A curated look at things we've shipped — full e-commerce platforms, internal tools, and bespoke software for ambitious brands.
A full e-commerce platform built end-to-end. Storefront, checkout, subscriptions, and an admin suite — engineered for scale and tuned for craft.
Integrated providers — cards, BNPL, EFT, and instant payouts.
Split-pay flows, instant credit checks, and webhook-driven order fulfilment.
Recurring billing, tiered memberships, and member-only product drops.
Stackable codes, automatic promotions, BOGO, and campaign-grade targeting.
Real-time order pipeline — from cart to courier — with refunds, partial captures, and inventory sync.
Unified profiles, lifetime value, segments, and one-click support tooling.
12,480 active customers · 4.9★ avg satisfaction
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A complete order-based e-commerce platform with PayFast payment integration, product and category management, profit tracking, and AI-powered product description generation via Firecrawl.
A clean, order-based e-commerce experience built exactly as the client envisioned — simple administration, product and category management, customer records, and seamless PayFast checkout.
A complete market management platform for permanent and pop-up markets. VendX One handles vendor onboarding, online and offline POS, live sales tracking, vendor accounts, payouts, invoicing, refunds and operational reporting from one system.
A retail operations platform for independent vendors and market sellers. VendX Me combines stock and warehouse control, market and stall management, barcode labels, supplier workflows, reporting and POS in one operational workspace.
A commercial AI music artist from South Africa. Full brand identity, artist website, and release platform with embedded audio previews, visual storytelling, and an immersive dark-cinema aesthetic.
A music production house platform with deep Spotify API integration — pulling live artist data, latest releases, and top tracks directly into rich artist introduction pages. Built for discovery, signed roster spotlighting, and editorial release storytelling.
A global brand platform engineered for multi-region conversion. GeoIP-driven routing automatically surfaces United Kingdom and South Africa localisations — currency, content, and contact — so every visitor lands in the right market from the first click.
A clean, product-focused informational site engineered for hardware distribution. NextCloud integration powers a self-service download hub — drivers, manuals, and software releases — surfaced through an intuitive file browser with version tracking and direct access.
A bold personal brand platform for a fitness model, photographer, and lifestyle coach. Full-screen photography galleries showcase editorial shoots and training content, with a curated e-commerce experience launching soon for coaching programs, merchandise, and digital products.
Darkflame also engineers operational software across POS, CRM, communications, inventory, billing and multi-tenant SaaS. Explore the systems behind that capability.
Advanced POS · Market operations · Inventory
A substantial POS stack with barcode checkout, configurable payments, tills, refunds, cash-up, receipt hardware and reconciliation, integrated with vendor and market operations.
Read case study →Communications · WhatsApp · SaaS
Multi-tenant business messaging with Meta WhatsApp, templates, media, inbound webhooks and message-state handling.
Read case study →CRM · Billing · Operations
Self-hosted customer and business operations software connecting sales, finance, email, suppliers and support.
Read case study →POS · Orders · Stock
Self-hosted POS and order management with split payments, offline sync, stock, recipes, costing and reporting.
Read case study →Documents · OCR · AI
Multi-tenant document management with permissions, versions, approvals, audit trails, OCR and AI-assisted processing.
Read case study →Website + operational system
One business, two deliberately different digital layers: a client-facing professional services website and a private document-management platform behind the operation.
Market platform deployments
See how Darkflame's market software is deployed across distinct permanent and seasonal market brands, with workflows shaped around each operator.
Seasonal market operations, vendor administration, POS, stock and finance workflows.
View deployment →Permanent-market vendor lifecycle, contracts, billing, POS, stock and administration.
View deployment →Seasonal-event applications, exhibitor requirements, operations, POS and administration.
View deployment →Map the goal, the user, and the constraints.
Brand-forward systems and high-craft prototypes.
Production-grade React, Postgres, edge-deployed.
Launch, measure, iterate. No filler.