Custom Systems for Businesses That Have Outgrown Off-the-Shelf
Some businesses need more than what Xero, Shopify, or ServiceM8 can do on their own. We are a small Gawler team building the custom tools, dashboards, and integrations that fill the gaps. Fixed-price and project-based.
Years Experience
Serving SA businesses
Owned & Operated
Gawler based since 2010
Tell us what you need. We respond within 1 business day.
We reply with a fixed quote, or a quick call first if the project needs scoping.
What We Build
The kinds of systems we are usually asked for
Not an exhaustive list, but if your problem looks like one of these, we can almost certainly help.
Custom client portals
Login areas where your customers see their data (bookings, invoices, project status, documents) without you having to email it.
Internal dashboards
A single screen that pulls from Xero, your CRM, your booking system, and Google Analytics, so you can stop logging into five tools every Monday.
Bespoke booking & scheduling
When the off-the-shelf calendars do not handle your business: multi-staff routing, recurring bookings with exceptions, capacity rules, deposits.
API integrations
Connecting systems that do not natively talk. We write the glue code so the data flows automatically.
Migration projects
Moving from one system to another: exporting clean data, mapping it correctly, importing without losing history. The painful part of switching tools.
Bespoke internal tools
Internal apps for staff to do specific jobs that no off-the-shelf product handles cleanly: quote builders, route optimisers, custom calculators.
When custom actually makes sense
Off-the-shelf tools cover the common problems well, and if one genuinely solves yours we will say so on the discovery call rather than quote you a build you do not need. Custom work is for businesses whose processes have moved past what configuration of a packaged tool can handle.
Custom makes sense when one of three things is true:
- Your process is genuinely unusual and configuration of an existing tool will not cover it.
- You need integration between systems that do not natively talk to each other.
- You have hit the ceiling of what an existing tool can do, usually around scale, custom workflows, or reporting.
If your problem is one of these, custom is often cheaper in the long run than wrestling with a tool that almost-but-not-quite fits.
Fixed Pricing
Fixed-price quotes, scoped properly
Project-based, scoped after a discovery call. A single internal tool, a basic integration, or a focused dashboard is a smaller build; systems with multiple users, custom workflows, or significant integration work run larger. We give fixed-price quotes upfront after we understand the scope, not open-ended hourly estimates, so you know the full number before anything starts.
Who We Work With
South Australian businesses we build for
Custom systems are internal by nature. The public side of our work is easier to show, and it is built by the same people.
Frequently Asked Questions
Related Services
iOS & Android App Development
Native mobile apps for when your customers or team need an app, not a web tool.
Business Automation
Connecting existing tools to remove manual work, the lighter end of custom systems work.
Monthly Support Plans
Ongoing maintenance and improvements for the systems we build.
Talk to us about your project
A 30-minute call to scope what you need. Free.