Your customers
People need their own account
Bookings they manage, orders they track, documents they retrieve, progress they resume. The moment a visitor expects the system to remember them, a public website cannot do the job.
Portals and Platforms
Custom Web Portal and Platform Development
Custom systems with authentication, workflows, and the integrations your business already depends on.
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Scope your project
Book a scoping callWhen a portal is the right answer, and when it is not
A portal costs more than a website and takes longer. The question is not budget, it is whether the system has to know who is using it.
Your partners or staff
Different people see different things
Trade pricing behind a login, a vendor uploading their own catalog, a manager seeing what a technician cannot. Role-based access is the line between a website and a platform.
Your operations
A process currently runs on spreadsheets
Work that is tracked in email threads and shared files is work that is already a system, just an unreliable one. Portals of this kind usually pay for themselves in hours recovered, not in traffic.
When it is not
A website is enough, and we will say so
If the job is to explain, rank and convert, a well-built site does it faster and for a fraction of the cost. We would rather scope you into a website than sell you a platform you do not need.
What a Portal Project Involves
A portal is not a larger website. It is a system with authentication, role-based access, and workflows that mirror how your business already operates.
Typical scope
Most engagements include some combination of the following.
- User accounts and permissions
- Integrations with systems you already run
- Reporting dashboards for the people who need them
How we scope it
We map the workflows first, then estimate. See our SEO services if you also need the platform to be found.
Scoping is a conversation about your operations, not a form you fill in. If that conversation ends with a website being enough, we will say so and point you at web design or, where the business is selling online, at e-commerce. The full set of what we take on is on our services.
How the risk gets taken out of it
Discovery before a number
First
Who the users are, what each role can do, which systems the data already lives in, and what happens on the days the process goes wrong. Most portal overruns trace back to a question nobody asked here.
A scoped statement of work
Before any code
Roles, workflows, integrations and out-of-scope items written down and agreed. A detailed proposal follows within one business day of the scoping call.
Built in milestones you approve
Throughout
Authentication and roles first, because everything else depends on them. Each milestone is reviewed and approved before the next begins, and you are never invoiced for work you have not seen.
Handover, including the keys
At launch
Code, repository, hosting and every account created for the project transfer to you. There is no proprietary layer holding the system hostage and no dependency on us to change it.
Delivered platforms
Systems we have built
Three projects where the site had to know who was looking at it.
Court Vision Plus
A booking platform with a secure dashboard for clinics, lessons and events.
Students and parents hold their own accounts and manage their own bookings, with a foundation initiative running alongside the coaching program.
Home Exclusive
A gated partner portal where trade pricing appears only after login.
One storefront serving retail visitors and registered trade partners in several languages, with the pricing model, not a second site, separating the two.
Pasadena Driving School
A public site plus an internal learning portal where students take practice tests.
How Portal Projects Are Priced
Portal and application projects are scoped individually rather than sold from a price list, because the work depends entirely on the workflows and integrations involved. We provide a detailed proposal within one business day of the scoping call, with milestone payments agreed before any work begins.
Book a scoping callWhat buyers ask before scoping
How much does a web portal cost?
Web portal and application projects are scoped individually. Most projects fall between $15,000 and $150,000 depending on scope and complexity. We provide a detailed proposal within 1 business day of your inquiry.
Why can you not give a price before discovery?
Because the price is set by the roles, workflows and integrations, and none of those are visible from the outside. A number quoted before discovery is a guess that one side pays for later.
Can it connect to the systems we already use?
Usually yes, where the system exposes an API. Which integrations are possible, and what they cost, is settled during discovery rather than promised before it.
Do we own the platform when it is finished?
Yes. The code, the repository, the hosting and every account created for the project are yours. Continuing with us afterwards is a decision, not a dependency.
How long does a portal take to build?
Custom portal and platform work typically runs 3 to 6 months, and larger applications longer. The timeline is agreed in the statement of work rather than estimated in a first conversation.
Scope Your Platform
A conversation, not a pitch.
Prefer to talk? (469) 838-5702
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