Taylor Consulting
Your developer left. The system didn't.
Taylor Consulting takes over business software that has been abandoned, outgrown or left half-finished. We keep it running, fix what's broken, and rebuild it when that's the right call.
We also build and run our own systems for property managers, internet providers, HR teams and ticketed venues.
Clients include
Software rescue
Most of the systems we look after were written by someone else. A contractor moved on, a vendor closed, or the one person who understood it retired.
We've inherited payroll written in Delphi, point-of-sale data locked in FoxPro, and a foundry's workflow history that had to be converted record by record. Some we maintain as they are. Some we rewrite. You get an honest answer about which before any work is quoted.
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Review
We read the code, the servers and the bills, and report what is sound, what is at risk, and what it would cost to stabilise, extend or replace.
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Stabilise
Backups, monitoring, access under your control, and the urgent faults fixed. The system stops being an emergency.
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Maintain or rebuild
We keep it healthy month to month, or build its replacement alongside and switch over once the two agree.
Products we build and run
Four systems that started as answers to real operational problems. Each one is adapted to the organisation that uses it.
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Property management
Bookings, seasonal rates, channel sync with Airbnb and Booking.com, owner statements and trust accounting for holiday-rental agencies.
In use at @Ballito
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ISP management
Online sign-up, billing and debit orders, RADIUS, and provisioning for MikroTik, Huawei, Ubiquiti and Cambium equipment.
In use at Link-Up and LOOP
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xHR: HR and payroll
Employee records, leave, pay runs with two-step approval, encrypted e-payslips, and bank, tax and pension files.
Built to replace a legacy desktop system
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Ticketing and validation
Online ticket sales, tour-operator accounts, and handheld apps that sell, print and scan at the gate, with or without signal.
In use at SIF and SPGA, Seychelles
Services
When the answer isn't one of our products, we design and build what the job needs, and run it afterwards.
Custom software
ERP, CRM, retail, workflow and accounting systems, with the web portals and Android apps that connect to them.
AI integration
Putting AI to work inside the systems you already have: document capture, data clean-up, and automating repetitive office work.
Systems integration
Connecting software that was never meant to talk: payment gateways, banks, accounting packages, channel managers and point-of-sale.
Hosting and high availability
On-site, cloud or hybrid. Galera database clusters, NGINX load balancing, monitoring, automated backups and disaster recovery.
Networks and communications
Fibre, wireless, VoIP and satellite links, designed and managed by people who also run a national ISP.
Security
Thirty years around the physical security industry makes for a healthy paranoia. We harden systems, and review the ones we inherit.
Selected work
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Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority
Electronic ticketing and access control for the country's marine parks, trails and reserves.
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Seychelles Islands Foundation
Ticketing and donations for Vallée de Mai and Fond Ferdinand, integrated with the on-site point-of-sale.
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@Ballito
Holiday accommodation booking site and the agency back office behind it.
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Link-Up Networks
Our own ISP, with national infrastructure, run on the ISP management system.
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LOOP ISP
A fully integrated OLT control system that makes fibre rollout quick and repeatable.
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Shoreline Property
Estate and property management system.
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Northern Natal Bronze
Workflow management for the foundry, including migrating and converting its legacy data.
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Accounting package
Bank import, allocation and ledgers built for fast, low-effort bookkeeping.
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AI and database formalisation
Published in Sea Technology: using AI to help formalise databases and manage data integrity.
Founded and led by Simon Taylor
Taylor Consulting is a team of developers and engineers. The people you talk to at the start are the people who read your code and run your system.
Simon has built networks, hosting platforms and business systems for more than twenty-five years, from a London dot-com to conservation bodies in the Seychelles, and still leads the technical work. The group also owns and operates an ISP in South Africa, which is why our products get tested on a real business before anyone else is asked to rely on them.
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Starts writing games on the family ZX Spectrum, aged six.
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Moves to London and joins a five-person dot-com start-up. Over eight years it grows past fifty staff, and he builds its enterprise network along the way.
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Loads a Land Cruiser and spends a year driving home across Europe and Africa.
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Based in Ballito, leading the teams behind several IT businesses that build, integrate and rescue systems for clients across the globe.