Custom SaaS Development

We build SaaS
to your exact spec,
not from a template.

Custom SaaS is engineered to fit your idea precisely, with no compromises forced by a generic tool's limits — and you own it outright. We build bespoke subscription software from scratch, with real billing, the way we built our own. No template, no lock-in.

Platforms and marketplaces we have built and worked on
sellyourboat.ioKompiPayeuropeanyachtbrokers.combusesforsale.comLoopa
What we build

Built to fit exactly,
owned completely.

Custom means no forced compromises and no rented platform. We engineer your SaaS to your requirements, and hand it over.

01

Built to your spec

Engineered from scratch to do exactly what your product needs.

02

No template limits

None of the forced compromises of configuring a generic tool.

03

Real billing

Proper subscriptions on Stripe, built into the custom product.

04

Owned outright

No per-seat platform fee draining margin forever — it is yours.

05

Yours to extend

The full codebase, so you can change and grow it freely.

The case for custom

Custom SaaS fits your idea, instead of your idea fitting a tool

Every off-the-shelf SaaS builder and no-code platform makes the same quiet trade: you get live faster, but your product has to fit within the tool's limits. For many things that trade is fine, and when it is, we will say so honestly. But when the SaaS is the business you are building — the product people pay for, the thing that has to be exactly right — those limits stop being a convenience and become a ceiling.

Custom SaaS removes the ceiling. Because it is engineered from scratch to your requirements, it does what your product actually needs, not the nearest thing a template allows. There are no awkward workarounds, no features you cannot have because the platform does not support them, no compromises baked into your product by someone else's software. It fits your idea, rather than forcing your idea to fit the tool.

That fit matters most precisely when the product is the business. If your SaaS is your company, it should be exactly what you envisioned and fully yours — and that is what building custom gives you.

The ownership case

Custom means you own it, not rent it

The other defining difference of custom SaaS is ownership. A template or no-code build is something you rent — you keep paying for the platform, you cannot fully change what it does, and if the provider raises prices, changes terms, or disappears, your product is at their mercy. For an internal tool that might be acceptable. For the software that is your business, it is a serious risk sitting under everything you build.

Custom SaaS is yours outright. The full codebase, the billing, the infrastructure — handed over on delivery, with no licensing and no lock-in. There is no per-seat platform fee quietly eating your margin as you grow, and no third party who can pull the rug. You can change anything, take it to any team, and build on it forever, because you own it.

This is why the up-front cost of custom is often the cheaper choice over a product's real lifetime: you pay to build once, instead of renting forever while accepting someone else's limits. For a SaaS that is meant to last and to be the business, ownership is not a luxury — it is the point.

Proof

We built our own custom SaaS from scratch

The clearest proof we can offer on custom SaaS is that we built our own, from scratch, with no template underneath. sellyourboat.io is a Wall & Fifth venture: bespoke subscription software we engineered and run, with Stripe billing in production, over 12,000 listings, structured supply, and a Claude-powered AI layer — every part built to fit, none of it configured from an off-the-shelf tool.

Building and operating it means we have done the real work of custom SaaS on our own product: engineering the whole thing to exact requirements, running the billing, and keeping it reliable in production, with our own money on the line. So we build your custom SaaS from having built and shipped one ourselves.

We have also delivered bespoke software and payments work across our client roster including KompiPay. Building custom, ownable subscription software is squarely what we do.

The build

Production stack, fixed price, owned outright

We build custom SaaS on a real production stack — Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Stripe for billing, deployed properly — engineered from scratch to your requirements. No template, no no-code assembly: real software, built to fit, that becomes genuinely yours.

We work to a fixed price, which is unusual for bespoke work and deliberately so — it protects you from the open-ended hourly billing custom software usually carries. From 16,000 GBP for a focused custom SaaS, from 30,000 GBP for a larger bespoke build with deeper features, integrations, roles, and admin. Payment processing and any third-party usage is passed through at cost, never marked up.

And you own all of it: the full codebase, the billing setup, the infrastructure, handed over on delivery. No platform you keep paying, no licensing, no lock-in — which, for custom SaaS, is a large part of the point. Yours to run, change, and scale with us or any team you choose.

Proof

We built our own custom SaaS, from scratch

sellyourboat.io is bespoke subscription software we engineered and run — Stripe billing, 12,000+ listings, an AI layer, no template. We build yours the same way.

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templates used
Stripe
billing we run live
12,000+
listings on our SaaS
100%
ownership, yours
Pricing

Fixed price for bespoke work

A defined price for custom software — protecting you from the open-ended hourly billing bespoke work usually carries.

Custom MVP
from £16,000

A focused custom SaaS built to your requirements: the core product, accounts, and real billing.

Extensive Build
from £30,000

A larger bespoke build with deeper features, integrations, roles, and admin, engineered to spec.

Embedded Partner
from £8,000 /mo

Ongoing senior involvement once live: evolving the custom product exactly as your needs change.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Subscription software engineered specifically to your requirements from scratch, rather than configured from a template or assembled on a no-code platform. Every part is built to do what your product actually needs, with no forced compromises around a generic tool's limits. The result fits your idea exactly and you own it outright — which matters most when the product is the business.

When your product needs something specific off-the-shelf cannot do, when the SaaS is the business rather than an internal tool, or when you need to own and control it fully rather than rent it. For genuinely standard needs, a configured off-the-shelf tool can be the cheaper, smarter call, and we will say so. Custom is worth it when the alternative genuinely does not fit or does not give you ownership.

Up front it can be, because you build rather than configure — but the comparison is not simple. A template is cheap to start but you rent it forever, cannot fully change it, and can hit a ceiling as you grow. Custom costs more initially but you own it, it fits exactly, and there is no per-seat fee draining margin forever. For a product that is the business, custom is often cheaper over its real life.

From £16,000 for a focused custom SaaS built to your requirements: the core product, accounts, and real billing. From £30,000 for a larger bespoke build with deeper features, integrations, roles, and admin. Both fixed price, and you own the full codebase. Third-party usage (payment fees, AI) is passed through at cost.

Yes, including our own. sellyourboat.io is a Wall & Fifth venture: bespoke subscription software we built from scratch and run, with Stripe billing in production, 12,000-plus listings, and a Claude-powered AI layer — none of it configured from a template. Building custom SaaS to exact requirements is what we do.

Completely, and it is one of the main reasons to build custom. The full codebase, billing setup, and infrastructure, handed over on delivery. No licensing, no lock-in, no platform you keep paying. Yours to run, change, and scale with us or any team you choose.

Build SaaS that fits
exactly, and is yours.

Tell us what your product needs to do that nothing off-the-shelf can. We will build it to your spec, with real billing, owned outright.