Custom Development & Services
Need Something Built? We Build It.
Every product has to be built with most of its users in mind, which means some part of it won’t be exactly what you want. We’ve tried to solve for that by making Benecaster flexible — sometimes through settings, sometimes through code. Occasionally what you need is further out than either goes: a membership plugin nobody has heard of, a tier structure with a history behind it, a theme you paid for and don’t want to abandon, an idea that would work beautifully if only the software did one more thing.
That’s what this page is for. If it can be built, we can build it.
Who You’re Actually Hiring
We built Benecaster, and we can help you customize it so it does what you need. Custom work is scoped, quoted, and delivered by Anadar Professional Services LLC — the software company behind the plugin.
That matters more than it sounds. When your custom work touches Benecaster, you are talking to the people who wrote the code you’re extending. There is no ticket queue between you and the person who knows why something behaves the way it does, and no version where we discover a limitation halfway through and shrug at it — if the plugin needs to grow a hook to make your project work, that is a conversation we can have with ourselves.
What We Take On
Custom Add-ons and Extensions
Benecaster ships with a documented API — actions, filters, helper functions, and worked code examples — and the whole thing exists so the plugin can be extended without being forked. If you have read through the developer docs and found the hook you need but not the time to use it, that’s a project.
Typical shape: a feature that’s specific enough to your show that it will never be a shipped add-on, but valuable enough to you that it’s worth building once and owning forever.
Integrations and Bridges
Benecaster reads membership state from your existing subscription plugin. We support the major ones out of the box — but “major” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and plenty of serious podcasters are running something bespoke, something regional, or something they built themselves years ago.
We write bridges to whatever you’re actually using. Same for the other direction: pushing subscriber events into a CRM, a data warehouse, a Slack channel, an internal dashboard, or a system that has no public API and needs to be talked to carefully.
Migrations Beyond the Standard Scope
The Migration Wizard imports from Patreon, Supercast, Hello Audio, Memberful, and SSP/Castos, and its field mapper will take an arbitrary CSV from anywhere else. The Setup Service is the fully-managed version of the same thing. Between them, most migrations are covered — and if yours is one of them, buy the add-on and skip this page.
Some migrations are bigger than that scope.
White-Glove Launch is the engagement for established podcasters moving thousands of subscribers, running multiple shows, carrying a tier structure with years of grandfathered pricing decisions in it, or coming off a platform with no clean export at all. Full end-to-end: we plan the cutover, do the data work, write the subscriber communications, run the launch, and stay close afterward while it settles.
If your migration has a sentence in it that begins “the complicated part is —”, this is the one.
Custom Template and Theme Work
Benecaster’s template system lets any part of the front-end output be overridden without touching the plugin. Custom design work uses that system: you brief the branding, we produce a complete set of template overrides, and the deliverable installs through the Benecaster admin like any other template. No FTP, no file manager, no developer needed on your end after handoff.
We also do ordinary theme work — because sometimes the problem isn’t Benecaster’s output, it’s the twelve-year-old theme wrapped around it.
Everything Else
The honest version: Anadar is a WordPress and web development company, and Benecaster is one of the things it builds. If your project has nothing to do with podcasting at all — a plugin for something unrelated, a site rebuild, an integration between two systems that have never met, a data problem, a performance problem, a problem you can describe but not name — bring it anyway. Custom development is the business. Benecaster is the specialty.
How It Works
1. Tell us what you’re trying to do. Not what you think the technical solution is — what outcome you’re after. The best projects start with a description of the problem, and often the cheapest fix turns out to be something other than what the client came in asking for.
2. We scope it together. A conversation, sometimes two, sometimes a look at your site. We ask the questions that determine whether this is a two-day job or a two-month one, and we tell you which it is before you’ve committed to anything.
3. You get a quote. Fixed, written, and specific about what’s included — once we understand the requirements well enough to stand behind a number. We don’t publish a rate card, because custom work priced off a rate card is either padded to cover the unknown or underquoted and renegotiated later. Neither is a good way to start.
4. We build it. You know where it stands throughout, and you get working software rather than a status report about working software.
There’s no charge for the scoping conversation, and no obligation at the end of it. If we’re not the right fit for what you need, we’d rather tell you that in week zero than week six.
Not Sure If It’s a Project?
Ask anyway. A good portion of what comes through this page turns out to be a setting somebody hadn’t found, a documented hook that does the job in six lines, or a feature already on the roadmap for next quarter. We’ll tell you when that’s the case — pointing you at the free answer costs us an email and earns the kind of trust that brings the real project back later.
And if it genuinely is a project, you’ll know that too, along with a rough sense of scale, before anyone talks about money.