SaaS Product Development from First Prototype to Paying Subscribers
Multi-tenant SaaS built from the foundations up: accounts, permissions, subscription billing and the admin tooling you need to run a product. We build and ship our own software too.
Building a SaaS product is not the same job as building a web application with a login attached. A multi-tenant product must keep every customer's data separate while running a single deployment, bill the right account on the right day, and let you change pricing without a database migration. It also has to survive its first hundred signups without you creating accounts by hand in a spreadsheet. Founders usually discover this after the prototype, when a second customer asks for an invoice and a third asks to be erased from the platform entirely.
We have built and shipped our own product, Eventor, a live event ticketing and event management platform, so this is work we do for ourselves as well as for clients. That shapes the order of things: tenancy and billing come first, because retrofitting them once a product has users is expensive and risky. We work with React and Next.js on the front end, Node.js or Python on the back end, and Kubernetes when the product has to scale beyond a single service. For Nigerian and wider African markets we connect Paystack or Flutterwave for subscriptions and handle the awkward cases, such as failed renewals, mid-cycle plan changes and receipts that finance teams accept. For international customers we set up Stripe, tax handling and currency display from the start.
What you actually receive
- A multi-tenant application with tenant isolation, roles and permissions enforced at the data layer
- Subscription billing on Paystack, Flutterwave or Stripe, covering plans, trials, upgrades, failed payments and receipts
- A customer onboarding flow that takes someone from signup to first useful action without your involvement
- An internal admin console for support: account status, plan changes, usage visibility and controlled impersonation
- Usage metering and reporting so you can see which accounts are active and what they use
- Infrastructure as code and a deployment pipeline that runs staging and production separately
- A pricing structure mapped to the code, so changing a plan is a configuration change rather than a rebuild
- Source code, database schema and architecture documentation owned by your organisation
This is the right service if
- You have validated the problem and need a first version real customers can pay for
- A prototype built earlier cannot support a second paying customer without rework
- Your billing is manual invoices and you need subscriptions, renewals and receipts handled by the product
- You need one deployment serving many organisations without leaking data between them
- You are an established business turning an internal tool into a product for others in your industry
How this project runs
- 1
Discover
We define the tenant model, the plan structure and the single job the product must do better than a spreadsheet before any interface work begins.
- 2
Design
We design onboarding, the core workspace and the billing screens together, because a signup flow that cannot end in a paid plan is a dead end.
- 3
Develop
Tenancy and billing foundations are built first, then the core workflow reaches a staging tenant your team and a small group of early users can try.
- 4
Deploy
We launch production with monitoring, backups and a rollback path, then review the first weeks of signups, payment failures and support questions with you.
Questions people ask first
How much does it cost to build a SaaS MVP?
Our SaaS MVP work starts at ₦8,000,000, which covers a multi-tenant foundation, authentication, one core workflow, subscription billing and a deployment pipeline. Scope moves the number: usage metering, several user roles or detailed reporting push it higher, while a narrower first release can come in lower. We will tell you honestly if your budget does not match your scope, and we would rather cut features than ship billing that loses you money.
How long until we have something in front of users?
A first usable release normally lands in 12 to 20 weeks. We aim to have a staging tenant you can log into by around week six, so you react to real screens early. Anything depending on payment provider approval or a third-party API can add time, and we flag those dependencies in the first week rather than at the end.
Who owns the product and the code?
You own the source code, the database, the cloud accounts and the domain. Nothing about the product sits under our name, and our price does not include equity or a revenue share. If you later raise funding or hire an in-house team, the repository and documentation are already in a state they can work with.
What happens after launch?
Launch is where the real work starts. Every project includes a bug fix window after launch, with its length agreed in the statement of work, and after that most SaaS products need a monthly agreement covering hosting support, monitoring, dependency and security updates, and an agreed number of product changes. You are free to take that in house instead, and we will help with the transition.
What do you need from us?
A clear picture of who pays, how much and how often, plus access to a few people who would use the product daily. If you already have designs, a prototype or customer interviews, send them across. Pricing and permissions are the decisions that slow SaaS projects down, so the sooner you settle those, the faster we ship.