Service · Custom software

Your own softwareinstead of costly subscriptions.

If standard software does not fit your processes or costs high licence fees every month, we develop the solution ourselves. Applications for your company: CRM, customer portal, quoting tool, warehouse management, dashboards and whatever has no fitting product. Tailored to your processes, connected to your systems and combined with AI on request.

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✓A fraction of the licence costs✓Fits your processes

How we work

How an application
is built with us.

Four steps, from the process to running it.

1Recording

We look at the process as it runs today and note which cases occur and where it regularly gets stuck.

2Draft

You get a working version early on. Whatever does not fit is changed at the point where a change still costs little.

3Building

Development runs in short stages. After each one you have something you can try out in the business.

4Operation

The application runs on your infrastructure. We plan extensions together, when your business needs them.

What belongs to you afterwards

The source code belongs to you. There is no licence per seat, no feature behind a higher tier and no annual increase you cannot influence. If you want to change partner, you take the application with you.

What we build

Software for tasks
standard tools cannot handle.

Whether for sales, administration, customer service or logistics: we build the tools your team really needs.

CRM and customer management

Contacts, enquiries, quotes and history in one place, tailored to your sales team.

Customer portals and web apps

Customers view orders, documents and status themselves and submit requests online. Runs in the browser, on the phone like an app.

Quoting and order tools

Quotes in minutes instead of hours, with your prices, templates and approvals.

Warehouse management (WMS)

Goods receipt, storage locations, picking and shipping, designed around your warehouse.

Dashboards and analytics

All key figures from your systems in one place, without exports or spreadsheets.

Interfaces and internal tools

Connections where no ready-made integration exists, and simple interfaces for your team.

Example: Excel

A spreadsheet
becomes an application.

Many analyses live in one Excel file that a single person maintains and everyone else receives by email. We move the data into an application with a clear interface, calculate trends and charts on their own, and give everyone on the team the access they need.

Before One file, one person, errors surface late

After One application, the whole team, figures hold

Excel is a good start and a poor foundation. As soon as several people need the same file, copies appear, formulas break, and nobody knows which version counts.

The application takes over your existing data, checks entries, keeps a history and permissions, and evaluates without anyone touching a formula. It evaluates continuously, not at month end.

That is one field of use among many. We equally build applications that connect several systems, map approvals or run entire processes.

Typical scope

Existing files are taken over, nothing is re-entered
Input forms with validation instead of free cells
Charts and key figures that update themselves
Permissions per person, a history per change
Export to Excel stays available

Example: warehouse management

A WMS that
fits your warehouse.

Many retailers pay external warehouse software fees per user or location, every month. Often the software only half fits their own processes, and interfaces cost extra.

We develop warehouse management that maps goods receipt, storage locations, picking and shipping exactly the way you work. Directly connected to your shop and accounting, at a fraction of the ongoing licence costs.

The same approach applies to a CRM, a customer portal, a quoting tool or a dashboard.

Typical features

Goods receipt and storage locations
Pick lists and packing process
Stock reconciliation with shop and marketplaces
Connection to shipping and accounting
Minimum stock levels and reorder suggestions
Reports on turnover and stock coverage

The comparison

Why custom
software can pay off.

Standard software is built for the average. If you have your own processes, you often pay for features you do not need and miss the ones you do.

	External SaaS solution	Custom build by core.iq
Cost	Licence per user or location, every month	A fraction of the ongoing licence costs
Features	Whatever the vendor provides	Tailored to your processes
Integration	Interfaces often at extra cost	Connected directly to your existing systems
Further development	On the vendor’s roadmap	As you need it
Intelligence	Fixed rules	Can be combined with AI, for example for forecasts, analyses or text suggestions

How your software is built

Step by step
to your own solution.

Requirements

We look at your processes together with you and record what the software needs to do.

Concept and prototype

You see early on how the solution looks and works, and you can have your say.

Development

We build and test with real data and connect your systems.

✓

Operation

The software runs, we monitor it and develop it further with you.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

The most important answers at a glance.

When is custom software worth it instead of a SaaS solution?

When per-user or per-location licences cause high running costs, the software only half fits your processes or interfaces are missing. In that case, custom development often pays off after a short time.

What software does core.iq develop?

For example CRM systems, customer portals, quoting and order tools, warehouse management systems (WMS), dashboards and interfaces, with AI features on request.

How does development work?

We document the requirements, show a prototype early on, develop with real data and then support you in operation.

Can the software grow with us?

Yes. New features, locations or interfaces can be added without rebuilding the existing solution.

What does a custom development cost at core.iq?

We cut the scope so that a first usable version runs early, instead of quoting a large project. Every further step again has a fixed price you know in advance. Ongoing support is optional and cancellable monthly.

Who owns the software in the end?

The solution runs on your infrastructure and your data stays there. What happens to source code, usage rights and documentation we put in writing before we start. That is deliberately not a clause in the small print but part of the quote.

What happens to our data?

The data sits in your own environment, not in a shared tenant next to other customers. Where we need access to run the system, we work as a processor under a contract based on Swiss data protection law, and every access is logged.

What happens if something does not work?

Faults that go back to our implementation we fix. For running operations there is a support agreement with agreed response times, plus logs and monitoring so that a problem shows up before it shows up for you.

Will we depend on core.iq afterwards?

The software is built so that somebody else can take it over: common technology instead of home grown constructions, a documented structure, credentials with you. Support is cancellable monthly. Dependency comes from missing documentation, and that is exactly what we deliver with it.

How long until we see something?

You usually see a first prototype within a few days and a first version fit for production within some weeks, depending on scope. We show early and often, so corrections stay cheap.

First contact

Let us talk about
your processes.

Are you paying a lot today for software that does not really fit? We look at your processes and tell you openly whether an application of your own is worth it.

✓Which of your processes can be automated

✓What effort and what timeframe are behind it

✓What the first step delivers, before you invest

✓Directly with a developer, not with sales

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