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Interfaces and workflows built around your business data, searchable, secure and usable by everyone, not just IT.
Database app development NZ businesses need is rarely about the database. The data exists, in Access, FileMaker or a server only IT can query. This page is for the manager who wants a custom database application that puts that data in front of the people who use it, searchable, secure and in a browser.
data only one person can reach
database app development around your data
Good business database software starts with the data, not the screens. We work out what you store and how the records relate, design the database properly, then build the interfaces around it so each role sees the data it needs.
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We map what you store and how it relates: a member has memberships and payments, and the schema enforces those links so a payment cannot exist without a member. Old tables with a column for every year become proper records.
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Each role gets its own screens. The membership officer sees renewals, the finance team sees payments, and the front desk volunteer sees a name, a photo and whether the membership is current. Nobody needs to know the database exists to use it.
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Type part of a name, an address or an asset number and matching records appear, without the exact spelling. A view you use every week, such as overdue renewals, is saved with one click and opens the same way next Monday.
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Existing data arrives from Access, FileMaker, SQL Server or CSV files. Validation rules catch what the old system let through: the postcode in the phone field, the duplicate member, the asset with no location. You decide what happens to each exception.
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Every record shows what it is linked to and what has happened to it. Open a property and see its owners, tenancies, inspections and invoices, with who changed what and when. History that used to take three queries sits on one screen.
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Reports run from the live data on a schedule or on demand: memberships by category, assets due for inspection, samples awaiting results. Anything on screen exports to Excel or CSV in a click, so the Monday report builds itself and nobody retypes it.
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The database is not a dead end. A secure API lets other systems read and write it: the website checks whether a member is current, your accounting software receives invoices, a field app sends inspection results. What connects to what is written down.
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The database runs on managed cloud hosting with automatic backups kept apart from the live system, encryption, and a login per person. We test restores. Your data stops being a file on a PC one power cut from being lost.
The audit tells us what you hold. We design the schema with you. Interfaces come next, one role at a time, so people start early. Data is imported in bulk, with the exceptions reviewed by your team. Reports run on their own, your team is trained on their screens, and the old database goes read-only, then retires. You sign off each step.
Access, FileMaker, SQL Server and CSV files supply the existing data at import. After that, your accounting software receives invoices and returns payment status, Power BI and Excel connect to the live data, and Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 handle sign-in.
Any system with an API connects. Click a logo to visit them.
Xero
MYOB
Stripe
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Twilio
Shopify
HubSpotAI is optional, and a well-designed database is useful without it. Read how we use AI and where it fits in business process automation.
A manager asks how many memberships lapsed last quarter and gets the answer, not a request to IT.
It finds the same member entered three ways and proposes the merge for approval.
The notes column that held complaint types for years gets a proper category.
The office and managers use the web app for everything: searching, updating records, running reports and setting up views. It replaces the Access forms and runs in any browser.
Staff in the field use a phone app for the records they touch: an inspector updating an asset, a technician logging a sample, a volunteer checking a membership.
Members, owners or students log in to see their own record or download a certificate, which takes those calls off the front desk. All three read and write the same database.
Members, renewals, payments and events, linked and searchable.
Property and asset ownersEach asset with its inspections, tenancies and costs.
Laboratories and technical firmsSamples, tests, results and certificates with full history.
DistributorsProducts, pricing and customers the sales team can search.
CouncilsRegisters and records reachable by the staff who need them.
Education providersStudents, enrolments, attendance and results in one place.
Quickest start
Where your data is a customer list or an asset register, an existing Superstack module already has the schema and screens, and we adapt it.
Most common
Several modules over one database, so members, payments and events, or assets and inspections, are linked instead of living in separate tables.
Fully bespoke
Fully bespoke database front end development for data that fits no existing module, such as a laboratory's sample records.
A mainstream relational database, hosted in the cloud rather than a file on a PC. We name the exact product in the proposal. What matters to you is that it is widely supported, any developer can work with it, Power BI and Excel connect to it directly, and it grows with your records.
Yes. Most of this work is to replace Access or FileMaker with a web app. We read the existing file, map every table and field to the new schema, migrate a test copy for your team to check, and run the final import. Old forms and reports come back as screens.
Larger than any file-based database can, and larger than most businesses ever produce. A properly designed relational database handles decades of records without the slowdowns of a desktop file. We design the schema and indexes for the volume you expect and test with a full copy of your existing data before launch.
As many as you have. A database web app has no file lock and no per-user licence, so everyone with a login works at the same time and sees each other's changes straight away. Roles control what each person sees and changes, so the whole team gets in without everyone seeing everything.
With a login per person, role-based access, encryption, and a log of who changed what. Backups run automatically and are stored apart from the live database, and we test restores. Hosting is managed, with security updates applied for you. Your data stops being a file anyone with the password can copy.
Yes. Power BI connects directly to the database, or to a reporting view we set up, so dashboards refresh on their own instead of from a weekly export. Excel users get exports from any list or report, and an analyst who wants a live connection gets one. The Monday export ritual ends.
Built around the way you work.
Your business shouldn't have to fit someone else's software. Tell us how your business works. We'll show you what Superstack can build around it.
Tell us where your data lives and who can get at it. We'll show you the interface that opens it up.
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