Advanced / Custom Solutions
Starting at $5,000+
When a website has to do
more than be a website.
Some projects stop being about pages and start being about systems. This is the upper end of what H7 builds, and it is scoped like engineering work rather than like a brochure.
Territory
What lands in this category.
Large architectures
Sites with enough pages, sections or audiences that the sitemap itself becomes the hard problem.
Advanced e-commerce
Large catalogues, complex variants, subscriptions, wholesale pricing, or commerce that has to talk to other systems.
Integrations
The website exchanging real data with a CRM, booking system, accounting package, fulfilment service or internal tool.
Custom workflows
Multi-step applications, quote builders, intake processes, approvals — anything with state and rules behind it.
Directories
Searchable, filterable listings of people, places, properties or products, with structure behind the search.
Membership & gated content
Accounts, logins, permissions and content only some people should see.
Substantial content systems
Publishing operations where non-technical people need to add and manage a lot of content safely.
Genuinely unusual functionality
The thing you have been told is “not really possible on a website.” Sometimes it is. Sometimes it should not be.
How these are scoped
Discovery comes first,
and it is not free padding.
Nobody can quote a system accurately from a paragraph. Advanced projects start with a paid or scoped discovery phase, because guessing produces either a number that is too high or a project that fails halfway.
If a project turns out to be beyond what H7 should take on, you will be told that during discovery rather than three months into a build.
What discovery produces
- → A written functional specification
- → Data model and content structure
- → Integration map and third-party dependencies
- → Architecture and sitemap
- → Identified technical risks
- → Phasing — what ships first, what waits
- → A fixed proposal for the build
Being straight with you
Phasing is usually the right answer.
The most common mistake in advanced projects is trying to launch everything at once. It inflates the cost, delays the launch, and means the first real user feedback arrives after all the money is spent.
H7 will normally propose building the core system first, launching it, and adding the rest in defined phases. That is not H7 avoiding work — it is how you avoid paying to build features nobody turns out to use.
One of the H7 case studies shows this in practice: the Dustywalks77 site was deliberately structured so an interactive cleanup map could be added later, rather than delaying the launch to build it up front. See that project
Describe the system.
What does it need to do, who uses it, and what does it need to talk to? That is enough for a first conversation.