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SyncMyOrders vs Custom Development
Compare using SyncMyOrders to building custom integrations in-house. Understand the true cost, timeline, and maintenance burden of custom development.
| Feature | SyncMyOrders | Custom Development |
|---|---|---|
| Time to First Automation | Hours to days | 3-6 months typically |
| Upfront Cost | From $60/month, no setup fees | $50K-$200K+ development cost |
| Ongoing Maintenance | Included — platform handles updates | Developer time for fixes and updates |
| Business User Access | Visual builder for non-technical users | Requires developers for any changes |
| Error Handling | Built-in retry, monitoring, alerts | Must be built and maintained |
| Scalability | Scales automatically | Requires infrastructure management |
Our Honest Take
Custom development gives you total control but at 10-50x the cost and timeline. SyncMyOrders provides 90% of the capability with 10% of the effort — and your team can modify workflows without waiting for developers.
The Build vs Buy Decision for Distribution Integration
Many distribution companies start with the assumption that custom development is the only way to connect their systems exactly the way they need. While custom code provides maximum flexibility, the true cost often exceeds expectations by 5-10x.
The Hidden Costs of Custom Development
Development Time
A typical custom integration project between an e-commerce platform and an ERP takes 3-6 months to develop, test, and deploy. During this time, your team continues losing hours to manual data entry.
Ongoing Maintenance
APIs change. Data formats evolve. Business rules shift. Each change requires developer time — and integration developers are expensive and hard to hire. What starts as a one-time project becomes an ongoing cost center.
Error Handling Complexity
Building robust error handling, retry logic, dead-letter queues, and monitoring dashboards from scratch is a project in itself. Most custom integrations start without these — and pay the price when orders get lost or data gets out of sync.
Where SyncMyOrders Delivers
Immediate Value
Connect your systems and build your first workflow in a day, not a quarter. Pre-built connectors for Business Central, Shopify, HubSpot, and more mean you’re not writing API code from scratch.
Business-Owned Workflows
When your operations team needs to modify a workflow — adding a new field mapping, changing order routing logic, or adding a notification — they can do it themselves in the visual builder. No developer ticket required.
Enterprise-Grade Reliability
SyncMyOrders includes built-in error handling, automatic retries, comprehensive audit logs, and real-time monitoring. These are the hardest parts of any integration to build well, and they come standard.
When Custom Development Still Makes Sense
- You have truly unique data processing requirements that no platform can handle
- You need sub-millisecond latency for high-frequency trading or real-time bidding
- Your integration requires deep access to proprietary or legacy systems with no API
For the vast majority of distribution workflows — order sync, inventory management, invoicing, shipment tracking — a platform like SyncMyOrders delivers the same results at a fraction of the cost and timeline.
The Bottom Line
Choose SyncMyOrders if you want to automate your distribution workflows quickly, affordably, and with your operations team in control.
Choose Custom Development only if you have genuinely unique requirements that no platform can address, and you have the budget and development capacity for a multi-month project with ongoing maintenance.
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