# The Parker County Software Company

> Custom software and automation for small businesses in Parker County, Texas. Based in Aledo, serving Weatherford, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks, Springtown, Azle and the rest of the county.

## About

- The Parker County Software Company is a software company based in Aledo, Texas, building software since 2007.
- Its experience includes co-founding and selling a software platform and building software for national media companies and brands.
- Modern tools have made custom software affordable for small businesses, and that’s who it builds for.
- It builds custom business software, automation and customer portals for small businesses in Parker County, including Aledo, Weatherford, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks, Springtown, Azle, Annetta, Brock, Cool, Cresson, Dennis, Millsap, Peaster, Reno, Sanctuary, Poolville.
- A working prototype, in about a week, is $2,500. Most finished software runs $5,000 to $10,000. One price is agreed before work starts. There’s no hourly billing.
- Optional support starts at $500 a month. Cancel any time, and your data can be exported whenever you want.
- Consults are free and in person, anywhere in Parker County.
- Contact: mail@parkercountysoftware.com

## Pricing

A working prototype, in about a week, is $2,500. Most finished software runs $5,000 to $10,000. The exact price is agreed before work starts. No hourly billing. Optional support starts at $500 a month. Consults are free.

## Industries

- [Trades and field service crews](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/trades-field-service/): From the first call to the crew on site: estimates, a weekly schedule and a job sheet on every phone. Leads move from site visit to estimate to won. A won deal becomes a job on the weekly crew schedule. Each crew gets a phone job sheet with the scope and notes but no pricing. Anything changed after scheduling gets flagged to the crew.
- [Home builders and remodelers](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/home-builders-remodelers/): Keep buyers in the loop, get change orders signed, and catch overages before they become arguments. Buyers see progress, photos and selections in one place and sign change orders on a phone. Allowance overages, like lighting going over budget, get flagged as soon as they happen, and the weekly update drafts itself from the job notes.
- [Machine shops and fabricators](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/machine-shops-fabrication/): Turn RFQs into quotes in minutes, using your own past cycle times. It reads incoming RFQs, builds quotes from past cycle times and warns you when margin is too thin. Inspections get signed off with tolerance checks, and a TV on the shop floor shows what’s running and what’s next.
- [Horse trainers, barns and ranches](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/equine-ranch/): Weatherford is the Cutting Horse Capital of the World. Most barn billing still runs on a whiteboard and a notebook. One tap adds a charge to several horses. A vet farm call splits across horses to the penny. A voice memo from the truck becomes an owner update. A photo of the whiteboard becomes charges, and anything that looks missed gets flagged before statements go out.
- [Dealership management systems](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/dealership-management-systems/): Inventory, service, parts, financing applications and web leads in one place. Built first for a dealer in Aledo. We built the shop software and lead system Aledo Golf Carts runs sales and service on. Every inquiry creates a deal. Service, parts, batteries and carts for sale live in one place your staff can use from the counter or a phone.
- Utility providers: Customer and agent portals, billing and support tools for electric, gas, water and internet providers.

## Services

- Custom business software: Work orders, scheduling, billing, inventory and customer records, built around how your business already works.
- Customer portals: A page where your customers check status, sign changes and pay, so they stop calling to ask.
- Automation and AI: Reading inquiries, drafting replies, turning notes into invoices and catching missed charges, using the tools you already have.

## Service area

Aledo, Weatherford, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks, Springtown, Azle, Annetta, Brock, Cool, Cresson, Dennis, Millsap, Peaster, Reno, Sanctuary, Poolville, Texas. Also nearby: Fort Worth, Benbrook, Granbury and Mineral Wells.

The company doesn’t publish a street address. Meetings are in person by appointment.

## Questions

### How much does custom software cost for a small business?
A working prototype, in about a week, is $2,500. Most finished software runs $5,000 to $10,000. That’s possible because modern tools do a lot of the heavy lifting, not because we cut corners. You get the exact price before we start, we don’t bill by the hour, and we can stick around to keep improving it for $500 a month and up.

### Can custom software cost less than the subscriptions we pay for now?
Often, yes. Add up every subscription and per-user fee you pay each month. If you’re replacing several of them, one system built around how you work, plus optional support from $500 a month, may cost less over time. We’ll do the math with you in the free consult.

### Will my crew actually use it?
That’s the first thing we test. Your crew tries the prototype on their own phones in the first week. If it’s slower than the group text, we keep working on it.

### How long does it take?
About a week for a working prototype you can use. Using it shows what you really need, and we build in small steps from there instead of one big release that might miss the mark.

### Who owns the data?
You do. Every tool we build includes an easy export, so you can take your data anywhere, any time.

### Should I buy an off-the-shelf product or get custom software?
Buy the product if it fits how you work. Custom makes sense when you’re paying for three products that don’t talk to each other, or your team works around the software instead of with it. We’ll tell you which one you need.

### What does The Parker County Software Company do?
We build custom software for small businesses in Parker County: work orders, scheduling, billing, booking, customer portals and lead tracking. We also connect the software you already pay for so it works together.

### Where are you?
Aledo. We work with businesses across Parker County, including Weatherford, Willow Park, Hudson Oaks, Springtown, Azle, Millsap, Annetta and Peaster, and we meet in person at your shop or over coffee.

### How long have you been building software?
Since 2007. We’ve co-founded and sold a software platform and built systems for national media companies and brands. Modern tools now let us build that kind of software at a small-business price.

### What affects the price?
How many kinds of people use it, whether your customers log in, payments, connections to tools like QuickBooks or Salesforce, moving old data, and how many screens it needs.

### Do I need to be good with computers?
No. If it isn’t easy to use on a phone, we haven’t finished.

### Can you work with the tools we already use?
Yes. We connect to QuickBooks, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Square and Stripe.

### Do you build websites?
No. We build the software a business runs on: job tracking, scheduling, billing, customer portals and automation that works with your existing tools. It can connect to the website you already have.

## Pages

- [Industries](https://parkercountysoftware.com/industries/)
- [Services and pricing](https://parkercountysoftware.com/services/)
- [Service area](https://parkercountysoftware.com/service-area/)
- [About](https://parkercountysoftware.com/about/)
- [FAQ](https://parkercountysoftware.com/faq/)
- [Contact](https://parkercountysoftware.com/contact/)