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Industry management software, built one trade at a time

Software built around how your industry actually works — productised for a trade, rather than rewritten from scratch for every client or bent out of a general-purpose tool that was never meant for it.

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StandaloneWith a websiteAdapted to youConfiguration includedScotland & UK
Modelled on the tradeThe awkward parts of the work are the product, not a notes field.
A product, not a rebuildIt already exists and is configured to you, rather than designed from nothing.
Joined to the websiteStrongest where we build both, so an enquiry is never re-typed.
Three products todayBerevia, Recovery Desk and Branvia. We would rather name them than imply a catalogue.

The short answer

What industry management software actually means

What is industry management software?

Software built around the work of one particular trade, rather than around a general model of customers and deals. General business software models a contact, a deal and a task, and asks every industry to describe itself in those three words. Industry software starts from what the trade actually runs on, and treats those things as real records with their own rules.

The test is simple. Take the thing your business genuinely worries about — the dependency that blocks everything downstream, the money you are out of pocket on, the item you are legally responsible for while it is in your possession. Then ask whether your current software has a word for it, or whether your team keeps that in a spreadsheet, a diary and somebody's head.

Where the answer is the spreadsheet, general software has not failed you through poor quality. It has failed you because it was never built for the job. That gap is the only reason to build industry software at all.

Two different things

A reusable industry product is not a custom system

They get conflated constantly, and it costs people money. This is the distinction we work to, and we will tell you which one your situation calls for.

A reusable industry product

  • Already exists, already models the work of the trade
  • Configured to your business — details, staff, premises, price list, terminology
  • Priced as a subscription, so the cost is known before you start
  • Improvements built for one firm can benefit every firm on it
  • Right when the product genuinely fits how you operate
VS

A fully custom system

  • Designed and built for one business from the requirements up
  • Shaped entirely around how you work, including the parts nobody else does
  • Scoped and quoted as a project, because that is what it is
  • Yours alone — nothing about it is shared with anyone else
  • Right when no product fits, and wrong when one does
Most people asking for a custom system want a product that fits.

It is worth establishing which you are actually looking at before anyone quotes, because the difference is not a detail — it is the difference between a subscription and a development project.

Work out which you need

How it is bought

Three routes, and they are not equally good

The same software, arriving three different ways. We have a preference, and it is the middle one — but only because of what it does to the work, not because it is the larger project.

Route one

Standalone software

You already have a website you are happy with, and what you actually need is the system behind it. The product runs on its own.

  • No website project required to start
  • Configured to your business, your premises and your price list
  • Enquiries can still be routed in where a documented route exists
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Route two

Website and system together

The stronger version, and the reason we build software at all. The public side and the operational side are designed as one route rather than two things that email each other.

  • The enquiry becomes a record, not a message someone re-types
  • Calculators and price lists built from the same figures the system holds
  • Package-client pricing on the software as part of the wider project
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Route three

Extended and adapted

The product is the starting point, not the ceiling. Where your firm does something the product does not model, that becomes development work with a scope and a price.

  • Your terminology, stages and reference conventions
  • Integrations where the other system has a documented route in
  • Genuine changes to behaviour, quoted as development rather than assumed
Talk it through

The range

Three products, all real, all in use as software

Each was built for one industry and models that industry's actual work. None of them is another with the labels changed.

Berevia logo

Berevia

Funeral management software

For independent funeral directors. Enquiries, arrangements, people in your care, a paperwork chain where each document depends on the one before it, the funeral day, accounts with disbursements kept separate, and pre-need plans.

ArrangementsPaperwork chainIn our careAccounts£120 / monthSee BereviaRecovery Desk logo

Recovery Desk

Vehicle recovery management software

For vehicle recovery operators. Enquiries, a dispatch board of live jobs from unassigned through to delivered, units and drivers with their compliance dates, the job book, trade accounts on terms, invoicing and the money behind it.

DispatchJobsFleetDrivers£90 / monthSee Recovery DeskBranvia logo

Branvia

Estate agency and lettings management software

For independent estate and letting agencies. Enquiries, properties, the sales pipeline and sale progression, lettings and tenancies, rent and client money, deposits, maintenance, compliance and due diligence records — organised around what needs attention today, what is due this week and what is in the diary.

TodaySalesLettingsTenanciesClient moneyFrom £120 / monthSee Branvia
What "modelled on the trade" actually means.

Berevia treats a paperwork chain with dependencies as a first-class record, because a funeral cannot proceed until specific documents exist in a specific order. Recovery Desk treats a live job with a unit against it and a waiting time running as a first-class record, because a recovery is measured in minutes and belongs to a vehicle. Branvia treats the working week itself as the primary view, because an agency is judged on what got chased today rather than on what is filed. None of those is a field you can add to a general system and be finished.

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The range, honestly

Three products, and no pretence of more

Three is a small range, and listing it as a range at all is only worth doing because every entry is real. There is no fourth waiting behind a coming-soon label.

  1. 1
    A product starts as a real projectFor a specific business with a specific problem, not as a market opportunity sketched on a whiteboard. That is where the understanding comes from.
  2. 2
    It becomes a product once it has earned itWhen the model holds for other firms in the same trade without being bent, and when configuration rather than rebuilding is enough to fit the next one.
  3. 3
    Until then, it is a project, and we say soWe will not list something here to make the range look larger. If we are building for your trade for the first time, you will be told that plainly.

If your industry is badly served by the software available to it, that is worth a conversation — see the industries we build for, or start with what your current tools force you to work around. Where the answer is a website and a couple of integrations rather than a system, we will say so; that is website design and business automation, and it costs less.

FAQs

Questions about industry software

What is industry management software?
Software built around the work of one particular trade rather than around a general model of customers and deals. The distinction that matters is what it treats as a first-class thing. General software models a contact and an opportunity. Industry software models whatever your trade actually runs on — and gets the awkward parts right, because those are the parts a general tool asks you to fake in a notes field.
How many products do you have?
Two. Berevia, for independent funeral directors, and Recovery Desk, for vehicle recovery operators. We would rather name them than imply a catalogue — a range page listing products that do not exist yet helps nobody. Anything else we build for a trade starts as a project for a specific business, and only becomes a product once it has earned that.
Is this the same as a custom system?
No, and the difference is mostly cost and risk. A product already exists, already models the work, and is configured to you. A custom system is designed and built for one business from the requirements up. The product route is cheaper and faster where a product fits; the custom route is the honest answer where none does. We will tell you which you are looking at.
What happens if the product does not do something we need?
It gets scoped. Configuration — your business details, staff, premises, price list, terminology, reference conventions and the relevant integrations — is included. Changing what the product actually does is development work, and we quote it as such rather than agreeing to it in a meeting and discovering the cost later.
Will you build industry software for my trade?
Possibly, but not speculatively, and not as a way of getting a second product on the page. It takes understanding a trade well enough to model it, which usually starts with a real project for a real business. If your industry is poorly served by the software available to it, that is a conversation worth having — starting with what the existing tools force you to work around.

Tell us what your software makes you work around

The spreadsheet beside the system, the thing nobody can look up without asking, the number that is wrong because two tools disagree. That is the conversation worth having, and it decides whether you need a product, a project, or neither.

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