Custom PHP and JavaScript development is what you buy when the off-the-shelf route has run out. Portals, internal tools, commerce that breaks the usual rules, and integrations nobody sells as a plugin. Gatilab scopes the data model before the interface, which is the reverse of how most quotes are built and the reason ours hold.
Delivery is remote, with calls in IST. You keep the code, the accounts, and every login in your own name.
Three failures account for most of what we get asked to rescue. All 3 are scoping problems wearing technical costumes.
Most custom builds start as a plugin that covers 80 percent of the job. The last 20 percent is where the money goes, and it is worth deciding early whether to bend the plugin or replace it, because bending it forever is the expensive option.
When the schema is designed around the first screen, every screen after it fights the schema. Reporting gets slow, edge cases multiply, and the rebuild arrives sooner than anyone budgeted for.
Internal tools written for a single user fall over under concurrency: double writes, stale reads, and jobs that silently overlap. Load is a design decision, not something you discover in production.
Six pieces of work, each scoped on its own. Most engagements start with one and add the others once the first has paid for itself.
Dashboards, approval flows, and operations tooling that replace the spreadsheet without replacing the way your team actually works.
Pricing rules, quotations, subscriptions, and fulfilment that standard carts refuse to model. Built on WooCommerce where that fits and outside it where it does not.
Custom post types, block development, REST endpoints, and plugins written for your case rather than shipped to 10,000 sites and configured down to yours.
The schema designed before the screens, and the move from whatever holds the data now planned as a first-class piece of work rather than a launch-week scramble.
Imports, syncs, and scheduled work that run reliably, log what they did, and can be replayed when an upstream system has a bad day.
Tests around the parts that would hurt, documentation your next developer can read, and the repository in your organisation, not ours.
Prices are in rupees and exclude tax. The scoping sprint is a fixed fee and comes off the build price if you go ahead.
For teams who need a real number and a written plan before committing to a build.
The fee comes off the build price if you go ahead with us.
For a defined build with a written scope, delivered on staging and reviewed weekly.
If the work does not warrant a build, we quote the smaller fix instead.
For teams who need continued development capacity after launch.
Month to month. A contract you cannot leave is a hostage situation.
Development and consulting are delivered remotely, so location changes meeting times and payment method rather than price. Hosting is never resold.
Chosen because they stay maintainable for whoever comes after us, not because they are new. If your team already runs something else and it works, we work in it.
Overruns come from work nobody scoped. Every stage produces an artifact you check before the next one starts.
We read what already exists before quoting. Most of the risk in this kind of work is invisible from the outside, so pricing it without looking is a guess dressed as a number.
You leave with: a written scope with the assumptions and risks named
Work happens on an environment your team can reach, reviewed weekly. You see it grow rather than getting a reveal at the end and a week to react.
You leave with: a staging URL you can click through as it grows
Error handling, logging, and rollback are built with the feature, not after it. The question is never whether something fails, it is whether you find out before your customers do.
You leave with: monitoring, alerting, and a rollback path that has been tested
Documentation your next hire can read, every account in your name, and a dependency list short enough to maintain.
You leave with: documentation, credentials, and no lock-in
Vague quotes do the most damage in exactly this kind of work. Half of this list is reasons we say no.
Scope, cost, ownership, and the cases where we are the wrong choice.
Start with the plugin if one gets you most of the way and the gap is cosmetic. Go custom when the gap is in the data model or the business logic, because that is the part you cannot patch around forever. The scoping sprint answers this in writing, and we have no incentive to inflate it since the fee comes off either path.
Yes, where it earns its place. A lot of what gets called custom PHP is better served by WordPress with proper engineering behind it, and we will say so. When the work is genuinely an application rather than a site, a framework is the right call.
You do, from the first commit. The repository sits in your organisation, we work in it, and nothing about leaving us requires moving or rewriting anything.
Often, and it starts with the scoping sprint rather than a quote. Sometimes the honest answer is that restarting costs less than continuing, and you will get that answer in writing rather than after 3 months of billing.
Send the current situation, what you have already tried, and the outcome you need. The more specific you are, the more specific the reply.
Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp. Budgets under ₹27,000 are better served elsewhere and we will say so rather than take the project.
