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Founding clients · a few spots open across South Africa

Stop losing after-hours jobs.

I build you a complete, professional website — then put a 24/7 assistant inside it that answers, captures the lead and books the job while you sleep. A real site that sells, not just a chatbot. Add WhatsApp on the flagship plan. Live by Friday.

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Live in 3–5 days Pay only when it's live Cancel anytime — you own it
live demo · answering in real time
The Front Desk● online · replies in seconds
Today · sample plumbing business
Hi! I'm the AI front desk. Tap a question below and watch how I'd answer your customers.now
↑ live — tap a question to try it yourself
POPIA-respectful South-African built A real website — not just a chatbot WhatsApp via the official Meta API Answers 24/7 · through load-shedding Answers in English, Afrikaans & isiZulu You own it — no lock-in
Works with the tools you already use Google Calendar WhatsApp (Meta API) Gmail Zapier
The problem

The jobs you never hear about

The enquiry you miss doesn't show up anywhere — it just becomes a job for whoever replied first. The numbers are brutal:

5 min

Reply within five minutes and an enquiry is far more likely to convert than one answered even half an hour later.

— Lead Response Management / Harvard Business Review
90%+

of South Africans online use WhatsApp every day — it's where your customers already are, day and night.

— DataReportal, Digital South Africa 2026
R850–1,800

what a single after-hours call-out is worth to you. Miss a handful a month and that's real money walking to a competitor.

— typical SA trade call-out range
Replies in under a minute Every enquiry captured 24/7 — even at 2am
A South African electrician at home late at night, smiling at a job booked on his phone while he rested
21:50 — a job booked while he rested. Receptia answered; he slept.
While you slept

21:50 — a job booked while he rested.

Every after-hours enquiry caught, captured and booked — even at 2am, even through load-shedding. You wake up to the work, not the missed call.

What you get

One finished outcome — not a pile of parts

Wired, installed and owned for you, with zero technical lift on your side.

01

A complete, real website

Multiple pages, your branding, mobile-first and hosted — a site that sells, not a digital business card.

02

A 24/7 booking assistant

On your site, trained on your services, prices, area and hours — add it to WhatsApp on the flagship plan.

03

Lead capture → your leads sheet

Every enquiry lands in your CRM with an instant auto-reply and a ping to you.

04

Live in 3–5 days

I build it, wire it and hand it over working. You don't touch a line of anything.

Swipe for all four →

The Front Desk flagship adds
24/7 WhatsApp assistant Appointment reminders Automatic follow-up Hands tricky questions to you Google Business Profile setup Auto review-requests after each job

Also available on request: multi-language (Afrikaans · isiZulu · isiXhosa) and missed-call text-back.

Your website

A real website that does the selling

Most service businesses have no website — or a dead one-pager nobody updates. You get a complete, modern, mobile-first site built to turn visitors into booked jobs, with the 24/7 assistant living right inside it.

  • Multiple pages — home, your services with price ranges, about and contact.
  • Your branding — your name, logo, colours and photos, not a copy-paste template.
  • Mobile-first & fast — looks right on the phone, where your customers actually are.
  • Findable on Google — the SEO basics done, so people searching your trade can find you.
  • Hosting handled — it's live and looked after; nothing technical for you to manage.
  • The assistant built in — every page can answer, capture the lead and book the job.
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yourbusiness.co.za
24/7 Emergency Plumbers · Cape Town
Burst geyser at midnight? Someone actually answers.
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Sample build — your site, your branding

Built for your trade

Trained on how your business works

Same front desk, tuned to your services, prices and the questions your customers actually ask. Tap your trade to see how the assistant answers your customers.

PlumbersGeysers, leaks, drains
ElectriciansFaults, installs, COCs
Salons & spasBookings & reminders
Dentists & medicalAppointments, intake
Real estateViewings & enquiries
Trades & moreAny service business
How it works

From this page to live, in three steps

No long project, no jargon, no upfront cheque — and you don't pay until you've seen it working.

1
Day 0

A 10-minute call

You tell me your services, rough prices, area and hours. No charge, no obligation.

2
Days 1–4

I build & train it

I set up your site and assistant, trained on your business, and test it properly — while you work.

3
Go-live

You see it live, then pay

I show you it answering, capturing and booking. Only then do you pay — and it just runs.

No black box

Trained on your business — not a generic bot

"AI" sounds vague, so here's exactly what yours knows and how it learns it — that's why it sounds like your business, not a robot reading a script.

  1. You tell me your business

    Your services, price ranges, area, hours and the questions customers always ask — on one 10-minute call.

  2. I train & wire the assistant

    It's taught your exact services and prices, live on your site (and your WhatsApp on the flagship plan), and set to capture every lead to your sheet.

  3. I test it with real questions

    I throw the awkward, after-hours and edge-case messages at it until it answers like you would — and hands the tricky ones to you.

  4. You watch it work, then it runs

    You see it live before you pay. After that it keeps learning — I tune it monthly as you spot things to add.

What yours is trained on
  • Your services & what each roughly costs
  • Your area, hours & how you book jobs
  • The questions customers ask most
  • When to book — and when to hand off to you
  • Your tone, so it sounds like your business
  • Which language to greet in — English, Afrikaans or isiZulu
Your options

Three other ways to handle missed enquiries

You've really got three other choices besides this. Here's the honest case for why the front desk beats each one.

Carry on as you are

Keep catching what you can, miss the rest. The after-hours jobs quietly go to whoever picked up first — and you never even know they came in.

Cost: the jobs you never hear about
Do it yourself with ChatGPT

Clever, but on its own it doesn't know your prices, area or hours, can't book a job or save a lead, and lives on a website nobody messages. You'd babysit it.

Cost: your time — and it still misses the job
Hire a web agency

You'll get there, eventually. Most quote upward of R30,000, take six to eight weeks, and are slow to change anything once it's built.

Cost: too much, too slow for a small business

Receptia — the done-for-you middle

The same world-class AI the big tools run on, fitted to your business, on the WhatsApp your customers already use, live in days — and looked after by the person who built it. You're not buying software to figure out. You're buying a working result.

A real website includedLive in 3–5 daysA fraction of agency priceTrained on your businessLooked after
See it for yourself

Watch it book a job while you sleep

A real after-hours enquiry, replayed in real time. Watch it calm the customer, stop the damage, price the job honestly and book it — the way a sharp receptionist would, not a script-reading bot.

Cape Plumbing Co● online · sample demo
Today · sample plumbing business · 21:47
New lead capturedfilling in as the chat happens…
Saved to your leads sheet
Booked at 21:50 — and you slept through it.

A midnight panic became a calm 07:30 job: damage stopped, priced honestly, nothing lost overnight.

A sample after-hours job — no real customer data.
Answered in secondsat 21:47, not 8am
Triaged, not just loggedstopped the damage first
Booked for first lighthonestly priced, owner asleep
Founding clients

Be the first case study

No invented logos, no stock testimonials. I'm taking a small number of founding clients at a reduced rate — and the real results from the first few go right here, with their name on them.

Founding client #1your logo here
Founding client #2your logo here
Founding client #3your logo here
Founding client #4your logo here
Founding client #5your logo here

What a founding spot means

You get the full front desk at a founding rate. Once it's live and you're genuinely happy, I turn your real numbers — jobs booked after hours, hours handed back, faster replies — into the case study beside this. Your word in exchange for a fair price. No review unless you mean it.

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Everything in one

One assistant. The whole front desk.

Not a single chatbot bolted on — a complete front desk that answers, qualifies, books, and hands you the job.

24/7 receptionist

Answers every enquiry in seconds — evenings, weekends, even at 2am.

Website assistant

Lives on your site, trained on your services, prices, area and hours.

WhatsApp assistant

Replies on WhatsApp via the official Meta API — on the flagship plan.

Books the job

Checks availability and drops appointments straight into your calendar.

Receptia

One assistant doing the work of a full front desk — on your website and on WhatsApp.

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Captures every lead

Name, number and job detail land in your inbox — nothing slips through.

Knows your business

Trained on your real services, pricing, suburb coverage and FAQs.

After-hours cover

Keeps selling through evenings, weekends and load-shedding.

Hands over to you

Flags the hot jobs and passes the conversation to you when it matters.

Wayne de Kock, founder of Receptia
Who you're dealing with

"I build a front desk that never clocks off — so no enquiry to your business goes unanswered, day or night."

I'm an independent builder, not an agency with overheads — so you deal directly with the person who builds and looks after your front desk. I'm taking on a small number of founding clients across South Africa at a reduced rate. In return, once it's live and you're genuinely happy, I'd ask for an honest review — your word helps me more than full price does. No review unless you mean it.

Founding-client rate · limited spots

— Wayne de KockFounder · Receptia

Your investment

Own your front desk — don't rent a bot

Don't compare it to a R300–500/mo chatbot. Compare it to a receptionist at R5,000–8,000/mo who sleeps, takes leave and goes down in load-shedding. Yours doesn't — and you own the site. Pick the tier that fits; pay nothing until it's live.

Flagship · never miss a job
The Front Desk
from R1,490 / month
Founding rate · normally R2,200/mo · cancel anytime
+ R5,900 setup, once-off · normally R12,900 · pay nothing until it's live
  • Everything in Starter, plus —
  • 24/7 WhatsApp assistant (official Meta API) + on-site
  • Appointment reminders, follow-up + hand-off to you
  • Google Business Profile setup + auto review-requests
  • Monthly results report, monitoring + one improvement

You own the site. No lock-in — cancel any time and it's yours to keep.

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Starter · get online & capture leads
Starter
from R690 / month

Founding rate · normally R990/mo · cancel anytime

+ R2,900 setup, once-off · normally R6,900
  • A complete professional website (multiple pages, your branding) + hosting
  • 24/7 on-site AI assistant, trained on your business
  • Lead capture → your sheet + auto-reply + owner alert
  • Monthly results report + monitoring
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Need a bigger multi-workflow setup, or extras like multi-language? Other options on request — we'll find the right fit on the call.

You risk nothing to find out

I build the whole front desk first. You see it working — answering, capturing and booking. Then you pay — nothing upfront. No track record needed; the work speaks.

Built first, pay on go-live Cancel anytime — you own it
Questions

The things owners ask

Isn't this just ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is the engine; I'm the person who fits it into your business. Yours runs on the same world-class AI, but trained on your prices, your area and your hours, wired to your WhatsApp, and looked after. ChatGPT on its own doesn't know your business or book your jobs — that's the part I do.

How does "pay on go-live" actually work?

I build the whole front desk first and show you it working — answering, capturing and booking. Only once you've seen it live do you pay — nothing upfront, so there's no risk in finding out what it'd do for you.

Will it really be live in a week?

Most builds go live in 3–5 working days once I have your services, prices, area and hours. We lock the scope on the call so there are no surprises or delays.

What if it answers something wrong?

It sticks to what I've trained it on — your services, prices and area. Anything tricky or unusual, it hands straight to you instead of guessing. It catches the routine enquiries you'd otherwise miss; it doesn't pretend to be you.

Do I own it, or am I renting?

You own the site — it's built and installed for your business. The monthly plan keeps it hosted, running and improving (and covers the assistant's running costs). Cancel any time and the site stays yours. Unlike the chatbot subscriptions, you're never left with nothing.

Which tier is right for me?

Starter gets you a proper website plus a 24/7 assistant on your site that captures every lead — the fastest, lowest-cost way to stop missing enquiries. The Front Desk (flagship) adds the big one for SA: a WhatsApp assistant, plus reminders, follow-up, Google Business setup and automatic review-requests. Most local trades want the flagship; we'll confirm on the call.

Is an AI assistant allowed on WhatsApp?

Yes — on the flagship plan it runs on the official WhatsApp Business Platform (Meta's own API), not an unofficial workaround, so your number stays safe and within Meta's rules. It handles a clear job — answering questions, capturing leads and booking work.

What's included in the monthly?

Hosting, the 24/7 assistant and its running costs, monitoring, small changes when you need them, one improvement a month, and a monthly results report so you can see exactly what it caught — enquiries answered, leads captured, jobs booked. One simple price, cancel any time.

What happens to my customers' data?

It's handled the POPIA-respectful way: enquiry details are only used to reply to and book the customer, kept in your own leads sheet, and never sold or used for anything else. The full plain-language version is on the Privacy & POPIA page.

Free · 10 minutes · no pressure

Let's stop the leak in your bookings

Tell me your trade and your area. I'll show you exactly what your AI front desk would do — and you only pay once it's live and working.

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Or reach me directly: WhatsApp / call 076 431 1511 · dekockwayne12@gmail.com

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