Built in Durban · Runs on WhatsApp
Never miss a customer again.
Every message that waits until morning is a customer deciding to go somewhere else. We build the booking systems, websites and WhatsApp automation that answer, book and sell for you — evenings, weekends, whenever they message.
- ✓ POPIA-compliant
- ✓ No hidden costs
- ✓ Answers day and night
- ✓ Cancel anytime
See it working
Don't take our word for it. Open one.
Every doorway opens a working demo, not screenshots. Pick the one closest to your business and use it exactly like your customer would.
The booking that took itself
A patient books into a real gap at half past nine at night, pays a deposit, and the diary fills while the rooms are dark.
See it working →The R9,000 job you slept through
A burst geyser at 21:47. She is working down a list of numbers, and whoever answers first gets the job. Yours can be the one that answers.
See it working →The chair that stopped sitting empty
A Saturday booking taken at 19:12 with a R150 deposit paid before she put her phone down. Deposits are the only fix for no-shows.
See it working →The rush that stopped costing you
An order taken, upsold and paid at 12:41 without anyone leaving the counter. It asks about drinks on every order — tired staff never do.
See it working →The basket that came back
Seven in ten baskets get abandoned. Your shop isn't broken — she had one question at eight at night, and nobody answered it.
See it working →Built around how you work
Most businesses are not on anybody's template list. Describe how yours runs and watch the demo conversation get built for it.
See it working →Don't let a one-size-fits-all system decide how you work.
Off-the-shelf software was built for somebody else's business. You end up changing how you work to suit a template, paying every month for features you'll never open, and still doing the expensive part by hand. We look at how your business actually runs, then build the tool that runs it — your name, your services, your prices, your rules.
✓ A quote calculator that prices a job in seconds
✓ An order system that takes payment and sends tracking
✓ A stock list that warns you before you run out
✓ A client portal where customers see their own history
✓ A booking diary that never double-books
✓ A report that lands every Monday without being asked
If you can describe how your business works, we can build the thing that does it for you. Tell us the job and we will show you what it would look like before you pay anything.
Tell us what you need builtBuilt on the tools South African businesses already use
We build on Shopify, WhatsApp Business, PayFast, Yoco, Ozow, SnapScan, Bob Go, The Courier Guy, Google Business, Meta, Cloudflare.
Shopify Partner. We build premium, customisable stores on the platforms your customers already trust.
Do the maths
How much is silence costing you?
Three answers. No name, no email, no phone number — the sums happen right here on your phone and nothing you enter leaves this page.
What kind of business?
After-hours messages, calls you couldn't take, quotes that went quiet.
You're losing about
R38,700 a monthBased on missed enquiries × your average job value × 4.3 weeks. Not every missed enquiry is a lost sale — even winning back half of this pays for the system many times over.
Stop losing this — chat to usOpens WhatsApp with your number already in the message — read it and change anything before you send.
The Missed Money Audit
Find out what missed enquiries cost you. Free.
Before we sell you anything, we go through your business the way a customer finds it — Google, reviews, your site on a phone, and whether AI recommends you or your competitor. You get it in writing.
Step 1
We look at what your customer sees
Your Google listing, your reviews, your website on a phone, and whether anyone can actually book or order without speaking to you.
Step 2
We check you against your competitors
The three businesses you lose customers to. Their rating against yours, their reviews against yours — and whether ChatGPT recommends them instead of you when someone asks.
Step 3
You get it in writing, with the evidence
Screenshots of what we found, your speed score, the actual AI answer that leaves you out, and what we would fix first. No obligation to buy anything.
1. You send us your business name
2. We audit it within 48 hours
3. You get the report, free
No spam. No pressure. No obligation to buy anything.
Google rescue & reviews
Your Google listing is sending customers to the shop down the road.
Most listings are unclaimed, half-filled or plain wrong — and when someone searches, Google shows the complete one first. Yours should be the complete one.
Your Business
Plumber · Durban North
2 reviews
Permanently closed? · Hours not confirmed
No website · Not claimed by the owner
Own this business?
Your Business
Plumber · Durban North
4.8 (127 reviews)
Open now · Closes 17:00
- ✓ Your listing claimed, verified and corrected — hours, photos, services, service area, the lot
- ✓ Review requests sent automatically after every job, on WhatsApp
- ✓ We reply to every review for you — the five-star ones and the grumpy ones
The Google rescue
R1,500 once-off rescue R450 a month to keep it earning
The once-off gets your listing claimed, verified and filled in properly. The monthly keeps it working — reviews coming in, replies going out, details never drifting wrong again.
Get the free 1-day listing checkSend one message with your business name. Within a day you'll know exactly what's wrong with your listing — free, whether or not you hire us.
Services & pricing
Clear services. Clear prices.
No "request a quote" games. Final pricing depends on your business, but it will always land inside these ranges.
Get Found
For businesses customers struggle to find or trust online.
R3,500 – R6,000 once-off
- ✓ Google Business Profile — set up and fully optimised
- ✓ Automatic review requests after every job, on WhatsApp
- ✓ One-page mobile-first website with click-to-WhatsApp
- ✓ You own everything we build. No monthly fee required.
Built For You
Software built around the way your business already works — at a price that was impossible two years ago.
quoted per project once-off
Month-to-month. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
- ✓ Work out a customer quote in seconds instead of doing sums at night
- ✓ Let customers book themselves in without phoning you
- ✓ See every job, customer and payment in one place
- ✓ Get a report every Monday without asking anyone for it
Get Orders
For businesses ready to sell online, the South African way.
from R9,500 once-off
- ✓ WhatsApp ordering flow: catalogue → order → payment link
- ✓ Online store built mobile-first, priced in Rands
- ✓ Local payments: PayFast, Yoco, Ozow, SnapScan
- ✓ Local delivery integration and collection options
Keep it running
Start small. Add more when it earns it.
Month-to-month after the first three months. Cancel anytime. Every plan includes a monthly report so you can see exactly what you got.
Front Desk
Every enquiry answered, none lost.
R1,150 per month
- ✓ Your WhatsApp set up to answer, quote and capture every enquiry
- ✓ Your Google listing kept correct and active
- ✓ Review requests sent automatically after every job
- ✓ Website hosted, backed up and kept online
Order Desk
From enquiry to paid, without you touching it.
R1,850 per month
- ✓ Everything in Front Desk
- ✓ Orders and bookings taken on WhatsApp, day and night
- ✓ Payment links sent and settled into your own account
- ✓ Quotes that went quiet followed up automatically
Practice
Built for dental and medical rooms.
R3,450 per month
- ✓ Everything in Order Desk
- ✓ Deposits taken before the booking goes in the diary
- ✓ Reminders that cut no-shows, recalls that fill quiet weeks
- ✓ Patient data handled the POPIA way
Add-ons
Bolt these onto any monthly plan
Start with what you need. Add the rest once the enquiries start coming in.
Answer Instagram too
from R450/month
Customers message you on Instagram and Facebook as well. Your assistant answers those the same way it answers WhatsApp.
Ask about this →Bring in new customers
from R1,500/month
We run Facebook and Instagram ads that open a WhatsApp chat with your assistant — so new customers land straight in a conversation.
Ask about this →Stay on the right side of the law
from R2,500 once-off
The privacy policy, PAIA manual and customer consent forms every South African business is required to have. Most do not — and the fines are real.
Ask about this →Add a branch or staff member
from R450/month
Running a second shop, or want someone else answering alongside you? Add them to the same system.
Ask about this →Google rescue & reviews
R1,500 + R450/month
Your Google listing verified, corrected and kept active, with review requests going out after every job — so you stop sending customers to the shop down the road.
Ask about this →Website care plan
R395/month
Your site hosted, backed up, kept online and kept current. Small changes included, and a person who answers when something breaks.
Ask about this →Essential hosting
R650/year
Prefer no monthly fee? Hosting, SSL and backups for the year, and you call us only when you need us.
Ask about this →Support hours, prepaid
R1,950 for 3 hours
A bank of support time that never expires inside 12 months. Changes, additions and fixes come off the clock as you use them.
Ask about this →Want more than one? Tell us what you need and we will quote the whole thing as a single monthly price — usually less than adding them up.
Get one combined quoteBuilt around your brand
Pick your colours. Watch the whole site follow.
One click and everything you're looking at re-themes — buttons, cards, glows, all of it. That's the difference between built-for-you and a template: your brand runs through the whole thing, not just the logo.
Yours doesn't have to be any of these — we build your palette from your brand.
Why us
Experience you can lean on.
Auto Digital brings over ten years of industry experience building and maintaining the systems South African businesses run on every day. We build it, we run it, and we're there when you need us.
- ✓ Official WhatsApp Business API — no grey-market shortcuts that get numbers banned
- ✓ Payments settle straight into your own account — never through ours
- ✓ POPIA handled on every build — privacy policy, consent, the lot
- ✓ Built and supported in Durban, month to month, cancel anytime
How it works
- 1
WhatsApp us
Tell us what kind of business you run. That is the whole first step.
- 2
A 20-minute call
We work out where enquiries are slipping and what would catch them.
- 3
Watch your demo
We build a working demo for your business — you click through it before spending anything.
- 4
Approve, then pay
A deposit starts the build. You approve the finished work before the balance.
FAQ
Straight answers.
Why do you show your prices when other agencies hide theirs? +
Because hidden prices waste your time. Our services are productised — defined scope, defined price range. The exact quote depends on your business, but you will never be surprised.
How fast will I see results? +
Most builds are live within a week or two. Google Business Profile improvements typically show within weeks. Anything we run for you is tracked in a monthly report from day one.
Do I need a website already? +
No. Most of our clients start with only a WhatsApp number. We build what is missing — and nothing you do not need.
Where are you based — and do you work outside Durban? +
We are based in Durban and work with businesses across South Africa. Everything we build — WhatsApp assistants, Google profiles, online stores — is set up and supported remotely, so your location never limits you.
What happens after hours, or when my shop is closed? +
Nothing stops. Everything we build runs in the cloud, not in your shop — evenings, weekends and public holidays, your WhatsApp keeps answering, taking orders and booking appointments.
Is this POPIA compliant? +
Yes. Consent-first data collection, a proper privacy policy, and customer data handled lawfully — on every site and automation we ship.
Are there any costs you do not control? +
A few, and we quote them upfront: payment gateways charge per-transaction fees, WhatsApp (Meta) charges a small per-conversation fee for business messaging — which we pass on at cost, no markup — your domain renews yearly, and if we build on Shopify the subscription is billed by Shopify in US dollars. Full transparency, always.
Why not just build it myself on Wix, Shopify or Squarespace? +
You can — and if all you need is a page with your hours on it, do that, we will happily tell you so. The difference is what happens after someone lands on it. A drag-and-drop site sits there and waits. What we build is wired into the way South Africans actually buy: a WhatsApp button that opens a real conversation, an assistant that answers it at 9pm, missed calls that turn into messages, and a monthly report showing how many enquiries were captured. You are also renting a template on those platforms — the moment you stop paying, the site is gone. What we build for you is yours, it loads fast on mobile data, and it is built to convert rather than to look busy.
How is this different from a R499/month chatbot platform? +
Those are DIY software: you sign up, configure the bot, write the answers and maintain it yourself. We are done-for-you: we build your assistant, train it on your business, run it, improve it every month and send you a report of enquiries captured and bookings made. You run your business — we run the system.
Find out what you're losing. It costs nothing.
One WhatsApp message. One free report. Then you decide.
Get my free Missed Money Audit