Software that fits.
Before we ever built websites for estate agents, we wrote software. We still do: booking engines, scanning systems, notifications and back office tools, built around the way a business actually works rather than the way a boxed product assumes it does.
One that says it all
A turnkey system that never worked
A contractor scanning energy efficiency forms for the Sandwell Warm Zone, a council scheme tackling fuel poverty, had bought an off the shelf solution. It never worked, and the contract depended on it.
Scanning software that did the job
We wrote them a system around the forms, the volumes and the deadlines they actually had. It processed the backlog and kept up from then on.
One council became the whole country
It worked so well they went on to handle the work nationally, and when the Government asked for the data, theirs was the operation able to supply it.
The other half of the story.
We began in 2001 as software people, and the property websites came later, built on top of software we had already written. The systems that upload listings, process portal feeds and run the back office behind our agent sites are ours, written in house and maintained by the same team you would speak to on the phone.
That means when someone brings us a problem that has nothing to do with property, we do not flinch. Software is software: the discipline of understanding a process properly, then writing something that fits it, is the same whether the subject is a property listing, a scanned form or a booked party.
Most of our software work arrives the same way. Someone has outgrown a spreadsheet, or bought a boxed product that promised everything and delivered a headache, and they want a person to explain the problem to rather than a sales page. We listen first, tell you honestly whether bespoke software is worth it, and give you a clear estimate when it is.
And because we run our own systems for hundreds of websites, we build things to be lived with: modern, genuinely easy to use, quick to support, and still working years later without drama.
Built because somebody needed it.
Document scanning, from one council to the whole country
The energy efficiency forms story above. The scanning sat inside the Sandwell Warm Zone, a scheme tackling fuel poverty across the borough, with local energy surveys, insulation and heating grants flowing through it, and the contractor's admin and operational support linked into community services and council initiatives. The turnkey system they had bought never worked from day one; ours did, and the work went national.
The website management system behind our sites
The content and property management platform our client websites run on, from listings and portal feeds to page editing. We use it every day ourselves, which keeps us honest about how it feels to operate.
Online booking for parties
Booking software for children's parties and adult events: dates, capacity, options and payments handled online, so the phone stops being the booking system.
Resident notifications for fire door checks
A fire safety company must let residents of flats know before engineers arrive to inspect fire doors. We built the system that sends those pre-alerts, so visits happen on time and nobody is caught unaware.
B&B booking software
Room availability, bookings and guest details for bed and breakfasts, built to suit how a small hospitality business actually runs rather than forcing it into hotel-chain software.
Portal feeds and back office systems
The software that moves listings between agents, websites and the major property portals, along with the back office tools agents rely on. It is the work everything else here grew from.
Clients described rather than named, and there is more where these came from. Ask us about anything similar to yours.
Software questions.
1We are not an estate agency. Can we still come to you?+
2We bought a system that does not work. Can you rescue it?+
3What does bespoke software cost?+
4Who owns the software and the data?+
5Do you support it after launch?+
6How do we start?+
The software you cannot buy off a shelf.
If a boxed product has let you down, or the thing your business needs simply does not exist yet, tell us what is going wrong and we will tell you honestly what we would build.
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