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Websites & custom software for Wellington businesses.
Client portals, Xero integrations and custom web apps for Wellington's law firms, accountants, startups and cellar doors — work too complex for a template, but too small for an enterprise tender. One senior engineer, direct.
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In depth
Web development in Wellington, built for the capital's fintech, professional-services and hospitality SMEs
A Wellington web developer's real job isn't a smarter-looking brochure site — it's the software underneath: secure client and member portals, Xero and practice-management integrations, and the internal dashboards that replace an email-and-spreadsheet routine. Tally Digital builds exactly that for the capital's professional-services firms, fintech teams, membership bodies and hospitality operators — hand-coded by a senior engineer, and yours to own.
What a Wellington web developer actually builds
For Wellington the concrete deliverables are secure client portals for the law and accounting firms along Lambton Quay and Featherston St, Xero and practice-management integrations that end the re-keying, and member and event portals for the capital's professional associations and industry bodies. For fintech teams it's a marketing site decoupled from the product plus the internal dashboards founders actually watch; for taprooms and cafes it's online ordering and reservations wired into payments. Real logic, coded around how each business runs — not a plugin bent to fit.
Wellington is New Zealand's fintech centre — build for that
Wellington is New Zealand's fintech centre — the Xero, Sharesies, Hnry, PaySauce, Sharesight and CoGo alumni network, plus early teams out of the Creative HQ accelerator. What those teams keep needing isn't the product engineering they already run in-house; it's the layer around it: a marketing site that doesn't share a codebase with the app, clean API integrations between systems, and dashboards for the numbers that matter. That's work a single senior engineer can scope tightly and ship without standing up a whole team.
Accessibility isn't optional in the capital
Wellington is the seat of government, so accessibility is a real requirement, not a nice-to-have — hundreds of professional associations, NGOs and Crown-entity suppliers work to WCAG standards. The big open-source tenders go to Catalyst IT and Silverstripe; beneath them sits a long tail that still needs member and event portals, data tooling and genuinely accessible sites. That's the mid-tier work Tally takes: standards-compliant markup, portals members can actually log into, and automation that lifts registrations and renewals off staff.
Custom-built vs a template — when each makes sense
Be honest about which you need. A five-page brochure site for a Martinborough cellar door or a CBD cafe? A template or page-builder is fine, and paying for custom there is a waste. But the moment there's real logic — a client portal, a Xero integration, wine-club subscriptions, online ordering wired to the till — a page-builder stalls, and you're better on a modern hand-coded stack you own outright. Most Wellington projects are a mix: a lean marketing front, with custom software doing the actual work behind it.
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. That background matters for Wellington's fintech and professional-services work: portals, integrations and data built by someone who's shipped them before. Clear scope and a fixed price before anything starts, direct contact throughout, and full ownership of the code at the end. NZ-based, priced in NZD, GST-registered.
Timelines and what it costs
Every job starts with a fixed price, not a vague hourly estimate. You send the bottleneck — the portal, the Xero integration, the automation — and you get back a clear scope and a fixed price before any code is written, so there are no hourly surprises. A tight marketing site is usually a matter of weeks; a client portal, a real integration or a custom app runs longer, and the scope spells out exactly what's included. You know what you're paying up front, and you own what's built.
Reviewed July 2026 · written by Isaac Vicliph, Tally Digital
Who it’s for
Built for the businesses that run Wellington.
Professional & financial services
CBD law practices along Lambton Quay and Featherston St, advisory firms like Grant Thornton and Findex, and recruiters such as Beyond Recruitment come to us for client portals, Xero and practice-management integrations, and onboarding that runs itself instead of by email and spreadsheet.
Fintech & B2B SaaS
Wellington is NZ's fintech centre — the Xero, Sharesies, Hnry, PaySauce, Sharesight and CoGo alumni network, plus early teams out of the Creative HQ accelerator. Funded and bootstrapped founders come to us for API integrations, marketing sites decoupled from the product, and internal dashboards.
Govtech-adjacent & membership bodies
The capital hosts hundreds of professional associations, industry bodies, NGOs and Crown-entity suppliers. The big open-source tenders go to Catalyst IT and Silverstripe; the long tail beneath them still needs member and event portals, data tooling and WCAG-grade accessible websites, and that's the work we take.
Craft beer & hospitality
Wellington calls itself NZ's craft-beer capital — Garage Project, Fortune Favours and Parrotdog taprooms, plus CBD restaurant and cafe groups. They need online ordering, reservations, Shopify commerce and booking, all wired into payments and the back office so the till and the website agree.
Wairarapa & Martinborough wine
An hour from the CBD, the Martinborough and wider Wairarapa cellar doors and operators like Martinborough Wine Tours need cellar-door e-commerce, wine-club subscriptions on Shopify, and booking systems — the same commerce work, tuned for subscription and tasting-room sales.
Startup vendors & Trade Me ecosystem
Around Wellington's tech base sits a layer of vendors and Trade Me ecosystem suppliers whose marketing site is bolted onto a product or a generic template. They need the integration and automation underneath it, plus structured content and pages an LLM can actually read and answer from.
What we solve
The problems that cost you the most are the ones a template can’t reach.
No Xero or practice-management integration
Plenty of Wellington professional-services firms run dated WordPress, Wix or Squarespace with no link to Xero or their practice-management system, so onboarding and quoting still happen by email and spreadsheet. We wire the website, CRM, Xero and payments into one flow.
No client or member portal
Accounting firms, law practices and membership bodies have nowhere for clients or members to log in, upload documents, register for events or self-serve. We build secure client and member portals, and automate the steps the manual process leaves to staff.
Poor accessibility & no commerce
NGOs and associations sit on ageing CMSes with weak WCAG accessibility, which is a real requirement in the govt-adjacent world. Cellar doors and hospitality, meanwhile, run no online ordering, booking or Shopify commerce, with thin local SEO and no structured data. We fix both.
No integration, automation or AI-readiness
Fintech and startup teams have a marketing site bolted onto the product, with nothing joining the two. There's no structured content, no clean data, and no pages an LLM can read and answer from. We build that layer so both the integrations and the AI surfaces work.
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 Wellington 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 Wellington 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 Wellington and wider Wellington Region businesses?
- Yes. Tally Digital is a New Zealand software studio and works with Wellington, the Hutt Valley, Porirua and the wider Wellington Region, remotely and on-site as needed. Same process wherever you are: clear scope, you talk to the engineer who writes the code, and you own the software outright.
- Can you build a client portal or Xero integration for a Wellington professional-services firm?
- That's core work. For Wellington's accounting, law and advisory firms we build secure client portals, Xero and practice-management integrations, document handling and onboarding that replaces the email-and-spreadsheet workflow. It's coded around how your firm actually runs, not forced into a template plugin.
- How do you integrate a website with Xero and other systems?
- Through proper API integrations, not brittle plugins. We connect your site, CRM, Xero and payment provider so onboarding, invoicing and data flow happen without anyone re-keying them. The integration is built and tested end to end by the person working on your project — no agency handoff, no black box.
- Do I need a developer or a marketing agency?
- Different jobs. An agency handles design, SEO and ads. When the real need is a portal, an integration or custom software, that's engineering, and it's what Tally does. We build the working software beneath the site, and slot in alongside whatever marketing help you already use.
- What's the difference between a web developer and a web designer?
- A web designer handles how a site looks — the layout, colour, type and visual feel. A web developer builds how it works — the code, the logic, the integrations and the data underneath. For a simple brochure site the two blur, but the moment a Wellington firm needs a client portal, a Xero integration or online ordering wired to payments, that's development, and it's the part a design-only process can't deliver.
- Can you build online ordering or a booking system for a Wellington hospitality or cellar-door business?
- Yes. For Wellington's taprooms, cafes and CBD restaurant groups we build online ordering, reservations and Shopify commerce wired into payments and the back office, so the till and the website agree. For Martinborough and Wairarapa cellar doors it's the same commerce work, tuned for tasting-room bookings and wine-club subscriptions. It's coded around how the venue actually runs, not bolted on with a booking widget that doesn't talk to the rest of your systems.
- How much does custom software or a website cost in Wellington?
- It depends on scope, so every job starts with a fixed price rather than a vague hourly estimate. Send the bottleneck — the portal, the integration, the automation — and you get back a clear scope and a fixed price before any code is written, so you know exactly what you're paying for up front.
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What we build for Wellington businesses
Tell me what your business has outgrown.
Working across Wellington, the Hutt Valley and the wider Wellington Region. Tell us what's holding you up — the portal, the Xero integration, the automation — and you'll have a clear plan and a fixed price in hand before any code is written.