Line-of-business systems
Inventory, billing, quotations, scheduling and field operations built around how you work.
Custom Software
We help your business deliver the software you need.
Complete custom software development — from concept to ideation, innovation to development, testing to deployment. Web, mobile and desktop, for businesses of any size.
Capabilities
What exactly we do
B2B & B2C platforms
Managing interactions in both directions, plus the internal operations behind them.
ERP & CRM integration
Your new system talks to the ones you already run, rather than becoming another island.
Multi-user & roles
Permissions, approvals and an audit trail that stands up when someone asks who changed what.
Reporting & dashboards
The numbers your managers actually need, not a data dump nobody opens.
Cloud & on-premise
Deployed where your business and your regulator need it to live.
Pipeline
How a business system hangs together
A line-of-business system is only as good as the parts nobody demos: roles, audit, integration and the reports the board actually reads.
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Roles & accessWho can see and do what, modelled on your real org chart, with an audit trail.
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Core workflowThe process your business actually runs, encoded once and enforced consistently.
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IntegrationsERP, accounting, email and whatever else already holds part of the truth.
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ReportingThe numbers leadership asks for, without anyone exporting to a spreadsheet.
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OperateBackups, monitoring and a support arrangement with agreed response times.
Code, infrastructure and IP are yours from the first commit — the handover is designed in.
How we deliver
What you get, every time
You gain a team that understands your business domain as well as the technology.
Talk to an engineer- A costed, dated plan before any build begins
- Weekly demos of working software, not status reports
- Your repository, your cloud account, your IP
- Documented so another team could take it over
- Tests and security inside the sprint
- Support and enhancement after go-live
How we build
We help your business deliver the software you need
We offer complete custom software development, covering the whole technical path — from concept to ideation, from innovation to development, from testing to deployment.
Working with Apastron gets you a team who understand your business domain as well as the technology, not only the framework they happen to like. We deliver web, mobile and desktop software for organisations of every size: the B2B and B2C interactions, and the internal operations nobody outside the company ever sees but everybody inside depends on.
Talk through your systemOur process
We stick to a systematic software development process
Three stages, each with work you can see. Nothing moves to the next stage until you have looked at what came out of the last one.
Business analysis
We gather what the project has to achieve and start on the technical shape of it — stack and architecture. The goal is to surface the real requirements and the likely technical challenges early, and answer the questions that always arrive with them.
Requirements engineering
We work through every detail that makes the difference between software people use and software people tolerate: the route your users take through it, what you expect of it, and the explicit do’s and don’ts. Everyone involved should be able to name the parts that carry the most value.
Wireframing & information architecture
Wireframes that document the functionality and the information architecture, then a clickable prototype of them so you can walk the flow from one screen to the next and tell us where it breaks.
User interface design
Mockups from primary and secondary page layouts through to the application screens themselves. The design is where most of the arguments should happen, because it is the cheapest place to have them.
Backend and frontend development
The designs become real code, built in sprints. At the end of each one you can open the growing software yourself and give the developers feedback while changing it is still cheap.
Quality assurance
Functional, regression and integration testing inside the sprint rather than saved for the end, plus load testing before anything with a deadline goes live.
Deployment
Release with a rehearsed rollback, monitoring switched on before the first user arrives, and a runbook your own team can follow.
Support
Our technical team stays with you through deployment and we are glad to keep maintaining the system afterwards — with response times agreed in writing, not implied.
Ongoing partnership
We would rather be your technology partner than your vendor. The arrangement flexes as your needs change, which is usually where the next opportunity turns up.
Front end & back end
Front end and back end, built as one thing
A well-designed front end is not much use without the back end to support it. However good a screen looks at first glance, people leave the moment it stops working properly.
So we build both: interactive tools and features for the front, responsive interfaces for every screen size, and a structured back end underneath that gives the front end its power. Secure, consistent and able to take real traffic — including for brands whose look needs bringing up to date at the same time.
See the stack we useOur process
How we work
We stick to a systematic software development process.
Proposal sign-up
Scope, timeline and a fixed number in writing — agreed and signed before any build starts, so nothing moves later without a conversation.
Strategy & planning
We map the process, the data and the money attached to it, then agree what success means.
Design & development
Incremental delivery with a working demo at the end of every sprint.
Testing & deployment
Automated tests, security review and user acceptance before anything goes live.
Support & maintenance
Release, monitoring and a maintenance arrangement with agreed response times.
Before you ask
Questions we get asked
When is custom software better than off-the-shelf?
When the product you would buy forces you to change a process that is genuinely your advantage, or when licence costs per seat outgrow the cost of owning the system.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit. Everything lands in your repository under your organisation, and the handover includes architecture notes and runbooks.
Ready to talk about Custom Software?
Thirty minutes with an engineer, not a salesperson. You will get a straight answer on scope, timeline and cost.