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Websites & custom software for Christchurch businesses.
Booking systems, dashboards, integrations and custom web apps for Canterbury’s medtech, manufacturing, aerospace and tourism firms. Hand-coded by one senior engineer — no templates, no hand-offs, and you own the code.
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NZ-based · NZD · GST-registered · you own the code
In depth
Web development in Christchurch, built for a city that runs on medtech, manufacturing and aerospace
A Christchurch web developer’s real job isn’t a prettier brochure site — it’s the software underneath: the regulatory-grade API integrations medtech runs on, the configurators and distributor portals advanced manufacturing needs, and the telemetry dashboards for the aerospace cluster. Tally Digital builds exactly that for Canterbury’s medtech, manufacturing, aerospace, wine and trades operators — hand-coded by a senior engineer, and yours to own.
What a Christchurch web developer actually builds
Concrete things: an online booking flow and secure patient portal for a clinic, a regulatory-grade API integration and data dashboard for a medtech firm, a product configurator or distributor login for a manufacturer, a telemetry dashboard for an aerospace supplier, a cellar-door store with wine-club subscriptions for a Waipara winery. The common thread is logic — quoting rules, permissions, payments, data moving between systems — the part a page-builder can’t reach. It’s a real application behind the front page, wired into Xero, your CRM or the booking engine you already run, not a stack of static pages.
Why Canterbury manufacturers outgrow an off-the-shelf site
Because the product is configurable and the buyers aren’t the public. Firms like Tait Communications, Hamilton Jet, Skope and Skellerup sell specced-up equipment through dealers and distributors, not a plain shopping cart. What earns its keep is a configurator that prices the right options, a dealer or distributor portal with logins and order history, and AI-assisted quoting that turns a spec into a number. Wire that into the ERP or CRM so nobody re-keys an order by hand, and the website stops being a brochure and starts doing the work of a sales tool for the region’s second-largest sector.
Dashboards, integrations and patient portals for medtech and health
Christchurch’s medtech cluster — MARS Bioimaging, ARANZ Medical and the firms around the Te Papa Hauora health precinct — runs past off-the-shelf software early. What they need is custom data visualisation, regulatory-grade API integrations and patient-facing apps built to handle sensitive data properly. The private clinics around them — dental, physio, radiology, specialists — are usually still on phone and email, so the win there is plainer: online booking, a secure patient portal, online payments and the local SEO to be found. Both get scoped for compliance and integration up front, before a line of code is written.
Custom-built vs a template — when each makes sense
Both have their place, and it’s usually a mix. If you need a handful of pages that tell people who you are and bring in enquiries, a template is fine — don’t pay for custom to do a brochure’s job. The moment there’s real logic — a configurator, a patient portal, a distributor login, a regulatory dashboard, data moving between Xero and your booking engine — a page-builder stalls, and you’re better off with something built for the job. Everything Tally Digital builds runs on a modern, well-supported stack, and you own it outright — no proprietary lock-in, no monthly ransom to keep the lights on.
Who you actually work with
Not an account manager and an offshore team — Isaac Vicliph, a senior software engineer with a decade shipping software in financial services, writing the code himself. Clear scope and a fixed price before anything starts, direct contact the whole way through, and full ownership of the code at the end. NZ-based, NZD, GST-registered.
Timelines and what it costs
Fixed price, agreed before any work starts — the scope gets pinned down first, so there are no hourly surprises. A focused, tight website is usually a matter of weeks; a custom application or a real integration — a configurator, a patient portal, an ERP or Xero connection — takes longer, because there’s actual logic to build and test. Either way you get the number and the plan up front, and the price sits where the scope sits: a focused site well below a custom app or an integration project. You’ll know exactly what you’re paying for before you commit.
Reviewed July 2026 · written by Isaac Vicliph, Tally Digital
Who it’s for
Built for the businesses that run Christchurch.
Medtech & healthtech
Custom dashboards, data visualisation, regulatory-grade API integrations and patient-facing apps for Christchurch’s medtech cluster — MARS Bioimaging, ARANZ Medical and the firms around the Te Papa Hauora health precinct. This is work a page-builder simply can’t do.
Private clinics & allied health
Dental, physio, radiology and specialist practices still running on phone and email get online booking, secure patient portals, online payments and the local SEO to be found.
Advanced manufacturing & engineering
Product configurators, dealer and distributor portals, ERP/CRM integration and AI-assisted quoting for Canterbury’s second-largest sector — Tait Communications, Hamilton Jet, Skope, Skellerup and the mid-market firms around them.
Aerospace & future transport
Telemetry dashboards, data tooling and custom web applications for the Kea Aerospace and Dawn Aerospace cluster and its suppliers — a sector that runs past off-the-shelf software on day one.
Tourism & Waipara wine
Booking engines, cellar-door e-commerce and wine-club subscriptions that hold their margin for the 80+ Canterbury wineries and North Canterbury operators at the gateway to the South Island — Pegasus Bay, Greystone, Waipara tours.
Construction & professional services
Client and project portals, job-management with Xero integration and sites that bring in leads for rebuild-era builders, architects, surveyors, accountants and law firms — Hanham & Philp, HRS Construction and their peers.
What we solve
The problems that cost you the most are the ones a template can’t reach.
Ranking below the directories
Thin location pages and no structured data leave you sitting under Sortlist, 10best and MoneyHub for your own name and terms. Proper pages and schema put you back on top of them.
Data re-keyed between systems
When the site, Xero, the booking engine, the CRM and your job-management tool don’t talk to each other, someone re-types everything by hand. Wiring them together is where the time comes back.
A template that can’t do the job
A configurator, a patient portal, a distributor login, a regulatory dashboard — the thing your Christchurch business needs next is the one thing a page-builder can’t reach.
No AI, no automation
No AI-assisted quoting, triage or search, and data that assistants can’t read or act on. The firms that sort this out first pull ahead of the ones still re-keying spreadsheets.
The difference
You talk to the person who writes the code.
Plenty of shops will build you a page and move on. Fewer can build the software behind it — the booking flow, the integration, the internal tool a growing Christchurch business runs on.
Tally Digital is Isaac Vicliph — a senior software engineer with a decade shipping software in financial services. Every project is hand-coded on a modern stack, every integration is real, and the code is yours to keep. No junior hand-off, no page-builder lock-in, no “who supports this now?”.
- Custom software, not templates
- Real API & booking integrations
- Modern stack — Next.js, Sanity, Supabase, Shopify
- You own the code and the accounts
What we build
Websites that do a job — plus the software behind them.
Proof
Real software, shipped for New Zealand businesses.
Inventory platforms, member portals and custom builds for NZ clients — the same senior engineering that goes into every Christchurch project.
How it works
A clear path from brief to launch.
Brief
We map the real problem and how your systems work today — not just a page count.
Architect
A plan you can read: what gets built, which integrations, what you own at the end.
Build
Hand-coded on a modern stack (Next.js, Sanity, Supabase, Shopify) — no page-builder debt.
Launch & support
Shipped, documented and handed over. You talk to the person who wrote the code.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
- Do you work with Christchurch and wider Canterbury businesses?
- Yes. Tally Digital is a New Zealand software studio and works with Christchurch and Canterbury businesses remotely and on-site as needed. Same process wherever you are: a clear scope, you talk straight to the engineer, and you own the code.
- Do you build medtech dashboards, clinic booking and patient portals?
- Yes — custom dashboards, data visualisation and API integrations for medtech and healthtech, plus booking and secure patient portals with online payments for private clinics and allied-health practices. The compliance and integration needs get scoped up front.
- Can you integrate my website with Xero, our CRM, or an ERP?
- Yes. Real API and system integrations are the core of the work — Xero, HubSpot, inventory/ERP, booking engines, dealer portals — so your website stops being an island and starts feeding the systems you already run.
- Are you a designer, a marketing agency, or a developer?
- Tally Digital is a one-person software studio, not a design or marketing agency — a senior engineer building custom software for Christchurch and Canterbury businesses. You get real custom software, applications and integrations — not a template or a monthly marketing retainer. You talk to the person who designs and writes the code, every time.
- What’s the difference between a web developer and a web designer?
- A designer handles how it looks — layout, colour, type, the feel of the thing. A developer builds how it works — the booking flow, the integrations, the logins, the logic underneath. For a plain brochure site the two can be nearly the same job. But the moment a Christchurch business needs a patient portal, a product configurator or a Xero integration, design alone won’t get you there — that’s engineering, and it’s what you’re actually hiring for.
- Can you build cellar-door e-commerce and wine-club subscriptions for a Waipara winery?
- Yes. For North Canterbury and Waipara wineries — the Pegasus Bay, Greystone kind of operator — that means a cellar-door store that holds its margin, recurring wine-club subscriptions with automated billing, and a booking engine for tastings and tours, all wired to your stock and Xero so orders don’t get re-keyed by hand. It’s the same for tourism operators at the gateway to the South Island: direct booking you own, not a channel that skims a commission off every sale.
- How much does a project cost?
- It depends on scope — a focused website sits well below a custom application or an integration project. Rather than quote blind, we scope your actual problem first, then give you a fixed price before any work starts.
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What we build for Christchurch businesses
Tell me what your business has outgrown.
Christchurch, wider Canterbury or North Canterbury — tell me the one thing that’s slowing you down, whether that’s a booking flow, an integration or an internal tool. You’ll get back a clear plan and a fixed price.