South African e-commerce softwareby Afriweb
Your own online store.Yours to keep.
EmCart is complete online store software for South African businesses. Install it on your own hosting, add your products and start selling, with local payments, live courier rates, lockers and pickup points, and a drag-and-drop page builder built in. Pay once. No monthly licence fees.
- Instant download after payment
- Pay by PayFast or EFT
- Set up in minutes with the wizard
You'll complete your purchase on afriweb.co.za, the home of EmCart's developer Afriweb: create a free account there (or sign in), pay securely, and your download is ready straight away.
- 1Install with the setup wizard
- 2Add your products
- 3Start selling
Developed in South Africa by Afriweb Internet. EmCart is made, sold and supported by Afriweb, a South African web hosting, domain and web design business. You buy and download it from your account on afriweb.co.za.
See it working
Try a live demo store
The same EmCart in 5 different looks, each selling something different. Shop as a customer, or open its admin demo to see how you'd run the store.
Harbour theme
Sunglasses & eyewear
Sunglasses with three photo angles, brand pages and a welcome offer.
Each demo opens in a new tab. Everything works: add to cart and check out freely (no payment is taken and nothing is shipped).
What is EmCart?
One purchase. A complete online store.
EmCart gives you everything you need to run a professional online shop: a fast, good-looking storefront for your customers, and a friendly admin where you manage products, orders, payments, deliveries and marketing.
Unlike monthly store builders, you buy EmCart once and own your copy. It runs on your own hosting, under your own domain, so your store, your customer data and your sales stay yours.
It's built for South African businesses: local payment methods, local couriers, rand pricing, VAT invoices and the POPIA, ECTA and CPA basics are all part of it from day one.
See it for yourself. Every demo store is a real EmCart: add things to the cart and check out (no payment is taken and nothing is shipped), or open its admin demo to see the back office.
What's included
166 features, ready on day one
No plugins to hunt for and no extras to pay for: it's all in the box.
Storefront & page builder
- Drag-and-drop sections with a live preview
- Five themes, each with its own home page layout
- Any Google font, light and dark mode
- Hero slider, Promo Blocks and Middle Banners
- Draft, schedule and publish pages
Products & stock
- Variants (size, colour…) with their own photos
- Collections, bundles and related products
- Stock tracking you can trust
- Quantity-break pricing and upsells
Checkout & payments
- PayFast, Yoco, Ozow, Paystack and Peach Payments
- EFT with proof-of-payment upload
- PayPal for overseas buyers
- Gift vouchers and store credit
- Tax invoices and packing slips
Shipping & couriers
- Live The Courier Guy, Bob Go and Fastway rates
- PUDO lockers and Pargo pickup points
- Waybills and automatic tracking
- FedEx and DHL for parcels abroad
- Flat rate, free delivery and collection
Marketing & sales
- Discount codes and scheduled sales
- Abandoned-cart reminder emails
- Loyalty points for regulars
- Verified-buyer and Google reviews
- Google-friendly: sitemap, rich snippets, redirects
Selling abroad
- Currency switcher for visitors
- Zero-rated VAT on exports
- International shipping quotes
- PayPal checkout
Run your business
- A dashboard you arrange your way
- Sales reports with CSV export
- Staff accounts with their own roles
- A built-in, step-by-step user manual
Security & POPIA
- Two-step sign-in for staff
- New-device alerts and an admin IP allow-list
- POPIA consent log, data export and erase
- Nightly encrypted backups, checked weekly
- Starter POPIA, ECTA and CPA pages
…and plenty more. See all 166 features
What you can do with it
Everything a growing shop needs
Open your shop in a weekend
The setup wizard walks you through your details, branding, payments and delivery. Start clean, or pick a theme layout with placeholder pictures to swap for your own.
Get paid your way
Card and instant EFT through PayFast, Yoco, Ozow, Paystack or Peach Payments, plain EFT with proof of payment, and PayPal for customers abroad.
Ship nationwide
Live courier prices at checkout, or a locker or pickup point near the customer. Book the courier, print the waybill and track the parcel from the order.
Win back lost sales
Abandoned-cart emails go out by themselves, and discount codes, sales and loyalty points give shoppers a reason to come back.
Grow with reviews & search
Verified buyers are asked for reviews, your Google reviews can show on the store, and every product page is built to be found.
Sell to the world
Prices in your visitor's currency, international shipping quotes and PayPal, with exports zero-rated for VAT.
How it works
Selling in three steps
Buy & download
Order on afriweb.co.za and pay with PayFast for an instant download, or by EFT. Your download waits in your client area.
Install on your hosting
Upload the files, run the installer and follow the setup wizard. Start with a clean store, or a theme layout ready for your pictures.
Start selling
Add your products, choose your look, switch on payments and couriers, then open your doors and take orders.
Good to know
Questions, answered
Is it really a once-off price?
Yes: R1,999 once-off. You buy a licence for one store and it's yours to run, with no monthly licence fee. You only pay for your own hosting and domain. Updates and help are an optional monthly Support Plan.
Can I try it first?
Yes. Pick one of the live demo stores: browse, add to cart and check out freely (no payment is taken and nothing is shipped), then open its admin demo to see how you'd run the shop.
Where does my store live?
On your own web hosting, at your own web address. Any hosting with PHP 8.1 or newer and MySQL will do, which most South African hosts offer. Your customers, orders and data stay with you.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The installer and setup wizard get you going, and the page builder lets you change pages, colours, fonts and pictures without touching code. A step-by-step user manual is built in.
Is it ready for POPIA?
Yes: consent records, customer data export and erasure, starter legal pages for POPIA, ECTA and the CPA, two-step sign-in for staff and nightly encrypted backups.
Can you set it up for me?
Yes. Ask about installation at admin@afriweb.co.za or 082 444 4996, and your store can be ready for your products.
Ready to open your online store?
Everything you've seen in the demos, for your business, at your own address. One payment, 166 features and no monthly licence fee.
EmCart is developed and sold by Afriweb Internet. Buying takes you to afriweb.co.za, where you create a free account (or sign in) and pay with PayFast or EFT.