Scope held together
A mobile app, three web surfaces, payments and physical fulfilment are four different problems. Keeping them coherent is the work.
Clients
Client projects, delivered.
Paycon is engaged to design, build and run the software a business depends on — and to stay with it once it is live. Below is a project taken from a product vision document through to a running platform.
Client project
Zaynora — an AI-led baby photography and family memory platform.
The brief
Zaynora is a consumer brand in the baby photography and family memory space. The brief was not a single app but a working business: parents booking professional photoshoots, photographers fulfilling them, photographs arriving in a private family vault rather than a shared drive, and a route from those photographs to a printed keepsake that is ordered, produced and delivered.
Around that sit the things a real consumer product needs and a prototype never has: co-parent and view-only family access so grandparents can see updates without editing, phone-based sign-in with multi-factor, a catalogue and cart, payments, order tracking, support conversations, and the consent and privacy controls that handling photographs of children demands.
What Paycon delivered
The whole platform, across every surface — product design, the application itself, the cloud it runs on, and the delivery and operations work that keeps it running. Paycon was not engaged for one layer of this and handed the rest to someone else; a single team carried it from the vision document to a running system, and still runs it.
Surfaces built
- Parent mobile app iOS and Android from one React Native codebase — booking, the memory vault, album building, cart, orders and support.
- Photographer web The tooling photographers use to accept and fulfil assignments.
- Back office Catalogue, orders, content and staff workflows for the operations team.
- Album studio A purpose-built photobook editor, replacing a third-party tool, with one geometry model shared by the screen and the press so the two cannot drift.
Beyond the build
- Cloud Infrastructure declared as code and reproducible, on AWS.
- Delivery Automated pipelines and environment promotion rather than manual releases.
- Operations Logging, metrics and alerting, with the runbooks to go with them.
- Governance Consent capture, privacy controls and an audit trail, because the subject matter is children's photographs.
At a glance
Scope of the engagement.
One team carrying product design, application engineering, cloud and operations — which is the shape of engagement Paycon is built for.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Client | Zaynora |
| Sector | Consumer — photography, family memories, commerce |
| Mobile | iOS and Android, one React Native codebase |
| Web | Customer, photographer and back-office surfaces |
| Platform | Java and TypeScript services behind a single API |
| Cloud | AWS, infrastructure as code, automated delivery |
| Paycon's role | Product design, build, cloud and operations — end to end |
| Status | Delivered; platform running on its own AWS environment, mobile app in pre-release distribution |
Why it is here
What this project demonstrates.
Zaynora is the clearest answer we can give to "can you actually do this?" — because every capability listed elsewhere on this site had to hold up in it at once.
Physical output
Software that ends in a printed, posted object cannot be approximately correct. Colour, geometry and dimensions have to survive the press.
Sensitive data
Photographs of children force consent, access control and auditability to be designed in rather than retrofitted.
Two-sided operation
Parents, photographers and back-office staff each need a different view of the same booking, with permissions that hold.
Built to be run
Reproducible infrastructure, automated delivery and real alerting — the difference between a demo and something that can be operated.
Owned, not assembled
Where a third-party tool did not fit, as with the photobook editor, it was replaced with one that did.
Next step
Want something built to this standard?
Tell us what the business needs to be able to do. We will come back with the questions that decide the shape of the answer — and an honest view of whether we are the right people for it.