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copied!<p>I think you need to decide if you sell custom software, that you tailor for each client, or 'off-the-shelf' software that is one-size-fits-all (and maybe customizable thru functionality you provide).</p> <p>When you only have a handful of clients like you do now, you can get away with what you are doing, but I can almost guarantee that if you continue down this road, and your client base increases and the amount of client-specific customization's increases as well, you will have a nightmare on hand; I've been thru this many times for multiple clients, and it always ends the same way. It all is manageable until it is not, and then it is a royal pain-in-the-neck that could make your life very difficult indeed.</p> <p>If you decide you are a custom company, and want to have multiple versions of the software and database, that is fine, just make sure you charge the full cost for it - i.e. factor in that you may need to maintain multiple levels of source code and databases and factor in that upgrades are going to take many multiples of effort to rollout as you will need to test each client's code base.</p> <p>If you decide you want to be an 'off-the-shelf' type of product, then your best bet is provide the ability for each client to customize their experience, without the need for code changes - i.e. built in the customization capability thru config screens and tables that control how things work - but everyone will still use the same underlying code and database. Much more work upfront, but saves you boatloads of time down the road.</p>

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