Custom software development in Pretoria
We’re a Pretoria-based software team building the systems local businesses run on — booking platforms, classifieds and marketplace sites, and custom business software. Close enough to meet over coffee in Centurion; experienced enough to have shipped systems used by hundreds of thousands of South Africans.
Plenty of software gets built for Pretoria businesses from a long way away — a call-centre account manager in one city, developers in another, and nobody who’ll actually sit across the table from you. We work differently. We’re based here, in Pretoria, and we build custom software for businesses across the city, Centurion, and the wider Gauteng region.
Small enough that you talk to the people writing the code. Experienced enough to have worked on systems at national scale — including automart.co.za, one of South Africa’s largest vehicle classifieds marketplaces, and personal insurance lines for OutSurance.
What we build for Pretoria businesses
- Booking & reservation systems — for clinics, courts, equipment hire, workshops, and anyone running availability off a spreadsheet or a WhatsApp group.
- Classifieds & marketplace sites — listings platforms with fast faceted search and high-volume listing flows, the way Automart works.
- Custom business systems — inventory and stock control, CRMs, job-card and quoting tools, dispatch and fleet management. The system that replaces five spreadsheets, three email threads, and a WhatsApp group.
- Mobile apps — native iOS and Android, or cross-platform where speed-to-market wins.
Why local matters for a software project
Software projects fail on communication far more often than on code. Being in Pretoria means we can run discovery workshops in person, sit with your team while they show us how the current process actually works, and hand over face to face. Timezone, language, and a shared understanding of how South African business works aren’t small things — they quietly remove most of the friction from a build.
It also means we build for local realities: POPIA compliance, South African payment gateways like PayFast, Yoco, and Ozow, accounting tools like Sage and Xero, and infrastructure hosted in Microsoft’s South Africa Azure regions where data residency matters.
Built on what we trust
We work in the Microsoft ecosystem — C# and .NET on the backend, MSSQL for data, React and native mobile on the front, and Azure for infrastructure — because it’s stable, well-supported, and a safe long-term bet for businesses that need their software to still be running in five years.
How we work
Two engagement models. Fixed-price when the scope is clear and you want a predictable number. Retainer or hourly when the work is exploratory, ongoing, or evolving. We’ll tell you which fits in the first conversation — and you’ll see working increments as we go, not a black box for three months.
Discovery, then a design you can sign off on, then working software in increments — and handover or ongoing support, your call.
If you’re a business in Pretoria or Centurion weighing up a custom build, we’re happy to tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit and roughly what it would cost — usually within a day.
Tell us what you’re building.
We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit, what it’ll take, and roughly what it costs — usually within a day.