Software Engineering · Johannesburg, South Africa
AXIS METIS designs, builds, and supports custom platforms for property, hospitality, healthcare, education, and travel businesses — scoped in writing, tested before launch, and handed over in your ownership.
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Capabilities
Most of our work falls into one of three areas. All of it is built by the same team, to the same standard, and handed over documented.
Systems of record for how a business actually runs: clients, deals, jobs, invoicing, and reporting, modelled on your workflow rather than a generic template.
Storefronts, ordering flows, and self-service portals with the admin tooling behind them, so your team can run catalogue, stock, and orders without developer involvement.
Bespoke applications, internal tooling, and the integration work that connects them to the systems already in place across your business.
Selected work
Each of these replaced a manual process with something the client's team uses every day. Live systems are linked where the client has made them public.
Property · Operational CRM
Property management platform for letting agents, holding the portfolio, tenancies, rent, and maintenance in one system of record.
Replaced spreadsheet-based rent tracking with an auditable record.
Property · Customer portals
Landlord and tenant portals covering applications, unit allocation, stays, and invoicing from a single shared record.
Moved tenant applications and approvals off WhatsApp and paper.
Private client system
Hospitality · Commerce + mobile
Ordering platform and kitchen administration for a high-volume Atteridgeville restaurant, with native apps on both mobile platforms.
Online ordering and kitchen dispatch running on one order queue.
Private client system
Health · Practice system
Patient records, bookings, and consultation notes for a dietetics practice, built around clinical confidentiality requirements.
Consolidated patient history and bookings into one practice desk.
Private client system
Education · Public website
Public-facing school website covering academics, admissions, news, and contact, structured for parents and prospective families.
Gave admissions a single authoritative public channel.
Travel · Agency system
Booking, client management, and invoicing for a travel agency, including generated PDF documentation for travellers.
Bookings, clients, and invoicing handled in one agency system.
Private client system
How we work
These are not optional extras or upsells. They are the standard terms of working with us.
Every engagement starts with a written scope, deliverables, and acceptance criteria, so there is no ambiguity about what is being built or when it is done.
Source code, infrastructure, and accounts are handed over in your name. No lock-in, no hostage licensing, no dependency on us to keep operating.
Functional testing, access-control checks, and a staged environment for sign-off before anything reaches the people who rely on it.
Admin walkthroughs, written documentation, and a training session for the staff who will run the system day to day.
Authentication, permissions, and data handling reviewed by our own cybersecurity specialist rather than left to chance.
An agreed support arrangement after launch, covering fixes, small changes, and the next phase of work when you are ready.
Delivery process
The same six phases on every project, whatever the size. Each one ends with something written down, so you always know where the work stands.
We sit with the people who do the work, map the current process, and identify where the cost and risk actually sit.
Output — Requirements and process map
A written scope with deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria, and a fixed commercial figure before any code is written.
Output — Signed scope of work
Data model, integration points, access control, and hosting decided and documented up front so the build does not stall halfway.
Output — Technical design
Delivery in reviewable increments on a staging environment, so you see working software throughout rather than at the end.
Output — Staged releases
Functional testing, access-control and security review, and user acceptance against the criteria agreed in the scope.
Output — Sign-off record
Documentation, staff training, and transfer of code and infrastructure into your ownership, followed by an agreed support arrangement.
Output — Documentation & support
Technology
We build on tools with long support horizons and a large hiring pool, so the system stays maintainable long after handover — by us or by anyone you bring in.
Application
Mobile
Data
Platform
Integration
Security
Tell us what the current process looks like. We will tell you honestly whether custom software is the right answer.