Custom Software Design

Keeping track of all your paperwork can be a daunting task for a small business. Whether it's bookings, orders, inventories etc, Ptolemy Consulting can design a software program that is individually tailored to your needs, giving you the competitive edge.

Custom software design lets you have an application tailored for your business. In many cases "off-the-shelf" software will do the job for you, but often businesses have needs that can't be met by traditional software. Custom software can be written to run either on your stand-alone machine or to run over a network or internet/intranet, depending on your how your business works.

Some examples of custom software we've written are:

• A system for a Singles Dining company - it allows the operator to record member information, accounting information eg membership fees, generate reports, letters and newsletters automatically, set up functions and record who is coming to each function plus much more.
  
  
• A booking system for a Boarding Kennel. It allows the kennel staff to record pet bookings, keep information about the owners, animal's preferences & food, allocate them to an enclosure when they arrive, generate accounts and take payments.
  
  
• A commercially available diet planning software to allow the user to enter their personal information (eg weight, height etc) and specify what sort of plan they wish to create (eg weight loss). It comes preloaded with nutrition information on popular foods, and allows them to enter their own recipes, calculate a meal plan and record their eating for the week.
  
  
• A system for a Building Inspector to record jobs, create reports and accounts for each job and record payment information.

As you can see, what can be done is entirely up to your imagination! If you have a process you think could benefit from being computerised, contact us.

We can develop and maintain systems in Clipper, Delphi, C#, Visual Basic (VB), Visual Foxpro and Access.