Ready-made Software or Custom Software

Which One is Better?

Once a business decides to implement business software at its workplace to facilitate the business operations and boost the work efficiency, finds itself among two choices; readymade or custom made software. Of course, it's a difficult choice to make since each one has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, readymade software is more recommended for the business for many reasons.

Usually custom software is favored by many companies as they like the software especially made to fit their specific business needs and offer them more flexibility than the one they can get in the readymade software. This is actually true, but is that a sufficient reason to go for custom software. 

Even though readymade software often comes as package software with pre-built in features which cannot be changed easily, it's better for your business is than a custom made. Let's see why.

Saves Time

The great thing about readymade software is that it saves your time. Once your install the software, you'll immediately be ready to use it. While custom made software takes a lot of time in the customization process because you need to explain the entire business requirement to the software developer, who in return will customize the software according to their understanding, and then test it with a dummy data and debug the software before installing it at the client or the user's end.   

Guaranteed Efficiency

The readymade software is developed by a group of professional accredited developers to suit the needs of various businesses and handle the issues that businesses may encounter. The software is also tested many times to check its efficiency. Moreover, readymade usually has a record of the users who utilized it, so you can have a true idea about the software's credibility and functionality.

On the other hand, the efficiency of custom software only depends on the developer you employ to work. Therefore, the business that opts for a custom made software need to carefully choose the developer who will work on the software. Because the developer you're hiring plays a great role in obtaining the software which can boost the business and serve its demands. In other words, custom software is entirely abided to developer you selected, so make sure you deal with a developer who worked in similar projects and provided good end software.

Support

Long time support is a key criterion in any software. Before buying any software you need to check the amount of support the software seller provides. Readymade software providers offer most of the time enough training on the software, and online assistance and troubleshooting services in the long run. While in custom software, the long term support is not guaranteed.  

Economical

Now we address another important factor. Which software costs less? The readymade software of course is cheaper for many reasons: Readymade programs are developed not for any particular user, but for businesses in general. It means that when you're buying the software, you're not actually paying the real development cost of the software. In addition, in custom software, you'll keep paying more money whenever you need any future customization. Therefore, selecting readymade software is better in such a case. In a single payment, you'll get complete functioning software ready for use, and forget about any future expenses.  

Well, here pops another critical matter. If the readymade software is developed as a general business solution, how can I make sure it will suit my special business needs?

Ready-made programs are developed to contain all the necessary and basic features because they target all commercial companies of all kinds in general, rather than a specific commercial field. Let's take for example Odoo Accounting software. As ready-made software, is it convenient and sufficient to accomplish and manage all accounting procedures? The answer is definitely yes. Odoo Accounting software has a wide range of important features in addition to the main accounting features like: budget reports, performance reports, profit and loss reports, and more than sixty reports in addition to cost reports and cost accounts.

In short, choose the software for your business wisely and carefully because the software selected plays an essential role in boosting the business efficiency or deteriorating the entire workflow at any business. Readymade software comes with many advantages as it saves much time and costs, gets you long time support and proven efficiency.

 If you want to implement readymade software at your business, we – Boraq Group- can provide you with one of the best software in the market. Odoo ERP is remarkable software that is incorporated with many different modules such as accounting, POS, trade, sales, purchase, marketing, CRM, Warehouse Management and many more to serve all your business requirements whatever they are. Once you buy our software and with the help of our techno-functional developers, we will get you worry-free, long term efficient software for your business. You can contact us at info@boraq-group.com

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