How Orbit works.
You send a message. Orbit makes a record, keeps the money side straight and hands you a draft invoice. There is no app, no dashboard and nothing to keep up to date — the message you were half-writing anyway is the whole input.
Orbit is in development. Join the waitlist and we WhatsApp you when it opens.
fixed tiling at job on 1st avenue. charged 3800.
Tracking that now ✅
invoice it
Invoice #0042 drafted — tap to send.
The flow
Three steps, and you already do the first one.
Text Orbit what you did
At the end of the job, send one message saying what you did, where, and what you charged — for example “fixed tiling at job on 1st avenue. charged 3800.” Lower case and abbreviations are fine.
Orbit records it and replies
Orbit reads the work, the place, the customer and the money, makes a job on the Vyso operations platform, and replies with what it understood so a mistake is one message away from being fixed.
Ask for the invoice, then send it yourself
Say “invoice it” and Orbit prepares a draft with the customer, the amount and the terms already on it. You read the draft and send it — Orbit never sends to a customer on your behalf.
What Orbit reads
Six things, out of one sentence.
Orbit is being built for the way people type on a phone at the end of a working day — not for a form with nine fields and a date picker.
The work
What you did, in the words you would use to a customer. “Re-tiled the main bathroom”, “db board fault find”, “sealed the valley”.
The place
An address, a suburb, a site name or a customer name. Whatever you already use to tell one job from another.
The money
What you charged, and how it was made up — a rate and hours, a rate and square metres, a fixed price, a callout plus labour.
Materials
What you bought, what it cost and which job it was for. Told to Orbit at the counter rather than reconstructed from a slip weeks later.
Who owes you
What has been paid and what has not, so “who still owes me” is a question with an answer.
Corrections
“No, that was 3500 not 3800.” The job moves, and so does any draft made from it.
bought 12 bags cement 1090 at buildit
Logged against Rivonia — say “no, it's for X” if that's the wrong job.
who still owes me
Three open invoices.
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That's your day.
send the rivonia one
Opened it for you — check the amount, then hit send. Orbit never sends on your behalf.
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What comes back
Four kinds of reply, and none of them go to your customer.
Everything Orbit produces lands in your chat first. The rule is the same one every Vyso product runs on: the software prepares, a person decides.
A confirmation
What it understood, immediately, as a short structured reply. It is faster to correct a wrong reading than to discover one in a month.
A draft invoice
When you ask for one. Filled in from the job, ready to check.
An answer
To “who still owes me”, “what did I charge them last time”, “what have I spent this week”.
An end-of-day summary
Jobs done, charged, materials, and anything still waiting to be sent.
When you get it wrong
You say the wrong number. That’s fine.
The reason people do not write things down on site is that writing them down feels permanent, and being wrong on paper is worse than being vague in your head. So Orbit is being built to be corrected in the same sentence you would use out loud — and a correction moves the job and every draft made from it, because nothing has been sent.
This is the practical half of orbit drafts. you send. A draft can be wrong. An invoice a customer has already received cannot be, without a phone call you did not want to make.
no that was 3500 not 3800
Fixed. The draft invoice moved with it.
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Where it lives
WhatsApp is the door, not the filing cabinet.
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.
Your jobs, customers and invoices are yours. Vyso does not sell customer data and does not use one business’s records to advise another. The company’s published positions are at privacy and POPIA, and those pages are the authority rather than this one.
Not yet
What Orbit is not being built to do first.
Everything above is the intent for the first release. These are on the roadmap, and this page will keep calling them roadmap until they are not.
- Quoting
- Payments in the chat
- Reading photos of slips
- More than one person per account
- Afrikaans and isiZulu
- Scheduling and dispatch
Ready when it opens?
Orbit is in development. The waitlist is free, it commits you to nothing, and the people on it hear first.