We're currently trying to get an app made and one of the local developers we're talking to have suggested, and given us a quote, to build based on Wordpress.
At first I was a bit against it, but having done some research and looking into their reasoning it does sound pretty plausible.
I was just wondering if anyone here has built a SaaS web application with Wordpress as a backend??
The app is used for estimating jobs with some industry specific "trickery". it's essentially a very clever ecommerce site with some CRM features.
The company that have quoted it are aware of all of our future possible features and nothing seems impossible on Wordpress. They will be masking all wordpress specific URL's, custom dashboard, custom log in etc - to the paying software user they won't know it's wordpress. The Wordpress back end makes user management, content management etc. etc. really easy and thus cheaper.
The thing is, building on Wordpress is at the top of our initial budget, building bespoke is going to add another $15000 to the build cost which might delay us for some time.
Saving money is no good if the product doesn't work/isn't scalable - as I say though, they are very confident Wordpress is a commercially viable route to market.
What are your thoughts?
At first I was a bit against it, but having done some research and looking into their reasoning it does sound pretty plausible.
I was just wondering if anyone here has built a SaaS web application with Wordpress as a backend??
The app is used for estimating jobs with some industry specific "trickery". it's essentially a very clever ecommerce site with some CRM features.
The company that have quoted it are aware of all of our future possible features and nothing seems impossible on Wordpress. They will be masking all wordpress specific URL's, custom dashboard, custom log in etc - to the paying software user they won't know it's wordpress. The Wordpress back end makes user management, content management etc. etc. really easy and thus cheaper.
The thing is, building on Wordpress is at the top of our initial budget, building bespoke is going to add another $15000 to the build cost which might delay us for some time.
Saving money is no good if the product doesn't work/isn't scalable - as I say though, they are very confident Wordpress is a commercially viable route to market.
What are your thoughts?
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