Software for Malaysian businesses, built remotely from Madurai
Ringgit quotes, international wire payments and video calls that fit a Malaysian afternoon, plus a plain list of what to check before hiring a team in India.
We are a software studio in Madurai, India, serving Malaysian clients remotely, and we built HRD Corp claim management and Curlec payments into CertTulen Academy's training platform. Quotes are converted to MYR at the day-of-quote rate and billed by international wire, and every stage of the project, from discovery to handover, happens over video calls.
Working with us
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Clocks 2.5 hours apart
Malaysia is 2.5 hours ahead of India, so a 3 pm meeting in Kuala Lumpur starts at 12:30 pm in Madurai, inside both working days.
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Quoted in ringgit
Your proposal states a ringgit figure, converted at the day-of-quote rate, and milestones are settled by international wire transfer.
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Curlec for Malaysian buyers
When your customers pay online in Malaysia, we integrate Curlec, the gateway behind CertTulen Academy's Malaysian checkout.
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Remote at every stage
Discovery, weekly demos, testing, training and handover all run over video calls from Madurai, so plan for a fully remote project.
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Your code, your cloud region
Code, design files, accounts and documentation become yours on final payment, and hosting goes in the cloud region you choose.
Our Malaysian reference: CertTulen Academy
CertTulen Academy is a Microsoft Training Services Partner serving clients in India, Malaysia and Singapore, and we built the learning and admin platform it runs on, with a cart, payments and certificates. Two parts were specific to Malaysia. The first was HRD Corp claim management, so claims for HRD Corp-funded training are handled in the same platform as courses, certificates and payments. The second was geo-routed payments: buyers in Malaysia pay through Curlec, while buyers in India are routed to Razorpay. The same pattern suits any business that sells in both countries from one website, and the CertTulen case study covers the build in more detail.
How the working day lines up
Malaysia is two and a half hours ahead of India. A Malaysian afternoon, from noon to six, falls inside the Indian working day, so review meetings are easiest after lunch in Kuala Lumpur or Penang. Projects follow our published six-step process: discovery on a video call, designs shared as links, a working demo every week, testing on your own devices, then deployment and support. Decisions are confirmed in writing after each call, which matters more when the two teams never share a room.
Quotes, currency and payment
Our prices are set in rupees, so for a Malaysian client we convert the quote to MYR at the day-of-quote rate and the proposal states the ringgit figure. The scope is fixed, payment is split across milestones, and each milestone is paid by international wire transfer. Agree with us in advance who bears the bank charges on each transfer, so that no payment arrives short and nobody spends a week reconciling the difference.
English and Bahasa Malaysia on one site
Plenty of Malaysian businesses need a site that works in both languages. Picture a halal food producer in Johor whose shoppers browse in Bahasa Malaysia while its distributors order in English. We build each language as its own set of pages with its own addresses, so search engines index both and a visitor's choice is remembered. Forms, confirmation emails and error messages need translating as well as the menus. The Bahasa Malaysia copy itself should come from your team or a translator who writes for your customers; we handle the structure and make sure no page slips back into English halfway through checkout. The method in our multilingual website guide carries over, even though it was written with Indian languages in mind.
Personal data under Malaysia's PDPA
Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010 covers personal data processed in commercial transactions. Broadly, it expects a business to tell people why their data is collected, obtain their consent, use the data only for that purpose, keep it secure, hold it no longer than needed and let people access and correct it. On our side, that translates into specific features: a notice wherever a form collects data, staff accounts that see only what their role requires, and a way to retrieve or correct a person's record when they ask. Interpreting the Act for your business remains a job for your own adviser.
What to check before you sign
- Data residency: decide where your data must live. We deploy to the cloud region you choose, and if a contract or regulator requires hosting in Malaysia, say so at discovery so the provider is picked with that in mind.
- Local invoicing: our invoices come from India. Ask your accountant how an overseas supplier's invoice is treated in your books before the first milestone, not after it.
- Registration and grants: VS Tech Builders is an Indian business with no Malaysian registration and no MDEC or MSC status, and our work carries no grant eligibility. If your budget depends on a grant or a locally registered vendor, a Malaysian firm will suit you better.
- Urgent issues: plan around the clock difference. A problem raised at 9 am in Kuala Lumpur reaches Madurai at 6:30 am.
If you also operate in Singapore, our Singapore page covers SGD quotes and the PDPA there.
Frequently asked questions
We are a Malaysian training provider. Could you build a platform like CertTulen's for us?
Yes, that is the closest match to work we have already delivered. A platform of that kind usually combines a course catalogue, enrolment and payment, certificates and an admin panel, with HRD Corp claim tracking where you need it. Portals with an admin panel typically cost ₹75,000 to ₹2,50,000 before conversion to ringgit, and larger management systems more. The scope follows a discovery session on how your enrolments and claims actually move.
Will our customer data be stored in Malaysia?
Only if you want it to be. The hosting location is your decision, and when contracts or sector rules require data to stay in Malaysia, we confirm a provider with a Malaysian data centre before quoting. If no such rule applies, a nearby regional data centre is often enough. Either way, Malaysia's PDPA governs how you collect and use the data, wherever the servers sit.
Can you build a website in both English and Bahasa Malaysia?
Yes. A bilingual site planned from the start costs less than bolting on a second language later. Search engines treat each language version as its own page, so both can rank, provided the Bahasa Malaysia text is real copy rather than a machine translation. We handle the build and test every page in both languages; the wording itself should come from someone fluent who knows your customers.
Does your HRD Corp work mean our project can be funded by a grant?
No. The HRD Corp work we did is software that helps a training provider manage its own claims; it does not turn our projects into claimable expenses under HRD Corp or any other Malaysian scheme. If your budget assumes grant support, check with the scheme directly which vendors and costs it covers before committing, and treat our quote as an unsubsidised price.
Services
- SaaS Web Application Development
Multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing, roles, dashboards and APIs, built so that your fiftieth customer is as easy to onboard as your first.
- Web Portal Development
Customer, vendor, student and employee portals with OTP logins, document uploads, live status, payments and notifications, connected to the systems you already run.
- E-commerce Website Development
Catalogue and variants, UPI and card checkout, cash-on-delivery controls, shipping, GST invoices and an admin panel your staff can run without calling us.
- Corporate & Business Website Development
Fast, mobile-first sites for manufacturers, service firms and professional practices, with product pages, enquiries routed to WhatsApp and phone, and the first year of hosting and SSL included.
Further reading
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