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Kissflow — App Store Expansion

Encapsulated partnered with Kissflow to expand their App Store by developing industry-specific applications. These ready-made apps enabled vertical growth and gave enterprise clients plug-and-play workflow solutions tailored to their unique business needs.

Client

Kissflow

Industry

Workflow Automation

Duration

9 months

Team Size

4 Engineers (Low-Code App Development, Integrations, QA)

About The Client

Kissflow is a leading low-code/no-code platform for workflow automation and digital transformation. Their platform empowers both business users and IT teams to design workflows, automate processes, and build custom applications with ease.


To strengthen its App Store offering, Kissflow sought to expand beyond general-purpose apps and provide industry-specific solutions. This would help enterprise customers adopt workflows faster while addressing unique sector challenges.


Encapsulated collaborated with Kissflow to design and build ready-made apps tailored for industries like aviation, logistics, and hospitality. These applications were developed for seamless deployment via the Kissflow App Store, accelerating adoption and enabling Kissflow’s vertical expansion strategy.

50+

Pre-Built Business Apps

30%

Faster Time-to-Market for Clients

Multiple

Industries Covered with Vertical Solutions

Key Product & Scale Challenges for Kissflow

As Kissflow scaled an App Store of industry-specific apps on its own low-code platform, they needed an augmented team to ship at velocity—and a feedback loop to evolve the platform whenever low-code limits were hit.

App Factory at Scale

Delivering dozens of vertical apps fast while keeping UX consistency, reusable components, and QA quality required a factory-style process and shared design system.

Low-Code Extensibility Gaps

Certain use cases needed capabilities beyond no-code blocks (server-side hooks, long-running jobs, advanced validations, custom widgets, offline/mobile). Gaps had to be identified and fed into platform roadmaps.

Deep Enterprise Integrations

Vertical apps depended on ERPs/POS/legacy systems. Robust connectors with idempotency, retries, backoff, and observability were required beyond basic API calls.

Versioning & Multi-Tenant Packaging

Apps needed version control, environment promotion (dev/stage/prod), data migrations, tenant-level config, feature flags, and Marketplace-ready packaging.

Governance, Security & Telemetry

Fine-grained RBAC, audit trails/PII controls, SSO (SAML/OIDC), rate limits, and usage telemetry for pricing/SLAs were essential to enterprise rollouts.

Our Strategic Solutions

Encapsulated augmented Kissflow’s product engineering to scale vertical app development on their low-code platform, while surfacing gaps and building extensions to strengthen the platform itself.

App Factory Model

Established a repeatable “app factory” process — reusable components, shared UI patterns, and QA playbooks — to ship dozens of industry apps at speed.

Low-Code Extensions

Identified limitations in low-code features and built extension modules (custom widgets, advanced validations, long-running jobs, offline/mobile components).

Enterprise Integrations

Delivered deep connectors for ERP, POS, and legacy systems with retries, observability, and security hardening for enterprise-grade reliability.

Versioning & Packaging

Introduced app version control, environment promotion (dev/stage/prod), and Marketplace-ready packaging for multi-tenant deployments.

Governance & Security

Strengthened RBAC, audit logs, and compliance hooks while integrating SSO and telemetry to meet enterprise governance needs.

Platform Feedback Loop

Fed real-world learnings back into Kissflow’s roadmap, shaping new low-code capabilities to expand what could be built natively.

The Solution in Action

Encapsulated enabled Kissflow to scale its App Store by building industry-specific applications while extending the low-code platform to cover enterprise use cases.

Kissflow App Store Expansion

Kissflow App Store

Industry-ready apps, deep integrations, and low-code extensions delivered at scale

Vertical App Factory

A repeatable “factory” model delivered ready-to-use apps for aviation, logistics, and hospitality.

Deep Enterprise Integrations

Pre-built connectors integrated Kissflow apps with ERPs, POS, and sector-specific platforms.

Low-Code Extensions

Custom widgets and advanced features filled low-code gaps, feeding back into the platform roadmap.

Technologies We Used

We combined Kissflow’s low-code platform with supporting tools and extensions to deliver industry-specific apps at scale, while ensuring integrations, governance, and quality.

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Kissflow Platform
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TypeScript Extensions
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Node.js APIs
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GitHub CI/CD

Looking to Scale with Low-Code?

If your organisation needs to deliver industry-specific apps faster, expand vertical offerings, or push the limits of low-code, we can help. Encapsulated augments your teams to accelerate app delivery while identifying platform gaps for long-term growth.

Are you facing any of these challenges?

Struggling to build vertical apps at scale on your low-code platform
Hitting limitations with low-code features that block enterprise use cases
Delays in integrating with ERP, POS, or other industry systems
Need for faster app packaging, versioning, and deployment cycles
Pressure to expand into new industries with tailored solutions
Governance, compliance, or security gaps slowing enterprise adoption

No commitment required • Free workflow automation consultation • Tailored solution proposal