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Custom API and software development
When no workflow step will do it, we build the thing that will.
Some requirements cannot be met by a workflow step, and forcing them into one produces something nobody can maintain. This is the engagement for those: middleware between systems that were never meant to talk, custom endpoints, data transformation services, and small internal tools. Scoped properly, built properly, and handed over with the source code.
Who books this
Who this is for
- Businesses with a requirement no native step covers
- Agencies who need a reusable piece of middleware across a client base
- Teams who have hit the limit of what webhooks can reasonably do
The run
How the job runs
No stage names for the sake of it. These are the actual steps, in the order they happen.
- 01
Technical discovery
A paid discovery that produces a written specification, an architecture note and a fixed quote. You own that document whether or not you proceed with the build.
- 02
Build
Written to be handed over: tests, environment configuration, no hard-coded secrets and no undocumented assumptions.
- 03
Deploy
Deployed to infrastructure you own and control, with logging and alerting configured so a failure is visible before a customer reports it.
- 04
Handover
Source code, deployment documentation and a walkthrough with your developer, if you have one. If you do not, the documentation is written for the one you hire later.
On completion
What you get, and what you do not
Deliverables
- A written technical specification and architecture note
- The software built, tested and deployed to infrastructure you own
- Logging and failure alerting configured
- Full source code and deployment documentation
- A handover walkthrough
Not included
- Hosting, infrastructure and third-party service costs
- Ongoing hosting management unless retained separately
- Mobile apps and consumer-facing product development
Scope
What ships in the crate
Clear boundaries are cheaper than an awkward conversation in week three. Here is exactly what your purchase covers and what gets its own quote.
Delivery
Within 1 to 2 business days
Your share link and install notes arrive by email within 1 to 2 business days of purchase confirmation. Weekend orders go out on the next business day.
Installation support
12 hours, within 14 days
Every purchase carries 12 hours of dedicated installation support, to be used within 14 days of purchase. Book it in one block or in short sessions as you work through the fit-out.
In the crate
Support for the snapshot itself and the automations inside it.
- Getting the nine components live in your sub-account
- Filling custom values, connecting calendars, numbers and sending domains
- Adjusting any workflow that ships inside the crate
- Adding a few more automations alongside the ones already there
- Fixing anything in the snapshot that a GoHighLevel platform change breaks
- Answering how-does-this-work questions about what you bought
A separate order
Work that crosses into somebody else's platform, quoted on its own or delivered through a VA.
The line sits where predictability ends. Everything inside the crate is ours to control, so it is covered. The moment work depends on another company's API, rate limits or release schedule, the effort stops being predictable, and pretending otherwise would mean either padding every price or quietly running out of goodwill.
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About Custom API and Software Build
Do I own the code?
Yes, outright, on final payment. It is deployed to your infrastructure and handed over with the source and the documentation. We do not hold clients hostage to a black box.
Why does discovery cost money?
Because a real specification takes real engineering time, and a free one would be a guess. The discovery fee comes off the build price if you proceed, and the document is yours either way.
Pairs with
Crates this job is usually booked alongside
SaaS Company
Nudge the exact step the trial is stuck on, not the product in general.
Webinar Business
Registration, reminders, replay and cart close, built as one runway.
Business Coaching
Score the application. Fill the calendar with the right people only.
Other services
- Third-Party IntegrationsConnect the system you already run. Quoted per connection, built to survive.From $750 per integration
- CRM Data MigrationMove the contacts, the history and the automations. Lose nothing.From $1,450
- Multi-Niche Agency RolloutEvery client sub-account fitted from the right aisle, in one run.From $2,400
From the floor
Reading on this job
If you would rather run it yourself, this is the same method written out.
- DKT-0010Buy, build or brief it out: three ways to stock a GoHighLevel accountA decision guide for GoHighLevel snapshot vs custom build. What each of the three routes costs in hours and money, and the questions that separate them.
- DKT-0015GoHighLevel for hospitality and digital businesses: covers, fleets and trialsGoHighLevel for restaurants and booking businesses, car rental, SaaS and webinars. Why perishable inventory changes the timing of every follow-up you send.
- DKT-0003GHL snapshot vs template: they are not the same thingSnapshots, templates and blueprints get used interchangeably in the GoHighLevel market. They are different products with different scopes. Here is how to tell them apart.
- DKT-0008What a GoHighLevel snapshot actually costs, band by bandGoHighLevel snapshot cost runs from free to several thousand dollars. Here is what each price band actually contains, and the four things that move the number.
Engineering
Brief the Custom API and Software Build
When no workflow step will do it, we build the thing that will. Turnaround is scoped per project, typically 3 to 6 weeks, and you get a scope and a price before anything starts.
- Delivered within 1 to 2 business days
- 12 hours of installation support, within 14 days
- Nine fitted components in every crate