When ready-made software makes your team work around it, we build simple tools that work around you: apps, automations and dashboards on Microsoft’s cloud. And they’re looked after by the same NETCONFIG team that keeps your IT running, secure and backed up.
A few signs it might be time for a tool that fits you, not the other way round.
None of this needs a massive IT project. Often one well-built tool sorts it out.
Fourteen tabs, three people editing at once and a file called FINAL_v7_REALLY_FINAL. One wrong paste and Monday is ruined.
Your team types the same details into your emails, your accounting system and your customer list. It’s slow, it’s boring and it’s where mistakes sneak in.
Leave, quotes and purchase requests get a thumbs-up in a chat, and nobody can find the “yes” later.
By the time the numbers are pulled together, they’re already out of date.
Everyday tools that make work lighter. Here’s the kind of thing we build.
Requests, approvals, checklists and inspections on a phone, tablet or laptop. No more printouts, no more lost forms.
Often built with Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate. Some Microsoft 365 plans already include basic rights to these, so we check your licences first.
We connect the tools you already use so information flows on its own, instead of being typed in twice.
A secure place where people log in to submit, track or update things themselves. Fewer “just checking in” emails.
Live dashboards instead of month-end panic. See our business intelligence dashboards.
Smarter shared files, team sites and customer records. See SharePoint & CRM solutions.
For bigger needs, we build web apps on Microsoft Azure, using Microsoft’s data centres in South Africa where the service allows.
Curious about AI helpers too? Chat to our Microsoft Copilot specialists.
Software isn’t finished when it goes live. It needs updates, security, backups and someone to call. NETCONFIG has looked after South African businesses’ IT since 1999, so we plan for all of that from day one.
Sign-in and permissions are set up properly by people who do cyber security every day.
Your app’s data sits inside your data protection and backups plan.
We think about what personal information you collect, who can see it and where it lives. Pair this with our managed POPIA services.
We show your team how it works through user training, in plain English.
Support sits with your managed IT services, not with a freelancer who has moved on.
Five simple steps, and you’re involved in every one.
Tell us what’s driving everyone mad. No jargon, no obligation.
We sit with the people who do the work and draw how it really happens.
You test a sample before we build the real thing.
You see working parts early and tell us what to tweak.
We go live, train your team and keep it healthy.
Three friendly options, and no surprises.
You get a written quote after we’ve mapped the process.
Some solutions can be offered as software as a service, so there’s no big upfront cost.
Updates and support can sit alongside your managed IT services.
We’ll also tell you honestly if something you already own can do the job. Sometimes the best software project is the one you don’t need.
Our head office is at 28 Essex Terrace, Westville, Durban, and we provide support throughout South Africa via dedicated technicians.
Workshops, testing and training can happen online, so wherever your team is, we can build with you.
Head office
28 Essex Terrace, Westville, Durban
The questions people ask us most, answered plainly.
Custom software development means building software around your business’s own way of working, instead of changing how you work to fit a ready-made product. It can be as simple as a phone app for site inspections or as involved as a customer portal. NETCONFIG builds and supports these tools on Microsoft’s cloud.
Choose ready-made software when a product already handles your process well, because it’s usually quicker and cheaper. Custom software makes sense when your team keeps working around the tool, re-typing data or chasing approvals. NETCONFIG always checks first whether something you already own, like Microsoft 365, can do the job.
NETCONFIG builds apps that replace paperwork and approvals, connections between the systems you already use, secure portals for customers and staff, dashboards, SharePoint and customer-record solutions, and cloud apps hosted on Microsoft Azure.
The cost depends on how many screens, users, connections and approvals the solution needs, so there’s no honest one-size price. NETCONFIG gives you a written quote after mapping your process, and some solutions can be paid monthly instead of upfront.
Simple automations can take a few weeks, while larger apps and portals take a bit longer. NETCONFIG builds in stages, so you see and test working parts early instead of waiting for one big reveal at the end.
Where the service allows, NETCONFIG can host your solution in Microsoft’s data centres in South Africa, which helps keep personal information in the country. POPIA also covers who can access data and how it’s secured, so we design permissions, backups and security in from the start.
NETCONFIG does. As a managed IT services provider, we can support, update, secure and back up your software with the same team that already looks after your IT, so you have one number to call when something needs changing.
No. Our head office is at 28 Essex Terrace, Westville, Durban, and we support businesses throughout South Africa through dedicated technicians. Workshops, testing and training can happen online, so wherever your team is, we can build with you.
Proactive support, monitoring and strategy
Friendly help-desk and remote support
Work securely from anywhere
Protect your people and your data
Backups you can actually restore
Dashboards that make sense
Get more from Microsoft 365
AI that helps, safely
Privacy compliance, made practical
Tell us about it. We’ll listen, ask a few questions and tell you honestly whether custom software is the right fix, even if the answer is “the app you already own can do this”.
