We build and run the digital side of your business.
Websites, booking, software, IT, email, marketing and video from one South African team, based in Heidelberg, Gauteng.
Which sounds like you?
From the first call to handover, with the paperwork to show for it.
The example below is a delivered site for a diagnostics importer. The same steps apply to a guesthouse, a clinic or a trade.
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A short brief
A call, and whatever you already have: your Google listing, photos, logo and product list. If you have a domain and email, we ask a few plain questions about them, on one page.
The one-page request we send to whoever looks after your domain and email. Names removed.
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A real preview you can review
We build the actual site, hidden from Google, and send you a private link. Open it on your phone, click everything, and tell us what to change.
A delivered site, as the client saw it in preview. Name and photos removed.
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Launch without losing anything
We point the domain, switch on the certificate and move email before the old hosting is cancelled. We register the site with Google so people can find you.
our launch checklist
- Domain pointed to the new site
- Security certificate switched on
- Every mailbox moved and checked
- Old hosting kept until you confirm
- Google Search Console set up
What we tick off on launch day, every time.
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Everything in your name
The domain, the site and the accounts belong to you. You get a short guide to how it all fits together, and the finished product, working.
A searchable catalogue of 206 products with an enquiry list that goes to WhatsApp.
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Support, if you want it
Monthly updates, hosting and fresh content, or you take it over entirely. Your choice, and no lock-in.
A blog written for buyers, so the site keeps working after launch.
The example below is delivered software for an industrial fabrication company, installed on its own server.
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Discovery and a security review
We read the existing system, test it and tighten what needs tightening. We also send your IT provider a short list of questions about the server, the network and certificates, so nothing on install day is a surprise.
The system being reviewed: a quote built from panels. Demo data only.
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Build and test
We package everything into one installer and test it. More than 3,000 automated tests passed before the release was built.
The delivered system, shown with demo data.
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Installed on your own server
Over your VPN, with your IT provider on the phone. The installer sets up the database, the application, the encrypted web front end, the firewall rule for your network and the nightly backups.
What is installed where, in the server handover. Sample, details removed.
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Handover in writing
An administrator handover, a staff guide that follows a quote from first draft to finished project, and a separate handover for your IT provider.
The administrator handover and the staff guide. Samples, details removed.
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Support and licence
Nightly backups, an hourly health check, and a signed licence that renews with each payment. If it ever lapses, you can still export all your data.
The actions your IT provider owns after install. Sample, details removed.
One team for everything digital.
Pick one service or let us look after all of it. Either way, one company answers the phone.
Websites, shops and booking
A real site built from your real business, with an online shop or booking when you need one.
- Business websites
- Online shops
- Booking systems
- Domains in your name
Software and systems
Custom software for the way your business works, run on your own server and handed over properly.
- Quoting and CRM
- Stock and orders
- Your own server
- Licence and support
IT, hosting and email
Domains, business email, hosting, server care and backups from one local partner.
- Domains and DNS
- Business email
- Server maintenance
- Backups
Marketing and content
Campaigns, content calendars, social and paid ads, built on real research about your market.
- Campaigns
- Content calendars
- Paid social
- Search and Google profile
Video
Training videos, explainers and short social video that show how things work.
- Training videos
- Explainers
- Short social video
Work we have done.
All our workHow to read this. Every piece of work carries a label. Delivered means built for a paying client. Concept means we built it to show what we would do for a business that is not (yet) a client. Prototype is a concept with working parts, such as a shop with a real checkout. Client names, contacts and data are removed from all of it.
Quoting, stock and project software for an industrial fabrication company
A complete quote-to-handover system, installed on the client's own server and handed over with the paperwork a business needs to keep running it.
Read the case studyA website, product catalogue and blog for a diagnostics importer
A multi-page site with a searchable 206-product catalogue, an enquiry list that sends a bulk-quote request to WhatsApp, and a blog written to be found.
Read the case studyConcepts and prototypes
A direct-booking site for a small guesthouse
A five-room guesthouse site built from the owner's own Google listing, with a four-step booking flow that shows how commission-free direct booking would feel.
A trust-first website for an accounting practice
A practice site that leads with clear services, a separate labour-consultancy offer and the legal pages a South African practice needs.
A practice website with an online shop
A consultation-led site for a homeopathy practice with a mothertinctures catalogue, using Shopify's checkout inside a custom design.
A marketing proposal for a pizza chain
A research-led proposal that compares the chain with its rivals on reviews, delivery-app experience and pricing, with a campaign built on the findings.
A showroom site for a custom kitchen maker
A site that sells a bespoke kitchen and cupboard business through what it builds, with a consultation as the one action.
A small-batch sauce brand: shop and ad mockups
A product-led shop with a heat scale on every bottle, plus square ad mockups for paid social.
You own it. No lock-in.
Whatever we build or set up for you is yours to keep, move or hand to someone else.
- Your domain stays in your name.Registered with you as the owner, so you can move to anyone, including away from us.
- Your data stays yours.On your own server for software, in your own accounts for everything else, with an export whenever you ask.
- Handed over in writing.Guides for your staff and for your IT provider, so the work never depends on us remembering it.
What we have learned.
All insightsWhy we install software on the client's own server
Cloud is the default, but for some businesses their own server is the better home for their software. Here is how we decide, and what makes it safe.
Moving business email without losing a single message
How we move a company's email to a new provider: the inventory, the order of operations, and the one thing you must not do first.
A guesthouse should own its bookings
Listing platforms fill rooms, but they also take a cut and the customer relationship. What a direct-booking site can and cannot do for a small guesthouse.
Tell us what you need, and we will call you back.
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- +27 50 201 0141
- Message us on WhatsApp
- info@whiteboardmedia.co.za
- 55 Pretorius Street, Heidelberg, Gauteng, 1441