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Custom software for processes that exist only in your business

When standard software does not cover your most important process and the Excel file next to it keeps growing, we build the application that is missing.

What it is about

What custom software is

Custom software is software developed for the processes of a single company, instead of the company adapting to a standard product. dev2soft develops such applications as web applications: they run in the browser, without installation on the individual computers.

It makes sense where a process defines your business. For bookkeeping or the email inbox there are good standard products, and we advise you to use them.

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Levora – example of a web application by dev2soft: overview of ongoing jobs

When it pays off

Six signs that you need an application of your own

  • An Excel file has grown over years and only one person can maintain it
  • The same details sit in two or three systems and are reconciled by hand
  • For every special case there is a note, an email or a phone call
  • Your standard program has been customised so often that no update works any more
  • New employees need months to master the process
  • Reports are produced by copy and paste at the end of the month

Our part

What we take on

Analysis

We go through the process on your real documents and write down what the application has to do and what it does not.

Design

You see screens and workflows before any programming starts. Changing things costs almost nothing at this point.

Development

In stages, with interim versions that you try out yourself.

Data migration

Existing spreadsheets and legacy data are carried over so that nobody types twice.

Operation

Go-live, backup and updates. We operate our own product in Germany.

Further development

Your process changes, the application changes with it.

Example from our own development

Levora: an application for one particular process

Road and civil engineering firms bill hundreds of small call-offs from Rahmenvertrag contracts. Every quantity comes from a handwritten ticket, every invoice has to trace back to an item of the bill of quantities. No standard program covered this chain; the firms made do with Excel and a folder.

Levora is the application we built for it: from the bill of quantities through the measurement to the invoice, with the photo of the ticket attached to every figure.

See Levora

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Levora – invoicing from approved items

Common questions

Custom software: what clients ask first

What is the difference between custom software and standard software?

Standard software is developed once for many companies; you adapt your process to the program. Custom software is developed for your process. It costs more to create and pays off where the process sets your business apart from others.

What does custom software cost?

That depends on the scope, and the scope is only fixed after the analysis. You get a written quote from us with scope, schedule and price before you commission anything.

How long does development take?

That depends on the scope. We cut a project into stages so that there is an early version you can try out, instead of handing everything over at the end.

Can we start small?

Yes, and we recommend it. A first slice that covers a single process completely shows faster than any concept whether the direction is right.

Do we need our own IT for this?

No. A web application needs a browser on your side. We can take on operation, backup and updates.

Can our existing data be carried over?

As a rule, yes. We look at the spreadsheets and legacy data during the analysis and tell you before the quote what can be carried over cleanly and what cannot.

Show us the Excel file

Or the folder, the form, the process. From that we see faster than from any description what the application has to do.