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Workever is a UK job management platform with a South African regional site. Omni Field is built and billed in South Africa: prices in Rand with VAT included, Paystack payment links on invoices, WhatsApp updates from the job record, live GPS tracking, a client portal and Xero and Sage integrations, with a Free plan and a 30 day trial.
Information about Workever comes from their public website, checked 2026-09-09. Workever is based in United Kingdom and is Subscription plans with a free trial and no contracts, published on their pricing page with a region selector that includes South Africa. Their site describes unlimited free support on every plan..
Workever is a UK-based job and field service management platform for trades and service businesses, with job scheduling, invoicing, fieldworker mobile apps, mobile forms and team chat, sold through regional sites that include a South African edition.
| Capability | Omni Field |
|---|---|
| Countries priced for | Prices display in local currency for South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire at a fixed rate.Billing is processed in South African Rand, and the Rand amount is shown before payment. |
| Plans and entry price | Free at R0, PaYu at R149 per month plus R149 per technician seat, Growth at R349 per month including one technician plus R349 per extra seat, and Business is quoted.All advertised prices include 15% VAT. Viewer users are free; admin seats are R99 per month on PaYu and R199 on Growth. |
| Taking payment from customers | Card and bank payments through Paystack, with no separate merchant account to open. Payouts in 2 to 3 days, with a 1% transaction charge. |
| Customer notifications | Email and WhatsApp, sent from the job record so the thread stays attached to the work.There is no customer facing SMS channel. |
| Field app | An installable PWA for technicians that tolerates patchy signal, holding work in a sync queue until the connection returns.Offline tolerant with a sync queue, not a fully offline application. |
| Route planning | Multi-stop route optimisation that orders a technician's day around their appointment windows and time on site.Up to 60 stops per route. The ordering is solved on free-flow travel times; the times shown are traffic aware. |
| GPS and geofencing | Live technician tracking, geofence boundaries around sites with arrival and departure alerts, and clock-in that is verified against the site geofence. |
| Accounting | Xero and Sage Accounting South Africa, connected per account from system settings. |
| Client portal | Customers can see their jobs, quotes, invoices and documents in a portal on your own branded site. |
| Quoting and invoicing | Build a quote, convert it to a job, and invoice from the completed work without rekeying line items. |
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