South African business software
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27 live apps. Collections Forge, Signing Forge and Practice Console are live. Each app shows its own plans in rand, or says it has none. Open a product, or enquire by email and we switch you on.
Live
No published plans
Strongman Comps
Live leaderboards, athlete stories and commentator tools.
Strongman Comps has no packages on sale. Organisers are invited and set up by hand, so ask us.
Live
No published plans
Verbatim
AI voice recorder and transcription: record, diarize, summarise, search and share.
Verbatim has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
No published plans
Audit Bridge
Neutral platform for audit firms and finance teams.
Audit Bridge has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
No published plans
Vetting Desk
Applicant vetting, built for POPIA.
Vetting Desk has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live · sign in
R499/mo
Chat Forge
WhatsApp Cloud API inbox and agent workspace.
Workspace
R499/mo
- One workspace fee
- Each payment covers one month
Chat Forge charges one workspace fee, R499, paid by card through PayFast on its Billing screen by an owner or admin. Each payment covers one month. There are no tiers and no usage charges; Meta bills WhatsApp message fees to your own WhatsApp Business account.
Live · sign in
R499 once
Talk Forge
Voice and call-centre on LiveKit.
Organisation charge
R499 once
- One card charge per organisation
Talk Forge takes one R499 card charge per organisation through PayFast, started by an owner or admin on its Billing screen. There is no monthly plan, and Talk Forge does not bill call minutes.
Live · sign in
R499 once
Comms Forge
Email, SMS and WhatsApp in one comms layer.
Card payment
R499 once
- One R499 card payment
Comms Forge takes a R499 card payment through PayFast, started by an owner or admin in its Settings. There is no monthly plan, and Comms Forge does not bill per email or SMS.
Live · sign in
No published plans
Flow Forge
Workflow engine — a Make replacement.
Flow Forge has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live · sign in
No published plans
Ledger Forge
Books and double-entry general ledger — a Xero parallel.
Ledger Forge has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live · sign in
from R499/mo
Pay Forge
Simple South African payroll — PAYE, UIF and SDL from the SARS tables, payslips emailed, EMP201 figures ready.
Trial
Free
- Free for 14 days
- Up to 5 active employees
- The whole payroll: pay runs, payslips, EMP201, IRP5 and EMP501
Solo
R499/mo
- 10 active employees included
- R39 a month for each active employee after that
- Up to 25 active employees
- PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI worked out from the SARS tables
Practice
R1 499/mo
- 40 active employees included
- R29 a month for each active employee after that
- Up to 120 active employees
- Several employers (companies) in one business
Firm
R3 999/mo
- 150 active employees included
- R19 a month for each active employee after that
- Up to 1,000 active employees
- Priority support and estate-wide reporting
Pay Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per active employee, with unlimited staff logins. A new business gets a 14-day free trial.
Live
from R400/mo
Search Forge
Search across the suite.
Brand
R400/mo
- Every Search Forge feature
- Billed monthly until cancelled
Agency
R650/mo
- Every Search Forge feature
- Billed monthly until cancelled
Search Forge sells two monthly PayFast subscriptions from its Billing screen, Brand and Agency. Each runs until it is cancelled.
Live · sign in
No published plans
Portal Forge
Customer portal.
Portal Forge has no plans and does not charge the business. Your customers sign in to see their contracts and balances, and can pay what is due on them by card.
Live · sign in
No published plans
Desk Forge
Operations desk.
Desk Forge has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live · sign in
No published plans
Connect Forge
Shared spine: organisations, PayFast billing and MCP. Sign in to operate it.
Opens the /login spine. Public /docs is not published.
Connect Forge has no plans and no price of its own. It is the sign-in, organisation and billing spine the other apps use.
Live · sign in
R499/mo
Ads Forge
Marketing studio: reads your ad results, writes ad copy with AI and queues campaigns on Meta.
Sign-in and each business's own workspace are live. Campaigns are always created paused, so nothing spends until you switch it on in the ad platform. Until Meta's App Review passes, Facebook can be connected only by people added to the Ads Forge app in Meta. Google Ads campaigns are built, but creating one in a live Google Ads account waits on Google approving Ads Forge's Basic API access.
Free
Free
- 3 drafts a month
- 5 creatives a month
- 1 ad account
- No publishing or scheduling
Starter
R499/mo
- 50 drafts a month
- 20 publishes a month
- 100 creatives a month
- 3 ad accounts
The Free plan costs nothing. Starter is R499 paid by card through PayFast on the Billing screen, and each payment covers one month of Starter.
Live
No published plans
Pipe Forge
CRM and deals.
Pipe Forge has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live · sign in
from R499/mo
Compliance Forge
Company compliance obligations and tracking for SA private companies.
Trial
Free
- Free for 14 days
- Up to 5 companies
- Deadlines, payments and the due-diligence vault
Solo
R499/mo
- 10 companies included
- R39 a month for each company after that
- Up to 25 companies
- Statutory deadline calendar for every company
Practice
R1 499/mo
- 40 companies included
- R29 a month for each company after that
- Up to 120 companies
- Due-diligence packs and register export for every company
Firm
R3 999/mo
- 150 companies included
- R19 a month for each company after that
- Up to 1,000 companies
- Estate reads through Connect Forge
Compliance Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per company, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.
Live · sign in
from R1 499/mo
Collections Forge
Debt and collections — accounts, reminders and recovery ops.
Trial
Free
- Free for 14 days
- 3 seats and 250 open accounts
- The whole product: queue, promises, s129 notices, hand-overs, commission
Desk
R1 499/mo
- 2 500 open accounts included
- Unlimited collectors
- Stops at 2 500 open accounts and offers Floor
Floor
R4 999/mo
- 25 000 open accounts included
- Unlimited collectors
- Stops at 25 000 open accounts and offers Book
- Campaign engine, bot API and estate reads
Book
R12 999/mo
- 100 000 open accounts included
- R999 a month for each additional 10 000 open accounts
- Unlimited collectors, no ceiling on the book
- Priority support and estate-wide reporting
Collections Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Paid plans have unlimited collectors: it never charges per user.
Live · sign in
from R499/mo
Signing Forge
E-sign and contracts — send, track and store signed documents.
Trial
Free
- 10 completed signings a month, free
- Everything works, nothing is watermarked
Branch
R499/mo
- 100 completed signings a month
- One branch
Group
R1 499/mo
- 400 completed signings a month
- Several branches under one account
Enterprise
R3 999/mo
- Unlimited completed signings
- White-labelled to your own brand
Signing Forge counts completed signing sessions per calendar month; a session that is started and abandoned costs nothing. The Trial plan is free every month. Paid plans renew monthly through PayFast. The app has no plan screen yet, so ask us to move you to a paid plan.
Live · sign in
from R499/mo
Practice Console
One login for an accounting or auditing practice's whole client book: statutory deadlines, jobs, time and WIP.
Trial
Free
- Free for 14 days
- Up to 5 active clients
- The client book, deadline board and job pipeline
Solo
R499/mo
- 10 active clients included
- R39 a month for each active client after that
- Up to 25 active clients
- Statutory calendar generation
Practice
R1 499/mo
- 40 active clients included
- R29 a month for each active client after that
- Up to 120 active clients
- Estate reads through Connect Forge
Firm
R3 999/mo
- 150 active clients included
- R19 a month for each active client after that
- Up to 1 000 active clients
- Priority support and estate-wide reporting
Practice Console bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Paid plans have unlimited staff logins: it never charges per user.
Live
No published plans
Caller Insights
Call QA and insights — human and AI.
Caller Insights has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
No published plans
Pulse
Marketing performance dashboard.
Pulse has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
from R399/mo
Recon Desk
Reconciliation and exception desk.
Trial
Free
- Free for 14 days
- One active client book
- 250 bank lines a month
- The whole engine: ingest, classification, review, posting
Solo
R399/mo
- Up to 3 active client books, all included
- 2 000 bank lines a month across the account
- Stops at 2 000 lines and offers Practice
- Shadow mode and the full audit log
Practice
R999/mo
- Up to 15 active client books, all included
- 10 000 bank lines a month across the account
- Stops at 10 000 lines and offers Bureau
- Ledger posting and the Forge spine
Bureau
R2 499/mo
- Up to 60 active client books, all included
- 40 000 bank lines a month across the account
- R199 for each additional 10 000 lines, no hard stop
- Priority support
Recon Desk bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Plans are priced per account, never per user.
Live
No published plans
Asset Insights
Vehicle and asset insights.
Asset Insights has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
No published plans
Pantry
Household meal planner with inventory.
Pantry has no plans and no fixed price: an amount is entered in the app and paid once, by card, through PayFast.
Live
No published plans
Xero Connect
Live Xero API broker used by Ledger Forge and customer workspaces. Read-only; write is disabled.
Opens a product page on this site — not the raw JSON API root.
Xero Connect has no plans and takes no payment. It is the read-only Xero broker behind Ledger Forge and the other Forge apps.
Live
No published plans
Clip Engine
Live video pipeline behind Strongman Comps and Forge Publisher.
Production infrastructure. Not a login app.
Clip Engine is not sold on its own and takes no payment. It renders the clips inside Strongman Comps.
Also built
We can productise this
Not on the main catalogue yet. Live production work we can pack for other industries.
Live proof · Skin Crowd
Clinic / Practice Forge
Live on theskincrowd.co.za — Clear Skin Collective / The Skin Crowd clinic ops in production. The same booking, leads and ops base can be packaged as Clinic / Practice Forge for other clinics, practices and therapists.
Also built · Strength ForgeForge Publisher
The Strength Forge social and content publisher. Not a catalogue SKU — proof we can ship a content desk.
In-house · login-gatedIn-house Insights
Private, login-gated reporting for our own operators. Not a public product and not a client showcase.
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