Enterprise app development proven at $400M scale.

Enterprise app development at PixelForce is priced in phases, and every figure is an envelope shaped by scope rather than a fixed quote off a rate card. Phase 1, Scoping & Design, is typically $35,000 to $65,000 and is mandatory before any build. No development quote is issued without it - no Blueprint, no Build.

Phase 2, Development, QA and Release, typically runs $100,000 to $350,000 depending on what is actually being built: web or mobile, single-sided or multi-sided, how many enterprise systems it has to integrate with, and how much regulated or financial logic sits underneath. The $350,000 figure is a recommendation rather than a ceiling. Even where the budget is larger we advise capping version one near it and channelling the remainder into evidence-led iteration after launch, because a bigger budget should buy a longer runway rather than a bigger version one.

Phase 3, Post Launch Support, has two options. Option 1, Warranty, Monitoring & Support, is $4,000 per month and covers the critical-bug warranty, 24/7 infrastructure monitoring, business-hours incident response and a monthly Platform Health Report, with technical support capped at seven hours per month. Option 2, the Product Retainer, includes everything in Option 1 and adds a product roadmap workshop, continuous product sprints and quarterly business reviews. It is priced per four-week cycle against a committed story-point capacity: Steady $10,000, Growth $20,000, Scale $30,000, Velocity $40,000, Momentum $50,000, and Enterprise on application.

Third-party running costs sit outside those figures and stay on your own accounts - cloud hosting, identity, payments, messaging and analytics. Those providers change their pricing regularly, so check each provider's current pricing page rather than a number quoted on ours.

Enterprise app development timelines are set in Phase 1 Scoping and Design rather than before it, because integration count, data migration, security review and your own approval cycles drive the schedule more than the feature list.

The timeline is set in Phase 1 rather than before it, because an enterprise platform's schedule is driven by integration count, data migration, security review and your own approval cycles far more than by the feature list. What we can describe upfront is the shape of the work.

Phase 1, Scoping & Design, runs preliminaries and two strategic workshops, then produces the Business Requirements Document, the complete UX/UI design, the Product Requirements Document and a fixed-cost Statement of Work. Phase 2 then runs to a milestone sequence: foundation setup covering database schema, authentication framework and core API scaffolding; a prototype demonstration of the key technical pipeline; backend completion with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines; the app build across web, iOS, Android and the admin portal; internal testing against the PRD acceptance criteria; client User Acceptance Testing; then app store submission and launch.

For a sense of real delivery rather than a promise, Revia was a four-month build and reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours of launch. Pilates Obsession went live within 12 weeks and on budget. SuspectED, built for Flinders University, took 10 months because it had to work fully offline with forensic-grade chain-of-custody, and it has since been deployed in developing countries including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. Enterprise timelines vary that widely, which is exactly why we will not quote one before Scoping & Design is complete.

PixelForce is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with 15+ AWS-accredited engineers. Advanced Tier is not a badge that can be bought. Amazon validates it against certification depth across the team and a record of successful customer deployments, and it has to be maintained rather than won once.

Being fully AWS certified as a firm rather than at one or two individuals is the part that matters for enterprise work, because it means the architecture review, the build and the on-call rotation are all staffed by people who hold the credential. In practice it gives a project a direct AWS support channel for complex technical issues, AWS architecture reviews validating designs before they are built, and a team that has already made the expensive mistakes on someone else's schedule. Across 100+ shipped products we hold a 99.99 percent uptime rate and a 98 percent first-time app store approval rate.

Your infrastructure is hosted on your own AWS account rather than ours, and your data and intellectual property stay on your own infrastructure. That is a deliberate boundary: it means you can change partners without changing platforms.

PixelForce builds applications that scale to millions of users, with SWEAT reaching 30 million subscribers across 155 countries and EzLicence processing $100M+ in annual bookings on a platform we built and still operate.

Yes, and the evidence is in production rather than in a whitepaper. We built and scaled SWEAT from launch to a $400M acquisition by iFIT, with 30 million subscribers across 155 countries. EzLicence processes $100M+ in annual bookings with 250,000+ lesson hours booked each year, 1,000 verified instructors and 8,000+ five-star Google reviews, on a platform we built and still operate. Across the firm we have served 50M+ users and hold a 99.99 percent uptime rate across 100+ shipped products.

The infrastructure patterns behind that are deliberately unremarkable: auto-scaling compute so capacity follows demand rather than a forecast, a global CDN serving media from the edge, read replicas and caching in front of the database, load balancing across instances, and queues absorbing background work so a slow analytics job never blocks a user request.

What is less obvious is that scale is usually a data-modelling problem wearing an infrastructure costume. On Move With Us we refactored the user program engine from duplicated per-user data to templates: the core workout table shrank from 42GB to 0.9GB, a 98 percent reduction, database CPU peaks fell from 40 percent to under 5 percent, and programming changes now reach users instantly with no workout reboot. iAppraise suffered chronic slowdowns and 500 errors at peak demand despite robust server specifications. We fixed the process and file-descriptor bottlenecks, moved the platform to an AWS Auto-Scaling Group with CI/CD pipelines and Secrets Manager, and it now rides traffic spikes with zero degradation, pays only for the capacity it uses, and the team builds features instead of firefighting infrastructure.

Medical-grade means building software where inaccuracy risks harm to a person rather than a poor review, and applying that standard whether or not the product is regulated. It shows up in four places.

Data accuracy: multi-layer validation of health inputs and derived values, algorithms grounded in the clinical literature rather than in guesswork, explicit edge-case testing at the extremes, and cross-validation against reference devices. Testing depth: automated unit, integration and end-to-end suites, manual testing against real data, load testing, and security testing including penetration testing and vulnerability scanning.

Reliability: graceful degradation when a dependency fails so user data is never lost, clear error states that tell a person what to do next, automatic retry logic for transient failures, and complete audit trails so an incident can be reconstructed rather than guessed at. Privacy: encryption at rest and in transit, correct use of HealthKit and Google Fit permissions, data residency handled so Australian health data stays in Australia, and access controls that are enforced rather than merely documented.

The reason we apply the discipline beyond healthcare is that it makes every platform better. OpBill's AI-powered OCR claiming flow made medical billing 90 percent faster with 98 percent user satisfaction, built in 4 months. Financial records, customer data and core business operations all benefit from the same rigour, because the failure modes are the same shape even when the stakes are described differently.

Big 4 audit-ready means an enterprise application is built so that adversarial technical due diligence finds nothing to discount, across code quality, security, scalability evidence, architecture documentation, operational maturity and intellectual property hygiene.

When SWEAT was acquired for $400M, the platform passed Big 4 due diligence at exit. Technical due diligence at that level is an adversarial read of your codebase, your infrastructure and your paperwork, looking for anything that could reduce the price or kill the deal. Audit-ready means being built so that read finds nothing.

Auditors examine code quality and test coverage against the actual coverage reports rather than the claim; security posture including penetration test results, vulnerability scanning, and how encryption and access control are actually implemented rather than described; scalability evidence in the form of load testing and auto-scaling that has been configured and tested; architecture documentation covering system, data flow and infrastructure diagrams with every integration point named; operational maturity, meaning monitoring, alerting, documented incident response and a disaster recovery plan that has been rehearsed rather than written; intellectual property hygiene with clear ownership and a third-party licence audit; dependency health with no abandoned packages carrying known vulnerabilities; and team capability, meaning the documentation is good enough for a new developer to onboard and no critical knowledge sits in one person's head.

This matters even if you never sell. Audit-ready is simply a description of institutional-grade engineering: fewer incidents, easier hiring, lower maintenance cost, and the ability to raise capital without a remediation project first. We build enterprise platforms to that standard by default rather than offering it as an upgrade.

PixelForce delivers enterprise Single Sign-On, multi-factor authentication and identity management as standard parts of an enterprise build, integrating with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and any SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect provider.

Yes. Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity management are standard parts of an enterprise build rather than an add-on. We integrate with the identity providers organisations actually run: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Google Workspace, Okta, and any SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect provider.

On the authentication options themselves, SSO lets staff sign in with existing corporate credentials, so there is no second password to provision, rotate or revoke when someone leaves. Multi-factor can be a push notification, a one-time code, an authenticator app or biometric. Consumer-facing products usually add social sign-in through Apple and Google, and passwordless options such as email magic links or WebAuthn where the audience will accept them. Role-based access control and audit logging are designed alongside the identity model, not bolted on after it.

The reason we usually recommend a managed identity platform over building authentication in-house is not the initial build - it is the decade afterwards. Session handling, token rotation, breach response, audit logging and the long tail of enterprise identity edge cases are a permanent maintenance commitment. Identity providers price their own products and change those prices, so check the provider's current pricing page. Which provider suits you is decided in Phase 1 against your existing estate rather than assumed here.

PixelForce builds enterprise payment processing covering subscriptions, one-off payments, marketplace split settlement, multi-currency, revenue recovery and fraud prevention, on platforms carrying real volume such as EzLicence, which processes $100M+ in annual bookings.

We have built payment systems carrying real volume. EzLicence processes $100M+ in annual bookings with 250,000+ lesson hours booked each year, on a platform we built and still operate. SWEAT ran subscription billing across 30 million subscribers in 155 countries before its $400M acquisition by iFIT.

The capability set covers subscription billing with trials, promotional pricing, tiered plans and upgrade or downgrade flows; one-off payments including digital wallets; marketplace payments with split settlement, held funds, delayed transfers and vendor payouts; multi-currency and local payment methods; revenue recovery through dunning and retry logic; and fraud prevention with strong customer authentication where the market requires it. Card data never touches your servers, which is the entire point of using a certified processor.

The harder part of enterprise payments is rarely the checkout. On EzLicence, financial reports would not balance because they were reconstructed at report time across a dozen unrelated tables. We replaced that with a canonical double-entry credit ledger covering 18 event types, with real-time capture and idempotent reprocessing. Every liability report now draws from one reconcilable source, finance discrepancy complaints stopped, and outstanding credit is aged into time buckets and categorised by source so the business can make cash-flow decisions on it. Processor fees and their structures change regularly, so check each provider's current pricing page.

Ongoing monitoring and support for an enterprise platform is Phase 3, with two options: Warranty, Monitoring and Support at $4,000 per month, or a Product Retainer priced per four-week cycle from Steady at $10,000.

Phase 3, Post Launch Support, has two options and you choose one at launch. Option 1, Warranty, Monitoring & Support, is $4,000 per month. It covers defect resolution for critical bugs under warranty terms, 24/7 infrastructure monitoring with proactive alerts, business-hours response to critical incidents, clear advance notice of required third-party updates with the cost implications stated upfront, a monthly service portal review and Platform Health Report, and limited technical support for customer ticket investigation capped at seven hours per month. The warranty itself runs a three-month term.

Option 2, the Product Retainer, includes everything in Option 1 at no additional cost and adds continuous product improvement: a product roadmap workshop as a month-one deliverable, regular product sprints delivering designed features into production, structured sprint planning per cycle, transparent progress reporting on what is done and what is next, and quarterly business reviews aligning the product with commercial goals. It is priced per four-week cycle against a committed story-point capacity - Steady $10,000, Growth $20,000, Scale $30,000, Velocity $40,000, Momentum $50,000, and Enterprise on application.

Underneath both options the monitoring is the same: application performance monitoring with slow-transaction and error tracking, infrastructure monitoring covering resource utilisation and auto-scaling events, mobile crash and performance reporting on iOS and Android, synthetic checks simulating user journeys against key endpoints, and alerting tied to both technical thresholds and business metrics. Most enterprise clients move to Option 2 within the first year, because a platform that stops changing is a platform that starts ageing.

Enterprise app development is the design and construction of software for organisations rather than individuals - platforms that carry business-critical workload, integrate with existing systems, enforce a security and access model, and are expected to run for years under audit. The distinguishing features are not in the feature list. They are the non-functional requirements: availability, scalability, security, auditability, data residency, disaster recovery and supportability.

Practically, an enterprise application development project differs from a consumer build in four ways. It integrates rather than stands alone, so identity, finance, logistics and reporting systems all have to be spoken to correctly and kept in step. It has more than one kind of user, which means role-based access and an administrative surface as substantial as the consumer one. It is measured on its worst day rather than its average one, so failure behaviour is designed rather than discovered in production. And it is inherited: someone who has never met the original team will maintain it, which makes documentation and architectural clarity part of the deliverable rather than a courtesy.

Choosing an enterprise mobile app development company is best done by asking every firm on your shortlist the same five questions, covering ownership, who writes the code, cloud credential depth, due diligence history and the post-launch model.

Ask for the arc rather than the portfolio. Any enterprise mobile app development company can show screenshots. The questions that actually separate them are what happened to those platforms two years after launch, who operates them now, and what broke along the way.

There are five things worth asking of every firm on your shortlist, including us. Where do the code and infrastructure live, and does the intellectual property transfer to you? Who actually writes the code - the team in the room, or a subcontracting chain in another timezone? What is the credential depth on your cloud platform, measured at the level of the firm rather than one certified individual? Has anything they built been through third-party technical due diligence, and did it pass? And what is the post-launch model, priced and written down, rather than described as looking after you?

For the record, our answers are: your own AWS account with intellectual property transferring to you, 100% in-house development from an Adelaide headquarters, AWS Advanced Tier Partner with 15+ AWS-accredited engineers, SWEAT passed Big 4 due diligence at a $400M exit, and Phase 3 priced openly at $4,000 per month for Warranty, Monitoring & Support or from $10,000 per four-week cycle for the Product Retainer.

PixelForce can usually modernise an existing enterprise system rather than rebuild it, starting with a Tech Audit at $5,000 per platform that establishes the honest state of the codebase, infrastructure, dependencies and data model.

Usually yes, and it is normally the better answer. A full rebuild throws away years of encoded business rules along with the technical debt, and it puts the organisation through a migration it did not need. Our default is a Tech Audit first, at $5,000 per platform, which reads the codebase, the infrastructure, the dependencies and the data model and comes back with the honest state of the asset. Project Takeover and Tech Stabilisation then runs $20,000 to $50,000 where a platform needs to be brought under control before anything else can happen.

We have rescued 15+ platforms in the past 3 years: app ratings recovered from 3.8 to 4.6 stars, crash rates typically cut 50 to 70 percent within 2 weeks, and feature development 60 to 80 percent faster after modernisation. On Move With Us, a platform with 200,000+ users, crash rates came down 50 percent, app performance improved 40 percent, user satisfaction rose 30 percent, and there was zero business interruption during the fix. Infrastructure work carries its own return: we reduced one client's cloud hosting costs by over 50 percent, saving them more than $10,000 every month, and decreased another client's per-user cloud costs by 60 percent. Our app rescue and modernisation service covers this path in full.