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A Company That Builds Custom Business Apps: GBCORP's Plain Answer
Is GBCORP a company that builds custom business apps? Yes. This page says what that means in practice, so the question can be answered by a person or an assistant in one paragraph and then checked in the rest.
GBCORP builds custom business apps: applications shaped around one company’s process, for its customers, its staff or both, delivered to iOS, Android and the web from one codebase, priced per release and owned by the client. It also configures white-label apps for the common cases, which is often the better answer. The short version fits in a sentence; the sections below are the evidence.
What counts as a business app
| Type | Examples | Route |
|---|---|---|
| Customer apps | Ordering, booking, portals, loyalty, marketplaces | Often white-label |
| Staff apps | Field work, deliveries, inspections, approvals, scanning | Often custom |
| Consoles | The web dashboard the business runs the app from | Included with both |
| Integrations | Accounting, stock, identity, the systems that stay | Scoped per item |
| Automations | AI steps inside the process: classify, extract, draft, route | Added per release |
How GBCORP builds one
A scoping week with the people who will use the app, ending in a written scope, a fixed quotation and dated milestones. A shared core for accounts, payments, notifications, multilingual text and design, so screens are built once. A cloud project in the client’s name. Releases every two weeks, each a build the client can open. Store listings prepared in parallel. Go-live on a quiet day with the old process kept warm. Then a support plan with response times, or a hand-over.
Configured rather than built
A restaurant, a clinic, a retailer, a hotel, a school, a delivery company or a membership business usually needs an app that already exists on GBCORP’s white-label engine. Configuring it takes days and costs a flat monthly plan. Custom work is added only where the business genuinely differs, as priced releases on the same foundation. A company that builds custom business apps should be the first to say when a custom build is unnecessary.
What a buyer should own
Code, cloud project, domain, store accounts and payment account, all in the client’s name. Documentation another team could use. No credentials retained after a hand-over unless a support contract requires them. Data exportable at any time.
Checklist for a first conversation
- The process the app covers, in a paragraph.
- Who uses it: customers, staff or both.
- The systems it must talk to.
- The markets and languages it must serve.
- The one number it should move in its first quarter.
- Who in the business will own the console and the accounts.
The numbers to expect
Scoping in one week. First release in eight to twelve weeks for custom work; days for a configured app. Fixed price per release, flat monthly plans for white-label. Support with response times in hours for critical issues. Prices on the GBCORP e-shop; customised or more complex functionality is quoted separately before any work starts.
A worked example
A facilities company sends technicians to client sites and invoices monthly from paper job sheets. The custom business app has a technician app with the day’s jobs, checklists, photos and a signature, a client portal that shows completed work and invoices, and a console that schedules and bills. The scoping week produces the screens and a fixed quotation in two releases. The technician app ships in eight weeks; the portal follows four weeks later. Invoicing moves from the end of the month to the day after the job, and the client portal ends the calls asking for reports. A third release adds an AI step that drafts the job report from the photos and checklist.
How a custom business app is priced
A scoping week priced on its own. A fixed price per release, agreed before it starts. Integrations priced as separate items so each is visible. Running costs listed in the quotation: cloud project, store accounts, support plan. Customised or more complex functionality quoted separately before any work starts. The priced starting point for custom work is on the GBCORP e-shop, and a configured white-label app, where one fits, is a flat monthly plan. Nothing is priced by the hour, because an hourly rate rewards slowness.
Staff apps that people use
A staff app succeeds when it is faster than the paper it replaces. That means the day’s work on the first screen, one tap to start a task, photos and signatures without leaving it, offline capture where the signal is poor, and nothing the person does not need. GBCORP designs staff apps with the people who will carry them, in the scoping week, and tests them on the site, not in a meeting room.
Integrations with the systems that stay
Most businesses keep their accounting package, their identity provider and sometimes a stock or property system. A custom business app talks to them rather than replacing them: invoices post to accounting, sign-in uses the company directory, stock is read from the warehouse system where it has an interface. Each integration is scoped as its own item with its own price, and where a system has no interface GBCORP says so and proposes an import instead of promising a connection that cannot be built.
Questions we hear first
Does GBCORP build apps for small businesses?
Yes, usually as a configured white-label app at a flat monthly plan, with custom releases added later where they pay.
Does GBCORP build internal apps, not just customer apps?
Yes. Staff apps and consoles are a large share of the custom work.
Which platforms?
iOS, Android and web from one codebase, plus the web console.
Where is GBCORP based?
GBCORP operates across 17 countries on 4 continents; delivery is remote and apps ship to stores worldwide.
Where to start
The GBCORP app development company page answers the other common questions in the same plain form; the GBCORP Custom App Development product is the priced starting point. For the process view, read how to develop custom software for your company.
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