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VDM Digital · South Africa, worldwide

Software built for you, not sold to you.

Custom websites, e-commerce, automations and integrations. For businesses whose tools have stopped talking to each other.

You've heard the pitch.

Scalable, seamless, best in class. None of it gets a quote out the door.

Cut through it.

The jargon, and the off-the-shelf templates that never quite fit.

Then we build.

Custom systems, designed around how your business actually runs.

VDM Digital

We cut through the nonsense of this world so we can create you a better way of doing things.

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South Africa, worldwide

We build what you run on.

The website people see, and the system you work in.

Everything behind your website's front door.

Bookings, ticket sales, client records, invoices, support and reporting, built into the back of your website and wired to each other.

Watch it run

Pick any dot to see what it does.

DJ Anker writes a quote in his own admin, turns it into an invoice with one click, and a branded PDF lands in his client's inbox. It replaced his Zoho subscription.
This is the software his business runs on, and we built it for him.
Show me this for my business

Most people start with the site.

It is the front door, and it is the fastest part to put right. The rest of the system can follow when you are ready for it.

What you get

Design
Drawn for your business.
Build
Fast on a mid-range phone on a bad signal, and we measure that before launch.
Search
Set up on day one, so the people looking for what you do this week can find you.
Google Business Profile
Claimed, filled in and connected, because on a local search it is the first thing a customer sees.
Hosting
Monitored and backed up on servers we manage.
Support
Updates, and a person who answers long after launch.

Live in weeks.

  1. Week 1

    We look at what you are running now and agree the scope before anything starts.

  2. Weeks 2 and 3

    Design and build. You watch it go up on a real link.

  3. Week 4

    Copy, search, speed and the final checks. Then it goes live.

  4. Ongoing

    It stays ours to look after, for as long as you want us on it.

Vastrap Sokkieklub went from first call to live in four weeks.

  • Fixed price, agreed before we start
  • You keep working the way you already work
  • You own the code, the data and the accounts
  • A free 20-minute call before you commit to anything

EventU, DJ Anker, Future Drive, Drive Diva and CarMonthly were built this way. All five are live, and we still look after them. Ask what yours would take

Client sites we built, live today.

Where a client recorded a review, it is their own video and their own words.

Four things have to be true before our name goes on it.

van der Merwe is our family name, and the crest carries it onto everything we ship.

  • Custom, or we do not build it

    Written for your business from the first line.

  • Secure before it ships

    Security headers, input validation and a dependency audit on every build, before it goes live.

  • Fast where your customers are

    Measured on a mid-range phone on a bad connection, before launch.

  • The name goes on it

    We answer for anything that ships under the crest.

You talk to the people who build it.

  • Nico van der Merwe

    Principal

  • Erik van der Merwe

    Principal

Your project is owned end to end by the name on it. There is no account layer and no handover, and everyone on the call was also in the code.

Tell us what you are running on now.

The call takes twenty minutes, and you leave with a straight answer, even when the answer is that we are not the right team.

Book a call

Erik or Nico takes the call.