Business automation in Durban.
The steps you currently do by hand, done by the system: forms that create records, approvals that route themselves, documents generated from your own data. Built by a Durban studio, for businesses here and across South Africa.
The businesses we build for in Durban.
- Freight forwarding and customs
- Document-heavy by nature. The same reference gets retyped into four systems, and the delay is almost never the work — it is waiting for someone to notice the last step finished.
- Manufacturing and plant operations
- Shift reports, maintenance requests and quality exceptions that need to reach the right person immediately rather than at the end of the week.
- Professional services and finance
- Client onboarding, FICA document collection, approvals and recurring billing runs.
- Property and facilities
- Maintenance requests, contractor dispatch, inspections and the paper trail behind each one.
“Most automation briefs from KwaZulu-Natal start the same way: a person whose actual job has quietly become moving information between systems. The work is not complicated, it is just constant, and it stops when they take leave. Automating that is usually a smaller build than people expect — which is why it is worth scoping properly before assuming it is a big project.”
What Durban businesses ask us to build.
- —Intake forms that create the record instead of another email to retype
- —Multi-step approvals and hand-offs between people, teams or branches
- —Quotes, invoices, job cards and PDFs generated from your own data
- —Status changes that fire the next action without anyone remembering to
- —Scheduled jobs — daily summaries, reminders and escalations when something stalls
- —Integrations with the accounting, calendar and messaging tools you already pay for
Priced by scope, not by postcode.
Builds start from R20,000. What moves a brief up is scope — how many kinds of user, how many integrations, how many platforms and how many separate flows run against the same data. Being in Durban does not change the figure, and the scope and the price are agreed in writing before anything starts.
Quantide is based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, and works with businesses across South Africa. There is no walk-in office — briefs are taken in writing and builds are delivered remotely.
Durban questions, answered.
- What does business automation actually mean?
- It means the manual steps in a process are done by the system instead of a person: a form creates the record, an approval routes itself to the right person, a document is generated from your own data, and a status change triggers whatever has to happen next. It is not a product you install — it is built around the process you already run.
- Can you automate work between the tools we already use?
- Yes. Integrations with the accounting, calendar, storage and messaging tools you already pay for are part of the build. The aim is fewer places to check, not another system to learn.
- How much does automation cost?
- Builds start from R20,000 and are priced by scope — how many steps, how many kinds of user and how many systems have to talk to each other. You get the scope and the figure in writing before anything starts.
Start with the brief.
Tell us what it has to do, who uses it and when you need it. We come back with the scope and the price in writing. Builds start from R20,000 and are priced by scope.