01What we do for Botswana organisations
Our work falls into four groups. Strategy and design covers discovery, new websites, redesigns, portals and landing pages. Development covers custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce stores, learning platforms and integrations with the systems you already use. Migrations move sites from other platforms, hosts or domains onto WordPress. Managed services keep everything running afterwards: hosting through our partners Cloudways and Hostinger, maintenance, security, performance, technical SEO and email. You can engage us for one of these or all of them, and the same team stays with you throughout.
02Payments that suit Botswana buyers
Online payments in Botswana usually mean cards plus a mobile wallet. DPO Pay by Network is available to Botswana merchants for card payments, with Stanbic Bank as acquirer. Orange Money offers a web payment API to registered Orange Money merchants, and Mascom's MyZakaPay lets customers pay merchants from their phones over USSD. We design checkouts, donation forms and fee pages around the providers your organisation can actually sign up to, show prices in pula, and test the full journey on a phone before anything goes live.
03The Data Protection Act 2024
Botswana's Data Protection Act No. 18 of 2024 replaced the earlier 2018 law and is overseen by the Information and Data Protection Commission. Two parts matter for websites. A breach must be reported to the Commission without delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours. Transfers of personal data to another country are restricted unless an exception applies. We build forms that collect only what you need, add clear consent wording, log who can see submissions, and document where data is stored so your legal adviser can confirm the position.
04Working across a one-hour gap
Botswana runs on Central Africa Time, UTC+2, and does not change its clocks. Lagos is one hour behind, so our working day overlaps with almost all of yours. Calls happen in your morning or afternoon without anyone staying up late. We share a written plan, a staging site you can click through, and a single point of contact who answers questions directly rather than passing them between departments.
05Pricing in US dollars, scoped in writing
Our starting prices are published: strategy and design from $1,500 per project, development from $5,000, migrations from $1,000 per migration, and managed services from $2,000 per year. Every project is scoped in writing first, so you see what is included, what is not, and what you will pay before we start. We invoice in US dollars, which many Botswana organisations already use for software and services bought from abroad.
06Domains, hosting and email
Most Botswana companies on the national domain use .co.bw, registered through a BOCRA-accredited registrar. We help you keep that domain in your organisation's name, connect it to managed hosting, and set up business email on Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or Zoho with the authentication records that keep messages out of spam folders. If you already use a .com address, we can keep it and point the .co.bw name at the same site so both work.
