TIPS Buy Software, Website, Apps Solution, Software

Though, there are no hard and fast rules on how to buy Software, Website or Mobile App, but high level TIPS provides you guidelines and precautions which saves your investment but also allows you to get full benefits of digitization.

• 1. TIPS / GUIDELINES
  • Company / Individual Profile
    • a. Number of Clients a Software / App Development Company has?
    • b. Offices in multiple cities?
    • c. Valid Address, Email and Contact Number
    • d. NTN / GST Registered
  • If Website / Software / App hosted on Internet
    • a. Website hosting / Play Store credentials must be on your name.
    • b. Website hosting / Play Store Login and Password must be with you so that you can renew / update it, when required
  • Formal Contract
    • a. A Formal Contract on Stamp Paper clearly mentioning Hosting and Data Rights, Payment Terms and Conditions
    • b. Source Code, Database scripts / Proprietorship
    • c. Responsibilities
    • d. After Sales Support and Maintenance
    • e. Highlight recurring charges in detail, if any
    • f. Backup / Replication / Disaster Recovery Site in case Primary site not available
  • Salient Features - High Level
    • a. Control Panel to Configure Website / Software / Mobile App
    • b. Data Entry Control using maximum Dropdown, Checkboxes and Radio button, where possible
    • c. All Dropdown must have option to Add, Edit, Enable/Disable values using control panel
    • d. For Transactional record, Change, Read, Update options, instead of delete, enable / disable option
    • e. Comprehensive Transactional Reports with maximum filters like start date, end date, etc., including sorting options
    • f. Comprehensive Transactional Reports with maximum filters like start date, end date, etc., including sorting options
    • g. Encourage open source technologies to avoid recurring charges like PHP, MYSQL , Java, Android, etc.

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