Pricing

What you are actually paying for

The price of a custom system cannot be put in a table — it follows from the scope.

To be readable at all, it first has to be clear what the price is for. And that is rarely a licence.

What you are buying

You pay for work, not for a licence

The cost you pay consists of analysis, design, development, customisation, deployment and handover into operation.

The source code and the data are yours from the first moment.

01

Needs analysis

We go through the process the system is to cover with you — what is needed, what can be left out, and where the exceptions are that the operation rests on.

02

Solution design

The analysis produces a design: which registers, which fields, which permissions, and how the steps follow one another. The scope and the price are derived from it.

03

Building the components needed

Programming hours: screens, logic, integrations with surrounding systems, testing.

04

Customisation to fit

Adapting the platform to your processes — your code lists, procedures, reports and exceptions.

05

Deployment to servers

Going live on your infrastructure or on ours, including migration of existing data.

06

Handover and training

We hand over the system and its documentation, and train the people who will work in it.

Customisation

Adapting the platform as far as your needs require

The greatest value our platform adds is the ability to shape the environment so that it matches, as closely as possible, the processes it is there to handle.

Your data, your processes, your procedures = your system.

Customisation is badly underrated when new systems are introduced. Yet it is a natural process — not only at the start, when the solution is being designed, but also in everyday use afterwards.

In every field, working processes develop and change. Fitting a company's processes into fixed rails effectively stops them moving any further.

Costs

What the price is calculated from

The cost of implementation can be estimated fairly precisely in advance. The scope and depth of customisation can, however, shift some of the parameters considerably, so for a quote the brief always has to be defined precisely, together.

Fixed costs — initial framework set-up

Fixed costs cover the initial framework set-up, database initialisation, establishing the user structure, baseline security and starting a test instance. All of these have to happen on every project, whatever its scope.

Variable costs — they grow with the scope

Analysis
by the number of registers
Integrations
by the number of connections to surrounding systems
User roles
by the number of permission levels
Screens and design
by the number of registers and input steps
Development
by the number of data fields
Testing
a share of the key activities

Expertise

The most expensive hour is not the developer's

Most development companies estimate the work from the number of hours they think the coding itself will take. From our own proven experience, we know how much depends on the right architectural design of the whole solution. We have specialists who know what our platform makes possible, and who also have wide experience of bringing very different working processes into digital form.

Without proper analysis and an understanding of your needs, the right solution design cannot be produced. Working together on each design is therefore essential.

Payback

How to work out the payback on a new solution

Any information system can be judged from two angles. The first is the saving that can be calculated directly, against the state \u201Cbefore deployment\u201D. The second is harder, because it covers the \u201Csoft benefits\u201D: owning the source code, the ability to keep customising, and through that a continuing rise in efficiency and performance.

Working out the directly calculable payback

  1. 1

    Process saving

    Comes from higher efficiency, automation, control mechanisms and central management.

  2. 2

    Cost of the process

    The total cost of the whole process (wages, workplace, overheads).

  3. 3

    Length of payback

    Investment in the new system / (Process saving × Cost of the process).

Examples of calculated payback

Smallest project

Two registers that a single spreadsheet and a single person look after today.

2 registers · 30 fields · 1 role · 1 integration

Total implementation cost
CZK 252,120
24 months in instalments
CZK 10,505/month
Operation
CZK 4,000/month
Payback
30.8 months.

Smaller register

One process that several people run in a spreadsheet today.

10 registers · 120 fields · 2 roles · 1 integration

Total implementation cost
CZK 564,520
24 months in instalments
CZK 23,522/month
Operation
CZK 4,000/month
Payback
13.8 months.

Medium-sized system

A process spanning several departments, with integrations to surrounding systems.

20 registers · 300 fields · 4 roles · 3 integrations

Total implementation cost
CZK 1,170,840
24 months in instalments
CZK 48,785/month
Operation
CZK 4,000/month
Payback
11.9 months.

Large-scale operation

Running an entire operation, including planning and evaluation.

35 registers · 600 fields · 6 roles · 5 integrations

Total implementation cost
CZK 2,095,720
24 months in instalments
CZK 87,322/month
Operation
CZK 8,000/month
Payback
10.7 months.

How the financing works

You pay only after go-live

Nothing is paid during development. We agree the total at the start, but the first instalment comes only once the system is running in production.

Paid off while in use

Typically 24 months in fixed monthly instalments. It is therefore paid off out of the benefit the system brings in the meantime.

What is built is yours

The software is yours, not rented. Once it is paid off, only the cost of support remains.

The model is based on an hourly rate of CZK 1,100 and an average gross wage of CZK 51,000. The payback compares the total implementation cost with the time the application gives back to the people who work in it. For a specific brief it is calculated from its actual scope.

Work it out yourself

Interactive calculation of cost and payback

Try entering parameters that match the brief you have in mind, and see how easily a payback estimate can be argued.

Model a brief around your needs and ideas

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Your indicative estimate

Recalculated on every change.

Total implementation cost
CZK —
24 months in instalments
CZK —/month
Provoz
CZK —/month
Payback
— months

This is a model, not an offer. It is based on an hourly rate of CZK 1,100and an average gross wage of CZK 51,000. The estimate of hours worked comes from the scope you entered — for a specific brief we will refine it against the real processes.

Support

A system needs ongoing care

  • Operating system and application environment updates
  • Response to outages and resolution of operational problems
  • Basic application support
  • The higher tier adds capacity for changes and extensions

Standard support tiers

BASIC

support and operation for a single instance

CZK 4,200per month

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Enterprise

support for multi-instance solutions

CZK 7,000per month

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No licence fees

What you do not pay for

  • No per-user licence fees
  • No per-module fees
  • An open-source foundation (PHP, MySQL, Apache)
  • Runs on your own server or on ours

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Send us the details of your project and we will prepare a preliminary quote.