How Culinary Backstreets moved its business from WordPress to Elixir — by handing us the engineering.

A business that had outgrown its WordPress.

The whole business ran on WordPress: tour bookings, availability, payments, the hand-off to their CRM and all the editorial content — held together by plugins and manual steps. Every new requirement meant another plugin, and every update cost the team more time than it should.

They needed a real business platform that could grow with them — without stopping the business to rebuild it.

Map the operation first. Then build the system that fits it.

• Audited the legacy platform.

  Our CTO sat with the team, mapped how bookings, payments and publishing actually ran, and pinned down the bottlenecks.

• Rebuilt the business platform in Elixir.

  Bookings with availability and caching, their data and content moved over from WordPress, and an editorial system for stories, guides and maps.

• Integrated the tools they run on.

  Bookeo for tour bookings, Stripe for payments and HubSpot kept in sync — plus the extra tools their team asked for along the way.

• Stayed on as their engineering team.

  They bring the goals; we design, build and run the solution. No tickets thrown over a wall.

One platform, built around how they work.

Bookings, payments, CRM sync and content now run on one Elixir platform instead of a stack of plugins. Editors spend 40% less time on administrative work, and new requirements become features — not another workaround.