Two customers turn up for the same slot
Bookings arrive by WhatsApp, phone and Instagram. Someone copies them into a book by hand.
OCTIS • Software development
Your business has outgrown the spreadsheet.
A business consultant and a developer sit down with you first. We find where the day gets stuck, then build the one system that fixes it, one week at a time.
The first conversation is free. A business consultant and a developer are with you from the first meeting.
Where the day slips away
The spreadsheet says 40. The shelf holds 12.
Stock lives in three files and two people's heads. You find out when a customer asks.
A quote takes a day. The customer has gone.
Prices, discounts and approvals sit in different places. Only you can put them together.
Nobody knows which job is finished
Your team reports by voice note and photo. Month end means scrolling back through the group chat.
One system. One version of the truth.
BeforeYou answer the same booking question 30 times a day.
AfterCustomers pick a free slot themselves. You see the day at a glance.
BeforeStock is counted on Sunday night. It is wrong again by Monday.
AfterEvery sale and delivery moves the number. The shelf and the screen agree.
BeforeOnly the owner knows how the business really runs.
AfterThe way you work is written into the system. A new hire can follow it on day one.
Built around how you already work
These are examples. Every build starts from your own business.
BOOKING SYSTEM
A salon with three branches and one diary
The problem: Double bookings and no-shows. Staff rosters on a whiteboard.
What we build: Online booking by branch and stylist. A deposit at booking. WhatsApp reminders. A roster the stylists see on their phones.
Fits too: Clinics, tuition centres, studios, car workshops.
INVENTORY AND ORDERS
A trading company that stopped counting on Sundays
The problem: Stock in spreadsheets. Orders by WhatsApp. Invoices typed again.
What we build: One order screen for sales. Stock that moves with every delivery. Invoices straight into the books.
Fits too: Wholesalers, F&B central kitchens, retail with a warehouse.
QUOTES AND APPROVALS
A renovation firm that quotes on site
The problem: Every quote waited for the boss. Margins slipped job by job.
What we build: A price book. Quotes built on a tablet. Approval only above a set discount. Signed quotes turned into jobs.
Fits too: Contractors, event companies, B2B services.
JOB DISPATCH
An aircon service team without the group chat
The problem: Jobs handed out by voice note. Photos lost. Customers chasing for updates.
What we build: A job board. Each technician's day on their phone. Photo proof and the customer's signature. An invoice the moment the job closes.
Fits too: Cleaning, pest control, maintenance, logistics.
HOW WE BUILD IT WITH YOU
Built with you, not for you
- 1
Talk business, not code
An hour with a business consultant. You describe how you take orders, get paid and where the day gets stuck.
You get: A one-page list of what to fix first.
- 2
Map the work together
Consultant, developer and you draw today's way and tomorrow's. Then you pick the one part to build first.
You get: The flow on one page, and a fixed quote.
- 3
See it every week
Each week you and your staff try a working piece. What feels wrong changes that week, not at the end.
You get: A version to try, every week.
- 4
Go live with us beside you
We move your old data in and train your team. We stay close for the first month while the new habit sets.
You get: Trained staff and a short how-to guide.
- 5
Grow it as you grow
Managed IT support keeps it running, backed up and secure. It adds the next piece when the business changes.
You get: One team to call, not a stranger's code.
Business thinking first. Code second.
A business consultant
Asks why before how. Makes sure the system fits the way you sell, price and get paid, and ties into your books.
A developer who meets you
Hears the problem from you, not from a ticket. Shows you the work every week.
The rest of OCTIS
Accounting, payroll and company secretary sit in the same team. The system talks to the rest of your business.
Yours to keep
The system and its data. Your account, your records, exportable any time.
A team that knows it. Staff trained on real work, with a short guide for new hires.
The map. The flow we drew together, kept up to date as the system grows.
Someone to call. The same people who built it, not a help desk that has never seen it.
Every system we build begins with a conversation
Tell us where the day gets stuck. You leave with a list of what to fix first, whether or not we build it.
Start a conversation
The first conversation is free.
FAQ
What is the difference between custom software and an off-the-shelf tool with my logo on it?
Custom software is built from scratch against your specific process. A rebranded off-the-shelf tool runs the same system as every other customer, just skinned differently. If an existing tool already covers most of what you need, buying it is usually cheaper and faster, and we say so before scoping a custom build.
What decides the cost of a custom software project?
Scope and complexity: what the software must do, how many systems it reads from, and how much back-and-forth the decisions take. That is why bespoke builds are quoted per project. Two ways to engage are usual, a fixed-scope project priced and timed up front, or a dedicated team on a monthly retainer. We scope the real requirement before naming either.
Who owns the code and infrastructure after the build?
You do. In a properly structured engagement the code, the account and the infrastructure it runs on transfer to the buyer. We hand over all three, documented, so you are never locked into a system only we can maintain.
Why do custom-built tools often end up disconnected from a company's records?
Usually because the developer's engagement starts and ends with that one build, so it has no reason to hold the rest of the company's data. It takes whatever it is handed on trust, and someone then keeps a second copy updated by hand. We build inside the same account as your accounting and customers, so the tool reads the real record instead.
What does the 90-day warranty cover?
Bugs found in the first 90 days after launch, fixed at no extra cost. New features and scope changes are new work, not a warranty claim, because the warranty covers what was built, not what gets added to it.