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Cost · Custom software

How much does custom software cost?

The honest answer: it depends on a lot of factors, and we price every project individually, after a conversation. Below we set out what really decides the price and how to work out whether it pays off against subscriptions — so you know what to ask about and what to expect. We give you a concrete figure only once we know the scope.

Billing
By scope, not by the hour
Per-user fee
None
Quote
Free, once you describe the process
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Model

We bill for scope, not for time in the calendar

An hourly rate rewards working slowly — the longer the project runs, the bigger the invoice. So we price a defined scope instead: we agree what is to be built and quote a price for delivering it, however many hours it takes us.

The practical consequence for you: the cost is known before we start, and the risk of the project overrunning sits with us, not with you. If it turns out along the way that the scope needs widening, we discuss that separately rather than adding hours to the invoice.

There are no per-user fees. Adding more people to the system does not raise the bill, because it is your system, not our subscription. Once it is live, running costs come down to the server and any external services — in one CRM implementation for a sales team, the ongoing licence cost is zero a month.

Factors

What actually pushes the price up and down

Ordered by how heavily they weigh. Knowing these points, you can estimate the order of magnitude before you even speak to us.

The number of integrations with external systems
The single most expensive factor. A system that stands on its own is far cheaper than one that has to talk to your shop, your mailbox, your warehouse and your accounting. Every integration is separate work, plus its own edge cases for when the other side does not respond.
Migrating existing data
Moving history over from your current tools can cost more than building the system itself — especially when the data is inconsistent or scattered across several places. Starting from a clean sheet is noticeably cheaper.
The number of roles and permissions
A system one team uses in one way is simpler than one where the salesperson, the warehouse keeper and the board each see something different and each have different rights to change things.
Multiple languages and foreign markets
Support for several languages planned in from the start costs very little. Bolted on a year later it can cost more than the original build. If you are planning to export, say so at the outset — even if it is a plan for next year.
How unusual your process is
A process close to the industry standard is priced lower, because part of the solution is something we have already worked through. A process that is your competitive advantage has to be designed from scratch — and that shows in the price.
How well you know what you want
The cheapest projects are the ones where the client can describe their process step by step. The most expensive are the ones where we discover the scope as we go. An hour of conversation before the start can cut the cost more than any haggling over rates.
Payback

How to work out whether it will pay for itself

A simple calculation you can do today, without us:

One more thing worth putting into the sum: subscriptions grow with the number of users and with every price rise from the vendor. The cost of your own system is one-off, and running it does not depend on how many employees you have.

Timelines

How long the implementations we have already done took

Time is the best publicly available indicator of a project's scale — and the only one we can give without breaching the confidentiality of our quotes.

27 days
CRM with automated replies
From brief to production launch. Result: complaint handling cut from four hours to fifteen minutes.
4 weeks
B2B CRM for a sales team
A full system instead of a subscription. Ongoing licence cost: €0 per month.
4 days
Product configurator — demo version
Seven buying paths, five languages from day one, subsidies calculated live.
2 weeks
Market data collection tool
2,350 companies and 1,362 contacts on the Austrian market. External infrastructure cost: €0.

Migrations can take longer — the largest so far covered 43,943 orders and finished with no discrepancies in the data and no loss of search rankings.

Straight talk

Why there is no price list here

Because with custom software, any figure given upfront would mislead you. The price depends on many factors at once — the number of integrations, the extent of the data migration, the number of roles, multiple languages, how unusual the process is — and the difference between a simple system and one that ties together four external services and carries over history from two legacy tools is not a few per cent, it is a different order of magnitude. A range wide enough to cover both cases would tell you nothing useful.

So instead of a price list we suggest a conversation: describe the process and you will get a quote for a defined scope, together with a delivery date. Free of charge and with no obligation. If your description shows that a cheaper off-the-shelf tool does the job, we will say so in our first reply rather than booking you in for a demo.

Describe the scope, get a quote

The more precisely you describe the process and the integrations, the narrower and more reliable the quote. We answer concretely — with a price, a date and a note on what we are deliberately not doing within that scope.

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