Application support and software maintenance

Software nobody maintains gets slower, less secure and harder to change. Usually so gradually that nobody notices until a release becomes frightening.

* Application support services and software maintenance after launch. Monitoring, fixes and improvements, with code and documentation kept in your accounts.

After launch

Launch is the start of the work, not the end of it

We stay involved after launch so that doesn’t happen. That can be an agreement with a guaranteed response time, a block of engineering days each month, or an occasional specialist when something specific comes up. Application maintenance and support services, in other words, sized to the software rather than sold as a fixed package. Website support and maintenance works the same way, whether what needs looking after is a platform, an application or a storefront.

What it includes depends on what your software actually needs.

What support covers

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Updates and security

Dependencies, patches and platform upgrades

02

Monitoring and alerts

Problems surface before your customers find them

03

Fixing things

With an agreed process and response time

04

Speed and running costs

Performance work and what you spend on hosting

05

New features

Continuing development based on how the product is used

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New integrations

Connecting systems as your operations change

Ownership

You own the code we write for you, by default

Software you can’t leave isn’t an asset. By default, everything we build is yours: the platform, the source code and the documentation needed to run, maintain and extend it. All in your own repositories and accounts, handed over as we go rather than at the end.

If an engagement works differently, we agree that in writing before the work starts. Either way, the goal is software your company can understand, operate and build on. With us or without us.

Related: Custom software development · Website and online store development

Next step

Discuss your project

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you what it would take and how we'd approach it, and plainly if we're not the right people for it.