Kilkenny

A website project covers structure, design, development, search-friendly technical set-up and a content management system your team can use without our help. For animation studios, designers and craft makers, that usually means portfolio pages with fast-loading images and video; for tourism and heritage businesses, clear visitor information, content in several languages and enquiry or booking forms. Software comes in where a website is no longer enough. Fintech and financial-services teams often need secure client areas or onboarding workflows, agri-food suppliers want order portals with customer-specific prices and batch details, and engineering consultancies benefit from tools that track drawings, revisions and approvals. Where it saves real time, we add AI features such as document search or the pre-sorting of enquiries.

Allow around four to eight weeks for a company website, from the kick-off workshop to launch. A clearly defined software tool – an order portal for a food supplier, say, or a document tracker for an engineering team – usually needs eight to twelve weeks for its first version. Larger platforms are delivered in stages, so your staff can start working with one module while the next is built. Delays tend to come from outside the code: content still being written, access to existing systems, internal sign-offs. As for budget, websites start at €3,000 and custom software or web applications at €15,000. After the first conversation, you receive a fixed price in euro.

Through a fixed rhythm rather than physical proximity. You have one contact person at MDEPARTMENT from the first call to launch, and the project runs in English – or in German, if that suits your team better. Germany is one hour ahead of Irish time, so our working days overlap almost completely. Every two to three weeks you review a working interim version on a test environment and leave feedback directly in it, while decisions and open questions are kept in a shared written log. For a kick-off or a requirements workshop with several departments in one room, we come to Kilkenny on request. Invoices are issued in euro, against the fixed price agreed at the start.

In most cases, yes – and for businesses that have grown on spreadsheets, that connection is often where the real benefit lies. Current ERP, CRM and accounting systems usually offer an API. We use it to pass orders, customer records, stock levels or invoice data between your systems and the new application, so nobody has to type the same information twice. Where an older system has no interface, we work with scheduled exports and imports or read its database in a controlled way. Before development starts, we check what your systems actually allow and document every data flow. Your ERP or CRM stays in place; the new tool closes the gaps around it instead of replacing it.