piwik

Design studio · Lisbon and Dublin

Websites with the whole business behind them.

We design and build sites for clubs, associations and growing companies in Ireland and Portugal. Then we run the memberships, events, shop and email behind them, on a platform we built ourselves.

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GAA Portugal squad in Apricot-designed jerseysgaa.pt · club photography and kit
Printed flyer designed by Apricotprint
Apricot Manage
2009Founded in Dublin
IE · PTStudio in Lisbon, clients in both countries
1 platformWebsite, members, events, shop and email in one login
Design to codeBrand, print, website and platform from one studio

Selected work

Built to be used every week, not launched and left

All projects
apricot cs eckerry 2026 Construction company · Kerry · 2026

Eamon Costello (Kerry) Ltd

Eamon Costello (Kerry) Ltd is a main contractor working across medical, education, heritage, housing and commercial projects in Ireland. Their work in... apricot cs ipbn 2026 Business network · Ireland and Portugal · 2026 redesign

Ireland Portugal Business Network

The Ireland Portugal Business Network connects Irish and Portuguese companies through events, introductions and a members’ directory. Like Dubli... druidpadel website Sport and leisure · Ireland

Druid Padel

Druid Padel builds and operates premium padel venues in Ireland. The sport is growing fast and the company needed a site that could grow with it: new ... dublinfoodchain.ie Business network · Dublin

Dublin Food Chain

The public face of a CRM, an email programme and an events calendar that all run in one place, with a member directory rebuilt in 2026. elixir-fitness.com Fitness · Sintra, Portugal

Elixir Fitness

Triathlon and trail-running camps on the Sintra coast, training outdoors all year round.

The platform · Apricot Manage

One login for the website, the members and the money

Every Apricot site runs on software we built and maintain ourselves. Your committee or team edits pages, takes payments and sends the newsletter from the same place. We keep it secure, fast and backed up.

How the platform works
  • Pages and publishingEdit in place, publish fast cached pages
  • MembershipsStripe subscriptions, renewals, lapsed lists
  • Events and ticketsRegistration, attendee lists, reminders
  • Shop and donationsProducts, variations, custom amounts
  • Email campaignsTemplates, lists, open and click reports
  • Contacts and directoryCRM, forms, a public member directory

How we work

Weeks 1 to 2

Design

Brand, type, layout and copy agreed on real pages, in a staging copy you can click through on your phone.

Weeks 3 to 6

Build

Pages, templates, shop, members and email set up on the platform, then handed over with training for whoever will run it.

Ongoing

Run

Hosting, security updates, performance, backups and a person to ring. Monthly, cancel any time.

Insights

Notes from the work

All articles

Captions from image titles

Switch on captions for a section and every image's title becomes a visible caption. A small change with a large accessibility payoff.

A new face for a Kerry builder

Ten sectors, a hundred projects and the facts a procurement reader scans for, on a site the office can keep current themselves.

Logging out should log you out

What a security sweep across every site on the platform found, what we changed, and why we are telling you.

Starting something, or stuck with a site that stopped working for you?

Email Richard directly. A reply within a working day, in English or Portuguese.

richard@apricot.ie