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Storefront
Mobile-first catalogue, trust, and a path to buy. WhatsApp for questions — not for taking the order by screenshot.
E-Commerce
Anyone can sell you a shop. We sell you the system after checkout.
A product grid and a Pay Now button is not a business. Thunderbolt builds stores where money, stock, packing, and customer updates live in one place — then we run it.
We have already shipped this for sister companies. Garage does not stop at “sold”. Logistics does not stop at “booked”. Your shop should not either.
yourshop.co.za / ops
Storefront
Brake kit
In stock · Pay
Filter set
In stock · Pay
Oil 5L
In stock · Pay
Pads
In stock · Pay
Order desk
TB-1042
PaidBrake kit · Ozow
TB-1041
PackingFilter set · Card
TB-1040
In transitOil 5L · Hub JHB
Live · money in · work out
Checkout → desk → track
SADC Trade Store — click to open demo →
Why this costs more than a template
Cheap shops look finished on launch day. They fall apart the first time an order, a stock miss, and a WhatsApp screenshot collide.
Typical shop
Thunderbolt
A theme, a cart plugin, and a payment widget you have to babysit.
A storefront designed around how you actually sell — then a desk that receives every order cleanly.
“Sold” is an email. Fulfilment is still a WhatsApp thread and a notebook.
Payment creates a job: stock, packing, status, and the customer’s next update.
You own the plugins, the updates, and the 2 a.m. breakage.
We host, patch, and iterate. You operate the business.
Corridor payments bolted on last, or not at all.
Card, Instant EFT, and mobile money wired in as first-class checkout — not an afterthought.
The stack we actually ship
Four layers. If any one is missing, you do not have ecommerce — you have a brochure with a button.
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Money
Checkout that matches how Southern African customers actually pay. The sale is a record, not a picture of a proof of payment.
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Desk
Staff see paid orders, stock, and what to pack next. No hunting through chats to find who bought what.
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After-sale
Status the customer can check. Tracking when the corridor needs it. Saved buyers for the next order.
Where cheap shops break
The sale is the start
If this is how you sell today, a theme will not save you. The system has to absorb the mess.
Today: Orders arrive as Instagram DMs and WhatsApp voice notes.
With us: The storefront takes the order. Staff see a paid job with product, quantity, and customer in one row.
Today: Customers send a screenshot of payment and wait for someone to notice.
With us: Gateway confirms the money. The order moves to packing without a human matching proofs.
Today: You discover it is out of stock when you start packing.
With us: Inventory drops at checkout. Low stock shows before the customer pays.
Today: “Has it left?” is a daily phone call.
With us: One status update on the desk. The customer checks a track page or order history themselves.
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What “advanced” means here
Not more features for a slide deck. Capabilities your desk will use in week one.
Corridor payments as default
Card, Instant EFT, and mobile money belong in checkout. We do not pretend every buyer has an international card.
WhatsApp in its place
Conversation stays on WhatsApp. The order, the money, and the status do not. That split is the difference between a shop and a system.
Stock that tells the truth
What is on the shelf and what is on the site stay in step. Overselling is an ops failure we design out, not a surprise at packing.
Staff desk, not an inbox
Paid, packing, shipped, delivered. Assigned. Searchable. The same craft we put behind Garage and Logistics.
After-sale as a product
Tracking pages, order history, and saved customers. Repeat business should not require the buyer to re-explain themselves.
Built and run by us
Hosting, SSL, updates, payment-provider changes, and iteration. You are not left with a repo and a plugin list.
We already run selling systems
Ecommerce is the same craft as our sister-company products — money in, work out, customer informed. The storefront is the front door.
SADC Trade Store
Open the sample shop. Browse products and follow the checkout path the way a buyer on the corridor would.
Open demo →Thunderbolt Garage
Parts ordered without resending vehicle details. Payment and tracking live outside the chat scrollback.
Learn more →Thunderbolt Logistics
After the booking, clients self-serve status. That is the after-sale layer every serious shop needs.
Learn more →If checkout is all you want, this is the wrong studio.
If you want a shop that holds when the first real week of orders hits — tell us how you sell today. We will show you the stack.