A B2B travel company was running its entire operation on spreadsheets and email, with no reporting to speak of. We built them a custom platform in under 45 days. Two years on it still runs the business, handling around 1,700 requests a month and giving them the travel tracking, cost visibility and GST reconciliation they simply never had before.
Everything ran on Excel and email. Requests arrived by mail, got logged in spreadsheets, and that was the system. There were no metrics at all — no way to see who was travelling where, what it was costing by region, or how any of it rolled up for the people who needed to sign it off.
GST reconciliation was the worst of it. Matching travel spend back for filing meant working through spreadsheets by hand, which is slow, tedious, and easy to get wrong in ways you only discover later.
They wanted something built around how they actually work, and they wanted it quickly. We delivered a custom platform in 30 to 45 days covering four things:
The tight build window shaped the approach: we kept the stack deliberately simple (Node.js behind Nginx) and built only what the business actually needed, rather than a platform full of features nobody would open.
Two years later the platform is still running the operation, handling roughly 1,700 requests every month. The bigger change is that they went from no reporting at all to metrics they can act on: employee travel tracked live by region, costs visible as they're incurred, and GST reconciliation that takes a fraction of the effort it used to.
The clearest measure of whether software works is whether people are still using it two years later. This is.
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