Els & Co Fine Leather · Lumanaire

Scope and terms

For Ivan Volschenk, Joe Dreyer From Jarryd Phillips, Iain MacRitchie Date 19 August 2026, Stellenbosch

01 Where we are

Between 31 July and today, four systems became one. It is live at elsfineleather.lumanaire.co.za, storefront and admin.

Your ClickUp list is closed. All thirteen tickets in ElsFine SLA are built and running, including Price on Request, the only one marked High, which had been open since 10 June. Sudosky quoted 52.5 hours for ten of the thirteen.

Your four Production Website emails of 10 and 12 August are built in full: the eleven item columns in the order you listed them, the manual exchange rate, the producer's margin, editable items and suppliers with as many contact people as you deal with, and Margins A through J selectable in all three places you asked for.

97 pieces, 9 categories, priced across all six regions.

02 What it replaced

One application, so a change to one exchange rate reaches everywhere and a paid order reaches the workshop without anyone retyping it.

WasNow
A storefront search engines could not read One storefront, six price lists, SEO built in
A rented admin you could not get your own data out of Your admin, your database, your data
An eight-year-old workshop app, every web order retyped by hand Orders reach the production board on their own
Ivan's Numbers price calculator, fed by hand The calculator inside the same system as the shop

03 What is still to build

A. Finishing what is started

Included. Weeks, not months.

B. The connections

Quoted separately before any of it starts. See section 5.

C. Marketing

Inside the retainer.

Not covered here: the TCC site, Felti, and Mila Wine. Quoted when you want them.

04 What we need from you

The honest list of what is holding things up. All of it is minutes of your time, not days.

  1. Clean slate, or keep the import. We copied all 97 pieces across. You said you would rather enter items fresh because the old data carries redundant and mispriced rows. Either answer is fine. Everything downstream waits on it.
  2. Your margin figures. Producer's margin, waste, shipping, duties. All built, all selectable, all sitting at zero until you give us numbers.
  3. Confirm which rate is which. Your fixed sticker multiplier against the live market rate. We have them the right way round and we want you to say so out loud, because the wrong way round overcharges by 1.75 times or gives away 43 percent of an export sale.
  4. The order email layout PDF.
  5. Your branding list.
  6. Five or six client testimonials, and a Google Business Profile. You have neither. It is the cheapest item on this page and it converts better than anything else on it.
  7. Confirm orders@elsfineleather.co.za as the address the workshop copy goes to.

05 Terms

Retainer
R8,000 per month, as agreed on 31 July.
Covers
Hosting, the platform, support, changes, and the marketing in section 3C. We are not counting hours and do not intend to start.
Starts
1 September 2026.
Term
Twelve months, then 60 days notice from either side.
Billing
Monthly in advance, first working day, by EFT.

The build to date

Carried by us. There is no invoice for it and there will not be one. Everything in section 2 was built in under three weeks, across roughly 25 releases, against a list another firm had quoted at 52.5 hours for ten of its thirteen items. We are carrying it because we would rather begin this by handing you the thing built than by handing you a bill. It is not a rate to expect again. It is what it cost us to show you who we are.

The rest of it

06 How we work

No lock-in. The code and the database are yours. If this ends tomorrow you take all of it and any competent developer can carry on. Given what the last two builds cost you, that matters more than anything else on this page.

Nothing goes live without you seeing it first. You have watched us work for three weeks. That is the pace and that is the process.

A mutual NDA follows separately, as discussed on 31 July.

Reply agreed and we will invoice on 1 September. That is the whole process.

You said your contract is a handshake. Ours is too, and this page exists so that the handshake has something written next to it, not instead of it.