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SaaS Development

SaaS Development

Multi-tenant SaaS products built to charge from day one — billing, roles and onboarding done properly, on React and Node.

Overview

One senior team from tenant model to billing to launch — the SaaS plumbing done right the first time.

A SaaS product is more than a web app — it's a business machine. Beyond the features your users see, it needs multi-tenancy that keeps customers' data cleanly separated, billing that handles plans, trials and failed payments, onboarding that gets users to value without a sales call, and the admin tooling to run it all. We build the whole machine.

What makes SaaS different

Plenty of teams can build the feature set. Where SaaS products live or die is the plumbing: tenant isolation, subscription billing with Stripe, usage metering, role-based access, self-serve onboarding and the analytics to see where trials convert or stall. We've built these patterns repeatedly, so you're not paying us to learn them on your project.

What we build

Our SaaS work tends to fall into a few shapes:

  • B2B SaaS platforms — multi-tenant products with teams, roles and admin controls.
  • Subscription billing & plans — Stripe-based billing with trials, upgrades, metering and dunning handled.
  • Self-serve onboarding — signup-to-value flows that convert without hand-holding.
  • SaaS marketplaces — platforms where your customers transact with each other.
  • Internal tools turned products — productizing software you already use into something you can sell.

Built to grow with you

We design the data model and tenant architecture for the customer count you're aiming at, not just the one you launch with — so scaling is configuration, not a rewrite. Security, backups and monitoring come as standard, and everything ships on a stack (React, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS) with a deep talent pool, so you're never locked into something only we can maintain.

Who we work with

We're a strong fit for founders taking a SaaS idea from zero to paying customers, and for businesses turning an internal tool into a product they can sell. We work as an extension of your team — small, senior and accountable — shipping working software you can see every sprint.

A good example is Denti360, a multi-tenant dental practice-management platform we built — subscription billing, roles and tenant isolation, running in production every day across a real multi-branch clinic. Other recent SaaS and platform work includes EventSphere, a multi-sided marketplace, and Evify, an EV-logistics platform.

What's included

Capabilities
  • + Multi-tenant architecture
  • + Subscription billing (Stripe)
  • + Self-serve signup & onboarding
  • + Roles, teams & access control
  • + Usage metering & plan limits
  • + Admin panels & internal tooling
  • + Analytics & conversion tracking
  • + Security, backups & monitoring
  • + Cloud, CI/CD & scaling

How we work

Process
  1. 01

    Model the business

    We map plans, tenants, roles and the signup-to-paid journey before any code — the decisions that are expensive to change later.

  2. 02

    Design & prototype

    Clickable prototypes of the core product and the onboarding flow, plus a component system the build reuses.

  3. 03

    Build in sprints

    Two-week sprints on React and Node with demoable software each time; billing, auth and tenancy wired in early, not bolted on.

  4. 04

    Launch & iterate

    We ship behind feature flags, watch activation and conversion, and keep building as your customer base grows.

Questions

Frequently asked

What's the difference between a web app and a SaaS product?

The plumbing. A SaaS product adds multi-tenancy, subscription billing, self-serve onboarding, plan limits and admin tooling on top of the core features — and that's usually where the hard engineering decisions live.

How long does a SaaS product take to build?

A focused first version with billing and onboarding is typically 8–12 weeks; we often recommend starting with a tighter MVP and layering the SaaS machinery as you validate.

Do you handle payments and subscriptions?

Yes — Stripe-based billing with plans, trials, upgrades, metering and failed-payment handling, built in from the start rather than retrofitted.

Can you turn our existing tool or spreadsheet workflow into a SaaS product?

Yes. Productizing internal tools is some of our favourite work — the workflow is already proven; we build the multi-tenant, sellable version of it.

How do you keep customer data secure and separated?

Tenant isolation at the data layer, role-based access control, encryption in transit and at rest, backups and monitoring as standard — designed in from the architecture stage.

Do you stay on after launch?

Yes. Most clients keep us on for iteration and scaling — a SaaS product is never finished at launch.

Fixed price · $2,3002-week sprint

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Our fixed-price Scoping Sprint lets you see how we work before you commit — and you keep everything we produce.

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