Orbit is in development. Join the waitlist and we WhatsApp you when it opens.
Run your trade from WhatsApp.
Text Orbit what you did and what you charged. It tracks the job, drafts the invoice and keeps your books — on the Vyso operations platform already running South African businesses.
fixed tiling at job on 1st avenue. charged 3800.
Tracking that now ✅
One message, start to finish
From “charged 3800” to a drafted invoice, without leaving the chat.
fixed tiling at job on 1st avenue. charged 3800.
Tracking that now ✅
invoice it
Invoice #0042 drafted — tap to send.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Inside Vyso, at the same moment
The message is not the record. It makes one — on the operations platform Vyso already runs for South African businesses.
1st Avenue — tiling
M. Naidoo
Orbit drafts. You send — nothing reaches a customer without you.
What Orbit does
Five things, done from a chat thread.
Nothing here needs a laptop, an office or a spare evening. Orbit is being built so the record of your work is made by the person who did it, at the moment they finished.
Captures jobs
One message — what you did, where, and what you charged — becomes a job with a value against it.
Drafts invoices
Ask for an invoice and it comes back filled in from the job. You read it and you send it.
Tracks what you're owed
Ask “who still owes me” and get an answer from your own records, not a guess.
Keeps materials straight
Tell it what you bought and which job it was for, before you leave the counter.
Sends an end-of-day summary
What the day earned, what it cost, and what is still waiting to be sent.
How it works
Three steps, and you already know the first one.
You text what happened
At the end of the job, in the app you already have open. Lower case, no punctuation, however you actually type.
Orbit records it and replies
It reads the work, the place and the money, makes the job, and tells you what it has understood — so a mistake is one message away from fixed.
You say “invoice it”
The draft comes back with the customer, the amount and the terms on it. Orbit drafts, you send.
Who it's for
Built for one- and two-person trade businesses.
Ten trades, each with its own page, because a roofer's week is not a tiler's week and the reasons money goes missing are different in both.
Built on Vyso
Not a new company with a chatbot.
Orbit runs on the same Vyso operations platform already working for South African food businesses — document capture, order and price tracking, invoicing and the Finch assistant. Orbit is the WhatsApp front door onto it.
Vyso is a Johannesburg company. Its platform is used by South African food businesses today — including Turn ’n Slice, which is replacing QuickBooks with Vyso’s own invoicing. Orbit puts a WhatsApp front door on the same machinery, for a different trade.
Orbit drafts. You send.
Price
R99/ month
per tradesperson, per month
VAT-inclusive pricing confirmed at launch.
One plan. No tiers, no per-invoice fee, no setup cost.
- Job tracking from WhatsApp — what you did, where, and what you charged
- Draft invoices prepared from the job, ready for you to check and send
- Materials and costs recorded against the job that used them
- A live answer to “who still owes me”
- An end-of-day summary of what the day earned
Straight answers
The four questions everyone asks first.
What is Orbit?
Orbit is WhatsApp operations software for South African tradespeople: you text it what you did and what you charged, and it tracks the job, drafts the invoice and keeps a record of what you are owed. It runs on the Vyso operations platform that already serves South African food businesses. Orbit itself is in development — you can join the waitlist today.
Do I need to install an app?
No. Orbit is a WhatsApp conversation — the same app you already use to talk to customers. There is nothing to download, no account screen to learn and no separate login to forget.
What does Orbit cost?
R99 per tradesperson per month. VAT-inclusive pricing is confirmed at launch, and founding pricing is locked for people who join the waitlist before Orbit opens.
When does Orbit launch?
There is no public launch date yet. Orbit is in development; joining the waitlist is how you find out, and we WhatsApp the list before anyone else.
Join the waitlist.
Orbit is being built now. The list is free, it commits you to nothing, and founding pricing is locked for the people on it.