Off-plan sales with payment plans tied to construction milestones. BOQ, tendering, budget-vs-draws, permits and documents in one place. RFIs, NCRs, scored site inspections and a daily site diary keeping quality on the record. Snagging at handover, and your buyers following it all from their own portal, from the day they sign to the day they get the keys. Built ground-up for developers building across Africa.
Most software covers one stage. Sales CRMs stop at "sold". Project tools give you a schedule but no payment plans. Spreadsheets give you a budget but no handover. A development needs all four: every unit, every milestone, every buyer, every owner.
Line up every unit, the budget and the paper trail before a spade goes in.
Sell off-plan and run the site — contracts, milestone draws and quality, all on the record.
The whole development at a glance — schedule, budget, sales and compliance, live.
Snag it, hand it over, and roll straight into live management.
Record every buyer contract (price, deposit, status) and build an instalment schedule that ties each payment to the construction milestone that triggers it. See contract value, deposits taken and outstanding collections at a glance. Buyer national IDs are encrypted and access-controlled.
A cost plan by category with live variance: where the build is over or under, line by line. Progress payments (draws) link to the milestone they pay for, so finance and the schedule never drift apart. The kind of cost control a spreadsheet promises but never keeps.
Permits, drawings, certificates and contracts stored against the project, kept in one controlled place, not a shared drive. At handover, a snagging punch list per unit tracks defects by severity, and any snag can become a maintenance ticket so it keeps being tracked once the building goes live.
The seam between "sold off-plan" and "managed owner" is where most systems make you re-key every buyer into a separate tool. CautaManage closes that gap so a completed sale carries straight into live management — no starting the record from scratch. We'll walk you through exactly how handover works in a demo.
RFIs with ball-in-court tracking so nothing stalls unanswered. NCRs that require corrective action, acceptance criteria and evidence before close-out. Inspection checklists scored on site, with failed items flagged for follow-up. And a daily site diary whose photos stand up as evidence, so the record holds when a delay or variation is disputed.
From the day they sign, buyers follow their purchase in their own portal: payment plan, construction progress, their unit's specs and photos, documents and financing. "How's my unit coming along?" answers itself, and at handover it carries into their owner portal. Invited contractors get a portal too: they see their tender package and bid on equal terms through it.
Your market's currency is the default: GHS today, more African currencies as we expand. USD is supported payment by payment, not as an afterthought. Prices, deposits, budgets and draws can be in either currency — and developments that transact in a single currency stay forex-free, with conversion applied only when you mix currencies.
Progressive Web App: installs to iOS + Android home screens without a store download. Offline-capable: works online and offline, so a dropped connection never stops work on site. Built knowing your site manager's phone is the production environment.
Local mobile-money and card gateways all integrated. Auto-reconciliation. Accounting and ERP sync for developers who keep their books there. Multi-currency reporting that doesn't pretend your local currency doesn't exist when your deals are mixed.
A permit register with country-ready application templates (building permit, EPA, fire, utilities), each with its checklist and document uploads. Company-licence tracking (e.g. Ghana's Real Estate Agency Act 1047) with renewal reminders. And payment-plan reminders, milestone updates and handover invitations sent by email automatically, with no manual chasing.
noun the all-in-one platform African property developers use to run a scheme from off-plan sales to handover — units, BOQ and budgets, construction tracking, and the investor portal in one place. “We put the whole development on CautaManage and closed the spreadsheets for good.”
verb to steer a development from ground-break to handover with order, visibility, and one source of truth — whatever the connectivity. “They CautaManage 400 units across three sites from one dashboard.”
Origin — from Latin cauta (watchful, guarded; from cavēre, to safeguard) + manage (to handle, to direct; from Italian maneggiare, to handle, from Latin manus, hand): to guide, with a steady and watchful hand, the work of building homes.
Short, direct answers for real-estate developers weighing up a platform for their next development.
It is the system a developer or contractor runs a build on: the programme and its milestones, the bill of quantities and what it is costing against budget, tendering and the contractors bidding, permits and their expiry, and the site record — inspections, RFIs, non-conformances and snags. The value is that the commercial side and the site side read from the same project rather than diverging.
Yes. CautaManage is built and run from Accra and prices in Ghana cedis, with local mobile-money and card gateways integrated. Permit templates cover the applications a Ghanaian development actually files — building permit, EPA, fire, utilities — and company-licence tracking covers obligations such as the Real Estate Agency Act 1047.
Yes. Units can be sold off-plan with a payment plan tied to real construction milestones, so what a buyer owes is anchored to what has actually been built. Reminders and milestone updates go out automatically instead of being chased by hand.
Yes. Bills of quantities can be organised the way your team actually works, packages put out to tender, and bids compared before award. Budget then runs against draws so you can see where a package is drifting while there is still time to act.
Site inspections, RFIs, non-conformance reports, safety records and snag walks are all kept against the project, with deficiencies raised and tracked to close-out rather than living in a photo roll on someone’s phone.
Yes. Ghana is our home market and where support is deepest, but CautaManage runs for developers elsewhere in Africa and worldwide, in English and French.
CautaManage is ready to run your development, from off-plan sales to handover. Tell us about your project and we'll show you the platform on your own numbers: hands-on onboarding, your units and BOQ imported, your team trained, and a direct line to the product team. If you're building anywhere in Africa (or about to break ground), we want to hear from you.