We design and develop custom web portals that centralise data, automate workflows, and give your users secure self-service access — all built around your operations.
Our Velocity Sprints process accelerates your online portal development
We run focused workshops to define the essential features of your MVP. You'll leave with clarity on scope, timeline, and budget, without delays.
Our UK developers work in short, high-speed sprints to deliver working prototypes quickly. You'll see progress fast, with daily progress updates.
Get your MVP live in weeks, not months. Test with real users, gather feedback, and pivot rapidly, so your idea starts delivering value sooner.
We create bespoke software that caters to the specific needs of individual industries. Here are just a few we have worked with.
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.
Scorchsoft 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!
We'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.
I'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 operatives where done in a great easy to use manner even for myself which makes using my ap stress free . Thanks to all the all the team!
Explore real-world case studies showing how we've helped startups and enterprises alike bring complex digital ideas to life, and scale them with confidence.
Our skilled in-house development team delivers cutting-edge solutions using the latest technologies.
If you would like to consider us to develop your portal project, then please let us know what you want to achieve, and we will let you know our ideas and an indication of cost.
Here are answers to common questions we receive about our app development and quoting process:
Yes. Scorchsoft has an established, UK-based in-house team (Birmingham, Jewellery Quarter) who design and build online portals day-in, day-out. Because the team is employed directly by us (not outsourced), you get consistent delivery, continuity, and proper accountability.
Our engineers typically build portals as secure web applications (often with a supporting API and database), and we regularly deliver projects involving user logins, permissions, dashboards, workflows, and integrations.
Most portal projects fall into a few common patterns: customer/client portals (self-service, status tracking, document access), partner portals (hierarchies of organisations and stakeholders), staff/intranet portals (internal operations and admin tools), and membership portals (subscriptions, gated content, communities).
If you tell us who needs access (customers, staff, suppliers, members) and what they need to do (view, submit, approve, track, pay, download), we’ll shape the portal around that.
Yes — and this is usually the backbone of a successful portal. We implement authentication and role-based access control (RBAC), so you can define users, groups, ownership levels, permissions, and entitlements. That means you can control exactly what different users can access (and what they can’t), which is essential for security and for keeping the portal simple for each user type.
We’ll also advise on audit trails, data separation, and best practices for compliance and governance where needed.
Yes. Portal projects often live or die on integrations, so we treat this as a first-class requirement, not an afterthought. We can integrate with third-party systems via APIs, webhooks, scheduled syncs, or direct database access (where appropriate).
In practical terms, that could mean: pulling customer/account data from your CRM, showing order or job status from an ERP, syncing documents, handling payments, or automating notifications and approvals.
Yes. We have in-house UI/UX and graphic design capability. We’ll start with wireframes to map journeys and information architecture (so your portal doesn’t become a “menu soup”), then move into high-fidelity designs and clickable prototypes.
Because portals usually serve different user types, we’ll design the experience so each audience sees what matters to them first (e.g., customers get “status + documents + actions”, staff get “queues + admin + reporting”).
Absolutely. Most portal projects start as “we need a portal” rather than a perfect spec (which is normal, not a crime). We’ll help you get clarity by defining your users, key workflows, data sources, and what “success” looks like (reduced admin time, fewer inbound emails, faster turnaround, better reporting, etc.).
From there, we’ll shape a sensible MVP and phased roadmap so you can launch quickly, prove value, and then extend.
Yes. We use a structured delivery approach (discovery/scoping, sprint-based builds, then launch/validation) so you see progress early and often — especially important for portals where stakeholders typically refine requirements once they see real screens and workflows.
You get regular updates, transparent prioritisation, and a controlled path to launch.
Yes — when it serves a clear operational purpose. For portals, the most useful AI features tend to be things like: automatic document classification, summarising long text, extracting structured data from submissions, smart search over internal content, and drafting responses or reports based on portal data.
If AI is relevant to your use case, we’ll help you choose the right approach so it saves time or improves decision-making (rather than becoming an expensive “look what we can do” feature).
Portal cost mainly depends on scope (number of user types, workflows, integrations, and data complexity). We price based on the effort required to plan, design, build, test, and deploy your portal, plus any ongoing support you want post-launch.
We’ll usually recommend an MVP-first approach so you can deliver the highest-value workflows early, then iterate based on real usage. If you want a quick ballpark, share your goals and your must-have features and we’ll give you an initial estimate.
Yes. While we don’t offer finance-style payment plans, we commonly split portal projects into staged payments across delivery — typically a deposit followed by monthly payments aligned to progress (especially for multi-month builds).
That keeps cashflow predictable while still letting you move fast.
Yes. Most portals are built as responsive web applications so they work cleanly across desktop, tablet, and mobile. If your use case benefits from a dedicated mobile app (e.g., heavy on-device usage, offline access, camera/scanning workflows, push notifications), we can also build a companion app that connects to the same portal back end.
If you’d like to explore an online portal project, tell us what you’re trying to achieve (your users, workflows, and systems you need to integrate with) and we’ll respond with clear next steps and a ballpark estimate.
We’re happy to answer questions before you commit — and if you want examples of similar work, we can point you at relevant portal case studies.
