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Maidstone, Kent

Custom Software Development in Maidstone

As the county town, Maidstone has some of Kent's most established businesses, and a lot of them still run on software that was the right choice a decade ago. We fix the points where that's now costing you, without replacing everything that still works.

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You'll be talking to one of us, not a salesperson.

The strength of an established business is also its trap

Maidstone has a deeper bench of established, mid-sized firms than most Kent towns: distribution and logistics along the M20, professional and financial services in the centre, legal firms, retail, and family businesses that have been going for decades.

The systems holding them together have been there for years. Everyone's built workarounds, and nobody wants to be the one who touches them. That's understandable, because a failed replacement is a bad day for the whole business.

So the workarounds pile up, the costs grow quietly, and the decision keeps getting put off.

We don't want to rip out what works.

We're interested in the specific points where an old system is costing you: the report that takes half a day, the data typed in twice, the process that depends on one person and one spreadsheet.

We fix those carefully. Start with the one causing the most friction, and see the return before you commit to anything bigger.

Who we've worked with near Maidstone

Some of our clients are a short drive from the town centre, and one has a shop in it. Without the names:

  • An engineering events and media company at Kings Hill

    We built the website for its trade event and the back-office system behind it.

  • A family jeweller with a shop in Maidstone

    Five years of trying to get a website that actually sold. We built one that does.

  • A B2B engineering publisher in Rochester

    A media business running several trade titles. We've built five websites for it.

Thirteen miles down the road

Our office is in Gravesend, about thirteen miles from Maidstone. Between Kings Hill, Rochester and the town itself, the Medway Valley is familiar ground.

For a Maidstone firm we'd usually come over for the kick-off, a workshop or two while we pin down how things really work, and a sit-down when the new system goes live. In between we keep it simple: one list of what's being built, short calls when a decision's needed, and Rob or Jase on the phone.

Working with Dev Partners to redesign and modernise our WMS system: the whole process has been thoroughly professional from the outset and a delight to work with.
Seacon

Software for Maidstone and the Medway Valley

  • Distribution and logistics

    Order management, stock, picking, despatch and delivery tracking for firms along the M20.

  • Custom CRM

    Built around how you manage accounts, pipeline or cases, not how a vendor assumes you do.

  • Workflow tools

    Job management, scheduling, quoting and sign-off, so the process stops living in one person's head.

  • Integrations

    The packages you already run, joined up so nobody retypes anything. If it has an API, we can connect it.

  • Old systems, moved on

    Ageing databases, Access, COBOL and early PHP brought up to date without stopping the business.

  • Reporting

    Figures that are always current, instead of someone spending half a day in spreadsheets.

Questions from Maidstone businesses

  • Can you work alongside our existing systems?

    Almost always. We connect to the accounts packages and stock systems you already run, so you're extending what works.

  • Our last system was a nightmare to change. How is this different?

    You own it, and we build it around your process rather than a vendor's roadmap. When something needs changing, you talk to the people who wrote the code.

  • Do you handle older systems?

    Yes, regularly, including COBOL, Access and early PHP. We move data carefully and keep the business running throughout.

  • What happens after it goes live?

    We look after it: fixes, improvements, security updates and hosting, from the people who know your code.

  • How do we start?

    Tell us what's going on. It goes straight to Rob and Jase, and the first chat is free.

Why changing what works is a risk

We work with established businesses that understand changing a working system is a risk, not an opportunity. So we go carefully. We keep the old system running while we build, move data in stages, and don't switch anything over until it's been tested by the people who'll use it.

And once it's in, you own it. No licence negotiations and no waiting for a vendor's next release.

Photos of Rob and Jason, who run Dev Partners

Hello, you get us

Rob on the left, Jase on the right. No sales team and no account managers. One of us is on every job, from the first chat to long after it goes live, and the people writing your code sit in the same small team.

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It goes straight to Rob and Jase. You'll hear back from one of us, usually the same day, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people.

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