🌱  For crèche owners in Mpumalanga

I built Zande for my own crèche.
I'm giving 20 of you the same head start.

I'm Siyabonga. I run Bethel Crèche here in Hazyview. 125 children. I got tired of chasing fees and rebuilding DOE registers by hand, so I built the software I wished existed. Now I'm opening it to 20 founding crèches, and I set it up for you myself. Free.

20 founding spots 2 months free · then R99
Founding spot Free pilot spot (first 5)
Why I'm doing this

Chasing fees is the worst part of running a crèche. I had 122 parents behind at one point. I was rebuilding the DOE attendance register by hand every month, at night, after the children went home. One formatting mistake and the subsidy claim comes back rejected. You know exactly what I mean.

So I built Zande to fix it for Bethel first. The registers build themselves. Fee reminders go out on WhatsApp. When parents pay by EFT, it matches the money to the right child on its own. Every feature had to work at my centre before it went anywhere near anyone else's.

Now I want real centres using it, telling me what to build next, being the proof that it works for a crèche like yours, not just mine. That's the whole reason for the Founding 20. You get a head start and my time. I get 20 principals who make Zande better and, if it helps you, vouch for it.

Siyabonga NdlovuFounder, Zande · Principal, Bethel Crèche, Hazyview
What a founding spot gets you

The whole thing, set up for you. Free to start.

01

I set it up for you. Free.

Send me your class list. I load every learner and parent myself, so you open Zande on day one with your whole centre already inside it. No data entry, no weekend lost to setup.

02

Two months completely free.

Run your whole centre on Zande for two full months without paying a cent. After that it's the normal R99 a month, the real price, no gimmick. You only keep paying because it's working.

03 · only 5

Five pilot spots: four months free.

The first five centres get double, four months free, in return for one thing: if Zande helps you, you let me tell your story to the next principal still doing it all by hand.

04

A direct line to me.

You're founding, not a ticket number. You tell me what your centre actually needs and I build it. My WhatsApp is the support desk.

What Zande actually does

Three jobs. All the ones that cost you money.

Get you paid

WhatsApp fee reminders, EFT matched to the right child automatically, arrears tracked to the rand. Stop losing money to parents who just forgot.

Claim every rand of subsidy

Your attendance registers build themselves, in the exact format they want. The R24-per-child subsidy captured every day. Stop losing claims to a formatting mistake.

Built by a principal, not a startup

Every feature runs at Bethel first. Not an NGO logo. Not a foreign app that never heard of the DOE. A person who runs a crèche, in rand, for South Africa.

The honest deal

The catch? There isn't one.

  • No card to start. You only pay once it's actually helping you.
  • Your data is yours. POPIA compliant, private to your centre, export or delete it any time.
  • All I ask is that you use it properly and tell me the truth about what works and what doesn't.
Straight answers

What principals ask me first.

We use a book and it's fine +
Most centres do. Run Zande free for a month next to your book and compare. It builds the same DOE register automatically, so you stop redoing it by hand and stop losing subsidy to small mistakes. If it doesn't beat the book, stay with the book.
What does it cost after the free months? +
R99 a month for up to 40 learners, the normal price, same as everyone. No permanent discount gimmick. The founding deal is that you get the real thing completely free for two months (four for the pilots) to prove it at your centre first. If it isn't earning its keep by then, you walk, no charge.
I don't have time to learn a new thing +
That's exactly why I do the setup for you. It's built for your phone, and I'll add your first learners with you on a WhatsApp call. About ten minutes and you're running.
Is my centre's data safe? +
Yes. POPIA compliant, each centre's data is private and separate, and you can export or delete everything any time. It's your data, always.
I need to ask my committee +
Of course. Create your account in the meantime and load your learners, so you have something real to show them instead of a promise. Takes three minutes, no card. Message me when the committee says yes and I will start your free months.

20 spots. I'm doing the setup myself.

So I can only take them a few at a time. If chasing fees or DOE registers is a headache at your centre, claim a founding spot before they're gone.

Creating an account does not start the free months on its own. The founding offer is applied by hand, so message me to claim a spot. You can set the account up and load your learners in the meantime.