A Perth business app has to survive conditions most app developers never design for: a crew member on a site in the Pilbara with no coverage for a twelve-hour shift, a technician inspecting a pump in a Wheatbelt shed, a supervisor doing pre-starts at 5 am in the dark, and a head office in West Perth that needs all of it by the afternoon. Offline-first is not a feature here; it is the starting assumption.
NexusByte builds apps for Western Australian businesses from our Australian base, on Perth time, with the backend and office dashboard built as one system. Field and inspection apps for contractors, roster and crew apps for FIFO workforces, asset and pre-start apps for hire and maintenance companies, and customer booking and ordering apps for the metropolitan trades and suppliers that keep the city running.
Our developers are in Sydney. We plan Perth projects around WA hours, travel over for discovery and prototype reviews with your crews, and keep the people who built the app on the support line as the phones and operating systems change around it.
Apps we build for Perth businesses:
The apps that last in WA are the ones designed with the crew, tested in the dark and the dust, and backed by a system the office trusts. That is the sequence we follow.
An app a crew still opens at the start of every swing is the only kind worth building.
Perth field apps are used in heat, glare and dust, with gloves on, by people who have been awake since four. The interface, the sync and the battery use all have to respect that.
Each app ships with the reporting a WA client, auditor or regulator will ask to see.
Every software project starts with a clear scope and fixed pricing, so you always know what you're getting and when.
We deliver scalable, secure software backed by a transparent process and ongoing support.
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The majors in Perth have their own development teams and enterprise vendors. The contractors, hire companies, inspection firms and suppliers that serve them, and the metropolitan trades and practices that serve everyone else, generally do not, and they are the businesses that most need an app that works offline, syncs reliably and keeps working after the next iOS release. That is the work we do, on Perth time.
We build the app around the swing, the site and the sync, because that is where WA apps live or die.
For a Perth field app, the screens are the easy part. The hard part is a backend that accepts a week of queued records from a crew coming off swing, reconciles them against the roster and the asset register, and gets the right report to the client the same day. We build that system first, on the same stack our own booking, quoting and portal software runs on.
One API and database for the app, the website and the office dashboard, designed for queued offline sync and integration with roster, payroll and ERP systems.
How we build the backendRostering, compliance, asset and ordering systems for WA businesses, with or without an app in front of them.
Software development in PerthPrototypes tested on a real phone with the crews who will use the app, in the conditions they work in, before production code.
Our mobile app design principlesNot sure whether to go native or cross-platform? Our cross-platform apps guide sets out the trade-offs, and the full service is described on the mobile app development page.
Most app developers treat offline mode as a nice-to-have. For a Perth contractor it is the whole point. A pre-start app that cannot be completed without a signal will be replaced by the paper book within a week, and a site inspection that is lost when the phone drops coverage is a compliance failure. We design WA field apps so that every function works with no connection, records are queued in order, photos are compressed and stored locally, and sync happens quietly when coverage appears, with the crew and the office both able to see what has and has not arrived.
The crew app is where a Perth roster system meets the people it schedules. Workers see their swing, flights and accommodation, upload a renewed ticket or medical from their phone, acknowledge inductions and site notices, and submit timesheets that flow straight to payroll. Supervisors see who is on site, who is due to fly and whose competency expires mid-swing. Built on the same backend as the roster, it removes the phone calls and spreadsheets that fill a Perth scheduler's day.
Hire companies, mechanical and electrical contractors, HVAC and fire services firms and inspection bodies across Perth live on pre-starts and inspections. An app that identifies the asset by QR code, walks the operator through the checklist, captures readings and photos, raises a defect or work order on a fail and produces the certificate from the record removes the retyping that currently happens back at the depot. We build these to integrate with the asset register and the maintenance schedule, so the app is one view of the same data the office uses.
Away from the resources sector, Perth's trades, suppliers and practices have the same needs as any city: suppliers in Malaga and Welshpool want trade customers ordering at account prices from the ute, mobile services from pool maintenance to physiotherapy want booking, navigation and completion in one app, and clinics across the western suburbs and Joondalup want patients booking and paying from a phone. We build both the customer-facing and the staff-facing side on one backend, connected to the accounting and practice systems already in use.
Our developers are in Sydney, two to three hours ahead of Perth depending on the season. We roster for it: support hours cover your full working day, standing meetings sit in the Perth afternoon where both offices overlap, and go-live weeks are planned on your calendar. We travel to Perth for discovery with your crews and schedulers, for the prototype review in working conditions and for go-live. After launch the people who built the app handle each iOS and Android release, security updates and the changes real usage suggests, so the app keeps working as the devices in your crews' hands change.
Where we work
App Development Across Perth and Western Australia
We build apps for Perth businesses and for Perth-based operators with crews across the state. Discovery and prototype reviews can be run on site anywhere on this list, with the rest of the project on Perth time over video and test builds on your own devices.
Perth CBD & Inner City
Western Suburbs
Northern Suburbs
Eastern Suburbs & Swan
Fremantle & South West Corridor
Southern Suburbs
Rockingham, Kwinana & Peel
Regional Western Australia
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