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Business mobile app development means designing and building iOS and Android apps around your own processes, so field sales, service, warehouse and dealer teams record work on a phone instead of on paper. Digital Bridge builds these apps natively in Swift and Kotlin and connects them to the ERP or web system you already run, so a record entered on site appears at head office straight away.
Orders written in a notebook, service reports handed in at the end of the day, stock counts copied from paper into Excel: by the time the information reaches the office it is hours or days old, and re-keying has added errors along the way. Managers find out what was sold or finished only the next morning.
A custom mobile app removes that delay: data is captured once on site and written straight into your ERP or web system, never typed twice. Where there is no signal the app keeps working and syncs once it reconnects. It scans barcodes and captures photos and customer signatures, and we handle store publishing too.
Native Swift development for iPhone and iPad. We handle App Store submission and ongoing releases.
Native Kotlin development for Android phones, tablets and handheld terminals. Google Play publishing and release management included.
Technicians pick up the day's work orders on a tablet in the morning, upload photos on site, capture the customer's signature on screen and raise the delivery note there and then. Head office follows each team's location and job status on a map, and the job is ready for invoicing before the technician is back.
Dealers order by phone against their own price list and live stock. Orders flow into the ERP automatically, so taking orders over the phone and re-keying them disappears.
Warehouse staff handle goods-in, dispatch and stock counts in the app by scanning barcodes. Paper count sheets are no longer needed, and results appear in the system as soon as the count is finished.
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In the first call we map what your field teams still write on paper and how many hands it passes through before reaching the office; that tells us which screens the app should start with.
No back-office system behind the app yet? We build that as well: see custom web software, field service management, warehouse and inventory management and API integration.
Most often field sales, dealer and customer ordering, service and maintenance, warehouse and logistics, and management dashboard apps. The common goal is to get information that would otherwise be written on paper to head office as soon as it is captured. In a dealer ordering app, for example, dealers order by phone against their own prices and live stock, and orders flow into the ERP automatically.
We build natively: Swift for iPhone and iPad, Kotlin for Android phones, tablets and handheld terminals. The apps use device features such as barcode and QR scanning with the camera, GPS location, and sign-in with Face ID or fingerprint. We also handle App Store and Google Play submission and ongoing releases, so you do not have to manage the store process yourself.
Yes. The app is built connected to the ERP or web system you already run; data captured on site is written straight into it and never typed twice. If there is no back-office system behind the app yet, we build that as well, whether custom web software, field service management or warehouse and inventory management, and link the systems through API integration.
Yes. In basements, on building sites or in rural areas the app keeps working without a signal. Orders, work orders, photos and signatures are stored on the device and synchronised automatically once a connection returns. Field teams working in poor-coverage areas therefore do not fall back on paper forms, and no data is lost in the meantime.
Offline mode, push notifications for new jobs and approval requests, barcode and QR scanning with the phone camera, GPS location and maps for visit logging and routing, quick sign-in with Face ID or fingerprint, on-screen customer signatures with an automatically generated PDF, and photos attached directly to the relevant record. We decide together which of these your workflow actually needs.
Cost depends on the number of screens and workflows, whether the app must work offline, which device features it uses such as barcode scanning, camera and signatures, how deeply it integrates with your ERP or web system, and whether it is distributed internally or published in the app stores. A needs analysis comes first, followed by a written proposal with scope, phases and cost; the app can start with its busiest workflow and grow in stages.
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