Run your operation
PayCamp
Run your marina, campsite or boatyard from one screen: bookings, the day's diary, payments and invoices, all in one place instead of a paper book and three spreadsheets.
It started
on a narrowboat.
No incubator, no investor deck. A laptop on a fold-down table, a marina that kept losing bookings, and a kettle on the stove.
Towpath started on a boat on the Grand Union Canal. Hamish had a background in software and a front-row seat on the small things that keep a marina afloat: bookings, invoices, the wrong VAT rate, the customer who only ever pays by cheque. The off-the-shelf software was either too clever or too dear, and the paper diary was quietly losing money every Saturday.
So he built the bit the marina needed first — and that became PayCamp. Other operators asked if they could use it too. Then tradespeople wanted a way to get found and get paid, and that became GotAPal and ServicePay. People kept asking for the next obvious thing, so we built it: a simple website (3 Wee Pages), a live contact card (Universal Contacts), and a proper place to buy and sell boats (The Boat Market).
That is the whole pattern. We only build a product once a real operator has asked for it twice. Six so far, all sharing one brand, one ethos, and one promise: cheap to start, polished to ship, and built to run with as little fuss as possible.