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From South Africa's largest cycling event to premium wine estates and national food festivals. Over 699 businesses rely on TimeWorks to keep transactions moving.

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25+

Years in Business

Founded in 1999, over two decades building POS solutions for South African businesses.

699+

Active Clients

From single-terminal cafes to multi-venue enterprises and national events.

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Core Industries

Dedicated modules for hospitality and retail, each optimised for its industry.

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Coverage

Clients across Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Knysna, and throughout South Africa.

Featured Studies

Real Businesses.
Real Results.

No competitor in our market publishes case studies. We do, because our clients' operations speak for themselves.

Events & Festivals

Knysna Oyster Festival

South Africa's premier food & lifestyle festival, Knysna, Western Cape

The Challenge

Managing high-volume, multi-vendor point of sale across South Africa's most celebrated food festival. With dozens of vendor stalls operating simultaneously, any transaction bottleneck directly impacts the visitor experience and vendor revenue.

Our Solution

TimeWorks deployed multiple networked terminals across vendor stalls with real-time central reporting. Each vendor operated their own terminal while festival management maintained a consolidated live view of sales activity across the entire site.

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Outcome: Zero transaction downtime across all vendor stalls throughout the full festival run. End-of-day reconciliation that previously took hours was completed in minutes using the central sales report. Organisers had live revenue visibility for the first time — no more waiting for manual vendor tallies at close.

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Multi-Vendor Real-Time Reporting Festival Scale
Major Events

Cape Town Cycle Tour

World's largest individually timed cycling event, Cape Town, Western Cape

The Challenge

Providing reliable POS operations for one of the world's largest sporting events, with 35,000+ participants and a corresponding surge of spectators, support staff, and vendors requiring fast, reliable payment processing at multiple entry points and hospitality areas.

Our Solution

Portable, ruggedised TimeWorks terminals with integrated payment processing were deployed across multiple zones. The system was configured for high-throughput operation: fast item scanning, quick tender, and minimal queue time, critical when thousands of customers arrive in short windows.

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Outcome: Handled 35,000+ participants with zero POS failures on race day. Average transaction time dropped to under 8 seconds per customer, keeping vendor queues clear even during peak entry windows. Event management received live sales totals by zone — no end-of-day manual count needed.

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35,000+ Participants Portable Terminals Integrated Payments
Premium Hospitality

Zorgvliet Wine Estate

Award-winning wine estate with restaurant, tasting room & retail shop, Stellenbosch

The Challenge

A premium wine estate operating three distinct revenue streams: a fine dining restaurant, a tasting room, and a retail wine shop, each with different operational needs but requiring consolidated inventory tracking, unified reporting, and a seamless guest experience across all touchpoints.

Our Solution

A single unified TimeWorks system deployed across all three venues. Each point of sale operates with role-specific configurations (restaurant table management, tasting room pours, retail barcode scanning) while feeding into a central stock and sales database, giving management one complete view of the estate.

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Outcome: Manual stock reconciliation across three venues — previously a 3–4 hour end-of-day task — was eliminated entirely. The estate now closes its books in under 30 minutes, with live inventory levels visible across the restaurant, tasting room, and retail shop simultaneously. Over-selling on limited-run vintages dropped to zero.

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Multi-Venue Inventory Sync Unified Reporting
Our Client Network

699+ Businesses Running TimeWorks

A cross-section of South African businesses, from landmark annual events to neighbourhood restaurants, all trusting the same platform.

Knysna Oyster Festival
Cape Town Cycle Tour
SA Forest Adventures
Zorgvliet Wine Estate
Alhambra Restaurant
FreshStop
The Syrian Kitchen
Izzy Burger
Gafeesas
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What Clients Say

Straight from
Our Clients.

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"Need Point of Sale hardware or software that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Contact Timeworks. Reliable, affordable, and backed by a team that actually picks up the phone when something goes wrong."

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Siddiq Mia
Founder & CEO, Retail Business
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"No contracts, month to month or even rent to own. All these options make it so viable to partner with Timeworks. It's the kind of flexibility that actually makes sense for a restaurant."

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Joana Smith
Restauranteur
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"The team set everything up for us and trained our staff on the same day. Our front-of-house runs faster than it ever did on our old system, and we haven't had a single issue since switching over."

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Enich Chipinga
Owner, Fast Foods Restaurant
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Common Questions

Getting Started

Most businesses are fully operational within a single day. Our team handles installation, configuration, and staff training on-site. For larger multi-terminal rollouts we schedule a structured deployment plan to minimise any disruption to your trading hours.
Yes. TimeWorks has deployed systems for major South African events including the Knysna Oyster Festival and Cape Town Cycle Tour. Our portable terminal options and short-term rental plans make event deployments straightforward, without requiring a long-term commitment.
Absolutely. Our system is built for multi-terminal and multi-venue operations. All terminals report to a single dashboard, giving you a unified view of sales, stock levels, and staff performance across every point of sale, whether it's two counters or twenty.
We offer month-to-month plans, annual agreements, and rent-to-own hardware options. There are no lock-in contracts. You choose the arrangement that works best for your business model and budget. Many clients start on a monthly plan and switch to ownership once they're confident in the system.
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