Tariff Street’s clearing App cleans up
AN independent software development house has scored a summer hit with a university clearing app for a major media group.
Tariff Street – based in Manchester’s Northern Quarter – nearly topped the UK charts with its Telegraph clearing app and is hoping this success will boost further business.
Downloaded by more 100,000 students on A-Level results day, August 14, the app called ‘Clearing’ reached second place on the App Store’s free download chart, narrowly pipped to top spot by a social networking app.
Created for use on iOS and Android, the Clearing app helps to match students with available univeristy courses.
Having worked with the Telegraph on Clearing since 2011, Martin Hicks, Tariff Street’s lead developer of the Clearing App said: “This year we smashed expectations by attracting over 100,000 downloads and becoming a chart topping success. I’m extremely proud of where Tariff Street has taken this project – we’re all delighted and hope it leads to more high profile and exciting projects for us to tackle.
“Each year we aim to improve on the last. It’s a tough challenge as trends, device capabilities, and, most importantly, user expectations change year-on-year, but we’ve proven we’re capable of doing so as we keep managing to deliver.”
As a six-strong team of designers, developers and strategists, Tariff Street – which was set up in 2010 – enjoys working with a variety of national clients, including bookmaker PaddyPower, Manchester Museum, MMU and Soup Kitchen.
Appropriately Tariff Street says the University of Manchester was the most searched-for institution within the app, ahead of the University of Birmingham and the University of Leeds to the top spot.
Christopher Charlton, one of the co-founders, said of the fast-growing business: “In 2009, we began collaborating informally in an old textile workshop on Tariff Street – hence our name. Now we’re using the same collaborative spirit to deliver value on some really exciting, innovative pieces of product development.”
The company consists of five founders – Christopher Charlton, Harry Bailey, James Galley, Martin Hicks, Tom Yates and newest recruit, lead designer Sally Evans.
