Custom web application development company in Mumbai

Social Dealers offers custom web application development in Mumbai for ideas that do not fit a website or an off-the-shelf tool. We design and engineer booking and listing platforms, customer portals, marketplaces, SaaS products and the internal tools that run them, built in Laravel.

What we build

• Booking and listing platforms with search, availability and separate dashboards for customers and owners
• Customer and partner portals where people log in to see orders, documents or status updates
• Marketplaces that connect buyers, sellers or service providers
• SaaS products with sign-ups, plans and billing
• Internal tools that replace spreadsheets, scattered WhatsApp threads and manual copy-pasting
• Upgrades of older PHP and Laravel applications that need to be made secure and supported again

We run platforms ourselves

Social Dealers operates its own SaaS products, including a link-in-bio platform and a hosting and billing portal. That means we live with the realities clients rarely see in a proposal, such as uptime, payment edge cases, support tickets, permissions and security, every single day. Those lessons go straight into the work we do for clients.

For clients we have built stay-booking platforms with separate owner and guest logins in multiple languages, and pet import and export web applications with partner and client logins.

Who it is for

• Founders turning an idea into a working product they can put in front of customers
• Established businesses whose operations have outgrown spreadsheets and email
• Companies with an ageing PHP application that nobody wants to touch
• Teams that need a portal for customers, partners, dealers or staff

We work with businesses across Mumbai and the rest of India, and with teams serving international users. Our platform work so far spans travel and stays and pet import-export, and the same thinking applies to logistics, education, professional services and retail operations.

How a web application project works

1. Scoping. We map the users, roles and key journeys, and agree what the first release must do and what can wait.
2. Architecture. We plan the data model, integrations, hosting and security, and write it up so you can review the plan before the build.
3. Design. Screens for every key journey, from sign-up to the admin dashboard, reviewed with you and your users.
4. Build in stages. Code lives in a private repository, and each feature is reviewed on a staging copy before it reaches real users.
5. Testing and security review. Automated tests cover the parts that handle money and data, and permissions are checked role by role.
6. Launch and ongoing releases. We deploy carefully, monitor the live system and keep shipping improvements as your users ask for them.

A clear brief makes every stage easier. Our guide on what to include in a brief works for applications too.

Technology, and why we chose it

Laravel, PHP and MySQL are our default stack. Laravel is mature, well documented and widely used, so your application rests on a framework with a long track record and a large pool of developers you could hire later. It gives us dependable tools for authentication, queues, scheduled jobs, email and testing, so time goes into your features rather than plumbing.

• REST APIs to connect payment gateways, SMS and email services, accounting software, mobile apps and partner systems
• Background queues for emails, imports and reports, so the app stays responsive
• Version control in private repositories, with every release deployed deliberately, never automatically
• A full backup before any change touches a live system
• Automated tests around the parts that handle money and data

Security and your data

Every application we build has user accounts with roles and permissions, so people see only what they should. Passwords are hashed, forms are validated and protected against cross-site request forgery, file uploads are checked, and access to servers and databases is kept to the people who need it. Before launch we run a security review and harden the configuration, and backups are in place from the start.

What affects the cost of a web application

• The number of user types and how detailed their permissions need to be
• How complex the workflows are, such as bookings, approvals or payments
• Integrations with payment gateways, messaging, accounting or other software
• Dashboards, reports and data exports
• Multi-language support
• Migrating data from an existing system
• Hosting, support and the pace of new features after launch

After a short call we send a fixed written quote for a clearly defined scope. For larger platforms we often scope a focused first release, so you can put it in front of users before committing to everything else.

Modernising what you already have

Running an older Laravel or PHP application? We audit, secure and upgrade legacy codebases step by step, preserving your URLs and data, so you get a modern, supported framework without a risky big-bang rewrite.

Your code, your data

You own what we build. The code lives in a private repository and is handed over in full, along with access to your hosting and data. If you choose to keep us on for maintenance and new features, it is because the work is good, not because you are locked in.

Related work

• Buonafortuna: a stay-booking platform with property search by location, dates and guests, separate guest and owner dashboards, and English, Hindi and Bangla.
• Petsji: a Laravel web application for a licensed pet import and export company, with partner and client logins and English, Spanish and French.

Related services

• Hosting and maintenance for monitoring, backups, updates and security once your application is live.
• Ecommerce development if your platform is mainly about selling products.
• Website design and development for the marketing site that sits in front of your app.

Talk to us about your platform

Whether you have a detailed specification or a rough idea on a single page, we will help you shape it into something buildable. Contact us and we will set up a short call, then send a fixed written quote.