Shimira ITPortal development
Portals your team and clients actually log into.
A portal is where a business tries to centralize, the one place staff or clients log in to see what's happening and get things done. The usual failure mode is a portal so clunky that people go back to spreadsheets and email, and the whole investment quietly dies.
We build portals people actually use. The real-time dashboards, the scheduling and admin controls, the role-based access, designed around the non-technical people who live in them all day, not around the database schema underneath.
What matters here
What a portal needs to earn its login
Admin & control panels
The screens your team runs operations from, clear enough that training is a conversation, not a course.
Real-time dashboards
Live views of what matters, updating without a refresh, so decisions run on current data.
Roles & permissions
The right people see and change the right things, clients, staff, and admins each in their own lane.
Multi-tenant scale
Built to add locations, clients, or teams without a rebuild, the way our signage portal added malls.
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
We've shipped in this space
Eyeon Portal
A centralized portal a mall group's non-technical staff use daily to schedule and push content to screens across every location, in real time.
What goes wrong
Why portals get abandoned, and how we build around it
Built around the database, not the job
Screens that mirror tables force people to think like developers. We start from the handful of tasks each role does every day and design the portal around those.
Stale data
If people have to refresh to trust what they see, they stop trusting it at all. Dashboards update in real time, so decisions run on current numbers.
Permissions bolted on later
Adding roles after launch means reworking every screen. Roles, permissions, and an audit trail of who changed what are designed in from the start.
Built for one client
A portal that assumes a single organization needs a rebuild when you add the second. When growth is the plan, we design for multiple tenants, locations, or teams from day one.
No adoption plan
Even a good portal needs a launch. We plan the rollout, walk the first users through it, and fix what they stumble on in the first weeks.
How it runs
From spreadsheets to a portal people use
- 01
Discovery
1–2 weeksWho logs in, what they do every day, which systems hold the data, and what each role may see and change.
- 02
Design with real users
1–3 weeksClickable prototypes tested with the people who will use the portal, before any code is written.
- 03
Build
6–10 weeks (MVP)The core workflows, dashboards, and roles in two-week sprints, with working demos along the way.
- 04
Rollout & adoption
1–2 weeksData migration, onboarding the first users, and quick fixes based on how they actually use it.
Timelines & pricing
Honest ranges, before you commit.
| Tier | What's included | Timeline | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP | Core workflows for one or two roles, basic dashboard, login and permissions | 6–10 weeks | $7,500 – $18,000 |
| Standard | Multiple roles, real-time dashboards, audit trail, one or two integrations | 2–4 months | $18,000 – $35,000 |
| Enterprise | Multi-tenant, SSO, several integrations, advanced reporting | 4–6 months | $35,000 – $55,000+ |
Integrations with existing systems (CRM, ERP, accounting) typically add $3,000–$10,000 each, depending on the quality of their APIs. For the full budgeting picture, see our custom software cost guide and, for what it costs to run afterwards, the maintenance cost guide.
Before you choose
How to choose a portal development partner
- Show me one in daily use. Ask to see a portal non-technical people use every day, not a demo dashboard.
- How will you learn our work? Ask how they'll understand your team's actual tasks before designing screens.
- Roles and audit trail. Ask how permissions work and whether every change is recorded.
- Growth. Ask what it takes to add clients, locations, or teams later.
- Integrations. Ask how the portal will connect to the systems you already run, and what each connection costs.
- Sign-in. If your company uses Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, ask about single sign-on.
How you work with us
Three ways to engage.
Fixed price
Prototypes from $7,500
Production MVPs from $25,000
You know what you need built. We scope it, quote one price, and deliver against it, no meter running.
- One agreed price, agreed before we start
- Milestone-based payments tied to what you can see
- Change requests priced openly, never assumed
Time & materials
from $28 / hour
Blended ~$32; senior specialists to ~$45
For work that changes as you learn. You pay for the hours spent, see exactly where they go, and can steer week to week.
- Billed on real, logged hours, reviewed with you
- Reprioritise or change direction any sprint
- Start small, scale the team as it proves out
Dedicated team
from $2,800 / month
Per developer, full-time, see the rate card
Developers who work only on your product, full-time, as an extension of your team, the offshore model most of our long-term clients settle into.
- The same people, month after month
- Your tools, your standups, your roadmap
- Roughly half the loaded cost of a local hire
Full rate card and what's included on the pricing page.
Questions
Before you get in touch.
That's the point of how we design them. Our signage portal is run day to day by marketing staff, not IT, scheduling weeks of content across locations feels like using a calendar, not deploying software.
Yes, we design portals to add tenants, locations, or teams without a rewrite. The mall portal was built specifically to onboard new malls as the platform grew.
An MVP costs $7,500–$18,000; a standard portal with multiple roles and real-time dashboards runs $18,000–$35,000; an enterprise portal with multi-tenancy, SSO, and several integrations runs $35,000–$55,000+. Ongoing work fits a dedicated team from $2,800/month per developer.
An MVP typically takes 6–10 weeks after 2–5 weeks of discovery and design with your users. A standard portal takes 2–4 months.
Yes. CRMs, ERPs, accounting tools, and internal databases are common. Each integration typically costs $3,000–$10,000, depending mostly on how good the other system's API is.
Off-the-shelf portal tools work when your process fits their template. Custom makes sense when the portal is how you deliver your service, when it has to match a specific workflow, or when per-seat fees get expensive as you grow.
Cost guides
Budgeting for this?
Real 2026 numbers, worked examples, and the hidden costs most quotes leave out.
How much does custom software development cost in 2026?
Real 2026 numbers: cost by project type, hourly rates across every major region, the hidden costs quotes leave out, and a free calculator to model your own estimate.
Read the guide →How much does software maintenance cost in 2026?
The 15–25% rule with worked examples, a maintenance calendar, typical monthly plans, a contract checklist, and what happens to software nobody maintains.
Read the guide →Not sure what you need yet? That's the usual starting point.
Tell us the problem in your own words. We'll scope it with you and put the plan in writing, free, and yours to keep either way.