is yours. We process it to run the software you pay for, with the providers named in our privacy notice, and we do not sell it. Leave when you like and take an export with you.

IV. Built to run itself

Quietly gets on with it.

Once a product is set up it should run with very little hand-holding. No dashboard begging for attention, and no chatbot pretending to be a person.

No. 04 What you can count on Four promises we are not going to argue out of

A few things you can
always count on.

These are promises, not slogans. If one ever stopped being true, we would say so plainly, in the same place we said it first.

Your data is yours. Always.

We use your data to run the software you pay for, with the service providers named in our privacy notice. We do not sell it or enrich it. Want to leave? Take an export with you.

Plain prices,
plain English.

Published numbers and no lock-in. UK English, no transatlantic marketing voice. If a sentence sounds like a webinar invite, we delete it. You will always know exactly what you are paying and why. Our terms are written the same way.

Editorial standard · sentences that earn their place

Built by people,
in the UK.

Real people, with real first names. Support, bug fixes and the checks on what goes live are done by the same small group in the UK. Not outsourced and not a chatbot.

The team · Cambridgeshire · a small UK company

It has to earn its keep.

Every product has to make your week easier or your money arrive faster. Where part of a product is not ready, we say so on its page rather than charge for it. Small, useful and worth the money is the whole brief.

The brief · useful, or not at all
Have a look See every product side by side, then tell us what you're running and we'll point you to the one that fits. Browse the estate →

Built by people,
in the UK. Get in touch.

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