Linko Vectis designs the software your business relies on, and builds it on Google Cloud from day one. Whether your customers need a portal to sign into, your staff need one unified system to work with or anything else, we've got you covered.
You know the exact price before we build. The typical range is £15,000 to £40,000.
What We Build
We engineer custom software for the work a spreadsheet or an off-the-shelf tool cannot do. It is SaaS, short for software as a service: cloud-native software your team and your customers use online, in a browser or an app.
Each application is designed around the job it does. Your business stops bending its processes to suit the software.
For Your Customers
A customer books nine o'clock on a Tuesday, and the system checks your diary and your booking rules before it confirms. The booking comes straight to you, with no marketplace in the middle taking a cut.
Behind A Secure Sign-In
Each customer signs in securely to see their own orders, documents, bookings and progress, and nobody else's.
For Your Staff
One integrated system ends the re-keying of the same details into several places. Each order, job or account is held once, and your whole team works from live figures as they change.
For Your Subscribers
You have an idea for software that people will pay for by subscription. We design the first version that proves it, sign-ups and billing included, and agree its price before we build.
Most businesses should try an off-the-shelf tool first. It costs less, it is ready sooner, and for plenty of jobs it is the right answer.
What it cannot do is work the way your business already works, or keep your data in an account your company owns. When that gap costs more than the software would, bespoke software is worth building.
If your customers only need to book a table or a room, Valacia is already made for that. We engineer a booking system to order when your booking rules are unique to your business.
First Step
Two sentences is plenty. We reply in writing to say whether we would build it and how we would start, with no sales call in between.
Websites
A website that takes bookings and keeps your customers' details together does not need building from scratch. Our own platform, Valacia, does that job.
Hotels and restaurants get pages made for their trade, and any other business can use it too. It is coming soon. The free trial lasts fourteen days, and no card is needed.
Stage By Stage
Each stage is defined in writing before you commit to the next. You pay nothing towards the application itself until you have accepted the price in your Quotation.
Describe what your application must do, through the contact form or by email. A person replies in writing within one working day. We do not charge for this step.
We work with you to define exactly what your application must do, and set it out in a written specification. It ends with a fixed price and a date for your application, or we refund the specification fee in full. The specification is yours to keep either way.
Your Quotation sets out the scope, the price and a date in one document. No chargeable work on the application begins until you accept it.
Before development starts, you set up a Google Cloud project and a billing account in your company's name, with our help where needed. We then design and build your application inside that project, under permissions you grant. Anything significant added or changed along the way is quoted first.
The application goes live in your project and is yours once it is paid for. Then the choice is yours: we operate it for you on the Managed Service, or hand everything over to your own team.
Pricing
The Fixed-Price Specification sets the price. Then you pay for the application, and for a Managed Service plan only if we operate it for you.
£1,950one-off, credited in full
You keep the written specification, and you receive a Quotation with the price and a date for your application.
Go ahead within six months and the full £1,950 is credited against the application.
If this stage does not end with a fixed price and a date, we refund the fee in full.
from £8,500one-off
One fixed price covers designing, engineering and launching your application. The typical range is £15,000 to £40,000, and your Quotation gives the exact figure.
£2,400/Year
Paid in advance for 12 months
Our team operates your application once it is live, whatever its size, with no setup fee. Managed Service With SLA adds a service level agreement (SLA). Fees rise only after at least ninety days' written notice. See both plans on the Managed Service page.
Answer five questions about the job and the calculator returns a price range on the spot, before you write to us.
Do the sums before you decide.
Add up what the manual way costs you each month in admin hours, missed bookings and commission. Then count the months an application would take to pay that back.
What Is And Is Not Included
The price you see here is the price you pay us. Your Quotation confirms the figure for your application, and our terms give the full wording.
How We Build It
Each application we engineer runs on Google Firebase, Google's application platform within Google Cloud. It is built in your company's own project from day one, because its server-side parts, the code that runs on Google's servers, live inside that project.
Building it anywhere else would only mean moving them later. It never sits in a supplier's account, ours included.
After It Is Built
Building your application and operating it are priced separately. Once it is live, we can operate it on one of two Managed Service plans, or your own team can take it over. You can also bring us in later.
We monitor your application, keep it patched and backed up, and act quickly when something goes wrong.
If you have developers of your own, the application is already in your project for them.
We hand over the code, the configuration and the documentation, then narrow or remove our access when you ask. Monitoring and backups pass to your team from that point.
Your company holds the Google Cloud project and the billing account from the first day.
Our own tools and libraries stay ours, licensed to you for as long as you use the application.
The application can move between Google Cloud projects. Moving it off Google Cloud altogether would be a separate re-engineering job, quoted on its own.
The Mobile Extension
A customer signs in on their phone with the account they already use, and sees the booking they made in the browser. The app connects back to the same system, and we quote it together with the application it extends.
Your application installs on a phone straight from the browser, with no app store in the way. For many businesses that is all they need, and it costs much less than a native app.
When your customers expect to find you in an app store, a native iOS or Android app is the right call. We design and build it as part of the same system, and quote it with the rest of the work.
FAQ
Applications start from £8,500, and the typical range is £15,000 to £40,000. What the application must do sets the figure.
In the Fixed-Price Specification, at £1,950, we work that figure out with you and confirm it in a written Quotation. From then on, you are buying software development at a fixed price. For a range first, answer five questions in our software cost calculator.
Designing and building your application takes from three months, starting on the day you accept your Quotation. That includes testing, and time for you to review and approve our work. A larger application takes longer.
Your Quotation, issued at the end of the Fixed-Price Specification, gives the date your application will be ready to go live. If the specification cannot give you both a price and a date, we refund its fee in full.
Yes. If you plan to sell software by subscription, that is a custom SaaS application like any other.
The Fixed-Price Specification pins down your minimum viable product (MVP), the smallest version that will test the idea, and prices it in writing. The specification is yours whether or not you build with us.
Google Firebase, inside the Google Cloud project your company owns. You can see the application, and Google's bill for it, in your own Google account at every stage.
It can, where your data needs one. By default, your application keeps its data in Firestore, a NoSQL database that Google holds in more than one zone within its region. It grows with use, and its cost follows what your application reads, writes and stores.
For SQL, we use a PostgreSQL database, which Google also runs and bills for every hour it is switched on, busy or quiet. We size it to your application and can enlarge it as you grow.
For reporting in SQL, we can also copy your data into BigQuery, Google's data warehouse for analysis, billed by use. We set up the database as part of your application and agree the choice with you in the Fixed-Price Specification.
The Google Cloud regions agreed in your Quotation, inside your own project. Where the application handles personal data, your company is its controller and legally responsible for it. We act as its processor and use that data only on your documented instructions.
Yes, once the application is paid for. Its files, code and configuration then belong to your company, in a project that was always yours. Clause 7 of our terms sets out the detail.
Your company does, directly to Google, on its own billing account and at Google's own prices. We add no margin. Our fees are separate and published: the Fixed-Price Specification, the application and, if we operate it for you, the Managed Service.
No. After the application is built, you decide, and operating it is priced on its own. We can operate it on Managed Service Standard or Managed Service With SLA, or your own people can, and either way it stays in your project.
You pay for either plan 12 months at a time, in advance, at one published fee, whatever the size of your application.
Valacia, our own platform, sets up a professional website for your business from your answers, and you manage it yourself. Our custom work is software, such as customer portals and booking systems, and we do not design websites to order.
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Asking commits you to nothing. If Valacia is the better fit, we will say so.