Directus

The main advantage is total data ownership and portability. Your data is never locked in a proprietary system; it's always accessible in a clean, standard SQL database. It also means we can instantly add a modern API and admin panel to your existing legacy databases, modernizing them without a painful migration.

Yes. Directus provides a clean, beautiful, and highly intuitive admin panel that can be completely customized. A key part of our service is to configure the layout, fields, and permissions to create a simple and powerful data management experience for your team.

As a self-hosted solution, you have full control over the infrastructure. Typically, this is a responsibility we manage for you as part of our service or a dedicated maintenance plan. We handle the deployment, security, updates, and backups for both the Directus application and the database.

Our process begins with data architecture, where we design your database schema (or analyze your existing one). We then set up and configure the Directus instance, customize the data studio for your workflows, and proceed to build the front-end application that will consume the Directus API.

Yes. While not an e-commerce platform out-of-the-box, Directus is flexible enough to be the back-end for a custom e-commerce solution. We can model products, customers, and orders in the database, and then integrate with third-party services like Stripe for payments and ShipEngine for shipping.

Directus automatically generates a comprehensive and secure API layer (both REST and GraphQL) for your database. We build your custom front-end application (using a framework like Next.js or Vue.js) to communicate with this API to fetch and display data.

Absolutely. This is a core strength of Directus. The admin panel is highly extensible. We can build custom interfaces, create insightful dashboards, and configure complex user roles and permissions to create a back-end that is perfectly tailored to your business operations.

Building a custom data platform with Directus is a strategic investment in a flexible, long-term asset. The cost is based on the complexity of your data model and any custom admin panel features. We provide a detailed proposal after a thorough discovery and architecture phase.