HILLCRAFT

What we would build for a paragliding

Reserve your spot in minutes. Actually.

A booking and payment system built from the ground up for your flights: slots on your own site with live pilot capacity, an Apple Pay or card deposit the moment a guest books, and a rebook flow for weather days that takes one tap instead of twenty messages. WhatsApp confirmations with the pickup point in Apple Maps, a countdown to take-off on the guest's lock screen, and the day's manifest in the pilots' iPhone app.

Built and delivered remotely from Cheshire, UK · fixed price agreed up front

What goes wrong today

"We'll confirm within 2 hours. No payment required."

A booking-request form under a headline that promises minutes. No live availability, no deposit, and a guest who requested three companies and will fly with whichever answers first.

Weather days rebooked by hand

The wind turns, forty flights move, and someone spends the evening messaging every guest one by one, with half of them replying at midnight.

Groups of nine drop to "contact us"

The most valuable booking of the week, a stag party or a family of ten, is the one the site cannot take.

Priced in dollars for British guests

A UK guest sees USD, does the maths, hesitates. The price in pounds with a deposit by Apple Pay removes the hesitation.

What we build for you, from the ground up

  1. Slots with live pilot capacity

    Morning, midday, afternoon and sunset slots with capacity from how many pilots are flying that day. A place is held while the guest pays and reserved inside a transaction, so a slot is never overbooked.

  2. Tandem, acro, sunset, paramotor and video as products

    Each flight type with its own price, duration and pilot requirement, and the video and photo package added at booking, in GBP, EUR or TRY.

  3. Deposit by Apple Pay, refund on a weather day

    A deposit the moment they book and the balance on the day or in full. If the wind is wrong, the guest rebooks from a link or takes an automatic refund; a no-show does not.

  4. Weather-day rebooking in one tap

    Cancel a slot and every guest gets a WhatsApp with the open slots for the next days; they tap one and the manifest updates itself. Forty flights moved in a minute.

  5. Pickup points and the shuttle up the mountain

    Hotel or meeting-point pickups chosen at booking from your list, each pinned in Apple Maps, with the shuttle list built from the day's bookings.

  6. Groups and stag parties booked properly

    Groups of any size split across slots automatically, with one deposit for the group or one per person, and a structured intake for a private day instead of "contact us".

  7. Waivers and weights captured at booking

    Weight, age and the signed waiver collected before the day, so the pilot pairing is done the evening before and nobody is turned away at the take-off site.

  8. The pilots' iPhone app

    Today's manifest by slot, who is paired with whom, weights, pickups, who has paid and the video orders, in a native app with Face ID sign-in that works with no signal on the mountain.

The Apple layer your guests actually notice

Take-off on the lock screen

A Live Activity counts down to the pickup and then to take-off, with the slot, the pilot's name once paired and a tap if they are running late.

The flight ticket in Apple Wallet

A pass in your brand with the date, the slot and the pickup, appearing on the lock screen at the meeting point and scanned by the shuttle driver.

The meeting point in Apple Maps

One tap opens the exact pickup spot, and the pickup time adds itself to reminders the evening before.

Video and photos by App Clip

A code at the landing field opens the flight video and photos for purchase or download, paid by Apple Pay with nothing installed, while the adrenaline is still up.

Today's slots in a widget

For the owner: flights booked, pilots flying and takings on the home screen, and the next slot in the Dynamic Island.

Payments in Türkiye, done properly

Deposits, balances and video sales go into your own iyzico or PayTR account or your bank's virtual POS; your bank stays as it is and Hillcraft never holds the money. British and European guests pay in GBP or EUR with Apple Pay or any card and see pounds or euros before they confirm. There is no marketplace commission on a flight sold on your own site, and a weather-day or in-window cancellation is refunded to the same card automatically.

Built and running: the examples this comes from

Questions we get asked

How long does it take?

Slots, deposits and the weather rebook come first so next season opens with real availability online; the pilots' app, Wallet tickets and the video App Clip follow. We agree a dated plan on a video call, and the winter is the time to build.

What does it cost?

Fixed price agreed up front after a call to scope the flight types, pilots and pickups. No monthly fee and no commission per flight.

Do we need to change our bank?

No. Payments run through your own iyzico or PayTR account or your bank's virtual POS, and the money goes straight to you.

Can it work alongside GetYourGuide, hotel reps and beach agents?

Yes. Marketplaces stay for the guests who only look there; reps and agents sell from the same live slots through their own links and see their numbers; everything on your own site is commission-free.

Who owns it, and do you need to come to the mountain?

You own the code, the data and the accounts. Everything is built in Cheshire and delivered remotely over video calls and WhatsApp; your slot times, pilot roster and pickup list are all we need.

Tell us how a windy day goes

How many pilots, which slots, how you rebook today and what a group of ten costs you when it drops to a form. One video call to scope it, then a written plan.

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