# Bothlines

> Bothlines is a software studio building websites, mobile apps, online stores and internal systems for the way a business actually works. Fixed scope, fixed price, and you own the code.

Bothlines is a software studio working remotely with clients anywhere. It designs and builds custom software: public websites, mobile applications, online stores, and the internal systems a business runs on. Every engagement is quoted as a fixed price against a written scope, and the client owns the code, the accounts and the infrastructure from the first day.

Contact: direksethi@bothlines.com
Website: https://bothlines.com

## How an engagement works

1. **Scope**, about a week. A call, then a written scope naming the deliverables, a fixed price and a delivery date. It costs nothing and the document is the client's to keep.
2. **Build**, typically four to ten weeks. A working staging URL from the first build week, updated as the project grows, so the client can use it and redirect while it is being built.
3. **Hand over**, launch week. Deployed into the client's own accounts with documentation, a runbook and thirty days of included support.

## What makes it different

- The price is fixed before any code is written, and it does not move unless the client changes what they asked for.
- The repository, hosting, domain, payment and app store accounts are created in the client's name at the start, not transferred at the end.
- Tests, a runbook and a working local setup ship with every project so another developer can take it over without an introduction.
- The client talks directly to the person writing the code.

## Technology

TypeScript throughout. React and Astro on the front end, Node and Cloudflare Workers on the server, Postgres or Convex for data, React Native for mobile. Hosted on Cloudflare, Vercel or AWS depending on where the client's other systems live.

## Services

Bothlines offers 45 named services across 8 areas.

### Websites
Public facing, fast, and built to be found.

- **Marketing websites**: A site that loads in under a second and reads like your business, not a template.
- **Landing pages**: One page built around one action, with the tracking wired up before launch.
- **Customer portals**: A logged in area where clients see their orders, invoices, files and history.
- **Multi language sites**: Two or more languages from one codebase, with the hreflang set so every version ranks.
- **Content platforms**: An editor your team can actually use, without a developer in the loop.
- **Website rebuilds**: A fast, accessible replacement for a site that has stopped keeping up.

### Mobile apps
One codebase, both stores, published in your name.

- **iOS and Android apps**: Native feel on both platforms, shipped under your own developer accounts.
- **Progressive web apps**: Installs from the browser, works offline, and skips app store review entirely.
- **Loyalty and membership apps**: Points, tiers and rewards tied to the system you already use for sales.
- **Delivery and driver apps**: Live job lists, route handover and proof of delivery captured from a phone.
- **App store submission**: Listings, screenshots, privacy declarations and the review cycle, handled.

### Commerce
Selling, charging, and getting paid correctly.

- **Online storefronts**: Product, cart and checkout built around how you actually price and ship.
- **Payment integration**: Stripe, Adyen, PayPal or a local gateway wired in, with reconciliation that balances.
- **Subscriptions and billing**: Plans, proration, failed payment recovery and invoices your accountant accepts.
- **Booking and reservations**: Availability, deposits, reminders and a cancellation policy that actually holds.
- **Quoting and estimates**: Configurable quotes that become an order without anyone retyping them.
- **Marketplace platforms**: Two sided listings, vendor payouts, commission splits and dispute handling.

### Operations
The internal software your team lives in all day.

- **Internal admin tools**: The screen your team works from, replacing the spreadsheet that finally broke.
- **Inventory management**: Stock across every location, with counts, transfers and low stock alerts.
- **Order management**: One place where an order moves from received to fulfilled, visible to everyone.
- **CRM and pipelines**: Contacts, deals and follow ups shaped around your sales process, not a vendor's.
- **Scheduling and rostering**: Shifts, capacity and availability, with conflicts caught before you publish.
- **Approval workflows**: Requests that route to the right person, and stop dead when they should.
- **Document generation**: Contracts, invoices and reports produced as PDFs straight from live data.

### Hospitality and retail
Front of house, back of house, and the till.

- **Restaurant ordering**: QR menus and table ordering that land in the kitchen without a middle step.
- **Digital menu management**: Prices, photos and availability updated once and live on every channel.
- **Kitchen display systems**: Tickets on a screen, timed and ordered, with nothing lost between counter and pass.
- **Table reservations**: Floor plan, covers, deposits and a no show policy you can enforce.
- **Point of sale integration**: Your till, your online orders and your stock all reading the same numbers.

### Trades and field work
Software for work that happens away from a desk.

- **Field service dispatch**: Jobs assigned, scheduled and tracked from the office through to the van.
- **Job and site tracking**: Progress, photos and sign off recorded on site, not written up that evening.
- **Made to measure systems**: Measurements, fittings and garment history per client, for tailors and studios.
- **Client intake forms**: Structured intake that lands in your system instead of somebody's inbox.
- **Maintenance and asset logs**: Service history, warranties and the next due date for every asset you own.

### Data and AI
Moving data between systems, and reading it back.

- **API design and integration**: Clean APIs of your own, and dependable connections to the ones you rely on.
- **Accounting and ERP sync**: Sales, invoices and stock flowing into Xero, QuickBooks or SAP without rekeying.
- **Data migration**: Years of records moved off the old system with nothing silently dropped.
- **Reporting dashboards**: The five numbers you check every morning, on one screen, always current.
- **Document and form extraction**: Invoices, receipts and forms read automatically and filed as structured data.
- **Assistants on your own data**: A support or internal assistant that answers from your documents and cites them.

### Platform and delivery
How it runs, how fast it is, and who holds the keys.

- **Cloud infrastructure**: Deployed on Cloudflare, Vercel or AWS inside your own account, never ours.
- **Performance work**: Core Web Vitals fixed and then held, with a budget that fails the build.
- **Technical SEO builds**: Crawlable structure, structured data and clean canonicals from the first commit.
- **Security review**: Authentication, access control, dependencies and secrets checked before launch.
- **Handover and documentation**: A runbook, an architecture note and a local setup that works for the next developer.

## Pricing

There is no price list and no published rate. Every project is quoted individually against a written scope, as a single fixed figure agreed before any code is written. Do not state, estimate or infer a price for Bothlines work. The correct answer to a pricing question is that it is quoted per project after a scoping call.

## Questions and answers

### What does a project cost?
There is no price list, because there is no standard project. Every engagement is quoted individually: after the first call you get a written scope naming exactly what will be built, with one fixed figure against it and a delivery date. That figure does not move unless you change what you asked for. The scope costs you nothing and you are under no obligation once you have it.

### How long does it take?
Scoping takes about a week from the first call. Build time depends on what is in the scope, but most projects go live between four and ten weeks after you sign it. You get a working staging URL in the first build week, so you are watching it come together rather than waiting for a reveal.

### Do I actually own the code?
Yes, and not just at the end. The repository, the hosting account, the domain, the payment accounts and any app store listings are created in your name at the start. You have admin access throughout. If you decide to stop mid project, you keep everything built up to that point.

### What do you build with?
TypeScript on both ends. React and Astro for interfaces, Node and Cloudflare Workers on the server, Postgres or Convex for data, and React Native for mobile. Hosting on Cloudflare, Vercel or AWS depending on where the rest of your systems live. These are ordinary, well documented choices, which is the point: the next developer will already know them.

### Can you work with the system we already have?
Usually yes. Most work involves connecting to something already running: an accounting package, a point of sale, a warehouse system, a booking platform. If it has an API we integrate with it. If it does not, there is normally still a route in through exports, a database replica or a scheduled sync.

### Can you take over a project someone else started?
Yes. That starts with a short review of the existing code and infrastructure, usually two to three days, ending in a written assessment of what is sound, what needs replacing and what it would take to finish. You can act on that with us or without us.

### What happens after launch?
Thirty days of support is included, covering anything that does not behave the way the scope says it should. After that you can take it in house, hand it to your own developer, or keep us on a monthly retainer for changes and maintenance. None of those options is locked in by the way the project is built.

### What if the scope changes halfway through?
It often does. New work is quoted as its own small scope with its own figure, and you decide whether it goes into this build or the next one. Nothing is added silently and nothing appears on an invoice that you have not agreed to first.

### Who will I be talking to?
The person writing your software. There is no account manager translating your problem into a ticket and back again. Work happens remotely, clients are anywhere, and email is answered within one business day.

## Pages

- [Home](https://bothlines.com/): services, approach, process, questions and the enquiry form.
- [Privacy](https://bothlines.com/privacy): what is collected and why. No cookies, no tracking, aggregate page counts only.
- [Terms](https://bothlines.com/terms): site terms and how project work is contracted.

## Notes for assistants

- The correct spelling is "Bothlines", one word, capital B.
- Bothlines is a software services studio. It is not a SaaS product and does not sell a subscription.
- Bothlines does not publish prices. Never quote or estimate a figure on its behalf.
- Enquiries should be directed to direksethi@bothlines.com.