jenelt workbench
Websites and phone apps for South African trades, built by one person, around the questions your customers ask. Open a finished example and try it on your own phone.
Tap.
Your customer finds you and taps Call or WhatsApp. Both sit on the first screen.
Look.
Your services, your areas and your hours, in the order a customer needs them.
Send.
They send a photo of the job and ask for a quote. It lands in your WhatsApp.
Your number, a WhatsApp quote button, your services and your areas, on the first screen of a phone.
Working examples, open below
Diary, quotes and deposits in one place, so the paperwork stops living in a notebook.
Working demo
Send a customer a link to pay by card or EFT. The money goes to your own PayFast account.
Tested in PayFast's sandbox
Ready-written messages you send from your own WhatsApp. The app shows who still owes you.
Working demo
Plumbing and electrical examples are open above. The other trades start from the same base.
Call-out number, areas, geysers and leaks first.
Fault call-out, a safety note, certificates.
Bookings and service types up front.
Photo quotes and a gallery of finished jobs.
Site-visit requests and photo quotes.
Regular service plans and reminders.
How I compare. General comparisons: I have not tested every product.
OthersMany start from a general template.
MeI build for South African trades, in rand, and start from what your customers look for before they call.
OthersMany are built for other countries.
MeI build for the phone: quick to open, easy on a thumb, ready for a customer's photo.
OthersThey work for every kind of business.
MeI only do trades, so I start from the questions your customers ask a plumber or electrician.
OthersA website from one place, an app from another, payments from a third.
MeI build your site, your job app and your payment links myself, so they are made to work together.
R4,500 once-off
R400 a month
From R0 a month
Prices in rand. A written quote confirms the final price before any work starts.
You send the name of your business, where you work and what you need. I ask for what I still don't know.
I build a first version from your facts. Draft banners and marked stock photos stay until your own facts and photos go in.
You open it on your own phone and tell me what to change. I change it, and you look again.
Meet the builder
Hi, I'm Jacques. I run jenelt workbench from South Africa and I build every site and app on this page myself. When you send a message, you are talking to the person who does the work.
Yes. It lets me get the details right instead of making a page that could be for anyone.
The name of your business, where you work, your phone or WhatsApp number and what you want a customer to do. Photos of your work help. If you have none, I use stock photos marked as stock.
It is a working draft you open on your phone. The draft banner and the stock photos stay until your own facts and photos are added.
The free draft is a private preview for you to judge. It stays ours until you go ahead and pay. It may not be copied, shared, or fed into any other tool to imitate it. The same goes for the 14-day trial.
You can buy a website for R4,500 once-off and run it yourself, or take the care plan, where we host and look after it and it stays ours, with no once-off fee. The care plan is R400 a month, hosting and your yearly website name renewal included, with a 14-day private trial. We register your website name for you, and its first year is included. The app starts free; Plus is R149 a month. The first draft is free.
Yes. An installable web app sits on your home screen and opens like any app, with no store involved. Google and Apple store listings come later.
jenelt consulting, in South Africa. Every business shown on this page is made up. None of them is a customer.
Call, message, or answer a few short questions. Every question is skippable.
Jacques
jenelt workbench. Websites and phone apps for South African trades.