Operations software
What custom business software costs
The cost of custom software depends on what it has to do, so there is no honest single number to publish. What we can set out is how the price is worked out, what it covers, and what makes it bigger or smaller.
The three parts of the price
The discovery
Fixed price, agreed before it startsWe work through how your business runs today and what the software has to do. It produces a written scope, a build quote and a delivery timeframe before any development begins.
The build
Quoted in writing after the discoveryYou see the number before development begins. We build it and share it with you for review, and you request any changes before it goes live.
The monthly plan
From $499 + GST/mo ($548.90 incl. GST/mo), no minimum termOnce it is live we host it, apply security and dependency updates, and make the changes you ask for. These are covered by the monthly plan.
Business Operations Software starts from $499 + GST a month ($548.90 incl. GST). That is the monthly plan only: the discovery and the build are quoted on top, so the monthly figure is never the whole cost. Every plan is listed on the pricing page.
What makes a build bigger
More kinds of user
Office staff, people in the field, managers and your own customers each need their own screens and their own rules about what they can see.
Connections to other systems
Each link to something you already use, such as accounting software or a payment provider, is its own piece of work.
Moving existing records in
Customers, jobs and documents in spreadsheets or an old system have to be cleaned and brought across.
Paperwork the system produces
Every quote, report or certificate layout it has to generate is built and checked.
Working on site without reception
Recording a job where the signal drops out, and catching up later, takes more building than an office-only screen.
What keeps it smaller
- Start with the one workflow that costs you the most time today, and add the rest later.
- Bring the paperwork you use now: forms, quotes and spreadsheets show the real process faster than a description.
- Decide early who needs to use it and what each of them must be able to do.
If you need a website rather than software
Websites start from $49 + GST a month ($53.90 incl. GST), with setup quoted on your scope.
Not sure which you need? The difference, and when software is worth building, is on custom software or an off-the-shelf job app. The rest of what we build is on operations software.