Convert Your Spreadsheet to an App (Spreadsheet to App Development Services)
Scorchsoft builds custom web and mobile apps that get inspiration from your existing spreadsheet calculations and processes.
What You Can Do With a Spreadsheet-Driven App
Convert spreadsheets into a web based dashboard
Spreadsheets are great as they allow you to quickly put in place new business processes in a systematic manner. However, they can become prone to error and are often difficult to work with if multiple people need to use the same document. By converting the processes in a spreadsheet to an online dashboard you can improve team user experience by having a well-designed user interface driving the process. As the data is then web-based this enables other things such as online graphs, automatic document creation and automatic reporting and notifications.
Add a button to send spreadsheet data to the cloud
If you want a hybrid solution then it is possible to add a button to an Excel or Google spreadsheet that sends the information in it to a web service. This has many uses, from automatically populating a website through to running scheduled tasks on the submitted information. As a sheet's grid structure allows it to be edited relatively quickly, this can make it much easier to manually administer large sets of information.
Auto generate PDF documents
Once your data is on a website or server you could then use it to automatically generate a PDF document. This can often save a lot of time compared with manually creating and styling Word or PowerPoint documents. With this in place, quotations and proposals can be generated in seconds rather than hours or days in some examples.
Create an app from formulas
Spreadsheets can also be a great way to prototype functions that could then be built into an app. If you can represent something in a spreadsheet then chances are that it can be used to create a mobile or web-based application. For example, in the past we have made applications for flowchart-based troubleshooting of hardware that have been driven by an Excel document.
Excel to HTML, JSON or XML
You can write macros or processes within a sheet to automatically output information in a standardised format — for example, you can automatically output Excel to HTML, JSON or XML. This is particularly useful if you already have an online system (or ERP system) that you wish to submit data to. Often you need to be able to communicate with them via an API that accepts messages in one of these formats.
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Scorchsoft are expert app and portal developers based in the UK. We have over 16 years' experience making rich, functionally complex apps and web apps. Send us your spreadsheet and your goals, and we'll come back with our thoughts and a rough cost estimate.
Experience Delivering
Spreadsheet-to-app conversion is one of many capabilities we build into apps and portals, alongside data dashboards, PDF generation and systems integration. Explore the full list on our capabilities page.
Discover How Scorchsoft Can Help
We would love to hear about your project. Please contact us, and share your goals; we'll respond with our thoughts and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of web and mobile app developers and designers. We operate in-house from Birmingham, and our offices are located in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter.
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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
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.