Excel → Online Applications
Turn complex spreadsheets into secure, multi-user web applications with proper validation, permissions and an audit trail — built around the logic your workbook already contains.
What We Build
What Can We Build For Your Business?
From digitising a single form to developing a complete software product.
Dashboards & Business Intelligence
Turn raw business data into live dashboards and management information you can act on.
Business Management Systems
Manage projects, customers, employees, contractors, stock, documents and workflows in one place.
Customer & Contractor Portals
Give customers, suppliers or contractors secure access to exactly what they need — and let them keep their own records current instead of emailing you documents.
Custom SaaS Platforms
Build subscription-based software products for your organisation or for a wider market.
Online Forms & Data Capture
Replace paper forms and manual capture with intelligent digital forms that validate as you type.
Workflow Automation
Automate approvals, notifications, calculations and handovers so administration stops eating the day.
Database Solutions
Centralise business information in a structured, secure database designed to grow with you — one source of truth, properly related, with nothing trapped in a file on someone's desktop.
Integrated Websites
Your Website Could Be Doing More Than Describing You
Most business websites are a brochure. They tell people what you do, collect the occasional enquiry by email, and stop there. The work still happens somewhere else — in a spreadsheet, an inbox, or someone’s head.
If you are rebuilding your website anyway, it costs far less to build the system into it than to bolt one on two years later. One website, one login, one database — the public face and the business behind it as a single thing.
What the public seesYour marketing website — pages, services, credibility.
What your customers seeThey sign in to their own orders, projects, documents or statements.
What you seeThe back office — records, activity, reports, the business running.
One database underneathEvery layer above reads and writes the same information. Nothing is re-typed, nothing drifts out of sync.
A website that earns its place
Properly designed, fast, and written to be found — the site you would have built anyway. It is the front door, not the whole house.
A login area for your customers
Clients sign in to see what is theirs: jobs in progress, documents, history, invoices. The questions that fill your inbox get answered before they are asked.
An admin side for you
The system you would otherwise have built separately — capture, manage, search and report on your operational data, from any device.
Content you change yourself
Update your own text, images and pricing without waiting on a developer. You are not locked into paying us for a typo.
Why not just add it later? You can — and sometimes that is the right call. But a website and a system built separately end up with two logins, two designs and two places your information lives, and joining them afterwards usually costs more than building them together did. If you are starting the website from scratch, this is the cheapest moment it will ever be.
Your Blueprint
Have an Excel Spreadsheet That Has Become Too Complicated?
You may already have the blueprint for your next business application.
Project_Tracker_FINAL_v7(2).xlsx
| Customer | Project | Material | Qty | Cost | Labour | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer A | Renovation | Timber | 100 | R5 000 | R3 000 | In progress |
| Customer B | Office fit-out | Furniture | 50 | R12 000 | R2 000 | Complete |
| Customer C | Warehouse | Steel | 220 | R38 400 | R9 600 | Quoted |
| Customer A | Renovation | Paint | 18 | R2 160 | R1 400 | In progress |
Version conflicts · no permissions · manual totals · one person owns the file
We analyse what the spreadsheet is really doing
What information is captured, what calculations run, who uses it, what reports come out of it, what happens outside the file — and what should become a database, a workflow or an application.
- Dashboard
- Customers
- Projects
- Materials
- Labour
- Budgets
- Reports
- Users & permissions
- Notifications
- Mobile access
- Document storage
- Audit trail
Interactive
What Could We Automate In Your Business?
Tick whatever sounds familiar. We'll show you what a solution could include.
You may benefit from a custom business application
Based on your selections, iHubSA could help you create:
SaaS Development
What Is SaaS — And What Could It Do For You?
Software as a Service is simply software you log into rather than software you install. That one change has knock-on effects worth understanding — whether you want to use it, or build one of your own.
What it actually means
Instead of buying software and installing it on a machine in your office, you open it in a web browser and pay a monthly or annual fee for as long as you use it. The company that built it takes care of the hosting, the security, the backups and the updates. You log in and work.
You are almost certainly using several already — Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Xero and Sage all work this way.
What it replaces
The older model: buy a licence up front, install it on a server in the office, buy and maintain that server, pay someone to keep it patched and backed up — then pay again in a few years when your version stops being supported.
If the office loses power or that one machine fails, so does the software — and often so does the only copy of the data.
Two ways this applies to your business
People use the word "SaaS" to mean two quite different things. Both are worth knowing before you decide what to build.
Path 1 · Most common
Software for your own business, delivered as a service
This is what most of our work looks like. Your application lives online and your team simply logs in.
- Nothing to install, and no server to buy or maintain
- Works on a laptop at the office, a phone on site, a tablet in the field
- Backups, security patches and updates handled for you
- A predictable running cost instead of a large once-off outlay
- Add or remove users as your team changes
- New staff have access on their first day
- One version of the system, so everyone really is looking at the same data
Path 2 · A product of your own
A SaaS product you own and sell to others
If the problem you have is a problem your whole industry has, the system you build to solve it can become something you sell.
- Recurring subscription income rather than once-off project revenue
- Build it once, sell it many times over
- Often starts life as an internal tool that turned out to be worth more outside
- Becomes a business asset in its own right, not just an operating expense
- Direct insight into how customers actually use what you have built
- You control the roadmap — it grows in the direction your market pulls it
Have an idea for a SaaS product?
Perhaps you've identified a problem that thousands of businesses have. This is the path from that idea to something people pay for.
01Idea
02Prototype
03MVP
04SaaS Platform
05Users & Revenue
- Product design
- User experience
- Database architecture
- Web application development
- Authentication & permissions
- Dashboards & reporting
- Subscription functionality
- Deployment
- Ongoing development
- Scaling & support