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Web systems that ship on time.

Websites, web apps and the data systems behind them, for any industry. Our biggest clients run hotels, tour operators and leisure businesses. Built in WordPress and Laravel by a founder-led team in Cluj, Romania.

How a project runs
No.StageScheduledStatus
01Replywithin 1 business dayOn time
02Free intro callwhen it suits youOn time
03Approach and budgetagreed in writingOn time
04Build and launchon the agreed dateOn time
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What we build

Most of our clients are in hospitality, tourism and leisure. From a single property's website to systems where many sites run from one source of data, you work directly with experienced developers.

Web systems

Several websites, portals and reports running from one source of data. Update rates or availability once in the central warehouse and every site that shows them updates too.

Data warehouse · Multi-property · Shared content

  1. Data warehouserooms · rates · activities
  2. Property site A
  3. Property site B
  4. Agent portal
  5. Reports & exports
ServiceWhat you getBuilt with
WordPress & WooCommerceCustom themes and plugins built with Advanced Custom Fields, so your team can edit content without breaking the layout.WordPress, WooCommerce, ACF
Laravel applicationsReporting dashboards, product catalogues, client portals and back ends for mobile apps. You own all of the code.Laravel, Dashboards, Portals
APIs & integrationsREST APIs for your apps and partners, and connections to the payment, CRM and shipping tools you already use.REST, Webhooks, Integrations
AI integrations & MCP serversAI features inside the tools you already run, and MCP servers that let assistants like Claude or ChatGPT work with your data, within the permissions you set.LLM APIs, MCP servers, Automation

Advice from people who build

Before you build, while you're building, or when something isn't working: 20+ years of web development, put to work on your decisions. You get a straight answer and a written plan, whether or not we end up writing the code.

AdviceWhat we doYou get
Technical auditWe go through your site or system: code, plugins, hosting, speed and security. We tell you what to fix first, what can wait, and roughly what each fix takes.A written report with clear priorities
Plan before you buildWordPress, Laravel or an off-the-shelf tool? Connecting a booking engine, payments, a CRM or AI? We map out the architecture, the integrations and the budget before anyone writes code.Architecture and scope you can hand to any developer
Second opinionA quote from another agency, or a project that keeps slipping? We review the plan, the code or the estimate and tell you what's solid and what isn't.An independent review in plain language
Ongoing technical adviceA senior developer your team can call on: a set number of hours a month for reviews, decisions and questions, without hiring a full-time CTO.Monthly hours, used when you need them

From €59 / hour, excl. VAT

Billed by the hour. Audits and larger projects get a better rate than one-off questions.

Our own WordPress plugins

Built and maintained in-house, free and open source.

Search Analytics for WP

See what visitors search for on your site and which searches find nothing. The data stays in your own database.

3,000+ active installs5/5 from 30 reviews
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Feature Request System

A public feature request board. Visitors vote on ideas, you move them through statuses like Planned and Shipped, and followers get an email when a status changes.

New on WordPress.org
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Search Steer

Hide posts from your site search, or steer it post by post: keywords bring a post into the results, stop keywords keep it out.

Soon on WordPress.org
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Who you'll work with

Master WebTools is a web development company in Cluj, Romania, founded by Cornel Raiu in 2012. Most of our work is for hospitality, tourism and leisure businesses, and you talk directly to the people who write your code.

Cornel has more than 20 years in web development. WordPress and Laravel are the daily tools, and along the way he has worked with plenty of other systems, languages and frameworks. Most clients come back, and some have worked with us for more than five years.

Experience
20+ years
Biggest clients
Hospitality & tourism
Founded
2012
Cornel RaiuFounder20+ years in web development. Author of the Search Analytics for WP, Feature Request System and Search Steer plugins.
Bogdan RaiuDeveloper10 years building applications for the tourism and leisure sector.

What clients say

He’s worked on numerous projects of mine and has delivered every single one on time and on budget.
Stephen E.Founder & Host of Digital Marketers Australia
He’s an expert in PHP and using Advanced Custom Fields to make the WP Admin area easy to use for clients.
Jonathan F.Founder & Creative Director, Adaptive Web Studio
…I have used him exclusively for the past 5 years.
Duane Y.CEO, inTransitGlobal

Your first call is free

Tell us what you're building and where you're stuck.

  1. Confirm your emailone click in the email we send you
  2. We reply with our questionswithin 1 business day
  3. Free call, then approach and budgetif it looks like a fit

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