South Africa's only purpose-built Will drafting system

Your firm's Wills.Your wording.Done in minutes.

SimplyWill™ loads your firm's own approved clause wording — English and Afrikaans — and generates every Will type your practice handles. Installed on your own machines. Client content is encrypted with your firm's own key before it ever leaves a workstation.

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7-Day Pilot
Completely free
Act 7/1953
Wills Act compliant
ENG + AFR
Bilingual output
The SimplyWill drafting screen: a Will draft checklist running from testator details through to review, beside the generated Last Will and Testament
The SimplyWill dashboard open on a laptop in a law office, showing drafts in progress, wills completed and recent matters
The software

Everything your Wills department does — in one screen.

Every Will your firm has ever drafted, its current status, who holds the original, and what happens next. No spreadsheet. No shared folder. No guessing.

Every Will, one register
Searchable by QR or name
Custody at a glance
Know where the original is
Production reporting
Built in, exports to CSV
What you get

Four parts of the job,
handled.

Your wording, your intake, your documents, your firm's name on the cover — each one built into the software instead of done by hand.

Custom Will Suite
Use your own precedent and preferred wording with flexible, configurable templates.
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Client Intake
A guided, intuitive intake process that captures the right information, every time.
How it works
Document Automation
Automate clauses and document generation, reducing drafting time from hours to minutes.
How it works
Firm Branding
Produce beautifully branded Wills that reflect your firm's identity and standards.
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The problem

Most firms still draft Wills
in Word.

Copy, paste, adjust, re-check, repeat — in two languages. For every client. It doesn't have to work like this.

Hours of avoidable work per Will
Clause selection, bilingual generation, pagination, signature pages, cover pages, dossier filing — SimplyWill™ does all of this automatically.
Operational cost
POPIA exposure in every Word file
Client ID numbers, asset schedules, beneficiary details — in files emailed between staff and stored in shared folders. Every one is a liability.
Compliance risk
No single source of truth
Where is the signed original? Has the amendment been returned? Who holds custody? Estate files scattered across folders, emails, and memory.
Practice risk
What SimplyWill™ does

Not a template filler.
Purpose-built for your practice.

01 — Wording
Your firm's clauses, not ours
The Custom Will Engine loads your approved precedent wording so every generated Will reads exactly like your senior partner produced it by hand.
02 — Complexity
Every Will type your firm drafts
Joint Wills, massed estates, three trust types, fractional ownership, per-heir percentage splits, family fatality clauses, entity heirs, predecease chains.
03 — Data
Installed on your own machines
A full database on every workstation, working offline. What syncs between your own devices is encrypted with your firm's key first — unreadable to us. Your firm remains the responsible party under POPIA.
04 — Dossier
Full estate file management
Each client gets a permanent dossier — generated documents, practice notes timeline with Outlook email integration, evidence locker, estate intake form.
05 — Custody
Chain of Custody for the original
Every event affecting the signed Will is logged. Documents carry a QR code linking to the full custody record. Always know where the original is.
06 — Language
English and Afrikaans simultaneously
SA ID validated via the DHA checksum algorithm. English and Afrikaans generated in one step — in your firm's voice, in both languages.
The Custom Will Engine

Your precedents.
In the software.

Most Will drafting tools give you generic clauses and tell you to adapt them. SimplyWill™ loads your firm's actual approved wording into the system — so every document generated is already in your voice.

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Your Will, Living Will and POA wording integrated
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Your own executor, trust, guardian and massing clauses
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Both English and Afrikaans versions of your wording
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Update your wording once — reflected everywhere
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Standard Will System also available if preferred

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Your clause library Custom Will Suite
Executor Clause
"I nominate and appoint [EXECUTOR] as Executor of my estate, with power to act without providing security to any Master..."
Your approved wording
Minor Heirs Trust
"Should any heir be a minor at the time of my death, their inheritance shall be held in trust by [TRUSTEE] until age [AGE]..."
Your approved wording
Massing of Estates
"We hereby mass our respective estates into one joint estate, to be distributed as follows upon the death of the survivor..."
Your approved wording
Special Bequest — Fixed Property
"My [X%] share in the fixed property situated at [ADDRESS], Erf [ERF], Registration Division [DIV]..."
Your approved wording
How it works

Five steps. One Will.

A guided 5-step wizard takes your team from blank screen to completed Will — in both languages.

1
Logistics
Mandate origin, language, Will type (Individual or Joint), drafting staff member permanently recorded in the audit trail.
2
Heirs
Add all beneficiaries with ID validation via the DHA algorithm. Set percentage splits, predecease conditions, and per stirpes distribution.
3
Appointments
Executor, trustees, guardian appointments. Trust types, minor heir provisions, and family fatality clauses — all driven by your wording.
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Estate
Special bequests, fixed property with Erf and Registration Division, cash legacies, residue distribution, RSA asset scope.
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Review
Final review before document generation. SimplyWill™ produces the signed Will, cover page, and Afrikaans version simultaneously.
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Why not Word?

The difference is immediate.

The old way
Word + Spreadsheets
How most Wills departments still work
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Copy-paste clauses into every new Will
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Manual bilingual version for every document
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Client files scattered across email and folders
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No custody trail — unknown where the original is
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POPIA risk in every emailed Word file
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No visibility into department production
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Wording inconsistency across all drafters
SimplyWill™
Purpose-built for SA
Designed for the South African Wills department
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Guided 5-step wizard — one Will in minutes
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English + Afrikaans generated in a single step
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Complete Will Dossier per client, one place
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Full Chain of Custody with QR code on every Will
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Local-first — encrypted with your own key before it syncs
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Monthly Production Report with graphs, built in
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Your firm's exact wording loaded into the system
Data & security

A profession built on confidentiality needs software that respects it.

Cloud-hosted competitors keep your clients' Will data on their servers, in a form they can read. SimplyWill™ runs on your own machines — and the content that syncs between them is encrypted with a key belonging to your firm, before it leaves the workstation.

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Runs on your own machines
A complete local database on every workstation. Drafting and dossier work continue with no internet connection at all.
Multi-user without a server
Every workstation holds its own copy and stays current automatically — no server to run, no shared drive, no pointer file.
Daily automated backups
Configurable to your firm's backup policy. You own the backup, stored where you choose.
POPIA by architecture
Client content is encrypted with your firm's key before it leaves the workstation, so we cannot read it. A written data-processing statement is provided for your Information Officer.
Getting started

From enquiry to running in your firm
— in one day.

01

Fill in the pilot request

Tell us your firm name, how many people will use SimplyWill™, and roughly how many Wills your department handles a month. Takes about 90 seconds.

02

We confirm your firm and get in touch

We review every request to make sure SimplyWill™ is the right fit. You'll hear from us within one business day — by email or WhatsApp, whichever you prefer.

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SimplyWill™ installed, same day

Once confirmed, we send the installer and walk your team through setup. Most firms are drafting their first Will in SimplyWill™ within the hour.

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7 days free — then you decide

Run SimplyWill™ on real client matters for a full week. No payment, no obligation. At the end of 7 days, if it's not for your firm — walk away. No questions asked.

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What SimplyWill™ is not

A tool your firm runs.
Nothing more.

SimplyWill™ installs on your firm's own machines. Your firm drafts the will, your firm keeps the original, your firm holds every client relationship. The copy that syncs between your workstations is encrypted with your firm's own key before it leaves the machine — we cannot read a single will.

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We never draft a willYour practitioners do the work and sign it off. The software assembles your wording — it does not advise your clients.
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We never administer an estateThat remains your department's work, and your department's fee.
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We never contact your clientsEvery email goes out under your firm's name, through your own Outlook.
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We cannot read your clients' dataEverything that syncs is encrypted under your firm's key first — the contents of each dossier attachment and its filename included. Files over 20 MB never leave the workstation.
Start today

Stop drafting Wills
in Word.
Start your pilot today.

SimplyWill™ installs in your firm in under an hour. Run it on real client matters for 7 days. If it's not for you — walk away. No fees, no obligation.

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