# Soft Rivox Tech > Soft Rivox Tech builds custom web applications, mobile apps and bespoke CRM systems for UK businesses from Manchester - then runs the SEO and paid campaigns that fill them. You own the code outright. Soft Rivox Tech is a software and marketing company based in Manchester, United Kingdom. We build custom web applications, mobile apps and bespoke CRM and HRM systems for UK businesses, and we run the SEO and paid campaigns that bring people to them. Everything we build is transferred to the client at handover: code, repositories, hosting and ad accounts. What distinguishes us from most agencies is that development is in-house rather than subcontracted, pricing is a fixed quote after a scoping call rather than an hourly estimate, and we will say when custom software is the wrong answer. Based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Serving clients across the UK. ## About this organisation - Legal name: Soft Rivox Tech - Registered address: 201 Slack Road, Manchester, M9 8AW - Phone: +44 7949 213365 - Email: info@softrivoxtech.co.uk - Website: https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soft-rivox-tech/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/softrivox/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/softrivoxtech - People: Muhammad Junaid - https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/author/muhammad-junaid - This file generated: 2026-10-21. Full page text: https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/llms-full.txt ## Services - [Custom Web App Development](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/custom-web-app-development): Client portals, booking systems and internal tools built around your workflow. React and PHP, hosted in the UK, yours to own outright. (reviewed 2026-09-12) - [Mobile App Development](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/app-development): Native iOS and Android apps, or one cross-platform build serving both. Shipped to the App Store and Play Store, not just handed over as code. (reviewed 2026-09-12) - [Digital Marketing & SEO](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/marketing): Search, paid and social campaigns with reporting you can actually read. You see the spend, the leads and the cost per lead every month. (reviewed 2026-09-12) - [Custom CRM & HRM Development](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/crm-hrm-development): Stop paying per-seat for software that fits badly. We build the CRM or HR system your process needs, and you own the licence forever. (reviewed 2026-09-12) - [Brand Identity & Graphic Design](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/branding): Logo, palette, typography and a usable brand guide — so everything you publish afterwards looks like it came from one company. (reviewed 2026-09-12) - [Video Production & Ad Creative](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/service/video-production): Brand films, product videos and social ad creative, scripted and shot to convert rather than just look good. (reviewed 2026-09-12) ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does a custom web application cost in the UK? We quote a fixed price after a free scoping call rather than publishing a range, because the same one-line brief can differ several-fold once it is pinned down. What actually moves the number is the count of distinct user roles, how many external systems it has to talk to, whether there is a mobile app alongside the web build, and how much existing data has to be migrated and cleaned. You get one figure you can budget against, not an hourly estimate that drifts. ### How long does a project take? A brochure website takes 3 to 4 weeks. A custom CRM or web application typically takes 8 to 16 weeks from signed brief to launch. Mobile apps add 2 to 3 weeks on top for App Store and Play Store review, which is outside anyone’s control and worth planning around rather than hoping for. ### Do you work with businesses outside Manchester? Yes. We work with clients across the UK and run projects remotely as standard. Most of our clients we have never met in person, and it makes no difference to delivery. Where an on-site discovery workshop genuinely helps — usually when we are mapping a process nobody has written down — we will travel for it. ### Do I own the code you write? Yes, completely. Code, repositories, hosting and domain accounts are transferred to you at handover. We don’t hold anything hostage to keep you on a retainer, and you are free to take the system to another developer the day after launch. ### What happens after launch? Every build includes a post-launch support window while your team settles in and we fix anything that only surfaces in real use. After that you can take it in-house, or keep us on a support retainer. Both options are priced before you sign, not after. ## Articles ### Custom Software - [How Much Does a Custom CRM Cost in the UK? A 2026 Guide](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/how-much-does-a-custom-crm-cost-in-the-uk): Realistic UK price bands for a bespoke CRM, the four things that actually move the number, and the situations where we would tell you not to build one. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-21) - [How Much Does a Custom Web Application Cost in the UK?](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/custom-web-application-cost-uk-2026): Portals, booking systems and internal tools: what UK businesses actually pay for custom web applications in 2026, and the questions that turn a vague brief into a fixed quote. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-21) - [Custom CRM vs HubSpot for UK SMEs: An Honest Comparison](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/custom-crm-vs-hubspot-for-uk-smes): We build custom CRMs and we still tell a lot of businesses to use HubSpot. Here is how we decide, with the cost crossover and the questions that settle it. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-21) - [Bespoke Software vs Off-the-Shelf: How to Decide](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/bespoke-software-vs-off-the-shelf-uk-business): Build when the process is your advantage, buy when it is not. The test we use in scoping calls, the true five-year costs, and how a "bespoke" quote can quietly become a subscription. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-04) - [Client Portal Development: What to Build and What It Costs](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/client-portal-development-guide-uk): The features that reduce email, the ones that just look impressive, realistic UK costs, and how to write a portal brief that does not double in size halfway through. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-28) - [Booking System Development: What to Specify Before You Get a Quote](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/booking-system-development-what-to-specify): Availability rules, deposits, cancellations, resources and staff: the decisions that shape a booking system and what each one adds to the quote. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-25) - [React vs Laravel for UK SMEs: What Should Your Web App Be Built With?](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/react-vs-laravel-for-uk-smes): They are not competitors. A plain-English explanation of what React and Laravel each do, when you need one, the other or both, and what the choice means for hiring and cost later. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-21) - [HR Software for Small UK Businesses: Build, Buy, or Both?](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/hr-software-for-small-uk-businesses-build-or-buy): Payroll and holiday: buy. Onboarding, compliance tracking and rota management that follow your own rules: often worth building. How to draw the line, with UK compliance in mind. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-15) - [Why Modern Businesses Need a Custom CRM](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/why-modern-businesses-need-a-custom-crm): Seven symptoms that mean you have outgrown your CRM, the three tests to run before spending anything, and the four situations where we would tell you not to build. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-13) ### Mobile Apps - [How Much Does an App Cost in the UK in 2026?](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/how-much-does-an-app-cost-uk-2026): Price bands by app type, what native versus cross-platform changes, the backend nobody mentions, and the year-two costs that surprise first-time app owners. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-21) - [Native vs Cross-Platform App Development: How to Choose](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/native-vs-cross-platform-app-development-uk): One codebase for both stores, or two native apps? The cases where each genuinely wins, what it means for cost and maintenance, and the question that settles most of them. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-01) - [App Store Submission Checklist: Getting Through Review First Time](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/app-store-submission-checklist-uk): The accounts, paperwork and privacy details a UK business needs before submitting, the reasons apps actually get rejected, and how to plan for review time. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-18) - [The Future of Mobile App Development in 2026](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/the-future-of-mobile-app-development-in-2026): Four things that changed what it actually costs a UK business to ship and maintain an app: cross-platform parity, stricter store review, unavoidable maintenance, and the backend being the real… (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-13) ### SEO & Marketing - [Local SEO for Manchester Businesses: What Actually Moves the Map Pack](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/local-seo-for-manchester-businesses): Relevance, distance and prominence: how Google decides who appears in the Manchester map pack, and the order to work through the signals you can actually change. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-15) - [How to Get Your Business Cited by AI Search Engines](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/how-to-get-cited-by-ai-search-engines): Being crawlable is the easy half. The hard half is being corroborated: what answer engines check before they will name a business, and how a small UK company can pass those checks. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-06) - [Google Ads vs SEO for UK SMEs: Where to Put the First £1,000](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/google-ads-vs-seo-for-uk-smes): Paid buys leads this month and stops when you stop paying; SEO compounds and takes six months. What each costs a UK SME, how to tell which you need first, and why the answer is usually a sequence. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-30) - [10 SEO Tips to Grow Your Organic Traffic](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/10-seo-tips-to-grow-your-organic-traffic): Ten things that still move organic traffic after the 2026 core and spam updates, ordered by impact. No tricks, and three of them you can do this week. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-13) ### Business - [How to Brief a Software Agency (So the Quote Is Real)](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/how-to-brief-a-software-agency): A one-page brief structure that gets you a fixed quote instead of an estimate that drifts, with the six sections that matter and the details you can safely leave out. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-09-09) - [12 Questions to Ask a Web Development Agency in Manchester Before You Sign](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/post/questions-to-ask-a-web-development-agency-manchester): Ownership, hosting, who actually does the work, and what happens in month seven: the twelve questions that tell you which kind of agency you are talking to, and the answers to look for. (Muhammad Junaid, 2026-08-12) ## Pricing Starting prices for a website build, in pounds. The final figure is a fixed quote after a free scoping call. - WordPress: from £149.99 - Fast launch on the world's most popular CMS. - Custom PHP + CMS: from £374.99 - Hand-coded and lightweight, with your own admin panel. - React / Next.js + CMS: from £1,099.99 - App-grade Next.js front-end with your own admin panel. - Not included: domain and hosting. - Instant estimate: https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/pricing Apps and custom systems are priced separately from websites: - Mobile apps: £15,000-£35,000 for a simple single-role app; £35,000-£80,000 for a multi-role app with offline support, notifications, payments and an admin backend. Includes the backend, from a UK team. - Custom CRM and internal systems: £8,000-£20,000 for one team with a pipeline, tasks and one or two integrations; £20,000-£50,000 for several roles and several integrations, with data migration priced separately. ## Contact - Enquiries: https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/contact - Email: info@softrivoxtech.co.uk - Phone: +44 7949 213365 - Location: 201 Slack Road, Manchester, M9 8AW ## Optional - [All services](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/services) - [Manchester](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/manchester) - [About](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/about) - [Sitemap](https://softrivoxtech.co.uk/sitemap.xml)