Client portals and applications
Software built for your process instead of ten spreadsheets.
$14,400 for a client portal · $24,300 to replace the software.
How many spreadsheets hold your business together?
Usually more than any one person remembers. One holds the job, another the materials, a third the crew's pay. The formulas were written by someone who has left. The weekly report takes half a day to put together. The boxed programme does almost everything, and the rest gets finished off in a messenger thread.
Software shaped around your work, not the other way round
The app repeats your work instead of forcing you to redo it. First we go through how things run today: who enters what, where approvals wait, where data is keyed in twice. Out of that comes a short written description and a clickable mock-up — you see the app before the first line of code.
Then come monthly milestones. Each one ends with a working part you can hand to a member of staff and test on real data. You pay by milestone, not in one invoice up front.
The source code, the access and the documentation are handed over to you on an itemised list. Another team can carry the app forward — that is written into the contract.
- included: A walk-through of the process and a short technical description
- included: A clickable mock-up before development starts
- included: Roles and rights: who sees what and who can change it
- included: Password login with a second factor
- included: Links to the systems you already run
- included: Data imported from spreadsheets and the old programme
- included: Automatic code checks and updates with no downtime
- included: Scheduled database copies and a restore we have tested
- included: Staff training and a recording of the session
- included: Source code and documentation handed over on an itemised list
- paid to the vendor: Cloud, domain and licences — billed by the supplier
Your price
Client portal
$14,400 per project
On top of the systems you already run
What the tier includes
- included: A login for clients and contractors
- included: Requests, documents and statuses
- included: A link to your accounting system
- included: Payment by milestone, thirty per cent deposit
Replacing off-the-shelf software
$24,300 per project
Data moved across and the old programme retired
What the tier includes
- included: Everything in the client portal
- included: Data moved over from the old programme
- included: Rights, roles and a record of who changed what
- included: Both systems running side by side during the switch
Field app
$38,700 per project
Works with no signal, syncs afterwards
What the tier includes
- included: Everything in the off-the-shelf replacement
- included: Working offline and syncing later
- included: Photos, signatures and geotags
- included: Work orders flow into your accounts
Extras
- not included: Linking the app to your systemsfrom $1,780 per link
- not included: Data moved from the old systemfrom $1,860 per source
- not included: Ongoing development on subscription after launchfrom $2,990 a month
- not included: One-off changes from a bank of hours$90 an hour
- not included: A website or a client portalfrom $1,430 per project
- not included: Accessibility audit against WCAG 2.1 AAfrom $100 per page
- not included: Keeping an eye on your cloudfrom $1,290 a month
- not included: External penetration test$8,960 per application
Questions
Why not just use an off-the-shelf programme?
Often you can, and that is the first thing the walk-through settles. Custom is worth it when the process is your advantage and the boxed product wants your work rebuilt around it. If the box fits, it is cheaper to roll it out and link it to what you already run.
How do we pay, and what happens if the schedule slips?
Payment goes by milestone: a thirty per cent deposit, then on delivery of each one. The price of a milestone is fixed, and hours spent over it inside that milestone are not your bill. The dates and contents of every milestone are in the contract before work starts.
Can another team carry the app forward?
Yes. The source code, the access and the documentation sit in your own storage from day one. How everything is built and updated is written down, and the reasons behind each decision are kept next to the code. Another team picks up the project in days, not months.
What happens to the data when the app is no longer needed?
The data is yours. You can take it away as an open file any day, not only when we part company. Database copies are taken on a schedule and kept apart from the working cloud, and we test the restore rather than assume it works.
Tell us who enters what today and in which spreadsheets — we will come back with a plan of milestones and the price of each.
We have your request
We answer during the hours listed in the contacts at the foot of the page. The quote and the conversation come first — nothing is signed and nothing is charged.