Multan · served from Islamabad
Software for Multan’s agri dealers, ginners and exporters
We build dealer ledgers, field apps and traceability systems for businesses in Multan and across South Punjab, from our office in Islamabad. They are designed around the crop calendar, weak rural signal and customers who pay when the harvest comes in.
Part of our work across Pakistan: software house in Pakistan
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The market
Building software for Multan
Multan is South Punjab’s main city, and most of its economy runs on agriculture in one form or another. Cotton and wheat fill the fields around it, ginning factories turn seed cotton into lint and cottonseed, and Multan’s mangoes are sold across Pakistan and exported every summer. In the city, dealers sell fertiliser, seed and pesticide to farmers from a wide area, and distributors supply those dealers. Nishtar Hospital and Bahauddin Zakariya University draw people from across the region, and Saraiki is widely spoken alongside Urdu and Punjabi.
The software that fits Multan is shaped by the crop calendar. Farmers buy inputs on credit and settle when the harvest is sold, so a dealer’s ledger is really a set of seasonal accounts that need tracking by farmer, crop and season. Ginners and grain traders are busiest in short, intense windows after harvest. Mango exporters have a brief summer season to grade, pack, treat and ship fruit that will not wait. And the people collecting the data are often in villages where the signal drops, using a budget Android phone that is also their personal one.
We serve Multan from our Islamabad office. We have no office, staff or address in Multan, and a Multan engagement is led remotely by the same senior engineer from the first call to handover, with no account manager in between. Because the distance makes a visit something to plan rather than drop in on, we save it for the moments that need it, such as watching field staff use a pilot app or agreeing a rollout before the season. Everything is invoiced in rupees, and you own the code and documentation at the end.
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What is specific
What building for Multan actually requires
Credit that follows the crop
An input dealer may carry a long list of farmer accounts that are settled once or twice a year, after the wheat or cotton is sold. The ledger needs balances by season and crop, reminders timed to harvest instead of month end, and statements a farmer can receive on WhatsApp or by SMS. For fertiliser and pesticide companies the same structure runs a level up: distributors, their dealers, and the secondary sales the dealers report.
Ready before the season starts
Ginning, grain buying and mango packing compress a year of work into weeks, so software has to cope with that peak and then sit quietly for months. We plan backwards from your season: build and pilot in the slack period, go live with time to spare, and change nothing critical once the trucks start arriving. A system that fails in the middle of the harvest costs far more than one that launched a month late.
Field apps for weak signal
Field officers, recovery staff and procurement agents work where coverage drops out. Their apps have to save every entry offline and sync when a connection returns, stay small enough for a phone with little free storage, and capture photos and locations without draining the battery. Labels are usually in Urdu, and the app should be simple enough for staff to explain to a farmer in Saraiki in a sentence or two.
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Working together
How working with us goes from Multan
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Start with your calendar
The first call covers when your season starts and ends, before any talk of features. Everything that follows, from the pilot to the go-live date, is planned backwards from those dates.
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A pilot with a few users
A working version goes to a handful of field staff or dealers first, in the places with the worst signal, and we fix what they find before anyone else sees it.
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Visits planned around the pilot
Most of the engagement runs on calls and shared tools. We plan a trip to Multan for the moments that need one, such as watching the pilot in use or training staff before rollout.
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Handed over before the rush
Training, documentation and admin access are completed ahead of the peak, so your own team is running the system when volumes climb, and the code is yours to keep.
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Services
What we build for Multan clients
Project delivery, owned end to end. We take on the outcome rather than supplying engineering hours.
Working with Yarqat in Multan
Do you have an office in Multan?
No. We work from our registered office in E-11/2, Islamabad, and we have no office, staff or address in Multan. Engagements run remotely in the same timezone, with regular calls and a working version you can open at any time. Where a visit genuinely helps, for example to see a field app in use or to train staff before a season, we plan one. You are invoiced in rupees under a Pakistani contract.
Our field staff often have no signal. Will an app still work?
It will if it is built offline-first, which is how we would build it. Entries, photos and locations are saved on the phone and sync automatically when a connection returns, with a clear sign of anything not yet uploaded. We keep the app small for low-storage Android phones and test it in the places your staff actually visit, not only in an office with good coverage.
We run a ginning factory. What would software actually do for us?
Mostly it makes the season’s numbers add up. Each load of seed cotton is recorded at the weighbridge with its source and any deductions you apply, payments to growers and middlemen are tracked against it, and the lint bales and cottonseed produced are logged, so ginning out-turn can be compared by lot and by supplier. Stock and sales of bales to spinning mills then run from the same records.
Can software help with mango export traceability?
It can keep the chain of records unbroken, from orchard and picking date through grading, packing, treatment and cold storage to the shipment. Temperature readings and certificates are attached to each lot, so a rejection at the destination can be traced back to its cause. The importing market’s rules come from your importer, export agent and the relevant authorities; we build the system that holds the evidence.
When should we start if our busy season begins in summer?
Earlier than feels necessary. Counting back from the start of your season, we want time to build, a pilot with real users and a margin before go-live, so a project that must be live for a summer peak should normally begin in winter or early spring. If that window has passed, we will usually suggest going live after the season instead of rushing a launch into it.
Have a project in Multan?
Tell us what you are building or fixing. We work with Multan clients from our Islamabad office, in the same timezone and the same currency, and the engineer who reads this is the one who would run the delivery.
- 01A senior engineer reads it. Not a form queue, and not an account manager.
- 02We reply either with questions or with a straight answer that we are not the right fit.
- 03If it looks like a fit, a technical call with the person who would actually run the delivery.
- 04Then scope, effort and risk in writing, before anyone signs anything.