Mobile App Development Norwest — B2B Apps, Built Next Door

Norwest Business Park is one of the larger commercial precincts in Sydney, and the app work that comes out of it looks different from the app work that comes out of a high street. Less loyalty cards, more internal tooling.

We are based at Bella Vista, minutes from the park. That is close enough that "let's look at it together" is a reasonable sentence rather than a half-day commitment.

What Norwest companies usually actually need

The request that arrives is often "we need an app". The thing that turns out to be needed is more specific, and usually one of these:

• An internal tool that replaces a process currently held together by a shared spreadsheet and one person's memory
• A field app for staff who are not at a desk — job details, photo capture, sign-off, sync when signal returns
• A client-facing portal where the value is secure access to something, not features
• A companion app to an existing system, doing the three things people actually do on a phone

Corporate projects also come with constraints consumer apps do not: single sign-on, existing databases, procurement, and an IT function with opinions. Those constraints shape the build from day one, and pretending otherwise is how projects go sideways at integration.

Integration is where the money goes

For a Norwest B2B project, the interface is rarely the hard part. The hard part is that your app has to agree with a system that already exists and cannot be changed to suit it. We would rather find that out in week one than in month four, so we start by asking what it has to talk to.

We build iOS, Android and cross-platform apps, have been doing mobile development since 2015, and have delivered for this region — including a patient app for a Hills District psychology practice. If you want a number before speaking to anyone, there is an app cost calculator, and we have written up Flutter versus React Native for Australian teams.

What it costs

• Essential: $10,000 – $20,000 — core functionality for a small business
• Professional: $20,000 – $40,000 — advanced features and integrations
• Enterprise: $40,000+ — complex multi-platform systems

Ranges, not quotes. What moves a project between them is usually integration — an app that stands alone is far cheaper than one that has to talk to your booking system, your accounting package and your existing database.

Talk to us

We are at U608/8 Elizabeth Macarthur Drive, Bella Vista NSW 2153, on 0433 309 677. We are happy to come to you in Norwest, or you are welcome at our office.

Get in touch and we will tell you honestly whether an app is the right answer for what you are trying to do — sometimes it isn't.

We also work with businesses in Bella Vista, the wider Hills District, Castle Hill and Parramatta.