South Africa
Web design South Africa: websites and software, one hour apart
Web design South Africa businesses can hire remotely: we design websites and build custom software from Casablanca, one hour from your clock. VAT at 15 %, POPIA and your payment gateway are agreed before any code is written.
Why South Africa
What a South African business gets from a Casablanca studio
South African businesses can hire us for web design and for the software behind the site: a CRM, an ERP, an online shop or a client portal. One team designs it, builds it and can host it, so you deal with one contact from the first sketch to the server.
We work remotely from Casablanca, Morocco, in English. There is no South African office, phone number or address, and we do not pretend otherwise. You get a fixed quote, a working preview at every step, and all code and documentation at handover.
Our clocks are close. South Africa stays on UTC+2 all year and Casablanca runs on UTC+1, so you are one hour ahead of us. The table below shows the shared hours.
Rules we build around
Tax, payments and privacy in South Africa
Tax. South Africa charges VAT at a standard rate of 15 %. A shop or an invoicing system must show it correctly, and a VAT-registered business puts its VAT number on every tax invoice. Ask your accountant how VAT applies to an invoice from a supplier abroad. We give you itemised invoices to work from.
Payments. PayFast, Yoco, Peach Payments and Ozow are examples of providers South African shops use for cards and instant EFT. We connect the gateway you choose as part of the build. Ask whether yours is already covered. If it is not, it is custom work.
Privacy. POPIA, the Protection of Personal Information Act, is South Africa’s privacy law. The Information Regulator enforces it, and businesses have had to comply since 1 July 2021. It covers contact forms, CRMs and mailing lists. It also expects a written agreement with anyone who handles personal data for you, rules for sending data abroad, and a prompt report if data is compromised.
We design forms, CRMs and mailing lists with these rules in mind. Compliance depends on how your business uses data, so we write your rules into the scope and suggest a South African lawyer confirms them.
Local conditions
Built for how South African businesses run
Two things shape software here. Scheduled power cuts, known as load-shedding, have been part of running a business in South Africa. And many visitors browse on mobile data.
So we host sites and systems on servers away from your premises. A power cut at your office does not take them offline, and backups are kept off-site. We keep pages light and check Core Web Vitals before launch. See how managed hosting works.
Time zones
How South African working hours line up with ours
Counted for a 09:00 to 17:00 day in South Africa and 09:00 to 18:00 in Casablanca. South Africa has no daylight saving time. The gap changes only when Morocco moves to UTC+0 for Ramadan.
| Period | Gap to Casablanca | Shared hours |
|---|---|---|
| Most of the year | South Africa is 1 hour ahead | 7 hours: 10:00 to 17:00 in South Africa |
| During Ramadan | South Africa is 2 hours ahead | 6 hours: 11:00 to 17:00 in South Africa |
What we build
What we build, and where
Start with the service you need. Each city page covers what is different there.
- Web design agency services: fast, editable sites with local payments and POPIA consent.
- Custom software development: portals, ERP and CRM with VAT and privacy rules scoped.
- Web design Cape Town: visitors from abroad, bookings and prices in several currencies.
- Web design Johannesburg: B2B sites wired to a CRM, with vendor onboarding.
- Web design Pretoria: accessible, document-heavy sites for institutions.
- Web design Durban: shops and portals for businesses that ship goods.
- Custom web development, CRM and ERP: the general service pages behind all of the above.
FAQ
Questions from South African buyers
What businesses in South Africa ask before they book a call.
No. We work remotely from Casablanca, Morocco, and we do not claim a South African address or phone number. You get video calls in your working day and written updates in between.
How many working hours do we share?
Seven hours a day most of the year: your 10:00 to 17:00. During Ramadan, when Morocco moves to UTC+0, it is six hours: your 11:00 to 17:00.
Can you build software that handles South African VAT?
Yes, as custom work. We agree the rules with you and your accountant, write them into the scope and test them before launch. Our ready products, such as RIVER ERP, are built Morocco-first, so South African VAT and payroll are not ready-made modules.
Do you build with POPIA in mind?
Yes. We design forms, mailing lists and CRM data with consent, access and deletion rules in mind, and we agree the hosting region before any customer data is stored. Compliance depends on how your business uses data, so we suggest a South African lawyer confirms your rules.
Which payment gateways can you connect?
The one you choose. PayFast, Yoco, Peach Payments and Ozow are common in South Africa. We read the provider’s documentation before quoting, and tell you whether it is already covered in our products or custom work.
Can you build a site in Afrikaans or isiZulu?
We can build the structure of a multilingual site. Native writers should produce the copy, because we work in English and cannot check translated text ourselves.
Next step
Planning a project in South Africa?
Tell us your city and your sector on a short call in your working day. We will check VAT, POPIA and payments with you and name a first scope.