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Software Development in Glasgow, Our Home City
Fugen Services is registered in Glasgow at 3/2, 4 Buccleuch Street, G3 6SL, up the hill in Garnethill a few minutes from Charing Cross station and the Glasgow School of Art. This is not a territory we cover from somewhere else. It is the address on our Companies House record, where the working day starts, and the reason a Glasgow client can meet us without either side booking a train. We build web platforms, custom software, mobile apps, eCommerce, AI tools and point-of-sale systems for firms across the city, from Bothwell Street finance offices to Hillington engineering units and Merchant City hospitality operators. If you want to sit down together this week, that is usually possible.
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Working with Glasgow businesses
Glasgow's business base divides into a few distinct worlds. The International Financial Services District along Broomielaw, Bothwell Street and Waterloo Street holds the operations and technology arms of banks and insurers, with Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and the Barclays campus at Buchanan Wharf in Tradeston among the names, and a large contract development market has grown around them. West along the river, Govan and Scotstoun keep shipbuilding and marine engineering working, and the Clyde Waterfront Innovation Campus ties that to University of Glasgow research including the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Pacific Quay holds BBC Scotland, STV and Film City. Strathclyde anchors the Glasgow City Innovation District around Cathedral Street. Hillington Park, out towards the airport, is where much of the city's engineering and distribution SME base actually sits. Add the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, the Scottish Event Campus, and a small satellite industry that grew out of Clyde Space, and the range of software problems in one city is unusually wide.
Why Glasgow businesses work with us
Because we are actually here, and that changes what is possible. Glasgow clients get the one thing a remote-only agency cannot offer: a person who can be in your office, by Subway or a fifteen-minute walk across the centre, at a day's notice, for the meetings that go badly over video. A scoping session with six stakeholders. A handover to a team that never asked for new software. A difficult conversation about scope that needs to happen in a room. The registered address is 3/2, 4 Buccleuch Street, G3 6SL, and it appears on our Companies House filing because it is real. We also read the local hiring market properly, which recruiters, which contractor rates, which graduates come from where, and that matters on the days when the honest advice is to hire rather than to outsource.
How we work at this distance
Discovery comes first, usually two or three sessions, in person if you are in the city. We write down what the software must do and what it deliberately will not do, then price against that document. Marketing websites run £4,500–£9,000, content-managed websites £9,000–£25,000, web applications from £12,000 and mobile apps from £15,000. Delivery runs in two-week blocks, each ending with something you can click rather than a status report. You hold repository access from the first commit, so the code is yours whether or not you continue with us. For ongoing work, server management starts from £250 per month and dedicated developers run £3,200–£6,500 per developer per month.
The Glasgow market, honestly
Glasgow's developer market is deep but competitive. The banks' technology operations, Barclays at Buchanan Wharf among them, set salary expectations across the city, so a ten-person SME hiring its first backend developer is bidding against them, and contract rates track the same curve. The compensation is supply: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian and the University of the West of Scotland all feed the pipeline, and Strathclyde's engineering and computing intake keeps it steady year on year. Office costs sit below Edinburgh's centre, which is part of why so many technology operations chose the city. For most local firms the workable route is a small in-house team plus outside capacity for the work that spikes.
What Glasgow industries actually need built
Not a list of services — the specific gap we most often find in each of these sectors here.
Financial services and insurance
Firms in the IFSD rarely need a new core system. They need the layer around it: internal tools, client portals, reporting dashboards, and integrations between platforms never designed to speak to each other. The work is about audit trails, UK GDPR handling and a documented change process rather than a rebuild.
Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Yards and their supply chains on the lower Clyde still run spreadsheets for things that deserve software: inspection records, certification, parts traceability, subcontractor scheduling. We build web applications that retire those files without pretending to replace the ERP sitting beside them.
Broadcast, film and creative production
Production companies around Pacific Quay and Film City need scheduling, rights and asset tracking, plus review tools that work for people who are not technical. Usually the answer is a content-managed website and one small internal application, not a single large platform nobody finishes.
Space and precision manufacturing
Small satellite and instrumentation firms generate test and telemetry data faster than their tooling copes with. That points to an internal web application, an API layer over existing hardware output, and dashboards engineers keep open all day. Documented, long-lived code matters more than speed here.
Hospitality, retail and events
Cafes, restaurants, takeaways and shops across Merchant City, Finnieston and the West End need tills that survive real trading: split bills, delivery orders, stock counts, staff shifts. Our point-of-sale range covers those trades, set up and supported properly rather than sold and abandoned.
What we build for Glasgow clients
Every service below is available to Glasgow and Glasgow City businesses.
Software Engineering
AI & Automation
Design & Experience
Growth & Marketing
Cloud & Infrastructure
Dedicated Teams
Glasgow questions
Including whether we actually have an office here — we do not, and we would rather say so.
Yes. The company is registered at 3/2, 4 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow G3 6SL, in Garnethill above Sauchiehall Street and a short walk from Charing Cross station. That address sits on our Companies House record and it is the only registered address we hold anywhere. For a Glasgow client it means meeting face to face needs nothing more than a slot in the diary.
Yes, and there is no charge for it. We will come to your office, whether that is Bothwell Street, Pacific Quay, Hillington or the West End, or you are welcome to come to us. The first conversation is about whether custom software is the right answer at all. If an off-the-shelf tool covers what you need for a fraction of the cost, we will tell you.
A marketing website is £4,500–£9,000. A content-managed website, where your own team edits and publishes, is £9,000–£25,000. A web application, meaning anything with logins, records and business rules, starts from £12,000. Mobile apps start from £15,000 and cross-platform apps are £22,000–£45,000. We price after discovery against a written scope, never before it.
Yes. In practice that means working to your change management process, keeping audit trails, handling personal data under UK GDPR, and accepting security review before anything reaches production. We also carry out security audits as standalone work. We are not a compliance consultancy and will not advise on FCA obligations. We build to the requirements your compliance function sets.
Yes. Our point-of-sale line covers cafe and restaurant, fast food, grocery, retail, repairs, bakery, fashion, computers and electronics, toys and gifts, wholesale and nursery. Being in the city matters more here than for most software, because someone can arrive before opening, configure it against your real menu or stock list, and train staff on the floor rather than over a screen share.
Sometimes, yes. If your software needs changing every week for years, an in-house developer is usually better value than an agency retainer, and Glasgow's market makes that viable because four universities feed the pipeline. If you want the middle route, a dedicated developer through us is £3,200–£6,500 per developer per month, working as part of your team rather than at arm's length.
You do. Repository access from the first commit, and hosting, domain and third-party accounts opened in your company's name rather than ours. If you stop working with us, there is nothing to untangle or hand over under pressure. Server management, if you would rather we kept running the infrastructure, starts from £250 per month and can be stopped.
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