The six largest cost drivers
- Scope: One focused workflow is easier to plan than a platform intended to replace CRM, reporting, billing and a customer portal at once.
- User roles: Different views, approvals and responsibilities add business logic and testing.
- Integrations: ERP, accounting, payment providers and legacy databases require reliable handling of outages and inconsistent data.
- Data migration: Historical spreadsheets and old systems frequently contain duplicates, gaps and special cases that must be resolved.
- Quality and operations: Security, audit logs, backups, accessibility and availability influence architecture and test effort.
- Rollout: Training, parallel operation and staged migration can be as important as the implementation itself.
Why a public fixed-price list can be misleading
Two projects with the same label can be fundamentally different. A customer portal may simply show documents, or it may combine permissions, payments, notifications and legacy systems. Bauer IT Solutions therefore publishes budget orientation, but never treats it as your individual quote before the scope is clear.
What a reliable software quote should contain
- the business objective and a clearly bounded scope,
- must-have functions and deliberate exclusions,
- integrations, migration and responsibilities,
- testable acceptance criteria,
- timeline, visible milestones and change handling,
- operations, documentation and ownership of code and accounts.
Bauer IT Solutions documents this framework before delivery begins. Implementation is then visible in weekly staging builds. The full process is described under How I work.
Your first project-assessment checklist
- Which current workflow consumes the most time or causes errors?
- Who uses the solution, and who may perform which actions?
- Which systems or data sources must be connected?
- What must be included in the first useful release?
- When should the first production value become visible?
- What investment would be reasonable relative to the expected value?
Value instead of the cheapest quote
A useful first calculation is: hours saved per month × internal full cost per hour × twelve months. Add avoided errors, faster processing, additional capacity and improved data quality. This is not a guarantee, but it reveals whether a tailored solution is broadly proportionate to the expected operating value.
Examples covering automated billing, internal tools and a complete app product are available in the project sheets.