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Apps for small businesses and sole traders

Take the admin out of the day-to-day. A small tool built for the one job your business keeps doing by hand, at a fixed price from £795, owned by you.

What it can do

• Job logs with photos and sign-off. Record each job on a phone as it happens, with photos and the customer's sign-off, instead of on paper or across message threads.
• Compliance and renewal reminders. Gas and electrical certificates for landlords, insurance renewals, and MOT and tax dates for vans. MOT due dates can come from the DVSA's official MOT history service, so nobody has to type them in.
• Simple booking pages. For a mobile groomer or barber, with reminders before each appointment. Text message reminders cost a little per message, so they're priced as an ongoing cost from the start.
• Replacing a spreadsheet. When the spreadsheet has become the system and only one person dares touch it, it can become an app with proper logins and roles. These usually fall into the custom tier.

Every build includes a settings page, so you can change text, options and lists yourself.

Price

Small business tools start at £795. Bigger builds that connect several systems or need several user roles start at £1,950. A £149 scope fixes the exact price before any build starts. Changes after handover are £60 an hour, quoted in writing first.

How it works

1. Free 30-minute call. An honest view on whether an app is the answer.
2. Fixed-price scope (£149). Exactly what gets built and what it costs. Credited if you go ahead within 30 days.
3. Build, 50% to start. Built in your own GitHub and Cloudflare accounts, with a preview link as it takes shape.
4. Handover, 50% on acceptance. You check it against the scope, then get the logins and a plain-English guide.
5. 30 days of bug fixes included. After that, care plans are optional: £15 a month to keep it running, or £60 a month including up to an hour of small changes.

Yours from day one

The app lives in your own Cloudflare account, the code in your own GitHub, and the web address is yours. If we stop working together, nothing moves and nothing gets switched off. The code is plain and documented, so any web developer can pick it up.

Most small apps run inside Cloudflare's free allowance, so there's usually no hosting bill. Both case studies cost £0 a month to run. Your own domain name costs about £10 to £15 a year.

Why not just buy software?

Sometimes you should, and the free call will say so. A custom app makes sense when off-the-shelf tools charge per user every month for features you don't need, or don't quite fit how you work.

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