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Custom software is right for some problems and an expensive mistake for others. This asks what you are actually trying to fix, how particular your process is, how many people it touches and what you are currently doing instead, and gives you a straight read on whether custom, off-the-shelf or neither would fit.
When your process is genuinely different from how the industry works and that difference is why customers choose you. If your process is ordinary, a standard product will be cheaper, faster and better maintained.
Build cost is the smaller half. The larger half is maintenance, hosting, support and changes over the years you use it, and it is the half most budgets leave out.