Bespoke software & automation · NZ & AU

Software that puts your busywork on autopilot.

eConsulting designs and builds custom Laravel platforms, integrations and payment systems that take the manual steps out of running your business — scoped, built and supported by the same senior engineer.

Years building software
20+
Direct with the engineer
1:1
Owned & operated
NZ

automation · nightly-billing

Running

run nightly-billing --unattended

06:00 NZST · trigger: schedule

132 completed jobs pulled from dispatch

41 invoices generated & emailed

payments reconciled · 2 flagged for review

ledger synced to Xero · 0 errors

done in 38s — the morning admin already handled

≈ 6 hrs of admin handed to software — every night

0 manual steps

Technology we work with: Laravel, PHP, Vue.js, React, MySQL, Redis, Stripe, Cloudflare, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, WebSockets, CI/CD

Services

Built for your business, not bought off the shelf

Every engagement starts with the same question: which parts of your week should software be doing for you? These are the ways we answer it.

01

Bespoke web applications

Custom Laravel platforms shaped around the way your business actually runs — not a template you bend to fit.

02

Business process automation

Workflows that trigger, decide and act on their own: invoicing, reporting, follow-ups and the rest of the repeat work.

03

API & systems integration

Twenty years of wiring systems together — APIs and webhooks that make your booking, accounting, dispatch and CRM platforms talk to each other, no re-keying.

04

Mobile payments

Card payments and tap-to-pay built into the job itself, with settlement and reconciliation handled automatically.

05

Customer & staff portals

Self-service portals and mobile-first apps that let customers book — and your team work — from anywhere.

06

Legacy system rebuilds

Ageing systems modernised piece by piece, while the business keeps running on them the whole way through.

Automation

If it happens twice, it shouldn't need a human

The best measure of a system isn't its feature list — it's how many hours it quietly hands back. We design automation in from the first line, not as an afterthought.

  • Event & schedule driven

    Jobs fire from webhooks, queues and schedules — not from someone remembering.

  • Your rules, encoded

    Pricing, matching, escalation and exceptions handled the way you would decide them.

  • Humans only where it matters

    Approvals and flagged reviews where judgement is genuinely needed — nowhere else.

  • A full audit trail

    Every automated action logged and searchable, so you always know what ran and why.

Invoicing Reconciliation Reporting Customer notifications Data entry Document generation Follow-ups Scheduling

Diagram: events like a booking being created, a daily schedule or a card charge flow into your business rules, which automatically email invoices, text customers and update Xero.

Field-proven

Two decades proven in passenger transport

Taxi and mobility is an unforgiving proving ground — software runs around the clock, money moves in the back seat, and downtime is measured in lost fares. We've built every side of that operation.

Customer booking

Web and mobile booking customers actually use — quoting, live tracking and notifications included.

Booking appsLive ETAsNotifications

Driver tools

Apps drivers rely on for a whole shift — job flow, statuses and earnings at a glance.

Job workflowShift toolsEarnings

Mobile payments

Card payment in the vehicle without extra hardware — tap to pay on the phone, reconciled automatically.

Tap to PayReconciliation

Fleet & back office

The management layer — fleet oversight, driver administration and end-of-month without the spreadsheets.

Fleet oversightReportingAdmin

Not in transport? The same discipline carries over — if your industry runs on bookings, jobs, payments and deadlines, this will feel familiar.

Why eConsulting

Senior hands, from first call to production

No account managers, no juniors learning on your budget, no hand-offs. One experienced engineer who understands the business problem and owns the system that solves it.

20+

Years building software

Two decades of production systems — the judgement calls are already made.

1:1

Direct with the engineer

The person who scopes your system is the person who builds and supports it.

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Laravel & API engineering

Deep, current expertise in Laravel and API integration — the connective tissue of every modern stack.

NZ

Owned & operated

Based in New Zealand, building for the NZ and Australian markets — plain English, long-term support.

How we work

From 'where do the hours go?' to hours handed back

A deliberately simple engagement — you always know what's being built, what it costs and what it replaces.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We walk through how the work happens today and find where the hours actually go.

  2. 02

    Blueprint

    You get a written proposal — system design, scope, cost and timeline in plain English.

  3. 03

    Build

    Senior engineering start to finish, with working software in your hands early and often.

  4. 04

    Run & improve

    We ship it, watch it run, measure the hours saved and keep automating.

Got a process that eats your week?

Describe what your team still does by hand. You'll get a straight answer on which parts software can take over — and what it would take to build.