Square is a software house based in Tirana, Albania, designing and building custom software, web platforms and mobile apps for companies in Italy, Albania and across the EU. You get a single accountable engineering partner — discovery, design, development, delivery and support — in the Central European timezone, with a team fluent in English and Italian and rates of €35-55/hour.
A software house is not a body shop that rents out hours — it owns the whole lifecycle of a product. Square takes an idea or a business problem and runs it through discovery, UX and architecture, then builds, ships and maintains the result. You deal with the engineers and designers doing the work, not a layer of account managers, and every engagement starts with a written estimate so scope, timeline and budget are clear before you commit.
End-to-end ownership: discovery, design, build, deploy and support
Custom software, web platforms, and native or cross-platform mobile apps
Direct access to the engineers — no account-management layer
A written estimate before any contract: scope, timeline and budget upfront
One accountable partner instead of a chain of freelancers
Why an Albanian software house for Italy and the EU
Tirana shares the Central European (CET) timezone with Rome, Milan, Paris and Berlin, so there is no offshore handoff — just a normal shared working day. Italian is widely spoken thanks to decades of cultural and economic ties, so requirements, stand-ups and reviews happen in your language. As an EU candidate country aligning with the acquis, Albania operates within a familiar legal and data framework, and rates of €35-55/hour typically land 30-60% below comparable Western-European software houses.
Full CET overlap — the same working hours as Rome and Milan
A team fluent in English and Italian; no interpreter layer
EU candidate country aligning with the acquis — familiar legal and data context
€35-55/hour, typically 30-60% below Western-European software houses
A short flight from Italy when on-site collaboration is needed
Our stack and how we engage
We standardise on a modern, hireable stack so products stay maintainable long after launch: React, Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend; Node.js and PostgreSQL on the backend; React Native or Flutter for mobile, deployed to cloud infrastructure with CI/CD. You plug into our software house through three clear models — a dedicated team that owns a product, fixed project-based delivery when scope is defined, or staff augmentation to extend your in-house team with senior engineers.
Mobile: React Native and Flutter from a shared codebase
Engagement models: dedicated team, project-based, or staff augmentation
Testing, observability and documentation built in, not bolted on
Proof: the SunEasy platform
We hold ourselves to a product standard, not an agency one — and SunEasy is the evidence. It is a sunbed and beach booking platform we built and operate on the Albanian Riviera: real-time availability, cashless in-app payments and a trilingual interface in English, Italian and Albanian, running under genuine seasonal load. It is concrete proof of the mobile, backend and multilingual engineering a software house should be able to point to instead of a portfolio of screenshots.
Real-time availability and instant booking across multiple beaches
Cashless in-app payments under real seasonal demand
Trilingual UX: English, Italian and Albanian
A shipped, operated product — not a mockup or a pitch deck
The same engineering standard we apply to every client project
How a project runs with Square
Engagements follow a predictable rhythm. We start with discovery and a written estimate so scope, milestones and the €35-55/hour band are clear before any contract. Delivery runs in short iterations with demos during your CET working hours, so feedback lands the same day rather than the next. You get transparent reporting on progress and spend, and at handover you receive clean code, documentation and deployment — owned by you, with no lock-in.
Discovery and a written estimate before any commitment
Iterative delivery with regular demos during your CET working day
Transparent reporting on progress, hours and budget
Clean handover: your code, your repositories, no lock-in
Ongoing support and maintenance after launch
How we work with Italian companies
Most of the friction in a cross-border engagement is administrative, not technical, so we make the paperwork easy for an Italian buyer. We sign in English or Italian, whichever your legal team prefers, and we structure proposals around the milestones and acceptance criteria your purchasing process expects. Our invoicing is built to slot into your accounts-payable workflow and your fattura elettronica setup — we bill in euros, reference your PO and CIG/CUP where you use them, and provide the data your studio commercialista needs to process the invoice. This is a workflow fit, not tax advice: your accountant stays in charge of how the invoice is treated, and we simply make sure it arrives clean and in the format your system reads.
Contracts and SOWs in English or Italian, structured around your milestones
Invoicing in euros designed to slot into your fattura elettronica and accounts-payable workflow
Purchase-order, CIG/CUP and reference fields handled the way your process expects
A written estimate and a fixed reporting cadence so finance can forecast spend
Single point of contact in your CET working hours — no time-zone ping-pong
Data and ways of working for EU clients
We engineer with EU data practices in mind. Personal data is minimised and access-controlled by default, environments are kept separate, secrets are never committed, and we are comfortable signing a data-processing agreement so the GDPR roles between us are written down. This is about how we build, not a legal guarantee — your DPO stays the authority on compliance, while we make the technical groundwork support it. Ownership is unambiguous: the code, repositories and infrastructure are yours from day one, IP transfers on payment, and handover includes documentation and credentials with no lock-in. Security and testing are part of the build, not a phase you pay for later — code review, automated tests, dependency hygiene and least-privilege access run throughout.
EU-aligned data handling: data minimisation, access control and separated environments
Comfortable signing a DPA so GDPR roles are documented — your DPO stays the authority
Code, repositories and infrastructure owned by you; IP transfers on payment
Clean handover with documentation and credentials — no vendor lock-in
A software house is a company that designs, builds and maintains software products end to end, rather than just supplying developers by the hour. Square is a software house headquartered in Tirana, Albania, building custom software, web platforms and mobile apps for clients in Albania, Italy and the EU, with a team fluent in English and Italian.
Why choose an Albanian software house for an Italian project?
Albania sits in the Central European (CET) timezone, so a Tirana software house shares full working hours with Rome and Milan — no offshore handoff. Italian is widely spoken, removing the language friction common with farther destinations, and it is a short flight away when on-site work is needed. Combined with EU-candidate legal alignment and lower rates, you get genuine nearshore proximity at offshore cost.
How much does a software house in Albania cost?
Square works within a band of €35-55 per hour depending on seniority and engagement model — typically 30-60% below comparable Western-European software houses, with no drop in engineering standards. Every project begins with a written estimate so scope, timeline and budget are clear before you commit.
What does Square build?
Custom software and internal tools, web platforms and SaaS products, and native or cross-platform mobile apps. Our core stack is React, Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, Node.js and PostgreSQL on the backend, and React Native or Flutter for mobile, all deployed to cloud infrastructure with CI/CD.
Can Square work as a dedicated team or extend our in-house team?
Yes. You can engage Square as a dedicated team that owns a product end to end, as fixed project-based delivery when scope is well defined, or through staff augmentation — adding senior engineers directly to your existing team in your tools, processes and CET hours.
Does Square have a real product to prove its work?
Yes. SunEasy is a sunbed and beach booking platform we built and operate on the Albanian Riviera, handling real-time availability, cashless in-app payments and a trilingual interface in English, Italian and Albanian under genuine seasonal load — concrete proof of the engineering we bring to every client project.
Can Square invoice in a way that works with our fattura elettronica process?
Yes. We bill in euros and structure each invoice to slot into your accounts-payable and fattura elettronica workflow, referencing your purchase order and CIG/CUP fields where you use them, so your studio commercialista has everything needed to process it. To be clear, this is a workflow fit rather than tax advice — your accountant remains responsible for how the invoice is treated; we simply deliver it clean and in the format your system reads.
How does Square handle GDPR and data protection?
We build with EU data practices in mind: data minimisation, access control, separated environments and secrets kept out of the codebase, and we are happy to sign a data-processing agreement so the GDPR roles between us are documented. This describes how we engineer, not a legal guarantee — your DPO stays the authority on compliance, while our technical groundwork is designed to support it.
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