We build amazing web applications.

We are a small, powerful and passionate team located in London, working with clients and partners around the world.

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DEVELOPMENT
Web development is our key focus. We create bespoke solutions to enhance value and drive results. Whether you're building from scratch or enhancing an existing app, we're here to guide and assist every step of the way.
EXPERIENCE
With over 40 years combined experience across a range of industries and technologies, we have a wealth of knowledge to tackle your unique requirements. You're in safe hands; lets build something awesome together.
OUR VALUES
We value integrity, open communication, fast iterations, quality over quantity and simplicity over complexity. We are passionate about working with good people and enjoy building long term relationships with our partners.
LARAVEL, DATABASE AND API SPECIALISTS

Looking to hire a Laravel, Database or Elasticsearch expert?

We know Laravel

As a top-tier Laravel Development Agency based in London, UK, we've been involved in the Laravel community from the early days. We've worked on everything from monolithic codebases to micro-services.

The right solution

We use the right tools for each job, and and work closely with you to find the best solution for each unique problem. We love integrating with Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, External API's, MS Office, Payment Services, and much more.

Building communities

In addition to founding the London Laravel Meetup (the largest Laravel meetup in the world), we also run Laravel Live UK, the official UK Laravel conference. We're passionate about helping build a great community.

Our Work

We've worked across a broad range of industries, product types and technologies. Here's a selection of our recent work.

What our partners say

Tanner Hearne

Head of Product
Musicbed

Working with Mettle has been a huge win for Musicbed. Their expertise and impeccable work ethic has improved the functionality and quality of our web applications immensely.

Mettle is a strategic partner for us and we are extremely happy to be working with them on a continual basis.

Tom Bathgate

Director
Institute for Vocal Advancement

We've had the pleasure of working with Jon and his team for the last few years and they have been and continue to be an asset to our company. Jon has a great ability to take our requirements and deliver them whilst exceeding our expectations.

Mettle is our first and only step when we are looking for development work and we look forward to a long and continuing relationship in the future.

Rod Pearce

CEO
The Packet Hub

For years we outsourced our development to freelance developers, which was not only difficult to manage but also lacking in final delivery. For this reason we decided to look for a company we could partner with. We were extremely fortunate to meet up with Mettle, who are at the top of their game and challenge our thinking. They deliver absolute quality, notwithstanding the complexity of our technologies.

We now consider Mettle an integral part of our team.

Chris Brown

Chief Investment Officer
IPS Capital

We are an asset management business that has developed an in-house risk management and client reporting system. When our main developer left, Mettle stepped in to provide day to day support as well as ongoing development. They have been really excellent - business critical bugs have been fixed almost instantly and on-going development work is completed to specification, on time and within budget.

We have ended up in a better place than when we had in-house developers.

Working with Mettle to maintain our in-house software has proved to be an edge in running our business and attracting new clients.

Skills

We offer an end-to-end solution, including development, database architecture and optimisation, server hosting, API development, security audits, and more.

We are proud supporters of open source software.

Here are some of our key skills and core competencies:

DEVELOPMENT
PHP
Laravel
Nodejs
Jquery
Vue.js
DATABASES
Memchached + Redis
MySQL + MariaDB
ElasticSearch
Amazon RDS
InfluxDB
SERVER ADMIN
Amazon Web Services
Digital Ocean
Ubuntu
Apache
Nginx
DISCIPLINES
Payment Integration
Stripe + Braintree
Shopping Carts
REST APIs
Security

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Accountsportal

Online Accounting Software

http://www.accountsportal.com

AccountsPortal is a SaaS online accounting software solution used by thousands of contractors, freelancers, small businesses, bookkeepers and accountants to manage their books from anywhere.

AccountsPortal is owned and managed by the Mettle team.

Musicbed

Music Licensing

http://www.musicbed.com

Musicbed offers online stock music licensing for film, TV, streaming, and weddings.

The Mettle team was tasked with completely rebuilding a legacy web application from the ground up. Based on Laravel 4 and then upgraded to Laravel 5, the site also includes deep integration to a number of technologies and services, including Amazon EC2, RDS, SQS, PayPal, Stripe, Braintree memcache, ffmpeg, sox audio processing, and an elasticsearch cluster. A RESTful API is consumed by an iPhone app.

IPS Capital

Investment Management

http://www.ipscap.com

IPS had an existing Laravel application that was managed internally. Having decided to outsource the maintenance and development of the application, Mettle was chosen from a shortlist as their preferred candidate.

The application contains clients' investment information, and automatically calculates a variety of financial returns and stress tests, as well as regular performance reports (based on wkhtml2pdf).

Understand.io

Laravel Log Management Application

http://www.understand.io

Understand.io is a SaaS application which is owned and management by the Mettle team. Understand.io is an online event and log management system which enables you to release immense value from log data that you already collect. You can get complete application visibility in real-time, helping you to track down error messages, application requests, customer problems, and much more.

Having worked with numerous Laravel and Elasticsearch applications, the Mettle team discovered began to develop an internal tool to help with searching and analysing Laravel logs. Although there are other solutions in the marketplace, none offered the deep integration with Laravel that we required. We launched Understand.io in 2015 and the service is now considered one of the leading online log management tools for Laravel applications.

Understand.io is built using a variety of technologies including Laravel, nodejs and ElasticSearch, and is owned and managed by the Mettle team.

Percol8 DNS

Web Filtering

https://www.p8dns.io

P8DNS is a DNS filtering product to protect against phishing and malware sites. The Mettle team was engaged to build a client side application to allow customers and resellers to manage their DNS products through a web interface. Originally built in Laravel 4, the site has since been upgrade to Laravel 5.

The application interfaces with a number of external applications, including DNS management (DynDNS) and PAYU payment integration.

CentreCRM

Accounting Practice Management Software

http://www.centrecrm.com

CentreCRM is an online CRM tool to help small and medium accounting practices to manage and automate their business.

Mettle are co-founders of CentreCRM.

Filmsupply

Stock Footage

http://www.filmsupply.com

Filmsupply offers stock footage for agencies, brands and independent filmmakers.

Having worked with the awesome team at Musicbed, the Mettle team built a complete backend and admin solution for Filmsupply. We make use of a number of complimentary technologies, including MySQL (hosted on RDS), queue integration (SQS), video transcoding (ZenCoder), Memcached, Redis and Elasticsearch. A RESTful API is consumed by a React front end, and payments are handled via Stripe and Braintree.

Institute for Vocal Advancement

Membership Management Portal

https://www.vocaladvancement.com/

The Institute for Vocal Advancement required an online application at very short notice to help manage their membership base and education requirements, as well as providing CMS functionality.

Built using Laravel 4 and a custom Bootstrap theme, the site also integrates with PayPal, Stripe and Google Maps.

CrowdProperty

Property Crowdfunding

http://www.crowdproperty.com

CrowdProperty is a peer-to-peer lending platform designed to facilitate loans between private individuals and professional property businesses.

CrowdProperty engaged the Mettle team to migrate to AWS, enhance the security of the existing platform and add new features.