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Questions, answered plainly.
Licensing, hosting, delivery and what happens in year two. If something here is still unclear, ask us directly and we will add it to this page.
Do I really get the source code?
Yes. On delivery the repository is transferred to your organisation, application code, database schema, migrations, seed data and deployment configuration. There is no obfuscation, no licence server and no phone-home. If we disappeared tomorrow your software would keep running and any competent developer could pick it up.
Is this a subscription?
No. You pay once for the app. The only recurring cost is hosting, which you pay to your own cloud provider and which typically lands between $50 and $200 a month depending on size. We never charge per user, per record or per workflow.
What happens after the twelve months of updates?
Nothing breaks. Updates are improvements, not a licence renewal, the software you have keeps working indefinitely. You can extend updates, bring maintenance in-house, or hire any other developer, because the code is yours and it is written in a mainstream stack.
Where does it run?
Your infrastructure. Most clients deploy to Vercel, AWS, Azure or a single VPS; some run it entirely on-premise for data residency reasons. If you would rather not manage it, we offer managed hosting as a separate, cancellable arrangement. It is never a condition of purchase.
How is this different from a no-code tool?
No-code platforms are quick to start and hard to leave: your logic lives in their runtime and your data lives in their database. These are ordinary applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL. You can read them, test them, extend them and host them anywhere.
Can you connect it to the systems we already run?
Usually. We regularly integrate accounting, payment, email, storage, identity and shipping providers. Two integrations are included in a fitted build; anything with a documented API can be scoped, and we will say plainly when a legacy system has no sane integration path.
What if we need changes in a year?
You have three options and we are happy with all of them: your own developers change it, you hire a third party, or you come back to us at our hourly rate. Nothing about the licence forces the third option.
How do you handle our data during migration?
Under a signed agreement, on infrastructure you control wherever possible. We migrate into a staging environment first, reconcile record counts and key totals with your team, and only then cut over. Test exports are destroyed on sign-off.
Can we see it before we pay anything?
That is the point of the catalogue. Every app is live with realistic sample data. Click into any of them, use it properly, and only then decide whether it is worth a conversation.
Who actually builds these?
A product engineering team working across India, the USA and Germany. BuyOwnCode is our catalogue of production applications, built from the patterns we kept rebuilding for clients.
Do you build mobile apps as well as web apps?
Yes. The catalogue holds 38 internal web systems where your team is the user, and 31 mobile templates for iPhone and Android, salon, restaurant, taxi, clinic, gym, course and delivery apps among them. Every one has a live preview, and all are sold on the same ownership terms.
Who owns the App Store and Google Play accounts?
You do, from the start. Apple charges an annual developer fee and Google a one-off registration, both billed to you by them directly. We publish from your accounts during the build but never hold them, so the listing, the reviews and the install base are always yours.
Does an on-demand app take a commission on bookings?
No. That is most of the point. A booking marketplace typically takes 15–30% of each booking and keeps the customer relationship; an app you own takes nothing, and payment runs through your own provider rather than through us.
How long does app store review take, and can you guarantee approval?
A first submission is usually a few days on both stores, sometimes longer, and a rejection means a fix and a resubmission. We handle both. Nobody can guarantee approval or a launch date, and categories with extra scrutiny can take longer. We say so at scoping rather than afterwards.
Still deciding?
Open any app in the catalogue and use it as though it were yours. That answers more questions than a call does.