// DEVELOPMENT
Microsoft Access Development
Custom Microsoft Access database applications for Perth businesses. Built by a developer who's been writing Access since Version 2.0 in 1993.
Custom Access databases. Built by someone who's been doing it since 1993.
When a spreadsheet stops scaling and a SaaS product doesn't fit, a well-designed Microsoft Access application is often the right answer — especially for job costing, document control, scheduling and other operational workflows where off-the-shelf software won't bend.
What we build
- Custom database design — normalised schemas designed for the way your team actually works.
- Multi-user applications — proper frontend/backend splits, record locking handled right.
- Integration — hook Access into Excel, Outlook, SQL Server, SharePoint and external APIs.
- Automated data flows — scheduled imports, exports, reconciliations and reporting.
- CRM, job costing, document control, procurement — the operational apps that keep a business running.
- Validation and cleanup — fix the dirty-data problem before it compounds.
About Gary
Gary Hanley has been developing Microsoft Access applications since Version 2.0 shipped in 1993. Over 30 years he's built multi-user systems for the Water Corporation, Wesfarmers, MacMahon, Good Samaritan Industries and dozens of smaller Perth businesses — across mining, engineering, job costing, scheduling, project management and document control.
He's proficient in VBA, experienced integrating Access with every major external data source, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security from Edith Cowan University. Which means your database is built by the same person who'll secure it.
How we work
- A coffee and a conversation. We learn what your business actually does before proposing a design.
- Short milestones. A minimum viable application in weeks, not quarters. Then we iterate.
- Fixed quotes per milestone. You always know the next cheque before you write it.
Engaging a Microsoft Access consultant
Most clients come to us in one of three situations: an existing Access application that's grown brittle and needs a Microsoft Access consultant to tidy it up; a spreadsheet workflow that's outgrown Excel and needs a proper Microsoft Access developer to design something fit for purpose; or an inherited database whose original author has long since moved on, and that nobody can confidently change without breaking.
We work remotely with businesses Australia-wide and internationally — you don't need to be in Perth. Most engagements run as a fixed-price discovery (one to two weeks) followed by milestone-based delivery, with weekly demos so you see progress as it happens.
What an Access database consultant actually does
- Reviews your existing Access application and writes up what's working, what's at risk, and what would cost what to fix.
- Refactors brittle macro/VBA logic into something that won't fall over when the next person edits it.
- Splits monolithic single-file databases into proper frontend/backend architecture.
- Migrates Access data layers to SQL Server or Azure SQL when you've outgrown the Jet/ACE engine.
- Documents the whole thing so the next person — including you — can pick it up.
// Ready to stop firefighting