Example projectAPI
Fees, payroll and accounting hub
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
A childcare centre's office copies fees into accounting, staff hours into payroll and subsidy amounts into statements, by hand, every month.
// What we would build
An integration hub between the childcare app, payroll and accounting, so fees, payments, subsidy amounts and staff hours reach the right system once, with a log of every message.
// What is in it
- Fees and payments posted to accounting
- Staff hours sent to payroll
- Subsidy amounts shown on family statements
- A log of every message, with alerts
- Documented, so the next system is easy to add
// Stack
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- OpenAPI
- Payroll and accounting interfaces
- AWS
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$53,400 to US$81,600, delivered within 13 weeksCAD 76,000 to 116,200
- Hosting
- ≈ US$176 a monthCAD 250 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$2,500 a monthCAD 3,565 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
Timeline by milestone
- API contract agreed
- 2.9 to 3.9 weeks
- Core resources built
- 2.4 to 3.9 weeks
- Security, gateway and connections
- 1.4 to 2.4 weeks
- Docs, SDKs and load tests
- 1.4 to 1.9 weeks
- Launch and first callers
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 30%
- CAD 22,800 to 34,860
- API contract agreed 7.5%
- CAD 5,700 to 8,715
- Core resources built 22.5%
- CAD 17,100 to 26,145
- Security, gateway and connections 15%
- CAD 11,400 to 17,430
- Docs, SDKs and load tests 7.5%
- CAD 5,700 to 8,715
- Launch and first callers 7.5%
- CAD 5,700 to 8,715
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 7,600 to 11,620