Why lift companies come to us
Website design for elevator and lift companies
Getting you shortlisted by the right builders every time — not only the four who share the portal enquiry. From one home lift to a hospital tower, the same job at every size, priced before we start.
- Catalogue by type
- Project list
- AMC desk
- Fixed price
- You own it
- 1-day replies
Builder enquiry
Site visit booked
Turnaround: 45 minutes
- Came in
- 10:00 AM
- Answered
- 10:45 AM
AMC request
Routed
8:30 AM
Lift catalogue · AMC desk · Quotations
The part that never happens
Why do builders shortlist the national brands instead of you?
Out of the four things we hear in every lift company’s first call, three are about the website — and we take them away. The fourth is that the price keeps moving.
- Builders have never heard of usNot on page one, for the searches a builder types before they shortlist anyone.
- Our enquiries arrive already sharedLeads arrive pre‑shared: the portal sends the same form to four companies inside the hour.
- Nothing online says we do AMCNo AMC page, and slow on the phones the society secretary actually carries.
- And the price keeps movingOne number, fixed, in writing, before anything starts.
Director, regional lift company · composite buyer
Losing to the brands
“We install better than the names they end up picking — the builder just never hears of us.”
Replies this week
Use case 1
Where do our enquiries go?
- A builder needs eight passenger lifts for a residential tower. He searches, opens four sites, and closes yours first — there is no capacity chart on it.
- So he goes back to the portal, fills in one form, and the same enquiry lands with four companies inside the hour.
- You quote against three rivals who have not seen the building either. It stops being about engineering and becomes a price fight.
- You win it at a margin you did not want, or lose it to a brand name. Nothing about the lift decided it.
What we kept asking
How could a lift company’s own site out-earn the portal it rents its leads from?
How could a builder shortlist you before they have picked up the phone to anyone?
Use case 2
Who answers at eleven at night?
- Someone is stuck between the third and the fourth floor. The society secretary searches your company name on a phone with one bar.
- The site takes nine seconds to arrive, and the emergency number turns out to be inside a picture that never loads.
- They call the first result that did load instead. It is a rival’s AMC desk, and the engineer is there in forty minutes.
- The lift was yours. The contract will not be yours next year.
What we kept asking
How could a stuck-lift call reach a named engineer instead of a switchboard nobody is sitting at?
How could the number be the first thing a phone shows, rather than an image in the footer?
Use case 3
Why can’t we add a new model?
- A new machine-room-less model is ready to sell. The site still lists the range from three years ago and there is no way in.
- The login handed over at launch opens a dashboard that is not yours and asks for a password nobody in the office has.
- You send a message asking for one product page. You are quoted for it, and the quote itself takes three days.
- The model sells over WhatsApp for a year instead. Every builder who searched for it found nothing.
What we kept asking
How could an engineer publish a new capacity chart without opening a ticket with anyone?
How could handover be the start of the relationship instead of the end of it?
Use case 4
Why do we only compete on price?
- The enquiry lands on Tuesday and the quote is due Thursday. Someone opens last month’s Word file and starts overwriting it.
- The cover, the technical specification, the bank page and the terms live in four places, and two of them are out of date.
- It goes out at eight in the evening with the previous building’s floor count still sitting on page two.
- The builder puts it beside a printed brochure from a national brand. Only the price gets looked at.
What we kept asking
How could a quotation leave the office looking like the engineering behind it?
How could a specification be assembled instead of retyped for every single enquiry?
Quotation · built for SEE
- 01Cover
- 02Technical specification
- 03Price & bank page
- 04Terms
- 05Signature
Assembled from sections instead of retyped, with the finished branded document rendering beside the form as it is filled in.
Brand identity · 20-page catalogue · B2B site
A lift company we already did this for
What changed when a lift company rebuilt its website?
“Big industrial buyers used to scroll right past us — now we get quote requests from firms that never would have called.”
The brand, a 20-page catalogue and a B2B site — then the quotation portal, so the quote leaves the office looking like the engineering behind it.
See the quotation portal See the workThe one still comparing · buyer profile
Still deciding
About: someone who runs a regional lift company, prices to the kilogram and the floor, and has never commissioned a website they could judge the same way.
- Trade
- Passenger & goods lifts
- Team
- 14 people, two service vans
- Sells
- To builders and societies
- Budget
- Set, and small
- Deciding
- Between three quotes
Frustrations
- Quotes price different things
- No one commits to a date
- Answers take a week
They can price a lift to the kilogram. Nothing in front of them prices a website the same way
they are not looking for the cheapest, they are looking for the one they will not regret. Nothing on the three quotes makes that visible, so the decision keeps getting put off another month
Needs: One number, fixed, in writing. A date they can plan around.
How they work: Runs the company from a phone between sites. Will not log into a project tool to find out what is happening.
The one who already paid · buyer profile
Been here before
About: someone on their second or third attempt, with a site they cannot add a new lift model to and an agency that stopped replying two years ago.
- Trade
- Lifts, and the AMC book
- Team
- 22, three service teams
- Sells
- New installs and annual contracts
- Budget
- Knows the number
- Deciding
- Whether to trust anyone again
Frustrations
- Cannot add a new lift model
- No one hands over the logins
- A spec change takes weeks
They do not need to be impressed. They need to know who holds the keys and what happens when something breaks
the first build was not cheap and it still left them locked out. What they are buying this time is not a design, it is the ability to publish a new capacity chart on a Sunday without asking permission
Needs: Their own logins, day one. A person who answers.
How they work: Between a site visit and a service call all day. Will not chase anyone for a password.
Every lift you install, on a page builders trust
What does a website for a lift company include?
Built in, not bolted on: four things every lift company site we build ships with, at every price.
- 01
A catalogue by type
Passenger, goods, home, hospital, capsule. Capacity, floors and speed on the page, not in a PDF.
- 02
A project list
Buildings, floors and load, named. The proof a builder actually checks before shortlisting.
- 03
An AMC desk
Contracts, scope and a service request the sites you already installed can use.
- 04
A breakdown line
The first thing the page shows at eleven at night, on the phone in their hand.
Every page, written before it is built
- HomeWho you are, in one screen
- LiftsEvery type, with its capacities
- ProjectsBuildings, floors, load
- AMC & ServiceScope, and a request that arrives
- ContactOne form, straight to the desk
Your build · Wednesday, this week
All on track
- Lift catalogue
- Nine types
- Project list
- Building
- AMC desk
- Designed
- Live date
- Given
- Logins
- Yours
- Speed check
- Passed
- Handover
- Booked
- Reply time
- 1 business day
One number, one date, and the logins in your name
Six weeks, written down
How long does a lift company website take to build?
Getting a website built without pulling anyone off site.
How it works
- Day oneYou tell us the lifts
- 1 business dayA reply, every time
- 48 hoursDirection and a basic build
- 48 hoursA live date, in writing
Project timeline
- Discovery
Your lift range, your territory, and the three firms you keep losing the shortlist to.
- Design
Real screens for the catalogue and the AMC desk. Nothing moves until you approve them.
- Build & QA
Every lift type and every project page, checked twice on the phone a site engineer actually carries.
- Launch
Live, then found — for the searches a builder types before they shortlist anyone.
Your site
Live, and yours
- Found for
- Your city
- Loads
- Fast on 4G
- Enquiries
- Straight to you
- Logins
- In your name
- Backups
- Running
- Support
- One business day
Site visit bookedA reply went out the same morning9:41 AM
What the lift company sees
What the builder sees
A builder and a society, one website
What does the website do while you are on site?
What the website is doing on a Tuesday, without you.
- 01
Getting found
Answering the search a builder in your city typed twenty minutes ago.
- 02
Answering first
Capacity, floors and speed, before anyone has to ring the office.
- 03
Taking the enquiry
One form, with the building on it, to an inbox you actually read.
- 04
Holding the AMC
Service requests coming back from the towers you already installed.
No portal, no new login
Can you run the website from the phone in your hand?
Everything above arrives where you already work — no portal, no new login.
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The quote
One number and what it covers, before anything starts.
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The catalogue
Every lift type with its capacity, floors and speed.
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The AMC desk
Contracts, scope, and a service request that reaches a person.
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After launch
A reply that still comes when nothing is being invoiced.
From the DevShutter team
Ready to fix it?
A fixed price, a live date, and the logins in your name. Built for lift companies.