ebenstone

Services

What Ebenstone can do for you.

Custom apps and websites, built new or built onto the systems you already use, with help before and after the build.

Custom apps, built around your work

Apps built around the work your people do.

Most organizations have work that runs on a spreadsheet, a shared inbox and somebody’s memory. Ebenstone builds an app for it, around the steps your people already follow and the words they already use. It can handle one task, or everything your team does in a day.

  • Request and work-order tracking
  • Intake, review and approval
  • Scheduling and assignments
  • Records, with reports for leadership
Example: CCO Care, for a church’s care team

Example screen. The people and work orders are invented.

Websites, built and hosted

A website for your organization, built and hosted for you.

Ebenstone designs and builds your site, hosts it, and keeps it online. You don’t have to choose a site builder, find a host or learn to edit pages. When the site needs to do more later, such as taking sign-ups or payments, it can grow without starting over.

  • Designed and built for you
  • Hosted for you, on your own web address
  • Changed for you when you ask
  • Room to add sign-ups, ordering or payments later

Example website.

Sign-up, ordering and payment pages

Pages where people register, order, book or pay, built new or added to your site.

Ebenstone builds these from scratch, or adds them to the website you already have. They are used once, on a phone, by someone in a hurry, so they have to make sense the first time and never take an order you can’t fill.

  • Added to your existing website, or built new
  • Event and program registration
  • Made-to-order shops with lead times
  • Booking that knows your real availability
  • Card payments through Stripe
Example: StoreSign, for made-to-order shops

Example screen.

Built onto what you already use

Ebenstone builds onto the systems you already use.

You don’t have to replace what already works. Ebenstone can build on top of the systems you run today and add the piece they are missing, so your people keep one sign-in and nobody retypes the same list.

Not every system allows it. You’ll hear on the first call whether yours does.

  • Sign-in with Planning Center, Google or Microsoft accounts
  • People looked up from your existing records
  • Visits and shifts on each person’s phone calendar
  • Email notices that leave out sensitive details
  • Your own web address, with its certificate handled for you

Help deciding what to build

Start with a question instead of a project.

Sometimes you don’t need software built yet. You need to know whether to build, what to build first, or whether the tools you already pay for can do the job. Ebenstone looks at your idea or your current setup and gives you a written recommendation you can act on, with Ebenstone or without.

  • A review of your idea, sketch or plan
  • A look at the tools and spreadsheets you use now
  • A second opinion on another developer’s proposal
  • A written recommendation, in plain words

Example recommendation.

Support after launch

Someone who knows the system is still there next year.

Software needs small fixes and changes for as long as it’s used. Every build includes a 30-day warranty. After that, a support agreement keeps Ebenstone available, and your people can ask for help from inside the app.

How support works

Example Help panel.

What Ebenstone turns down

Projects Ebenstone will say no to

You’ll hear this on the first call, with the reason.

  • A rebuild of something that only needs a repair.If what you have can be fixed, Ebenstone will say so.
  • Something an existing product already does.If it exists for forty dollars a month, Ebenstone will point you to it.
  • Design work with very little software in it.A designer will serve you better.

For your IT person

How it’s built

Where it runs
In the browser, on phones and laptops. Nothing to install from an app store.
Built with
Next.js, React and TypeScript, on a Postgres database.
Hosted
In the United States, each app with its own database.
More detail
Security and data

Not sure which of these you need?

Describe the idea or the problem. Working out what to build comes first, and asking costs nothing.

Contact Ebenstone

or write to [email protected]