Custom business applications
The system your business actually needs, instead of the one a generic package forces you into. Office systems, tools for your staff, and portals your customers log into, all built around the way you already work.
Services
Software that fits the business you already run.
We build the systems South African companies run on day to day: the counter, the fleet, the stock and the money. Six things we do, and we do them properly.
ERP & point-of-sale systems
Stock, equipment, orders, invoicing and customer accounts in one place, with a till screen fast enough for a queue. Barcode scanning, till slips, and it keeps working when the internet does not.
Process automation & integration
Getting the systems you already pay for to talk to each other: your accounting package, card payments, SMS and email. Information moves by itself instead of being retyped by someone at the end of the day.
Compliance engineering
Consent captured properly, records kept and deleted on schedule, invoices laid out the way SARS wants them, VAT at 15% handled correctly, and a log of every change that holds up if you are ever asked. Built in from the start rather than added later.
Cloud, data & reporting
Somewhere safe for your information to live, hosting we look after, and backups we have actually restored from rather than assumed. Reports run off live figures, and everything exports into Xero, Sage or QuickBooks.
Desktop & hardware integration
Some things a web page cannot do. When you need to talk to barcode scanners, till-slip printers, signature pads or scales, we build a program that installs on the counter machine and shares the same information as the office side.
Where the money leaks
Most losses happen between people, not in the work.
They happen in the gaps where a job changes hands. A hire that goes out on a paper docket and comes back three days late without anyone noticing. A damage charge nobody raised. An invoice re-typed into the accounting package with a transposed figure.
Automating this is not about replacing anyone. It is about closing the gaps where information gets dropped.
- Quote to invoice. One record carries through, so nobody retypes it at the other end.
- Return to charge. Damage and cleaning fees worked out when the unit comes back, not remembered later.
- Service due to reminder. By date or by hours run, the alert comes up before the service is due rather than after.
- Books to accountant. Clean figures into Xero, Sage or QuickBooks instead of a week of digging at month-end.
- Every action logged. Who changed what, when, and what it said before.
Ways to work together
Three ways to work with us.
Pick the one that matches where you are. Most clients start with the first one and decide from there. It is the cheapest way to find out whether the project is worth doing at all.
Scoping the work
A fixed-scope, fixed-price piece of work that produces a written specification, a plan for how your information will be organised, and a costed build plan. You own the output whether or not we build it.
Fixed-price build
An agreed piece of work, agreed stages, agreed price. Best once the scoping is done and you know what you want.
Ongoing monthly
A monthly arrangement covering new work, upkeep and support. Best for a system that keeps changing as the business grows.
How it is built
Deliberately unfashionable technology choices.
We pick tools another developer will still be able to work on in five years, rather than whatever launched last quarter. Your system should outlive our involvement in it.
Your data, kept apart
If several businesses use the same system, none of them can see another's records. That separation is enforced deep in the database, not by a setting someone can switch off.
Quick on a bad line
Pages open fast on rural 3G, work on a phone, and show up properly in Google. Nothing to install to use the office side.
Locked down and logged
Staff see only what their job needs. Passwords and keys are kept in a vault rather than in the code, attacks are filtered before they reach you, and every change is recorded with a name and a time against it.
Questions
Before you enquire.
The things people ask on the first call, answered up front so the call can be about your business instead.
What does custom software actually cost?
It depends entirely on scope, which is why we start by scoping the work for a fixed price. That produces a written specification, a plan for how your information will be organised, and a costed build plan with milestones — so you see the number before you commit to the build, not after.
You own the discovery output whether or not we build it.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do. Both. You get the source, and you get full data export in an open format at any time. We do not hold either as leverage.
How long does a project take?
Discovery is usually a couple of weeks. Build length depends on scope, which is exactly what discovery exists to establish — you get milestones and dates in writing before anything is committed. We work in short cycles with something usable at the end of each one, so you are never waiting months to see progress.
Do you work with businesses outside Limpopo?
Yes. Discovery happens on site anywhere in South Africa. Everything after that runs remotely, which keeps cost in the build rather than in travel. Same time zone, same working week.
Can you fix or take over a system someone else built?
Often, yes. We will assess it honestly and tell you whether a rescue or a rewrite is the cheaper path — including when the answer is that you should keep what you have and change a process instead.
What if custom software is the wrong answer for us?
Then that is what you will hear on the first call. If a spreadsheet, an off-the-shelf package or a process change solves it better, we will say so. A project that should not exist is bad for both of us.
Next step
Start with a conversation about the process, not the software.
Tell us what the business does and where it hurts. We will tell you honestly whether custom software fixes it, and roughly what that would take.