Systems

When the plugin cannot do it, we build it.

Booking portals, inventory apps and internal tools. Software written for one business, doing exactly what that business needs, with no monthly fee to somebody else.

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Take a booking. Go on.

This is not a video. It is a working booking flow, with real availability logic behind it. Click through it and watch what happens on the business side as you go.

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Behind the screen

The team calendar

Availability is calculated from the length of the service you picked, so a two and a half hour colour does not get offered a slot with ninety minutes in front of it. That logic is the whole reason people end up needing something custom.

What we have built.

Live, in use, ours

Shopify inventory appLive, in use

Tally

Our own app. Syncs stock levels across a Shopify store and flags low counts before they sell out, so the store stops overselling and the owner stops counting boxes.

ShopifyInventoryLive

Custom booking portalLive, in use

Rose & Rae Collective

A booking system built from scratch rather than rented. Services, availability, deposits and confirmations, in one portal the team runs the day from.

Next.jsBookingsLive

The real thing, not a mock-up.

Screens from the two systems we have built and shipped. Both are in daily use by the businesses they were written for.

Live and in use

Rose & Rae Collective: Availability — Rose & Rae CollectiveAvailabilityOpen by default. Tap a date to block it, and the booking form updates instantly.

Rose & Rae Collective: Packages and deposits — Rose & Rae CollectivePackages and depositsPrices, deposits and running order, all edited by the business rather than by us.

Rose & Rae Collective: Add-ons — Rose & Rae CollectiveAdd-onsFixed price or quoted, with a question attached where one is needed. The kind of rule a plugin will not bend to.

Tally: Connect a store — TallyConnect a storeOur own Shopify inventory app. One store domain and a PIN, then it syncs.

Tally: Stock take — TallyStock takeCount in the stockroom on a phone, and the store updates as you go.

Off the shelf, until it is not.

Most businesses should use an existing tool. We will tell you when that is the right answer, and which one. Custom is worth it when the tool is charging you monthly for something that does not quite fit, when your process has to bend around the software instead of the other way round, or when the data you need lives in three places and none of them talk.

Built properly, it stops being a cost. You own it, it does exactly what you do, and the monthly fee goes away.

When custom is worth it

You are paying monthly for a tool that still does not fit
Your process bends around the software instead of the reverse
The same information is typed into two systems
The thing you need most is the thing the plugin will not do
You want to own it rather than rent it

Let's build something that pays.

Tell us what you sell and where it is leaking. You will get a straight answer on whether we can help, usually the same day.