BuddyBoss Agency
The team that builds BuddyBoss will build on it for you
Custom web and app development, migrations and ongoing engineering, from the people who wrote the platform. Every engagement starts with a free call, so you know what it takes before you commit to anything.
Agency clients include
Mobile app development
The only team who can build on the next-gen app
We wrote it, so we are the only people who can extend it. Out of the box the next-generation BuddyBoss app already does a great deal. When you need it to do something specific to your community, we build that too: a custom screen, an integration with a system you already run, a workflow built around how your members actually behave.
- Custom screens and member journeys
- Integrations with systems you already run
- Push, offline and native device features
- Published under your own developer accounts
More than half the work we’re signed up for right now is custom app development.
What we build
Custom web development
The features your community needs that the platform doesn’t ship with: member workflows, integrations with the systems you already run, interfaces built for how your people actually behave. Built on BuddyBoss properly, so they survive updates instead of breaking on them.
- Member workflows, roles and permissions
- Integrations with your CRM, billing and single sign-on
- Custom dashboards and reporting
- Written to survive platform updates, not to be redone at each one
What we build
Migrations onto BuddyBoss
Moving off another WordPress community plugin, a hosted platform, or something someone built you years ago. Members, courses, content, subscriptions and history come across. What matters is that your community arrives intact and still recognises the place.
Migration is complete and everything is working … Photo and video uploads are also working which is great.
a creator-community platform, on the completion of its move onto a new BuddyBoss site
From WordPress plugins
From hosted platforms
Who we build for
Industries we know well enough to argue with you about
Hundreds of projects in these spaces mean we can usually tell you what breaks before you pay us to find out.
Online courses & eLearning
Course platforms carrying real cohorts. Project Life Mastery University runs 24,000 students on one.
Education
Institutions and independent educators. We built TalkBox.Mom’s app to put language practice in families’ hands.
Clubs & associations
Membership, licensing and registration at scale: renewals, tiers and permissions that still hold at five figures.
Coaching & personal development
Programmes with a person at the centre. Cohorts, drip content and community, without the platform getting in the coach’s way.
Brand communities
Audiences turned into members, in an owned space with the structure and moderation a social feed will never give you.
Faith & community organisations
Congregations and cause-led groups gathering people without handing them to a social network. Forever Families is in its 18th retainer.
Proof
Recent work
Sport & fitness
Soccer Mindset Academy
Young players weren’t engaging on desktop. We delivered mobile learning on a tight deadline and a tight budget, for a fraction of the six-figure quotes they’d had elsewhere.
Online courses
Project Life Mastery University
Several separate course sites consolidated into one platform for 24,000 students across 10 courses, with LearnDash and gamification.
Education
TalkBox.Mom
A custom mobile app putting language practice in families’ hands, where the learning actually happens.
Faith & community
Forever Families
A community app bringing a faith and family organisation together around their content and each other, now in its 18th retainer with us.
What clients say
Clients who keep coming back
The most useful thing you can know about an agency is whether anyone hired them a second time. 71% of ours do, across 200+ community projects delivered.
★★★★★
I have used the BuddyBoss theme, platform, mobile app, done-for-you, and agency services for nearly two years. I am constantly impressed with the product and services. The leaders model excellence in software development and communication, feverously making groundbreaking improvements while keeping its community informed. The support services are first-rate, and the employees are dedicated and hardworking. Their software and support team have made it possible to build a custom multisite and mobile app from scratch. I’m incredibly grateful for BuddyBoss and look forward to investing in its continued success.
Nate Walker
via Trustpilot
Before you get in touch
Do you need the agency, or Done For You?
Often it’s Done For You, and we’d rather say so now than 3 emails in.
Come to the agency
If you need something the platform doesn’t do, that’s us:
- You have a BuddyBoss platform and need it extended
- You’re migrating from Kajabi, Circle, Mighty Networks or similar
- You need custom development on the next-gen app
- Your project has real scope and needs proper delivery
Start with Done For You
Haven’t built anything yet? Done For You is almost always the better first step. It covers the whole platform setup and configuration for a fixed scope at a fixed price, with no quote and no discovery phase.
Plenty of people come to the agency first and we send them here. Once your platform is live, come back for anything custom.
How we work
The first call is free. You decide if there’s a second step.
01
Assessment
A free call to work out what you actually need and whether we are the right people to do it. No charge, and no obligation either way.
02
Discovery
We dig into the detail: what you already have, what has to change, and what is likely to get in the way. This is paid work, and it starts only once you say go.
03
Scoping
Scope, hours and timeline agreed in writing before any build starts, so there is no open-ended bill. Usually about 2 hours.
04
Build
Built by the engineers who work on BuddyBoss itself, so it fits the platform rather than fighting it.
05
Delivery
Tested, deployed and handed over, including training, so your team can run it without calling us every week.
06
Support
Retained hours for ongoing development and fixes, so the platform keeps moving after launch instead of quietly ageing.
How we bill
Start with a call, then buy hours
The first call is free. After that, discovery and scoping are billed at the same hourly rate as the build, so you never pay for a sales process.
Step 1
Assessment call
A free call with the team who would do the work. We work out what you need and whether we are the right people for it.
- An honest answer, including “you don’t need us”
- A view on whether there is a simpler route
- Discovery and scoping only start once you say go
Step 2
Prepaid retainers at $145/hour
Buy hours in blocks and draw them down. Ten hours at $145 comes to $1,450, which is where most engagements start.
- Longer commitments reduce the rate
- Managed App customers get a further discount
- No minimum contract, no monthly commitment
Start here
Tell us what you’re building
It goes straight to our head of client services, who will read it and come back to you. Not into a sales sequence.