Services
A defined build, a chartered accountant inside your finance team, or the venture studio for an idea you bring us.
Built in your environment, with a perpetual licence to the source code.
The three routes
Something specific to build, a finance team that needs a developer inside it, or an idea you cannot build alone. Each has its own way in, and none ends with you renting your own software back from us.
A defined project, scoped in discovery and priced by CA(SA) developer hours before we start. It runs in your own environment, and you keep a perpetual licence to its source code, for your own use.
What it is for
A problem with edges: a report somebody rebuilds by hand every month, a control that lives in an inbox, a model that has outgrown the spreadsheet it was born in.
A chartered accountant who codes, seconded into your finance team to help your people change the way they work, take on a complex problem that needs full-time attention, or fill a temporary gap in your team. Everything built runs in your environment, under the same perpetual licence.
What it is for
Finance teams who want to drive change from the inside, rather than hire external consultants.
Bring us an idea and we build it with you and take it to market together. We use our developer expertise to build technology that solves the problem, and our CA(SA) experience to convert that technology into a company that can scale. TapOut and FieldFinance both started that way: a founder with a problem, and a partner with the keyboard.
What it is for
An idea you cannot build on your own, where the people building it should also have the experience required to help you start and scale your company.
Terms are a conversation, not a form.
How we work
Four gates, each with something you sign off before we move on.
We put the value we give a client before margin or revenue, and we would take a loss before leaving a project with an unhappy client.
What you keep
We build inside your own environment, Microsoft or Google, whichever your organisation already runs. The application sits in your own tenant, so your data never has to leave it, and there is no subscription to us keeping it alive. In practice you provision an account in your own tenant, an employee's or a service account, and we build with your accounts, your licences and your platforms.
At every gate: your environment, your source code, your documentation.
Four gates, and every one of them is a place where you can say no.
The Embedded CA
Service tiers
Resourcing only
You drive the work
Managed delivery
We run the project
Senior-reviewed
Maximum oversight & visibility
Any service tier pairs with any resourcing tier: Associate, Experienced or Senior CA Developer.
The rate card
| Role | Per hour |
|---|---|
| Associate CA Developer | R 1,000 |
| Experienced CA Developer | R 1,500 |
| Senior CA Developer | R 2,000 |
Confirmed after discovery, once we have seen your environment.
What the hour buys
One person, two professions.
The rate is for a chartered accountant who can also develop software: the person who understands the control is the person who builds it. No brief to translate, no second meeting to explain why the number matters.
What it replaces
A business analyst to write it down, a developer to build it, a reviewer who knows the accounting to check it, and the meetings between the three.
In the rate
How the rate card works
What projects typically cost
Every build is scoped in discovery and priced off the same rate card, so the honest answer to what it costs is a range until we have seen your environment. These are the ranges most projects land in.
Best for
1 – 10 people, single-app deployment
Investment
Most clients invest R 120,000 – R 180,000
Best for
11 – 50 people or deeper integration
Investment
Most clients invest R 180,000 – R 350,000
Best for
51 people or more, or compliance-critical workloads
Investment
Priced after scoping session
Indicative of what projects normally cost. Our cost structures follow the CA(SA) developer rate card: you pay for the hours used.
Many clients own and operate their Appventure solution without our assistance.
For teams who would like a little extra peace of mind, we offer an optional monthly support package.
From R 9,000 / month
| Hours a month | Per month | Per hour |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | R 9,000 | R 900 |
| 20 | R 17,500 | R 875 |
| 30 | R 25,500 | R 850 |
| 40 | R 33,000 | R 825 |
| 50 | R 39,500 | R 790 |
This package is entirely optional - you still own and operate your technology. Hours do not accumulate monthly.
Nobody has ever been pleased to see a range. Everybody has been displeased to see a wrong number.
Questions
Support, timelines, what the licence fee covers, and what happens the day you want something changed.
Absolutely - support is available on request. We design our solutions to be entirely transferable, which is why we do not mandate any ongoing assistance fee. If you would like ongoing assistance, we offer a support package from R 9,000 a month for 10 hours of our time (hours do not accumulate), on a three-month minimum, with more hours a month at a lower rate. This can be used for general queries, bug fixes or minor improvements/tweaks.
Absolutely. If your team needs more than your package's hours in a given month, extra time is billed at the rate card's hourly rate. You can add hours on an as-needed basis.
Most core builds wrap up within 4-6 weeks, depending on complexity and your team's turnaround on feedback and IT setup. We'll give you a tailored timeline as part of your kickoff.
The once-off licence fee gives you a perpetual licence to the source code, for your own use, and includes implementation and custom configurations for your company's brand.
We offer custom configurations at the rate card's hourly rates. You can use our time to configure the solution however you please. Where the additions are large enough to be a piece of work in their own right, we scope and price them like any other build and agree it with you before we start.
We typically charge according to the model defined above, but charge additional hours for the bespoke elements of the app which are not already included in our other service offerings. For example, our other service offerings include a report generator: this will not be viewed as an additional configuration unless we need to make significant changes to the functionality of the feature or screen.
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