Custom Software Development
This is what we do best. Off-the-shelf software forces your company into its logic – we flip that around and build software that follows your workflows instead. Adjustable down to the last detail and extendable whenever you need it.
Then a conversation is the fastest route to an assessment.
Applications that mirror your actual workflows – from order management to production planning.
Automate repetitive manual work and remove the steps where mistakes creep in.
Connect the systems you already have, so data gets entered once and can be used everywhere.
Carefully swap outdated software for a modern, maintainable solution – without disruption.
There is hardly a requirement that cannot be turned into software. The question is rarely “Can it be done?” but “Is it worth the effort?” That is exactly where we give you a straight answer – including when an off-the-shelf product is the smarter call.
Where custom software does make sense, we build it cleanly, document it, and make sure it belongs to you. Tailored to your processes in detail, extendable at any time – no hidden dependencies, no vendor lock-in.
The calculation we do together beforehand is simple: what does the current state cost you per year? Two hours a week of someone retyping data from one system into another is roughly a hundred hours a year. If software takes that work over, it often pays for itself faster than the quote suggests. If it does not, we say so – and you save yourself the project.
We almost never start with the grand design. A tightly scoped first release that covers one single workflow completely and goes into real use after a few weeks is far more useful. What comes back from that is worth more than any concept document: only daily use reveals which edge cases actually occur and which ones existed only in the meeting. The build-out follows – with much better information.
Handover means handover here, not dependency. You get the source code, the repository runs in your name, the setup is documented, and we deliberately use widespread technology rather than home-grown constructions only we understand. Laravel and PHP are our base for exactly that reason: you can find developers for them any time. Software that ties you to us would be convenient for us and bad for you.
What we will not do: sell you a custom build when off-the-shelf software already covers your case. Accounting, payroll, standard CRM – mature products exist for those, and building against them is uneconomical. It gets interesting precisely where your workflow differs from the norm, because that difference is usually the reason your business works.
A single application connects systems and data sources that used to be separate into one continuous workflow.
Honestly
Not every enquiry belongs with us. These are the ones we turn down in the intro call – here they are upfront, so you can skip the call.
Mature off-the-shelf products exist for those. Building against them is uneconomical – we would rather say so before you spend the money.
That is a website project, not a software project – and priced accordingly.
Better fit: Web DevelopmentA shop system already ships with all of that. Rebuilding what exists means paying for it twice.
Better fit: Shopware & E-CommercePick the shape that matches your situation – the price is right there, so you never have to ask for it. It is a ballpark figure; your binding quote comes after a short conversation. If you would rather work it out yourself, use the package configurator: put together what you need there and see your price range right away.
from €3,900 net
A clearly scoped first step – a single module, for example, or replacing a spreadsheet you have outgrown.
from €11,900 net
Several modules, interfaces and user roles – your processes end to end in one application.
€79/h net
Extend, modernize or take over existing software – billed transparently by the hour.
What the price depends on
We bill custom projects transparently by the hour. After a free intro call you get an honest estimate from us here in Bavaria – so you know where you stand before anything starts.
Situation, solution, result – that is how we work. The projects are described anonymously for confidentiality.
Who builds this?
At Viovenia your project is not passed between rotating teams – it is built directly by Marcel, senior software engineer. You talk to the person who writes your code, from the first call to running in production. No project-manager loop, no ticket ping-pong.
Transparent and free of stress – that is how working with us goes. More about our process.
Half an hour where you describe the project and get concrete questions back. It ends with a first read on feasibility and rough size – including when that read is “not worth it”.
In writing, with scope, the technology involved, the assumptions behind it and what is explicitly not included. Split into “needed at launch” and “can come later”, so the scope stays negotiable.
After each stage there is something usable on a test environment, not just a status report. Change requests go in where they are cheapest: before the next stage starts.
Before going live: a run through the core workflows, a backup concept, monitoring switched on. Afterwards you get access, source code and documentation handed over in full, not on request.
Updates, monitoring and further development – as fixed care or on call. No minimum term: what keeps you should be the work, not the contract.
For standard processes, ready-made industry software usually wins; build when a core process is your edge. Honest pros, cons and the smart middle road.
Read moreCustom software development runs like this: free initial call, concept, pilot module from €3,900, staged rollout. Process, prices and real examples.
Read moreFree intro call, no strings attached – we get back to you personally and quickly.