We can help you to Build a Portal
Looking to build a portal? Scorchsoft is a UK portal development company. We design and build customer, supplier and staff portals, SaaS platforms and the mobile apps that sit alongside them.
Building for teams across healthcare, logistics, motorsport and manufacturing
Rapid results with Velocity Sprints
Pay for output, not hours.
Our Velocity Sprints process accelerates your app development. Each deliverable is scoped, tracked and quality-checked in Output Units — a unit of finished work rather than time spent. You see progress daily, and Escape Hatch Friday™ means you are never locked into a sprint that stopped making sense on Tuesday.
Discovery & scoping
Focused workshops define the essential features of your MVP. You'll leave with clarity on scope, timeline and budget, without delays.
Sprint-based builds
Our UK developers work in short, high-speed sprints to deliver working prototypes quickly. You'll see progress fast, with daily updates.
Launch & validate — fast
Get your MVP live in weeks, not months. Test with real users, gather feedback and pivot rapidly, so your idea starts delivering value sooner.
Choose the right next step
Plan, build, automate and support digital products with a service matched to where you are now.
Plan & design
Shape the idea, reduce uncertainty and make the next investment decision clear.
Software development
Build dependable customer and business software around your goals.
AI & automation
Find valuable AI opportunities, deliver them and improve them over time.
Support & improve
Keep critical software healthy, move it forward and recover work that is stuck.
- Support & maintenanceWhen you need a dependable response and maintenance route
- Momentum ongoing product developmentWhen you need a steady stream of product improvements
- Application hosting & Lifeline supportWhen hosting, monitoring and urgent cover belong together
- App project rescueWhen a build has stalled or gone off track
- Code audit & viability reviewWhen you need evidence before taking on a codebase
Not sure which route fits?
What Our Clients Say
Scorchsoft helped us take our idea for an app and make it a reality. Everything from the planning meeting to decide what we really needed to the project management and execution was great. It was delivered on time - early in fact - and on budget. Highly recommend.
Rebecca PalserDragonfly IntelligenceScorchsoft is a brilliant company with fantastic knowledge of the mobile app industry. From the project management to the development team, they have been the perfect candidate for our project, and we can't thank them enough!
Lance ChorltonGapped OnlineWe're really pleased with the work Scorchsoft has done in developing our web portal! They have been accurate with timelines and budget, delivering a solid product that allows us to monitor and manage patients remotely while they use our novel medical device at-home. The "plan - design - build" approach has worked well and saved us time in the long-run by catching requirements and issues early.
Daniel GreenSensTrainI'm really pleased with how my app came out, it was exactly what I was looking for. The team at Scorchsoft are great at what they do and made the whole process as simple and easy as possible. Being someone who is not very tech savvy the set up and back end operations were done in a great easy to use manner even for myself which makes using my app stress free. Thanks to all the team!
Ruben CarrollMosaic MasterpiecesThe new Flourish Education website has already removed a lot of manual processes, freeing up both schools, candidates and internal employees time. We are delighted with the look and feel which is clean, professional and more engaging. We are also pleased with the decision to have an HD video background on the homepage, and building immediate trust with our clients by giving them a taste of what it looks like in the Flourish Education offices.
James HancocksMarketing Manager, Flourish Education I can't believe how quickly we started to see results with this project. Scorchsoft provided us with graphic-designed mockups of how the app would look once built, and we were able to sell the product for use by our first customer before the product was finished. Since launching in March, we have secured a major television network as a client who now uses Image Approvals to manage the talent approval process for their productions.
Aimee SpinksMD, ImageApprovals.com
Capabilities
Our skilled in-house development team delivers cutting-edge solutions using the latest technologies.
Looking to Build a Portal? We can help!
Scorchsoft is a specialist portal building company, and we have a team of UK developers who work on similar projects day in and day out. With over a decade of building technically complex online portal projects, we are in a unique position to leverage these years of experience to help you develop and release your next portal project.
We have a wide range of portal development capabilities and a track record of integrating with online platforms and APIs, and of building custom integrations with third-party systems, Software as a Service platforms, marketplace mobile apps, and Internet of Things connected web and mobile apps, to name a few.
We make sure that your project is delivered, from design through to build, with a thorough project management process, to ensure quality. All whilst reviewing the best technologies for your project, and considering the ways we can deliver the maximum value for your budget.
Portals and Apps We Have Built
Online portals, SaaS platforms and the mobile apps that sit alongside them, all taken from brief to launch by our in-house team.
Supplier Portal — WSH Supply Chain Procurement Portal
Searchable map of approved suppliers with single sign-on and an onboarding workflow.
Image Approvals SaaS Portal
A web app and SaaS portal for film and TV productions to approve talent photos.
Live Like Loyalty App & Admin Portal
Employee rewards app with a GPS offer map, in-app redemption and admin tools.
PBJUMPS Jump Training App
A science-led strength and conditioning app for iOS and Android.
Achieve Clarity (The Planning Process)
Did you know that recent research shows that conducting discovery can reduce your risk of failure by 75% or increase your chance of success by 59%? (source: Nielsen Norman Group)
Let our team support you with this critical planning process, where we listen to your requirements and apply our expert knowledge to make suggestions to help you to build web and mobile software that achieves your goals.
About Scorchsoft · Our Capabilities · Frequently Asked Questions
How Scorchsoft plans a portal project
We Are a Portal Development Company Based in Birmingham, UK
We understand that figuring out how to build a portal that delivers your ideas can be daunting, and without an effectively executed plan there is project risk and business risk. You rightly want it built correctly, to the latest standards, in a way that supports future extensions. You also deserve great design, an attentive project-managed process, and an end product that meets your expectations.
It's easy for any agency to claim they can deliver the portal you want, but how can you know for sure that they can deliver on those promises?
Scorchsoft believes that success is the combination of many factors coming together, like a song compiled of different but complementary melodies. Our success factors include the use of the latest development technologies, such as React and React Native, a well-managed and capable UK team, and business processes that ensure quality whilst protecting against errors.
With over sixteen years of experience delivering highly technical portal and app projects, Scorchsoft is uniquely positioned to apply this expertise to the benefit of your business. We will help you to solve challenging problems, and do so in a way that cuts through the tech jargon and gives you clarity, executed following a clear plan and project managed at every step of the way. You can read more about our approach in our frequently asked questions.
If you would like to consider us to build your portal, let us know what you want to achieve and we will let you know our ideas and an indication of cost.
Scorchsoft develops online portals, applications, web apps and mobile app projects. With over sixteen years' experience working with hundreds of small, medium and large enterprises across a diverse range of sectors, we'd love to discover how we can apply our expertise to your portal. See our capabilities or our work.
Tell Us What Your Portal Needs to Do
Describe who will log in, what they need to do and the systems it has to talk to. We will come back with an indicative cost and a sensible first release, with no obligation.
Frequently Asked Questions About Building a Portal
The questions we hear most from businesses commissioning a customer, supplier or staff portal.
A portal is a secure, login-protected web application where customers, suppliers, partners or staff sign in to see their own data and get things done: raise orders, upload documents, track jobs, approve requests. A website presents the same content to everyone; a portal shows each user what they are entitled to see. Read more about our online portal development capability.
It depends on how many user types the portal serves, how many processes it runs and which systems it has to talk to. A single-purpose portal that replaces one manual process sits at the lower end; a multi-role platform with integrations and reporting sits higher. We give you an indicative figure in our first conversation and a fixed cost once scope is agreed. Request a free quote to get a number for yours.
Scoping takes days. A first release typically goes live in a matter of weeks through our Velocity Sprints process, with working screens shown to you every few days. Larger portals are released in stages so the highest-value area goes live first.
Yes. Most portals we build integrate with accounting packages such as Xero and Sage, CRMs such as HubSpot and Salesforce, stock or ERP systems, payment providers and Microsoft 365. Where a system has an API we connect to it directly; where it does not, we build import, export or middleware layers. See API development and integration.
Yes. We build portals on a database and set of business rules that a mobile app can share, so an app for staff in the field or customers on the move can be added later without rebuilding the portal. Many clients start with the portal and add the app in a second phase.
Security is designed in rather than bolted on: role-based permissions, encrypted data in transit and at rest, audit logging and secure authentication including single sign-on where you need it. Scorchsoft is Cyber Essentials certified, we work to GDPR throughout, and we can arrange penetration testing before launch.
You do. Once the work is paid for, the intellectual property in the bespoke code belongs to your business, and we hand over the source code and documentation. You are never locked into Scorchsoft to keep it running.
Yes. We host on UK and EU cloud infrastructure (typically AWS), monitor the portal, apply security updates and provide ongoing development and support agreements sized to your needs, from a small monthly retainer to a dedicated team.
Need help building your ideas?
Tell us where you're headed and we'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of app, portal and AI developers, working in-house from Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.