CFC Wedding Lists · Retail
A gift-list platform built around a 50-year-old business
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Websites · Custom development
Custom builds
By SimonMeasured 4 September 2026
When an off-the-shelf platform will not model your business, we build it properly — Next.js front ends, custom APIs and Supabase back ends, designed to be maintained.
Pricing
from £500
for the build, then from £50 a month hosting & care.
Deliberately competitive. We do not make our money on the build — we make it growing the business the site belongs to.
How pricing worksWhat you get
What the build includes.
Next.js front ends that stay fast under real traffic
Supabase or Railway for data, jobs and background processing
Supabase or custom APIs for data, auth and integrations
Dashboards and client portals — the same system our growth clients get
Deployed on Vercel with monitoring, so you know before your customers do
Documented and handed over, not held hostage
Measured, not claimed
What it did for CFC Wedding Lists.
A free wedding gift-list service run by a family furniture retailer trading since 1972. We built the list-creation, list-finding and gifting journey as a custom platform rather than bolting it onto a shop.
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Locally
Working in Greater Manchester.
Custom work is the smallest part of what this studio does, and the part that most needs saying plainly: most Manchester businesses do not need it, and I will tell you so. A brochure site, a shop, or a WordPress build with a couple of bespoke pieces covers almost everything.
Where it earns its place is when the thing you sell is not a product on a page. CFC Wedding Lists is a gift-list platform: couples build a list, dozens of guests buy from it, and nobody may buy the same item twice — two audiences using the same data for opposite reasons, which off-the-shelf e-commerce simply does not model. This website is the other example, built on Next.js and Supabase, and you are looking at how fast that combination is.
If you are in Greater Manchester and think you need custom, the first conversation costs nothing and quite often ends with me talking you out of it.
Written by Simon, who does the work.
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The detail, written out.
Straight guides with the prices left in, every figure sourced and dated.
Also under websites
Other kinds of build.
All of these sit under web design in Manchester, where the pricing and the process are the same whichever you pick.
Bespoke WordPress builds for businesses that need to update the site themselves — designed properly, built lean, and fast on a phone.
WordPress shops where the way you sell does not fit a stock platform — a thousand lines sold by the gram, a 17,000-product catalogue, a buying journey nobody has built before.
Shopify and WooCommerce stores built around the parts that actually move revenue: product data, search, speed, and a checkout that gets out of the way.
Identity work that holds together everywhere it appears — logo, type, colour and the rules that stop it drifting — built alongside the website, not separately from it.
Rebuilding a site that already has customers is a different job from building one that has none. The traffic it already earns is an asset, and most redesigns lose some of it.
The platform large catalogues end up on, and the one most likely to be running three versions behind because nobody wanted to touch it.
Headless and composable builds
Splitting the shop front from the shop. Genuinely better for some businesses and an expensive mistake for most, and the difference is knowable before you start.
Straight answers
Questions people actually ask.
When is custom the right call?
When the thing you sell is not a product on a page. A wedding gift list has two audiences using the same data for opposite reasons; a pick-and-mix builder sells by the gram. Off-the-shelf platforms do not model that, so we build the piece that does.
Will I be locked in?
No. Everything is built on open, mainstream tooling — Next.js, Supabase, Vercel — with documentation and access in your name. Any competent developer could pick it up.
How long does it take?
It depends entirely on the scope, which is why custom work is quoted after a proper conversation rather than from a price list.
Tell me what the site needs to do.
Send me what you sell, who buys it and anything you dislike about the current site. You get a straight reply on what I would build and a price — websites start from £500.