Software for Saudi Arabia, built in Lahore.

Most of the projects worth building start with a process that keeps breaking: orders tracked across WhatsApp and Excel, approvals that live in someone’s inbox, a report rebuilt by hand every week. We build custom software for exactly that, and when a packaged product would do the job, we say so.

On the web that means customer portals, order and booking systems and internal dashboards, built as web applications on Laravel, Node and React. Where staff or customers are on the move, iOS and Android apps read from the same backend, so a rule changes in one place.

We also take on the less visible work: CRM set-up, AI and automation for repetitive admin, cloud hosting and DevOps, and QA and testing before anything goes live. Larger builds are split into phases that each end in software your team can use.

Education technology is our deepest specialism, and our flagship client is next door. Bright Future delivers private training and university-level courses across Kuwait on web, iOS and Android, and we designed, built and still run the whole system.

It shows what a training provider in the Gulf actually needs: a catalogue students can pay for on their phones, secure HD video that stays locked to the account that bought it, instalment plans and coupons, and an admin dashboard for enrolments, revenue, invoices and reports. Students, instructors, admins and super-admins each work through their own role.

Our EdTech page sets out how we approach courses, enrolment and billing, and our guide to building or buying an LMS is a fair place to start if you are still deciding whether you need your own platform at all.

Saudi Arabia’s tax authority, ZATCA, requires VAT-registered businesses to issue electronic invoices, and any system that raises invoices has to fit that. We have not built a ZATCA integration yet, and we would rather say so here than in the middle of a project.

What we have built is the same kind of work for Pakistan. Cargonio, our freight ERP, reports each invoice to the PRA and FBR e-IMS systems and stores the fiscal number that comes back on the record, so nobody re-keys figures into a separate portal. The hard part was never the happy path: it is retries, reconciliation and deciding what the user sees when a government endpoint is down.

For a Saudi project that needs e-invoicing, we would scope the integration as its own phase, against the published specification, and your tax adviser should confirm which requirements apply to your business.

We build iOS and Android apps from one React Native codebase, so one team ships both stores instead of two teams slowly drifting apart. The Bright Future student apps are live in Kuwait, with in-app payment for enrolment and video lessons locked to the account that paid.

In Saudi Arabia the local debit network is mada, so a checkout has to accept it alongside credit cards. We run MyFatoorah in production for Bright Future and Stripe for card payments elsewhere, and for a Saudi business we would choose the gateway around your bank and your customers, then test every flow in its sandbox, failures included, before launch.

Where your market needs Arabic, right-to-left layout is designed in from the first screen, with long Arabic strings tested in every state rather than a translation laid over an English layout at the end.

We do not keep an office in Saudi Arabia and will not rent an address to look local. Saudi projects run remotely from our engineering office in Lahore, with the head office in Hobart: video calls, a shared project board you can open at any time, and a demo of working software at the end of each phase.

Riyadh is on UTC+3 and Lahore on UTC+5, and neither changes its clocks, so Lahore is two hours ahead all year. The Saudi working week runs Sunday to Thursday and ours runs Monday to Friday, so Monday to Thursday are shared in full.

We write the scope down before we quote, then price the build phase by phase, with a demo of working software at the end of each one. The code and every account belong to you, so you can move the work in-house or to another team whenever you choose.