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Australian software company

Complex operations. Connected software.

Yelko designs, builds and runs software. We operate our own products, and we engineer custom platforms for organisations that have outgrown off-the-shelf tools.

Diagram: spreadsheets, email threads, paper forms, a legacy database, Xero and Stripe converge through software engineered by Yelko into one connected platform covering clients, workflows, documents, billing and portals.
01What we do

Yelko is an Australian software company. We build, own and operate our own products, and we engineer custom platforms for organisations that have outgrown generic tools.

We run Finye and Start My Tradie in production every day. That makes us careful in the way an owner is careful: about reliability, maintainability and what the software will need in three years, not just at launch.

The same team designs, builds and looks after custom software for other organisations, from new SaaS platforms to the integrations and modernisation work that keeps established businesses moving.

About Yelko
02Our products

Software we build, own and operate.

Each product solves a specific problem for a specific industry, and each runs on the same engineering we bring to client work.

Practice management software

One connected platform for Australian accounting practices.

Finye brings clients, recurring work, compliance deadlines, documents, communication and billing into one place for accounting and bookkeeping firms.

For
Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms
Replaces
Spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected tools
Visit finye.com.au
  • Two-way Xero syncClients and contacts stay in step with the ledger.
  • Engagements & e-signaturesProposals and letters sent, signed and tracked.
  • Recurring work & deadlinesBAS, IAS and tax work generated on schedule.
  • Hosted in SydneyData stays in Australia, isolated per workspace.
Finye client profile for a sample company: practice snapshot with work in progress, receivables, invoicing and lodgments; services engaged; and work items by status and priority.
Finye engagements list showing draft, signed and viewed engagement letters with fees and signature status.
Real Finye screens from a demo workspace with sample data.
Start My Tradie

Business setup for Australian trades

Start My Tradie gets new trade businesses ready to work: website, domain, business email, enquiries, quoting, invoicing, payments and customer management, set up for them and connected from day one.

For
Australians starting a trade business
Replaces
Weeks spent stitching together a website, email and admin tools
Visit startmytradie.com.au

Everything a new trade business needs, set up and connected.

From first enquiry to paid invoiceIllustrative workflow · sample data
  1. 01Website enquiry

    Customers request quotes from the business’s own website.

  2. 02Customer record

    The enquiry lands in customer management, ready to follow up.

  3. 03Quote

    A professional quote goes out and is accepted online.

  4. 04Booking

    The job is booked in, with the customer kept informed.

  5. 05Invoice & payment

    An invoice with online payment closes the loop.

  • Set up for youWebsite, domain, email and tools configured by us.
  • No lock-in contractsThe business owns everything we set up.
  • One monthly priceFrom $150 setup and $50 a month.
03Engineering

Serious software for organisations that have outgrown generic tools.

We take on work where the requirements are specific, the systems are connected and the software has to keep running for years. Here is the shape of what we build.

How we engineer
Anatomy of a platform we buildSame architecture as our own products
L1InterfacesWhere people work
  • Staff web app
  • Client portal
  • Mobile apps
  • Public & partner APIs
L2ApplicationYour rules, encoded
  • Workflows & approvals
  • Roles & permissions
  • Billing & subscriptions
  • Notifications
  • Audit trail
L3IntegrationsData entered once
  • Xero
  • MYOB
  • Stripe
  • Square
  • Microsoft 365
  • Legacy systems
L4Data & infrastructureSecure and observable
  • MySQL · PostgreSQL
  • Redis queues
  • Object storage
  • AWS · Cloudflare
  • Sydney region hosting

A

Build new platforms

For founders and organisations creating software that others will depend on.

SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant products with subscriptions, roles, white-labelling and custom domains.
Business & enterprise applications
Bespoke CRM, operations and internal systems shaped around how you actually work.

B

Connect and automate

For operations held together by re-keying, exports and manual hand-offs.

Systems integration & APIs
Accounting, payments, identity and line-of-business systems kept in step.
Workflow automation
Reliable, auditable automation for the work your team repeats every day.

C

Modernise and operate

For software that the business relies on but nobody wants to touch.

Legacy modernisation
Staged migration onto maintainable architecture, with parallel runs where it matters.
Cloud & infrastructure
Hosting, monitoring, backups and security sized for your real load and risk.
Ongoing product engineering
A long-term team that maintains, secures and extends the software.
04Problems we solve

Most of our work starts with a sentence like one of these.

  1. We re-key the same information into three different systems.
    We buildIntegrations and a single source of truthData enters once and flows to every system that needs it.
  2. Our core software is fifteen years old and only one person understands it.
    We buildA staged modernisationA maintainable rebuild delivered in phases, with your data migrated and verified.
  3. We’ve outgrown spreadsheets, but no product fits how we work.
    We buildA custom business applicationBuilt around your processes, roles and approvals, not the other way round.
  4. We have an idea for an industry platform, but no engineering team.
    We buildA SaaS product, built to operateMulti-tenant architecture, billing and onboarding, designed to grow from day one.
  5. Our product works, but it’s struggling to scale.
    We buildArchitecture and performance improvementsProfiling, refactoring and infrastructure changes that remove the bottlenecks.

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05How we work

A considered process, and no hand-off at the end.

Software is never finished. It is looked after. Our process is built around that, so the last step leads back to the first.

  1. Understand

    We learn the operation, the constraints and the commercial goal before proposing any software.

  2. Architect

    Data model, integrations, security and hosting are designed up front and documented.

  3. Build

    Delivered in short increments you can see and use, with automated tests from the start.

  4. Launch

    Planned cut-overs, data migration and monitoring, so going live is uneventful.

  5. Evolve

    We stay on to maintain, secure and extend the software as your business changes.

06Why Yelko

We run software in production. Every day.

We ask what it’s for first.
We understand the problem before choosing a solution, and we’ll tell you when you don’t need custom software.
Built to be understood later.
Clear data models, tested code and documentation, so the next engineer (including yours) can extend it.
Australian, and reachable.
An Australian company in your time zone, with direct access to the people building your software.
We stay after launch.
Maintenance, security updates and new features are part of the plan, not an afterthought.

Start a project

Have a complex software problem? Let’s talk it through.

Tell us what you’re trying to solve. We’ll discuss the problem, the constraints and whether we’re the right team, without a sales script.