Custom software in Murfreesboro

Custom software for the Murfreesboro owner who is done running her business from memory

I’m Kate Parker, and I build custom software for small businesses in Murfreesboro and the rest of Rutherford County. Most of what I build is a business dashboard: one private screen that holds your customers, your calendar, your money and your to-dos, shaped around how you already run. Dashboards start at $3,500, you own the code outright, and I stay on to look after it.

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You’re great at the work, and the business around it runs on your memory

People come to you because you’re good at what you do. Then the rest of the job arrives with them. A customer’s address is in a text thread, the invoice is somewhere in your email, who paid is in Venmo, and next week lives in your phone’s calendar.

Every evening you do a quiet lap of five apps to make sure nothing fell through, and you never fully believe the answer.

Each of those apps was built for one job, and you’ve become the thing that connects them. Custom software takes that job off you. Everything lands in one place you own, and the screen tells you what needs you today.

What does custom software look like for a Murfreesboro small business?

Usually it’s one private website that only you and your team sign in to, on your phone or your laptop. It holds the four things you currently keep in your head, and it’s built around your business instead of a template. If your customers need to sign in too, they get their own door.

Your people

Every customer, with what they bought, what you last talked about, and what you promised them. Typed in once, and found again in seconds.

Your calendar

Appointments, install days, class dates, whatever your week is made of, sitting next to the customer each one belongs to.

Your money

Who paid, who still owes, and what came in this month, in one place you can trust instead of a guess pieced together from three apps.

What is due

The follow-ups and the deadlines, with the screen telling you what needs you today, so your memory gets to stop doing that job.

Two real builds

A coach stopped retyping her buyers. A designer stopped hunting for her deliveries.

Both are Middle Tennessee women running their own businesses. I keep my clients’ names private, so these describe the work and leave out who it was for.

A coach with an online course, Middle Tennessee

She stopped typing every buyer in twice.

Before: Her course sold through one system and her contacts lived in another. Every time someone bought a seat, she opened both and typed the new name across by hand.
What I built: One site over one database. Her desk holds her contacts and her calendar, the course workspace sits inside it where she builds lessons herself, and her students get their own sign-in to their own side.
Now: A person who buys is a person in her contacts the moment they pay, because the two were never apart.

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An interior designer, Middle Tennessee

A week before install day, she can see whether every piece is here.

Before: Each project is a long list of pieces from many vendors, ordered at different times and arriving in boxes. Knowing where everything stood meant spreadsheets, emails and going to look.
What I built: A studio system with her clients, her vendors and her whole product catalog in one place. Deliveries are checked in box by box, and one list shows every piece on every project with where it stands: not ordered, on order, here, installed.
Now: She opens one list, filters to the next install, and the screen tells her what is still waiting. A follow-up email lands at seven every morning.

How much does custom software cost in Murfreesboro?

A business dashboard from me starts at $3,500. Adding a sign-in for your own customers is $2,500, and Dashboard Care, which keeps it hosted, watched and growing, starts at $250 a month. You pay half to start and half at launch, and every price is agreed before any work begins.

A business dashboard

From $3,500

Your customers, calendar, money and to-dos on one private screen, built around the way you already work.

A sign-in for your customers

$2,500

Their own page to see their project, their lessons or their bookings, with a separate door from yours.

Booking or ordering on your website

From $3,500

Customers book or buy right on your own site, and it all lands in the same place as everything else.

Dashboard Care

From $250/mo

Hosting, monitoring, the keys kept fresh, an hour a month of changes, and priority support. A website on its own is $50 a month, with no minimum.

If what you need is one place for contacts, your calendar and follow-ups, start smaller. Pocket Desk does exactly that for $49 a month after a seven-day free trial. Custom software is for the business with a shape no app was made for.

The person you sit down with is the person who writes your code

I live and work in Smyrna, just up I-24 from Murfreesboro, and I build every one of these myself. There’s no account manager in between and no hand-off to a team you never meet.

I run my own business on the same kind of desk I build for clients, every day. When I tell you something works, it’s because I use it.

More about Kate

The four questions every owner asks me first

Do I own the software you build?

Yes. You own the code, the database and every record in it. If you ever stop working with me, it all stays yours.

Do I have to be technical?

No. You tell me how your week actually goes and where it gets stuck. I write the code, set everything up, and walk you through the few screens you will actually touch.

How do I pay for a build?

Half to start and half at launch, and the price is agreed before any work begins.

Do you only work with Murfreesboro businesses?

I work across Middle Tennessee, mostly Murfreesboro, Smyrna and the rest of Rutherford County, and remotely with owners further away.

Curious what AI can take off your plate as well? Read AI help for Murfreesboro small businesses, or see everything I build.

Start with a sit-down, and the $250 comes off your build

We go through how your week really runs and where it gets stuck. The sit-down is $250, paid when you book, and it comes off your build if you go ahead within 30 days.

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