Software & Web Applications
Off-the-shelf software never quite fits. Fentech designs and builds custom software and web applications around your workflow — for businesses and personal projects alike.
Already built and shipped: CRM systems, EPOS / point-of-sale tools, news readers, business dashboards, booking systems and automations — read what those projects actually looked like →
Custom systems are scoped and quoted individually, because a five-form internal tool and a factory production system are not the same job. What is consistent is the approach: a fixed written scope before work starts, staged payments against delivered milestones, and code and data you own outright at the end.
Build a rough scope in about a minute
Tick what the system needs to do. You'll get the modules it breaks into, a realistic build window and the honest price band — the same way I'd sketch it on a call.
- Nothing ticked yet. Every box you tick is a module I'd quote separately, so you can drop one and watch the number move.
Indicative only, and deliberately wide. The fixed price comes after a free discovery call, in writing, before any work starts. Phase 1 can always be smaller than the wish list.
Send this shape to PaulSystems already running every day
These aren't concepts or portfolio filler. They are in production, used by people who depend on them to get work out the door.
Factory floor quality control on a tablet
A modular construction manufacturer was signing off quality on paper, tracking progress in a spreadsheet and logging non-conformances by hand. All three were replaced with one system used on the floor.
- Sign-off across 25+ manufacturing stages, on a tablet at the workstation
- Mandatory hold points — nothing advances until its stage is signed off
- Photo evidence captured at each stage, attached to the unit
- Live weighted production tracking instead of a guess
- Compliance pack exported as a PDF in one click
A property platform the office runs itself
Estate agencies usually depend on a portal for listings and a developer for changes. This one manages everything in-house, and the site earns its own search traffic rather than renting it.
- Property search and filtering buyers actually use
- Staff dashboard for listings and photos — no technical knowledge needed
- Individual listing pages built for search from the start
- Valuation enquiries captured straight to the office
| Listings managed by | Office staff |
| Time to publish | Minutes |
| Developer needed | No |
| Search traffic | Owned |
| Portal dependency | None |
An online shop rebuilt without losing rankings
Rebuilding a shop is straightforward. Doing it without throwing away years of accumulated search rankings is the part that separates a good migration from an expensive lesson.
- Cart, checkout and payment integration
- Quote and invoice requests alongside standard checkout
- Staff admin panel for products and content
- URL mapping and redirects so existing rankings carried across
Software and apps, built for your industry
The technology is the same underneath. What changes is understanding how your work actually runs — and that comes from asking, not from a template. Here's where systems like this earn their keep.
Production & QC tracking
Stage-by-stage sign-off on a tablet, mandatory hold points, photo evidence and a compliance pack exported in one click. Already built and running.
Stock & materials
What's on hand, what's committed to a job, what needs ordering — without three people maintaining three spreadsheets.
Drawings & revisions
The current drawing attached to the current build, so nobody works from last month's version.
Job scheduling
Who's where, what's booked, what's overrunning — visible on a phone in the van rather than shouted down the road.
Site reports & sign-off
Photos, notes and customer signature captured on site, emailed as a PDF before you've left the driveway.
Quote to invoice
One flow from enquiry to paid, so nothing finished quietly goes uninvoiced.
Client & matter tracking
Deadlines, documents and correspondence per client, with an audit trail when you need to prove what happened when.
Secure client portals
Clients upload sensitive documents to you instead of emailing them around unencrypted.
Time & billing
Recorded as work happens rather than reconstructed from memory on the last Friday of the month.
Till & stock (EPOS)
Touch-friendly point of sale on ordinary hardware, stock decrementing on sale, end-of-day totals. No monthly licence per till.
Bookings & tables
Online reservations wired to your real calendar, so double-bookings can't physically happen.
What's actually selling
Plain reporting on lines, margins and quiet hours — the numbers that decide what you order next.
Listings you control
Search, filtering, BER details and photos managed by your own staff — no portal fee, no developer needed for a price change.
Valuation & enquiry capture
Leads land in one place with the detail you need to respond properly.
Aerial media built in
Drone stills and video attached to each listing — shot, edited and published by the same person.
Appointments & reminders
Online booking against real availability, with reminders that cut no-shows.
Records, handled properly
Access controlled per role, encrypted, backed up and restorable — built with GDPR obligations in mind from the start.
Treatment & billing history
What was done, when, by whom, and what was charged — without a paper diary.
Herd, land & compliance
Records and paperwork kept in a form that survives an inspection, not a shoebox of receipts.
Fleet & deliveries
Vehicles, servicing, runs and proof of delivery tracked in one place.
Aerial survey records
Dated imagery of land, drainage and site progress — useful when a question comes up months later.
Custom software versus renting a platform
Off-the-shelf platform
- Per user, per month, forever — rising as you grow
- Hundreds of features you'll never open
- Missing the one thing your process depends on
- Your data on their servers, under their terms
- Change requests go into a queue behind everyone else's
- Price rises and feature removals are out of your hands
Built for you
- Paid for once, owned outright
- Only the features that earn their place
- Built around your actual process, not a generic one
- Runs where you choose — your server or ours
- Changes made by the person who built it
- No surprise pricing changes, ever
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If you can describe it, it can be built
From a small tool that saves an hour a day to a full web application your whole team runs on.
Booking & Scheduling Systems
Custom booking flows for appointments, lessons, rentals or services — with payments, reminders and an admin view built around how you actually work.
Dashboards & Reporting
Pull your business data into one live dashboard — sales, jobs, stock, invoices. Stop copy-pasting between spreadsheets every Friday.
Business Automation
Repetitive tasks — invoicing, follow-up emails, file processing, data entry — automated so they happen by themselves, correctly, every time.
Integrations & APIs
Make your existing systems talk to each other — website to accounts package, forms to CRM, till to stock system. No more double entry.
Custom Web Applications
Full web apps with user accounts, roles and databases — customer portals, quote builders, internal tools. Built to grow with the business.
Personal Projects
Not just for business — home automation dashboards, hobby databases, club management tools, personal apps. If it makes life easier, it's worth building.
From idea to working software
Discovery chat (free)
Describe the problem in plain English — no technical knowledge needed. We work out together what's worth building.
Scope & fixed quote
You get a written plan: what it does, what it costs, when it's done. No open-ended billing, no scope creep.
Build & check-ins
Built in stages with regular demos — you see progress and steer it early, not after it's finished.
Launch & support
Deployed, documented and handed over with training. You own the code. Support and improvements available after.
Software development FAQs
Got a "wouldn't it be great if…" idea?
That sentence is where every good piece of software starts. Tell us yours — the discovery chat is free and there's no obligation.