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Transfer and bond cost calculators for South African conveyancers

Your cost estimate, on your client's phone.

A calculator app in your firm's name, on your website and in both app stores. Clients work out transfer and bond costs on your own fees, and send the estimate on as a PDF on your letterhead.

Ashgrove Attorneys · a made-up firmR1 850 000
The PDF cost estimate on the Ashgrove Attorneys letterhead: transfer duty, attorney fees, Deeds Office fees and disbursements in fees, disbursements and VAT columns, total R73 478,50. 01 PDF on your letterhead 02 Your own fees 03 Your client's phone
The same estimate in the Ashgrove app on a phone: purchase price R1 850 000, cost estimate R73 478,50, Share PDF button.
  • From R3,500 a year, and no VAT is charged. Set up by Riaan, who built it.
  • A working copy in your branding, usually the same day, at no charge.

Already live · each one is a firm's own app, under its own name

Search "FIFO Solutions" to see them all: App Store · Google Play

One question, answered everywhere.

Your client asks "how much will it cost?" Your app answers on your fees, wherever they ask. No "we'll come back to you on the costs".

  1. On your website

    A short snippet puts the calculators on your own site. On phones it shows a button that opens them. They also live at your own address, yourfirm.law.fifo.systems.

    The made-up Marula & Finch Attorneys website with the calculator tiles embedded under 'What will my transfer cost?'.
    The same website on a phone: an 'Open Property Calculator' button.
    Marula & Finch's own website, on a computer and a phone. A made-up firm.

  2. At a show day

    The agent who refers you opens your app and types the price. The buyer sees transfer duty, your fees and the Deeds Office costs before an offer is signed. In the store apps, the calculators and PDFs work without signal.

    Transfer costs in the Ashgrove app: purchase price R1 850 000, the cost estimate of R73 478,50, and transfer duty from the SARS table.
    Further down: fees (attorney fees, post and petties, document generation, FICA, electronic facilitation) and disbursements (Deeds Office registration, lodgement, searches, submitting transfer duty, Form LLL), with VAT on the lines that carry it.
    The transfer result in the Ashgrove app. A made-up firm.

  3. On WhatsApp

    One tap sends the estimate as a PDF on your letterhead, with your details on it. Send someone your app's link and the preview shows your name and logo.

    Share PDF, then the PDF your client sends on.

  4. In your inbox

    Clients call, WhatsApp or email you straight from the calculator. On Plus they can also start an antenuptial contract, a will or a bridging application, and it reaches you by email.

    The Ashgrove home screen scrolled down: the calculators, then the Apply online tiles for an antenuptial contract, a will and bridging finance.
    The screen after sending: Ashgrove Attorneys will call you, and the date the platform deletes its copy.
    Apply online sits under the calculators. Then the Sent screen.

  5. At your desk

    One sign-in for your whole team, each with their own PIN: your fees, contact details, documents and applications. Staff see applications only if a partner allows it.

    The firm dashboard on a computer: three applications, one marked still to collect (2), two marked viewed by a named person, and the firm's services underneath.
    1 2 3
    1. 1Applications, with what's still to collect
    2. 2Who has looked at each one
    3. 3Your services

Eight calculators: transfer, bond and total costs, bond repayment, affordability, capital gains tax, return on investment and agent commission. You choose which ones your clients see.

The document your client keeps.

Every estimate is a PDF on your letterhead, set out like your invoice and with only what's on it: fees, disbursements and VAT in their own columns.

1Ashgrove Attorneys seal
Ashgrove AttorneysAttorneys, Conveyancers & Notaries14 Oakleaf Lane, Stellenbosch, 7600 · 021 000 0101

Cost Estimate

Based on a property value of R1 850 000,00

NoteDESCRIPTIONFEESDISBVAT
2Transfer Duty (SARS)DisbursementR24 786,00
3Attorney FeesFee · VAT R5 531,00R36 875,00R5 531,00
Post & PettiesFee · VAT R165,00R1 100,00R165,00
Document Generation FeeFee · VAT R90,00R600,00R90,00
FICAFee · VAT R110,25R735,00R110,25
Electronic facilitation feeFee · VAT R82,50R550,00R82,50
Deeds Office RegistrationDisbursementR1 738,00
Lodgement FeeDisbursementR52,00
4Deeds Office SearchesDisbursement · VAT R67,50R450,00R67,50
Submitting transfer duty (SARS)Disbursement · VAT R37,50R250,00R37,50
Form LLL (Deeds Office)Disbursement · VAT R33,75R225,00R33,75
Sub totalR39 860,00R27 501,00R6 117,50
Total transfer costs (incl. VAT)R73 478,50

Fees are professional charges by the attorney. Disbursements are payments made to third parties on your behalf.

5This cost estimate is for informational purposes only. Actual costs may vary.

  1. 1Your logo and name, from your letterhead.
  2. 2Transfer duty from the SARS tables.
  3. 3Your own fees, or the LSSA's conveyancing fee guideline until you set yours.
  4. 4VAT only on the lines that carry it.
  5. 5Your disclaimer, on every page.
Rates updated within 5 business days of new figures

When transfer duty, Deeds Office fees or the fee guideline change, we update the defaults within 5 business days of the new figures being published. Your own fees stay as you set them. If you use your own fee table, we'll ask you to check it. The apps pick up the change the next time they open.

Left out on purpose: the bank's and the seller's costs
  • The bank's charges, such as the initiation fee. They aren't on your invoice.
  • The seller's costs, such as rates clearance.
  • Advice to haggle over fees.
Four sample PDFs, for made-up firms, stamped SAMPLE
  • Transfer cost estimate (Ashgrove)PDF, 120 KB
  • Total costs: transfer and bond (Ashgrove)PDF, 123 KB
  • The same estimate on another letterhead (Marula & Finch)PDF, 64 KB
  • Antenuptial contract application summary (Ashgrove)PDF, 121 KB

Your name on all of it.

Pick a firm and a home screen: the store icon, the home screen, the letterhead and the website change together. These firms are made up. Yours would carry yours.

02 Marula & Finch home screen, layout Elegant

02 Home screen · Elegant

01 The Marula & Finch app icon
Marula & Finch Attorneys
FIFO Solutions (Pty) Ltd
03 The Marula & Finch letterhead on a cost estimate

03 Letterhead · header centred · Playfair Display

04
The Marula & Finch website with the calculators embedded

04 Website · marulafinch.example

Six home screens · tap one

Opens the demo in your colour and the layout above. Nothing is saved.

We set

Your layout, colours, logo, letterhead and app icon, and one link to your app that opens the right store on each phone, with a QR code for your office. We publish the app and look after updates, so you run no developer account.

You change, whenever you like

Your fees and disbursements, contact details, team, FAQ and documents, from your dashboard.

The same at every firm

Transfer duty and Deeds Office fees from the official tables, and a disclaimer on every screen.

A made-up firm's card. The QR code is real: it opens demo.law.fifo.systems/get.

One yearly fee.

Pro-formaFIFO Law · per firm, per year
Prices per year
DescriptionPer year 1
Web AppYour calculator app at your own address and on your website, with PDF estimates on your letterheadR3,500
Web + AndroidAdds your own app in Google PlayR5,000
Web + Android + iOSAdds your own app in the App StoreR7,500
PlusEverything above, with your document library, online applications, and a push notification to your app's clients when you add a documentR9,500
  1. 1Prices exclude VAT. FIFO isn't VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged.
  2. 2Nothing per client, per estimate or per application.
  3. 3No set-up fee.
  4. 4Price fixed for two years, then CPI + 3% a year.
  5. 5Not happy in the first 30 days? A full refund.
Start with a free working copy ↓
Included in PlusYour app brings your clients to you: online applications and your document library.

Calculators come first. Underneath, clients can start three things online:

  • Antenuptial contracts. Couples fill in their details and upload their IDs. You call them, take the instruction and arrange signing before your notary. For firms with an admitted notary.
  • Wills. Clients set out their family, heirs and wishes. You take the instruction and draw the will. Nothing is signed online.
  • Bridging finance. Sellers and agents estimate an advance before transfer and apply to you.
  • Your document library. Upload PDFs such as FICA lists and guides from your dashboard. Clients find them in your app and on your website.

Each application reaches you by email, with a PDF summary and a list of what's still to collect. We delete it from our system 90 days after it's sent.

We never send you clients and never list firms. Your clients reach you through your own app.

Questions partners ask.

01We already have a calculator on our website.

Keep it if you like. This one is also your own app in both stores, works on your fees and your letterhead, and comes with a website calculator that matches it.

02What do you need from us?

For the working copy, your logo and your website. Before you go live, you check the fees we've set up, or send us your own fee table.

03What if a figure is wrong?

Every screen and PDF carries your disclaimer. You check the fees before you go live, and you can change them yourself at any time.

04Whose name is on the app?

Yours, with your icon. FIFO Solutions is listed as the publisher in the stores. The web app carries a small "Calculator by FIFO Solutions" line, and the calculator on your website a small "Powered by FIFO Law" line.

05Who decides what the app says?

You do. You approve every word before it goes live and can change it at any time.

06Do clients need to sign up?

No. There's no login and no account. It works on any phone or computer.

07Where is our clients' information kept?

Online applications, and the documents clients upload with them, are stored on Google Cloud in Johannesburg and deleted 90 days after they're sent. The calculators don't ask clients for any personal details. The privacy notice has the detail.

Want yours?

From Riaan Potas, Durbanville

The first thing a buyer asks a conveyancer is "how much will it cost?" The answer usually waits until someone retypes a fee table into an email. FIFO Law lets your clients, and the agents who refer them, answer it themselves: in your app, on your fees and on your letterhead.

Send me your logo and your website, and I'll set up a working copy in your branding, usually the same day, at no charge. Look at it on your own phone before you decide.

Regards,
Riaan Potas
Director, FIFO Solutions (Pty) Ltd
082 525 4011 · riaan@fifo.systems