Custom Built vs Off-The-Shelf Software - Which Should You Choose?

When should you select Custom Built Software instead of Off-The-Shelf?
Like a tailor-made suit, custom-built software cost more time and money. But is it really worth it?

There are three reasons to go with custom made

##1 It is your business!
If this software is your main business, then going custom is the way to go. In the software business, even the smallest feature could make a big difference, especially with thousands of users.


Here at Wesvault, Paperless task manager is our secret sauce. We continuously integrate new features that give us that edge.

##2 You have a specific need
Off the shelf fits the middle 60% of people. Just a like a suit, maybe you have special needs that OTS just does not provide for. Usually its the bottom 20% who want a simpler application that is more user friendly or the top 20% who want specific requirements that OTS struggles to fulfill.



##3. Off The Shelf Just Is Not Available
Sometimes you just cannot get OTS any software that works. When we needed an accounting system, quickbooks had barely even gone cloud. But we still needed the software to be up to code and on the cloud. We could not find it at all, so we had to build it ourselves.

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