Tell us about the business
A 30 minute onboarding conversation, in plain language. We audit what you already have: domain, site, email, and what is broken or missing.
Launching in South Africa, 2026
Digital infrastructure that helps businesses grow.
Lumotala unifies your domain, website, email, security, automation and analytics into one managed platform, with one dashboard, one bill and one team that answers for all of it.
Built for South African SMEs. Priced in rand. Migration handled for you, free.
R799/mo
Founding 20 calibration pricing starts at R799 per month, billed in rand with no forex surprises
8 modules
Domains, sites, email, security, automation, AI, analytics and one dashboard
1 partner
One accountable team for your whole digital foundation, not five suppliers
Free migration
We move your domain, email and website for you at no cost, on every plan
Why Lumotala
Fragmented digital services quietly tax every growing business.
The domain sits with one company, hosting with another, email somewhere else. Every fragment is a separate invoice, a separate login, and a separate party to blame when something breaks.
Domain registrarINVOICE 01 · LOGIN 01
Hosting companyINVOICE 02 · LOGIN 02
Email providerINVOICE 03 · LOGIN 03
Backup tool, maybeINVOICE 04 · LOGIN 04
The developer who leftUNREACHABLE
BECOMES
LumotalaAll systems healthy
- Domain and DNS
- Managed website
- Business email
- Backups and security
- Automation
- Analytics and AI
One dashboard, one bill, one partner.
Everything your business runs on digitally lives in one place, managed by one team you can actually reach. When something needs fixing, there is no hunt for the right supplier. It is us, and we answer.
Managed means managed.
We register, configure, migrate, secure, monitor, back up and renew. You approve decisions in plain language. You never touch a DNS record unless you want to.
Built around growth, not storage.
Hosting companies sell you space on a server. Lumotala manages a foundation that is measured on one thing: whether your business is in better digital shape every month.
How it works
Lumotala converts business ambition into working digital capability in three steps.
You bring the business. We build the conditions it needs to grow.
We build your foundation
We migrate and consolidate everything onto the platform, secure it, and switch on the modules your plan includes. Most businesses are fully moved within days, not months.
You run, we manage, it compounds
Monitoring, backups, renewals and updates happen without you. Each month you get a plain-language growth report with what to improve next.
Products
Eight modules, one ecosystem.
You never assemble parts. Choose a plan, and the modules your business needs light up in one dashboard.
Lumotala Core
The dashboard where your whole digital foundation lives: services, health, billing, support and users, in one calm view.
Lumotala Domain
Registration, transfers, DNS and renewals that never lapse silently.
Lumotala Mail
Professional email on your own domain, with migration handled for you.
Lumotala Sites
Managed hosting and site care: updates, edits and monitoring included.
Lumotala Shield
Daily backups, uptime monitoring, malware scanning and SSL, always on.
Lumotala Flow
Payments, CRM and accounting connections, and automations between them.
Lumotala AI
An assistant grounded in your business: drafts, answers and summaries.
Lumotala Growth
Analytics in plain language, plus a monthly report on what to do next.
Pricing
Founding 20 calibration pricing starts at R799 per month and includes the full managed service.
Billed monthly in rand. Migration is free on every plan.
Seed
For new and micro businesses getting a professional foundation.
R799 /month
- 1 domain, registered and managed
- Up to 5 business mailboxes
- 1 managed website
- Daily backups, SSL, uptime monitoring
- Core dashboard and standard support
Most businesses choose this
Grow
For established SMEs consolidating a fragmented setup.
R1,799 /month
- Everything in Seed
- Up to 20 mailboxes, and staging environment
- Starter automations with Lumotala Flow
- Growth analytics and monthly report
- Priority support
Thrive
For growing companies and organisations that need depth.
R3,499 /month
- Everything in Grow
- Up to 50 mailboxes, multiple sites
- Advanced Shield with restore SLA
- Lumotala AI assistant tools
- Quarterly growth consultation
What sits behind the price
Mailboxes. Included mailboxes run on Zoho Mail Lite. If you need Zoho Mail Premium, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, we set it up and pass the provider's price straight through to you, with no markup added.
Calibration. You pay the price above from day one. For 90 days we track the real hours and cost of running your plan, then confirm your price in writing at least 14 days before it changes. From that point it is locked for 24 months.
Canopy, for agencies.
Talk to us
Run every client from one console, with pooled resources and wholesale pricing, from R2,499 per month.
Business success stories
Our success stories will be real, or they will not be published.
Lumotala is pre-launch, so there are no customer stories yet, and we will not invent them. When they appear here, every story will meet a simple standard:
- A named business you can look up and contact
- Real numbers the business agreed to publish
- What we actually did, including what was hard
Founding 20 programme
Be one of the first twenty businesses on the platform.
Founding customers get hands-on migration, direct access to the founder, a calibration price confirmed after 90 days and then locked for 24 months, and, if the results earn it, the first story on this page.
Apply to joinSupport
Support from the person who can actually fix it.
Every support conversation happens with the person who runs your infrastructure, in plain language, in South African business hours, being 08:00 to 17:00 SAST on business days. Outside those hours we monitor continuously and respond to a site or email outage as fast as one person reasonably can. We do not promise a response time after hours, because we would rather tell you that than publish a number we cannot keep.
EVERY PLAN
A human who answers
Tickets and email answered by the founder who runs your setup, not a call centre reading scripts. If it is broken, the person replying is the person who fixes it.
GROW AND ABOVE
Priority response
Front of the queue, and proactive contact from us when monitoring picks something up before you do.
ALWAYS
Plain language, and a clear boundary
No jargon walls: every incident, invoice and recommendation is explained so that any business owner can make the call. And support is not rationed by the hour. Fixing anything we run, configuring your plan, changing existing website content, setting up your people's devices and answering your questions are included, however often you need them. New pages, new functionality, rewritten content and software we do not run are quoted as a fixed price you approve first. We never stop a repair to look at a clock.
Frequently asked questions
Questions businesses ask us.
What is Lumotala?
Lumotala is a managed digital infrastructure platform for South African businesses. It brings your domain, website, business email, security, automation and analytics together in one platform, managed by one team.
How much does Lumotala cost?
Founding 20 calibration pricing starts at R799 per month for the Seed plan. The flagship Grow plan is R1,799 per month and the Thrive plan is R3,499 per month, all billed in rand. These are calibration prices, confirmed after 90 days and then locked for 24 months. All prices are stated exclusive of VAT. Lumotala is not currently registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged on these prices. Mailboxes are included on Zoho Mail Lite. If you need Zoho Mail Premium, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, we set it up and pass the provider's price straight through to you with no markup added.
Is Lumotala a web hosting company?
No. Hosting is one component inside the platform. Lumotala manages your complete digital foundation, including the domain, email, security, backups, automation and analytics, as one service.
Can Lumotala move my existing domain, email and website?
Yes. Migration is included free on every plan. We handle the domain transfer, mailbox migration and website move for you, and we schedule it to avoid downtime during your business hours.
Do I need technical skills to use Lumotala?
No. The platform is managed, which means we do the technical work. You approve decisions in plain language from one dashboard.
What happens if my website goes down?
Our monitoring alerts us the moment your site misbehaves, and we start fixing it before you need to report it. You can see live status in your dashboard at any time.
Are my business data and backups safe?
Every plan includes daily backups, SSL certificates, malware scanning and uptime monitoring through Lumotala Shield. Backup restores are tested, not just stored.
Is Lumotala POPIA compliant?
Yes, POPIA compliance is a design requirement across the platform. Customer data processing is documented, and privacy notices and consent mechanisms are built into every data-collecting feature.
Can an agency manage multiple clients on Lumotala?
Yes. The Canopy plan gives agencies one console for all client properties, pooled resources and wholesale pricing, from R2,499 per month.
How long does it take to get set up?
Onboarding starts with a 30 minute conversation, and most businesses are fully migrated within days. Complex estates with many mailboxes or sites can take longer, and we tell you upfront.
When does Lumotala launch?
Lumotala launches in South Africa in 2026. The Founding 20 programme is open now for the first twenty businesses, with calibration pricing confirmed after 90 days and then locked for 24 months.
Where is Lumotala based?
Lumotala is a South African company, built for South African businesses first, with pricing in rand and support in local business hours.
Give your business the conditions it needs to grow.
Join the Founding 20 and get your entire digital foundation managed from day one.
Apply to the Founding 20