The proof, not the pitch.
We would rather show you a system that is running than a deck about one. Here is what we have built, and what it does on an ordinary Tuesday.
Founding-client pricing for the first five businesses.
Three things worth showing.
One client store, one product, and the content practice that feeds both.
Client storeSA Art Fair
A booking system for studio classes, workshops and full terms, built into a Shopify store that also sells original artwork.
Read the case studyBhuka
The booking app itself — deposits through your own checkout, one admin, calendar invites, waitlists. Installs onto a store you already have.
See the product
Photo + videoFun Life
Fifteen years of stills and ten of motion — festivals, fashion, corporate launches and aerial work across Cape Town.
See the media workEight demo sites. Book on any of them.
Eight made-up businesses, each with its own website and Bhuka running the bookings inside it. Book as a customer, then check people in, reschedule or cancel from the owner’s admin right next to it.
Art classes
Studio Seven
Kalk Bay, Cape Town
Seats with names, kids’ classes and prints in one checkout.
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Yoga studio
Still Water Yoga
Sea Point, Cape Town
Class capacity, waitlists and a class pass in the same cart.
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Hair salon
Mane Street
Woodstock, Cape Town
Stylist diaries, “Anyone” bookings and a R200 deposit.
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Padel club
Atlantic Padel
Milnerton, Cape Town
Live court availability, peak slots and a Friday social.
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Surf school
Saltline Surf School
Muizenberg, Cape Town
Group bookings with a name per surfer, gear hire, 50% deposits.
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Tattoo studio
Linework Tattoo
Observatory, Cape Town
Free consults, artist diaries and R500 deposits.
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Wine farm
Klipkop Estate
Stellenbosch
Seatings, guest counts and deposits for Saturday lunches.
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Skin clinic
Lumen Skin Studio
Claremont, Cape Town
Free consults, therapist choice and treatment deposits.
Open the demo siteThe businesses are made up and nothing is charged. The design, the booking flow and the admin are what your business would get.
SA Art Fair takes bookings like a shop.
Classes are not products — a seat has a date, a capacity, an age range and a person attending it. We built the booking layer into the store so seats and canvases sell through one checkout, with three booking modes, waitlists on sold-out dates and calendar invites on confirmation.
Audit, build, grow.
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Audit
Fifteen free minutes. We look at your store, your booking process and where money is leaking out of it.
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Build
A one-page proposal the same day. App installs run three to five days; a full store build, two to three weeks.
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Grow
Care plan, content and paid traffic once the foundation holds. Cancel any time.
Booking system installs from R4,500 — founding rate for the first five businesses.
Before you ask.
You only have one client case study.
Correct, and we would rather say so than pad the page. SA Art Fair is a real store running a real booking system you can go and use right now. Founding-client pricing exists precisely because you are early.
What kinds of business is this for?
Anything that sells time as well as things — yoga studios, private gyms, salons, padel clubs, surf schools, tattoo studios, aesthetics clinics, wine farms. If you take bookings on WhatsApp and sell nothing online, that is the gap.
Can you do the content too?
Yes, and that is the unusual part. Fifteen years of stills and ten of motion sit in the same team that builds the store, so the photography and video that make it convert are not a separate procurement exercise.