Building Permit Software for Small and Rural Agencies

Building Permits for Small Counties and Combined Departments

In a small agency, one office often runs building, code, and environmental health together, and a single permit has to move across all of them. GovOwl will deliver building permit software for agencies your size, on a platform proven since 2013 for inspections, code enforcement, and environmental health. One parcel record holds it all, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing is lost.

Built to Fit How Your Department Already Works

You should not have to spend eight months building your own software from a blank platform. GovOwl will arrive already shaped to a working permit flow, then we tailor it to your forms, your fees, and your steps, not a rigid product you bend around.
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From Application to Certificate of Occupancy

The workflow we are building moves the way your department works:

  • Apply – residents and contractors apply online against the parcel, and owner, contractor, and designer each track status in the same record
  • Review – the permit technician routes the record to Building, Planning, Environmental Health, and Fire, each reviewing its portion and billing its own fees as they accrue
  • Resubmit – corrected plans stack as timestamped versions, nothing overwritten, every round kept
  • Inspect – your inspectors work from a real native iPhone or iPad app, not a browser faking it in a dead zone, syncing when back in range
  • Close – conditions clear, the certificate of occupancy issues, and the full history stays on the parcel
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Backed by a Team That Got There First

Building permits run on the same platform as your environmental health and code enforcement programs, so one small department runs its whole regulatory workload from one vendor. Built by a team that has run government inspection and permitting software since 2013, among the first to bring native iPad apps to the field, with software trusted by agencies in eleven states including Texas and California and a 98% retention rate. Online payments, a contractor and owner portal, plan review, Esri ArcGIS mapping, reporting, and migration come tailored to your agency.
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Related Functions

Community Development | Plan Review | Code Enforcement | Permitting & Licensing | iPad App | Government Inspection

Tell Us What You Permit

Tell us how a permit moves through your departments, and we will build it to run that way.
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