Is a web application the same as a website?
No. A website is mostly public and informative. A web application has accounts, data and repeated use. Sometimes a business needs both.
Web applications
Web applications built around the daily work.
A marketing website informs. A web application is where people sign in and do the work.
Portals, dashboards, planning, bookings and customer environments. Tinsights builds web applications with accounts, permissions and data. It is not an extra page on the business website.
If visitors mainly need to read and get in touch, a website is enough. If they need to sign in, see status or keep data, it belongs here.
Website or web application
Website
Explain services, be found, send an enquiry. Public, mostly reading.
Web application
Sign in, roles, manage data, repeated tasks. Private or partly private, mostly working.
What we build
Environments that hold the process.
- PortalsCustomers or partners who see their own work, files or status.
- DashboardsFigures and queues someone actually uses, not a screenshot chart.
- SaaSA product with accounts, subscription logic and room to grow.
- Planning and bookingsWho reserves what when, with the rules you now keep in your head.
- Internal systemsThe team’s work, without yet another loose tool.
- Permissions and dataRole-based access and management of the records that matter.
Use cases
Where a web app makes the difference.
Customer environment
Follow jobs, fetch documents, no mailbox as archive.
Internal operations
Receive, assign and finish requests.
Reporting
The same source for everyone, instead of five spreadsheets.
How we work
Screens follow the work.
Collect the tasks
What someone must be able to do in the system on a weekday.
Model and permissions
Which data exists, who may see it, what a mistake costs.
Build in steps
The core flow first, then reporting or extra roles.
Care
Hosting, updates and further development on the same codebase.
Engineering
The parts under the screens.
- AccountsSign-in, sessions, passwords or SSO when needed.
- RolesNot everyone sees the same. That lives in the application, not in agreements.
- DataClear tables and validation, not a dump.
- APIsOther systems can use the same source.
Related work
Web applications usually sit behind sign-in. Public cases on this site are mostly websites.
Facturatie / administratie
Facturatie & administratie app
Mobiele applicatie voor facturen, klanten, betalingen, omzetinzichten en financiële administratie in één duidelijke workflow.
Field service
Field service & routebeheer app
Applicatie voor planning, routebeheer, klantlocaties, werkorders, jobdetails en statusupdates voor buitendienst- en serviceteams.
Also relevant
Questions
Can customers and staff use the same app?
Yes, with different roles. Or as two environments on the same backend. We decide from the process.
Does Tinsights also host the application?
Yes, that is possible. Deployment, backups and monitoring belong with technical management after launch.
Do you need more than a website?
Describe who must sign in and what that person must be able to do. Then it is quickly clear if this is the right route.