Affordable. Bespoke. Cutting Edge.
Building applications is easy. Building solutions that truly enhance and empower your business — that’s where we excel. Our tailored, cost-effective solutions level the playing field, taking you from running to growing your business.
Bespoke software, without the bespoke price tag.
Custom software is expensive for a few reasons, and most of them come back to the size of the team and the time the build takes. Software houses and studios all build on the same conventional technology, which requires greater resources and effort.
We build on an application platform developed in-house, resulting in smaller teams and less effort to finish the build, testing included — up to 50% less time overall.
That saving buys something worth having. We spend as long as it takes to understand your requirements — the part that matters most, and the part most projects rush.
We learn how you work
Not a requirements document you have to write. A conversation about what actually happens day to day, and where it goes wrong.
You see it early, on real data
Working software, using your own information, within weeks — not a slide deck at the end of a long build.
It changes when you do
Businesses move. Adding a field, a report or a whole new process is routine here, not a change-request negotiation.
Every application is designed for two things.
Most business software is built to do one job — serve the purpose in front of it. We design for two.
The business problem, not just the deliverable.
Before anything is designed we work out what the business problem actually is, alongside what the business needs. The two are not always the same, and neither is always what was asked for.
The changes that come later.
Every process is built to be maintained and upgraded, not just to work on the day it is delivered.
Technology moves quickly now, and it puts pressure on every business to keep up or give up ground to competitors who do. Software that cannot change becomes the thing holding you back.
Three things, done properly.
We work with small and medium businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf packages, but cannot justify enterprise prices.
Bespoke business applications
The system your company runs on, built to fit it — the full range of traditional business and management applications, and plenty that fit no standard category at all.
- Shaped to your processes, not a template
- Web-based — nothing to install
- Available outright, or as bespoke software as a service
- Priced so an SME can justify it
Hosting and ongoing support
We run the application so you don’t have to think about servers, updates or backups — and we are the same people who built it.
- Managed hosting, updates and backups
- Your data stays yours, always
- Support from the people who wrote it
The Dvl’epr platform
The technology behind everything we build, now available to other developers too. It is the reason we can work as quickly as we do.
- In production since 2005
- Applications built in a fraction of the usual time
- Dvl’epr Studio now in early access
Some of what we have built.
Each one runs on the platform described below. If any is close to what you need, it is a starting point rather than a blank page — talk to us about it.
Activity Centre
Runs an organisation that delivers activities to the public: session booking with instructors and volunteers assigned, automated instructor invoicing, participant records and attendance, and the reports funders ask for.
Used for sports, arts, training and community programmes. Built for a community cycling organisation and delivered as a subscription service.
Bizheart
One connected platform — accounts, stock, CRM, warehouse and HR — configured around how a business actually works, with a separate application for each role and portals for customers and suppliers.
The joined-up backbone larger competitors pay a fortune for, priced for a growing SME.
On Samepage
Project management built on a simple idea: the information a workplace generates should be put in front of the people who need it, rather than left for them to go looking for.
Notices, watchlists and alerts, organised by what needs attention now.
We didn’t buy the tools we build with. We wrote them.
Dvl’epr builds complete web applications from plain, readable files, so work that normally takes months does not have to. It is why we can price bespoke software the way we do — and it is now a product in its own right.
What people ask us first.
What does Workplace Software Solutions do?+
What kind of businesses do you work with?+
How can software built specially for us be affordable?+
How long does it take?+
Who owns the software and the data?+
Can we pay for it as a subscription?+
What happens when our requirements change?+
Do you host it, and who supports it afterwards?+
What is Dvl’epr?+
Tell us what isn’t working.
Whether it is a spreadsheet holding the business together or a system that no longer fits, start with an email. No forms, no sales sequence — a reply from someone who builds these.
enquiries@wpsoftware.com