We do not only build for ourselves.
MUSIKA, SETSEBI, MOELETSI and OLORATO are our own. The same engineering team builds for other companies, and has done since well before the first of our own boards opened. In every case the build is the same three pieces: the web app the business runs on, the billing app behind it, and the CRM that holds the customer record. A selection is below.
In short
- Every client gets the same three things on one shared record: a web app, a billing app and a CRM.
- One customer record across all three - no re-keying between a site, an invoice and a follow-up.
- Built to the same standard as our own platforms: offline-capable, no account walls, handed over in full.
- The client owns what we build. It runs without us.
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A specialist heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor in South Africa, working across commercial, industrial and residential installations, with service work running continuously across sites.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
A South African conglomerate that began in construction, moved into paint manufacturing, and then into beauty and hair care with a salon lounge. Three unrelated industries running under one house, each with its own customers and its own paperwork.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
A Botswana food business with a spice range carried across retail and trade. Orders, stock lines and repeat customers all have to be tracked across a range that keeps growing.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
An investigative journal publishing to a readership that follows it closely. A publication carries the same operational load as any other business: subscribers, advertisers, invoices and a record of who has paid for what.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
The publishing house behind twelve regional business magazine editions and two specialist journals, circulating across twenty-four countries. A separate company from Cabanga Platforms, with the same founder.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
An editorial title framed around coffee, publishing to a readership outside the group’s southern African core. Built on the same three pieces as everything else here.
- Web appThe platform the business runs on, built for the network its people actually have
- Billing appQuotes, invoices and payment records issued and tracked in one place
- CRMCustomers, jobs and history on one record instead of across five inboxes
One system, not three tools that do not speak.
The three pieces share one record
Most businesses run a site in one place, invoices in another and the customer list in a third, and reconcile them by hand. We build the web app, the billing app and the CRM against the same record, so an enquiry becomes a customer, a job and an invoice without anyone retyping it.
Built for the network people have
Installs to a phone, loads on a weak signal, and holds its state when the connection drops. That is the standard for our own platforms and it is the standard for yours, because your staff are working in the same conditions ours are.
You own what we build
The domain, the files, the data, the accounts and the code are yours. We are not holding your business hostage to a monthly fee for access to your own system, and there is no version of this where leaving costs you your records.
It has to run without us
A system that only works while someone is watching it is not finished. We hand over something your own people can operate, with the ordinary day-to-day work done from the interface rather than by asking us.
Three systems, one customer record.
The same three things go into every client build, and they share a single record rather than three that have to be reconciled by hand.
| System | What it does | Where the record lives |
|---|---|---|
| Web app | The public face and whatever the business actually sells or takes in - enquiries, bookings, orders, applications. | Creates the customer record |
| Billing app | Quotes, invoices, statements and what has been paid, issued against a customer who already exists. | Reads and writes the same record |
| CRM | Who they are, what was said, what is outstanding and who on the team owns it. | Reads and writes the same record |
| Hosting | Runs on the client's own domain, offline-capable, installable on a phone. | Client's domain, client's account |
| Ownership | The client owns the build outright and can run it without us. | Handed over in full |
- We read the business firstWhat is sold, who buys it, what gets re-typed three times a week. That last one is usually where the build pays for itself.
- One record is designedBefore any screen exists. Everything else is a view onto it.
- The web app ships firstSo the business is taking work through it while the rest is built.
- Billing and CRM followWired to the same record, not bolted on beside it.
- It is handed overDomain, accounts and code. The client owns it and it runs without us.
If you need one built, tell us what it has to do.
Start with the job the system has to perform and the work your people are currently doing by hand. That is what determines the build.
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