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SaaS development company

Apoliums builds multi-tenant products that onboard a customer, bill them and support them without you in the loop.

A SaaS product is not a web application with a pricing page. It is tenant isolation that fails closed, a billing state machine that reconciles against the gateway, an onboarding path a stranger can complete alone, and an admin console your team can fix things from. We build those first, then the features you actually want to sell.

Isolation model
PostgreSQL row-level security
First sellable release
12 to 20 weeks
Billing
Stripe or Razorpay

What we build

What does a SaaS product need before its first paying customer?

Features differentiate a product. These decide whether it can be sold at all, so they are scoped in week one rather than discovered in month five.

Multi-tenant architecture

Tenant isolation is the first decision, not a refactor. We pick between row-level security, a tenant column and schema-per-tenant on the shape of your data and your compliance obligations.

  • PostgreSQL row-level security enforced fail-closed
  • Tenant-scoped caching, queues and background jobs
  • Per-tenant data export and deletion for GDPR requests

Subscription billing and plans

Sign-up, trial, upgrade, downgrade, dunning and cancellation are a state machine with money attached. We build them that way, in minor units, with an idempotent write path.

  • Stripe or Razorpay subscriptions with verified webhooks
  • Proration, trials, coupons and mid-cycle plan changes
  • A ledger that reconciles against the gateway, not a status column

Self-serve onboarding

A customer signs up, invites their team, imports their data and reaches the first useful screen without an email to you. That path gets designed and instrumented on its own.

  • Email verification, SSO and team invitations
  • Guided setup with importable sample data
  • Drop-off tracking on every step of activation

Usage metering and plan limits

Limits that are enforced in one place and displayed everywhere, so a customer sees what they have used before they hit a wall — and a sales conversation starts instead of a support ticket.

  • Event-level usage records, aggregated for billing
  • Soft warnings and hard caps from one shared rule set
  • Usage-based add-ons alongside flat plans

Admin and support tooling

The console your own team needs on day one: find a tenant, read their state, impersonate with consent, fix the record, and leave an audit entry behind.

  • Tenant search, plan changes and manual credits
  • Audited impersonation with a visible banner
  • Feature flags for staged rollout to named tenants

Public API and integrations

Customers integrate your product into theirs. That means a versioned API, keys they can rotate, webhooks that retry, and rate limits documented rather than discovered.

  • API keys, scopes and per-tenant rate limits
  • Outbound webhooks with retry, backoff and a delivery log
  • OpenAPI documentation generated from the running code

How we work

In what order should a SaaS platform be built?

The order is deliberate. The two decisions that are hardest to reverse are made while they are still cheap.

  1. Step 01 / 05

    Decide the tenancy model

    Before any feature work, we settle how tenants are isolated, how a tenant is created, and how their data is exported or deleted. This is the decision that is most expensive to change later.

    Tenancy and data model

  2. Step 02 / 05

    Scope the billable product

    Plans, limits and the upgrade path are written down as part of scope, because they decide the schema. What is free, what is metered and what is enterprise-only gets agreed in week one.

    Plan and pricing model

  3. Step 03 / 05

    Build the core loop

    Sign-up, the first useful action and the invoice are built end to end before secondary features start, so the product can take a paying customer as early as possible.

    Working sign-up to invoice

  4. Step 04 / 05

    Instrument and harden

    Activation funnel, error tracking, per-tenant rate limits and a load pass on the heaviest query. Tenant isolation gets an explicit test suite of its own.

    Isolation tests and metrics

  5. Step 05 / 05

    Launch and iterate

    We deploy behind feature flags, roll out to named tenants first, and keep shipping weekly against what the activation data shows rather than what the roadmap assumed.

    Staged production rollout

Technologies

What does Apoliums build SaaS platforms with?

The stack is picked for the market you sell into. Where your team already runs something else, we work in that and say so at scoping.

01

Application

One TypeScript codebase from the browser to the API where the team is small.

06 components

  • 01Next.js
  • 02React
  • 03TypeScript
  • 04NestJS
  • 05Node.js
  • 06tRPC

02

Data and tenancy

PostgreSQL with row-level security is the default isolation model.

06 components

  • 01PostgreSQL
  • 02Row-level security
  • 03Prisma
  • 04Redis
  • 05BullMQ
  • 06pgvector

03

Billing and identity

Chosen for the market you sell into, not for what we used last time.

06 components

  • 01Stripe
  • 02Razorpay
  • 03Auth.js
  • 04Clerk
  • 05SAML SSO
  • 06Webhook signature verification

04

Operations

Metering, flags and alerting are built during the project, not bolted on at launch.

06 components

  • 01AWS
  • 02Vercel
  • 03Docker
  • 04GitHub Actions
  • 05Sentry
  • 06PostHog

Questions

SaaS development, answered.

What does a SaaS development company do?

A SaaS development company builds a product that many separate customers use from one running system, each seeing only their own data. Apoliums builds the parts that make that possible: tenant isolation, sign-up and onboarding, subscription billing, usage limits, an admin console, and the deploy pipeline behind all of it.

The difference from a normal web application is that the customer, not you, is the one who creates the account, invites their team and starts paying. Every part of the system has to work without an operator in the loop.

How much does it cost to build a SaaS product?

Apoliums quotes SaaS development per project after scoping. The cost drivers are the tenancy model, the number of user roles inside a tenant, whether you need SSO and audit logs for enterprise buyers, how complex the pricing is, and whether the product must integrate with systems your customers already run.

The quote itemises those drivers and names what we would cut to reach a paying customer sooner. Billing, onboarding and the admin console are always in the first release, because a SaaS product without them cannot take money.

How long does it take to launch a SaaS MVP?

A first sellable release from Apoliums usually takes twelve to twenty weeks. That covers sign-up, tenant isolation, the core product loop, subscription billing and an admin console — the minimum a SaaS product needs before a stranger can subscribe without you being involved.

A staging environment goes up in the first week and is updated weekly, so you can put the product in front of design partners long before the public launch date.

How do you keep one customer's data separate from another's?

Apoliums isolates tenants at the database, not in application code. The default is PostgreSQL row-level security, which fails closed: a query with no tenant context returns nothing rather than everything. Caches, queues and background jobs are tenant-scoped by the same key.

Isolation gets its own test suite that tries to read across tenants through every route, and that suite runs on every commit. Where a client's compliance obligations demand it, we use schema-per-tenant or a separate database instead.

Can Apoliums convert an existing single-tenant application into SaaS?

Yes. Apoliums converts single-tenant applications into multi-tenant products, starting with an audit of every query, cache key and background job that assumes one customer. That audit produces the migration plan, including how existing customer data becomes the first tenants.

The conversion runs behind a flag with the original deployment still serving current customers, so the change is verified against real data before anyone is moved.

Which payment provider should a SaaS product use?

Apoliums recommends Stripe when you sell internationally and Razorpay when your customers are primarily in India, because the deciding factors are the payment methods your buyers already use and the currencies you must settle in. Both are integrated with verified webhooks and a ledger that reconciles against the gateway.

Billing logic is kept behind an internal interface, so changing provider later is a contained piece of work rather than a rewrite of the subscription system.

Engineers reviewing deployment and monitoring dashboards on a wall of screens

Next step

Bring the pricing page you have not built yet.

Tell us who buys the product, what a tenant is, and what they should be able to do on day one. Apoliums replies with a tenancy model, a billing model and the shortest path to a paying customer.

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