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Custom software for small and growing businesses

Software that fits your business, not everyone else's.

Most apps are built once and sold to everyone. We start from a proven base, then change it to match how you actually run things. Your screens, your reports, your rules.

You getAn app shaped around your workflow
You skipPaying for features you never use
You keepAsking for changes as your business grows

Example: Station Sales

One base app. Shaped differently for every station.

Station Sales tracks fuel and shop takings for service stations. Every owner gets the same solid core, then we add what their site needs. Pick a customer below, or flip the switches yourself.

Example customers

Or build your own

Amber marks something added for that customer. Everything else is the shared base.

Station Sales Tue 10 Nov · Shift 2 of 3
Today's takings$18,420+6.2% vs last Tue
Fuel sold7,960 L+4.1%
Shop sales$3,215+9.8%
Transactions612+3.0%

Sales by hour NZD incl. GST

Sample figures for illustration only.

How we work

From a cuppa and a chat to an app your team relies on.

Step 1

We learn your business

We sit with you and your staff, look at the spreadsheets and paper you use now, and find where the time goes.

Step 2

Start from a proven base

If we already have a base that fits, like Station Sales, you start with something that works on day one.

Step 3

Shape it to fit

We add your reports, your rules and your branding, and connect it to the tools you already use.

Step 4

Keep improving

Need a new report or a second site? Tell us. Your app changes as your business does.

Off-the-shelf software

  • Built for the average business, so it fits nobody exactly
  • You change how you work to suit the app
  • Paying for dozens of features you never open
  • Feature requests go into a queue with thousands of others

Autopilot IT

  • Built around how your business actually runs
  • The app changes to suit you
  • Only the screens and reports you need
  • You talk to the people who build it

What we build

Station Sales is one example. Here are others.

Retail and hospitality

Sales and stock tracking

Daily takings, stock counts and reorder alerts in one place, by site or by product.

Any team with shifts

Rosters and timesheets

Build rosters, track hours and send clean totals to payroll each week.

Transport and trades

Jobs and dispatch

Assign jobs, track drivers or crews, and capture sign-offs and photos on site.

Service businesses

Bookings and customers

Online bookings, reminders and a customer history your whole team can see.

Owners and managers

Reports and dashboards

The numbers you check every morning, pulled together automatically.

Back office

Connections to your tools

Link your app with your accounting software, email and the systems you already pay for.

Our apps

More apps to make business life easier.

We build these from problems we deal with every day running our own businesses. Each one can be shaped to fit yours, just like Station Sales.

In use

KiwiRounds

Runs newspaper delivery franchises: run sheets, a phone app for runners, payroll and the nightly truck watch.

In use

TillTruth

One screen for owners of more than one business: yesterday's sales and profit, bank money in and out, and what's due.

In use

Ledger Lens

Reads a business-for-sale information memorandum, pulls out the numbers and checks them against what is expected.

In development

SiteLine

One phone number per site. Calls ring whoever is on shift, then the manager, then the owner. Missed callers get a text back.

In development

Kai & Coffee

Order ahead and pick up. Customers pay in the app and collect from the counter, with no queue.

Get started

Tell us how your business runs.

Send a few lines about what slows you down today. We'll come back with ideas and a rough idea of cost, with no obligation.

Or email us directly at enquire@autopilotit.co.nz