Supporting Scarborough businesses
Scarborough is the largest town on the North Yorkshire coast and one of the UK's oldest seaside resorts. Tourism is central to the economy, supporting hotels, guest houses, holiday lets, caravan parks, amusements, cafés and attractions along the South Bay and North Bay. Visitor numbers peak in summer and quieten in winter, so many businesses rely on doing a lot of trade in a short season.
Scarborough also has a significant manufacturing base. McCain Foods runs its UK head office and a large factory at Eastfield, and coach builder Plaxton has built buses and coaches in the town for more than a century. Scarborough Business Park and the Eastfield area hold a range of engineering, food and service businesses. Coventry University Scarborough provides higher education, and the town serves as the business centre for Whitby, Filey and the surrounding villages and farms.
Seasonal businesses need their booking and payment systems working perfectly from Easter onwards, and a broken website in July costs real money. Common jobs include fixing booking plugins, renewing SSL certificates, speeding up slow mobile pages and getting Google Business Profile listings right. Holiday let owners and small hotels want guest Wi-Fi that is easy to manage, kept separate from the systems that take card payments. Manufacturers and engineering firms need dependable networks, backups and security for ERP and production systems. Away from the town, rural connectivity can be patchy, so 4G or 5G backup connections are often worth having.
Who we help in Scarborough
- Hotels and guest houses
- Holiday let and caravan park operators
- Cafés, restaurants and takeaways
- Attractions and amusements
- Food manufacturers
- Engineering firms
- Retailers
- Farms and rural businesses
How support works for Scarborough
Almost everything we do is remote. You call or email, we connect securely to your website, Microsoft 365 tenant or computer, and fix it while you watch. If a job genuinely needs someone on site in Scarborough, we tell you upfront and quote it before anyone travels. We're based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and have supported UK businesses since 2006.
Support plans for Scarborough
Essential
Keep it updated, backed up and watched.
- Website software updates (core, plugins, themes) applied and checked
- Daily backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Security monitoring
Business
Updates plus an hour of fixes every month.
- Everything in Essential
- 1 hour of fixes or changes every month
- Priority support
Complete
Website and your team's IT, covered.
- Everything in Business
- 3 hours of fixes or changes every month
- IT and Microsoft 365 helpdesk for your team
No plan? The first 30 minutes are the minimum charge, then we bill in 15-minute blocks.
What we fix in Scarborough
Nearby
- Sheffield
- Leeds
- Bradford
- York
- Hull
- Doncaster
- Rotherham
- Barnsley
- Wakefield
- Huddersfield
- Halifax
- Harrogate
- Grimsby
- Scunthorpe
Frequently asked questions
Can you get our Scarborough booking site ready for the season?
Yes. We can update WordPress or your booking plugin, check SSL, test the full booking and payment flow, and speed up mobile pages before the busy months. One-off work is £45 an hour + VAT, or a plan from £25 a month + VAT keeps it maintained year round.
Do you cover Whitby, Filey and the coast?
Yes. We support businesses across the Scarborough area, including Whitby, Filey, Eastfield, Seamer and Robin Hood's Bay. All support is remote from Mansfield, and anything needing a site visit is quoted upfront.
Should our guest Wi-Fi be separate from our card payments?
Yes. Guest Wi-Fi should be on its own network, isolated from tills, card terminals and office PCs. We can check your router or access points remotely and set up a separate guest network.
Hand it over and stop worrying
Updates, backups, monitoring and fixes from £25 a month + VAT. Real UK people on the phone.