Verified client
Our team was manually exporting and re-entering data between Access and Outlook every single day. Their VBA programmer automated the entire workflow in about two weeks. We got back roughly 8 hours a week almost immediately.
Microsoft Access services · Fixed-scope · US, UK & Canada
MS Access Database Services
Repair, build, migrate, and automate—pick the service that matches your problem.
This hub lists our Access offerings. For strategy, audits, and engagement scoping, talk to an MS Access consultant—custom databases, VBA, SQL Server upsizing, and corruption recovery under a written quote.
20+ years·Fixed-scope quotes·US, UK & Canada
Organizations using our Access work
Teams that rely on our MS Access expertise
Manufacturing, services, retail, and healthcare-real databases in production, not demos.
Microsoft Access database services for US businesses
Excel Access Expert provides Microsoft Access database services: custom database development, VBA automation, performance tuning, corruption repair, and migration to SQL Server. Our Access specialists have worked on Access since 2011, mostly on databases that other people built. Every project is a fixed price against a written scope, and we start with a free 15-minute consultation.
If your team hits file locks every afternoon, inherited VBA that no one understands, or pressure to move everything to the cloud, you need a clear diagnosis before you spend money. That is how we start.
Which Access service fixes your problem
Most people search for a symptom, not a service name. Find yours below.
| What you see | Usual cause | What fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| The database will not open, or says the format is unrecognized | File corruption or a version mismatch | Database repair |
| Compact and repair fails or runs in a loop | Damaged objects or a bloated file | Recovery, then a structural fix |
| The file corrupts when used over the network or VPN | A shared database that is not split, or an unstable connection | Split front end and back end, stabilize multi-user access |
| Forms and reports are slow once several people are in | Forms bound to whole tables, missing indexes, record locking | Database optimization |
| The file is close to the 2 GB limit | Too much data for an Access back end | Move the data to SQL Server |
| Nobody can explain the VBA the last developer wrote | Undocumented code | Code review, documentation, and cleanup |
| A shared spreadsheet keeps getting overwritten | Excel used as a database | Convert it to an Access database |
How an Access project works
1
Free consultation
15 minutes on who uses the database, what is failing, and what is at risk. You leave knowing the next step.
2
Written scope and quote
A fixed-price proposal before any billable work. No surprise invoices.
3
Build, repair, or migrate
We deliver against the agreed scope, with checkpoints you can review.
4
Handover
Documentation for what we built or changed. Ongoing support, if you want it, is a separate written package.
Access services we deliver
Each service has its own page. Start with the problem you have today.
Access development and design
Create Custom Access Database
A new Access database built around how your team works: tables, relationships, forms, and the logic that ties them together.
View service →Access Database Design & Development
Proper table design and normalization, so the database stays fast and accurate as the data grows.
View service →Access Reports & Forms
Data-entry forms that prevent bad records and reports that come out ready to read, print, or email.
View service →Access VBA & Macros Development
VBA that validates data, automates repeat steps, and connects Access to Excel, Outlook, and other systems.
View service →Access Inventory Management
Stock, orders, and reorder points in an Access database your warehouse staff can run themselves.
View service →Manufacturing Access Database
Work orders, bills of materials, and shop-floor tracking built in Microsoft Access.
View service →Warehouse Inventory Database
Bins, receipts, and barcode-ready stock counts for a warehouse that still runs on Access.
View service →MS Access Consultant
Diagnosis-first consulting: health checks, architecture review, and fixed-scope delivery.
View service →Migration, upgrades, and performance
Migrate & Upgrade Access Database
Move an old database to a current Access version without losing data or breaking linked files.
View service →Access to SQL Server Migration
Move the data to SQL Server when you need more users, tighter security, or more headroom. Access can stay as the front end.
View service →Optimize Access Database
Fix slow queries, bloated files, and record locking so your team stops waiting on the database.
View service →Repair, support, and specialists
Repair Corrupted Access Database
Recovery for files that will not open, keep crashing, or report corruption. We get the data out and stabilize the file.
View service →Access Database Corrupts on the Network
Fix databases that break over a LAN, Wi-Fi, or VPN, then set up the multi-user structure that stops it recurring.
View service →Compact and Repair Not Working
When compact and repair fails or loops, we recover the file and find what keeps damaging it.
View service →Unrecognized Database Format
Open a file Access no longer recognizes and repair the format it was saved in.
View service →MS Access Support
Ongoing help for a database your team uses every day, under a written support scope.
View service →Ask About Your Access Database
Describe the database you have and what it is failing to do. We reply with a next step.
View service →Verified client
We had them do a complete rewrite of an Excel spreadsheet that locked up computers, when it was executed. Rajan did a good job of rewriting the spreadsheet and speeding it up. it takes three seconds to refresh compared to 20 minutes it was taking earlier. We'll definitely use Rajan and his team in the future.
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Why clients hire us for Access work
Diagnosis before build
We find the real bottleneck first: locking, indexes, VBA, or the structure itself. Then we fix that, not something you did not need.
Written fixed quote
You get the scope and the price in writing before work starts. No retainer is needed to begin.
Inherited databases are our normal work
Most of our jobs are Access files built by someone who has left. We document them, stabilize them, and extend them.
Senior developers, remote delivery
Your project is handled by experienced Access developers, not marketplace freelancers. Screen shares and secure file handoff, scheduled around your hours.
Keep Access, or move to SQL Server?
Most Access databases do not need replacing. If a handful of people use it, the file is well under the 2 GB limit, and it does its job, leave it alone and fix only what hurts.
Move the data to SQL Server when the file nears 2 GB, when more people need to work at the same time, or when you need stronger security and audit trails. You do not have to rebuild. The usual approach keeps your Access forms, reports, and VBA, and stores the data in SQL Server through linked tables. Staff keep working in the screens they know.
Not sure which side of the line you are on? That is what the free consultation is for. Read the Access to SQL Server guide or when to use Excel vs Access.
Proof from real projects
Industries we commonly support
Manufacturing and inventory
Bills of materials, work orders, and barcode flows. See our inventory case study.
See related work →Professional services
Project tracking, time, and billing. See our project tracking database.
See related work →Retail and multi-location
Consolidated reporting and daily operations. See retail business management.
See related work →HR and workforce
Scheduling and time capture. See the employee timecard example.
See related work →Migration and modernization
Spreadsheets to structured data, and Access to SQL Server.
See related work →Forms and reports: the part your staff actually use
Nobody types into tables. To your team, the forms are the system. A database people avoid quietly fills with bad data. Forms that work show one job at a time instead of every field in the table, check entries as the user types, fill in the obvious defaults, and let someone finish a record without reaching for the mouse.
Reports follow the same rule. A report that has to be exported and reformatted before anyone can read it is not finished. We build them grouped and totaled the way your business talks about the numbers, filtered by the period or account someone picked on screen, and ready to print or email without a trip through a spreadsheet.
When a form is slow, it is almost always bound to a whole table instead of the few records it shows. That is a design fix, not a hardware problem, and it is one of the most common things we correct in databases we inherit.
Signs your Access database needs attention
Most databases we are called about gave warnings for months. These are the ones worth acting on before they become an emergency: you repair the file more than once a quarter, it is nearing the 2 GB limit, staff take turns because two people at once causes problems, the person who built it has left and no one can explain the VBA, reports disagree with each other, or new requests get refused because changing anything feels too risky.
None of these means you must replace the system. They mean the next step should be a diagnosis, not a guess. It might end in tuning, a proper front-end and back-end split, a move to SQL Server, or leaving it alone because it is fine for another two years. Getting that answer in writing is the cheapest part of the whole job.
Access services FAQ
An Access specialist designs, builds, repairs, and automates Microsoft Access databases. The work covers table design, forms and reports, VBA code, performance tuning, corruption recovery, and moving data to SQL Server. Many jobs are inherited databases that someone else built and no one on staff understands.
We provide fixed-cost project estimates based on the business value we deliver. Projects typically start at $1,200, though smaller fixes are often less and larger systems cost more. After a free review, you receive a written scope and fixed quote - not an open-ended hourly bill. Simple fixes are quoted as small packages; custom databases, migrations, and automation systems are scoped as fixed projects after we review your requirements.
Book a free 15-minute consultation. We cover the problem, who uses the database, and what is at risk. Then we send a written scope and a fixed quote before any billable work begins.
Yes. Corruption recovery is a core service. We recover what can be recovered, stabilize the file, and fix the structure that caused the damage so it does not happen again.
Move when the file approaches the 2 GB size limit, when more people need to work at the same time, or when you need stronger security and audit trails. A common setup keeps your Access forms and reports and stores the data in SQL Server through linked tables.
Ask four things. Will they quote a fixed price against a written scope? Do they work on databases built by someone else? Can they recover a corrupted file? Will they document what they change? If the answer to any of these is no, keep looking.
Yes. Access is still included in Microsoft 365 and current Office releases. Many businesses keep it for internal tools and add SQL Server only when the data outgrows the file.
Both. Many engagements start with a diagnosis and then move into a fixed-scope build, repair, or migration under its own written scope.
Yes. We work remotely with clients across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with calls scheduled around your hours.
Ready to scope your Access database?
Bring one concrete problem: locks, speed, corruption, or migration. We will outline the path on the call.
Looking for a single point of contact? See our MS Access developer and MS Access consultant pages. Adding ChatGPT or Claude to an Access workflow? See AI workflow automation. Need it on the web? See Access web application. Browse all Excel and Access services or check project pricing.
Guides & deep dives
MS Access guides & troubleshooting
Practical articles and service pages for teams using MS Access. Each link goes deeper on a specific problem - then connects to how we deliver the fix.
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