Zyden is the governance system for South African body corporates and sectional title schemes — it keeps your records straight, shows trustees what the Act requires, and stops the scheme taking action it can't defend.
Zyden never touches your finances. Residents see a read-only levy balance with a clear "as of" timestamp, and a direct link to your existing statement portal.
Without a workflow system, each move-in is a project managed across WhatsApp, email, and spreadsheets — with no audit trail.
Built specifically for South African sectional title communities, body corporates, and HOAs.
A staged case per unit — from invite to approval to move-out close-out — with full audit trail.
Dedicated self-service hubs for residents and owners, accessible from the estate's own subdomain.
Maintenance and service requests routed automatically to the right recipient every time.
Build custom onboarding processes and sub-forms for your estate — pets, vehicles, intercom, and more.
Distribute complex rules and compliance documents with signed acceptance, IP and timestamp logging.
Built from the ground up for South African data protection requirements — not retrofitted.
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Rule Enforcement & Guidance · Compliance Dashboard · Governance Self-Assessments
Managing agents handle dozens of schemes, each with its own trustee board, residents, and compliance requirements. Zyden gives every scheme its own isolated admin console — with role-based access so each trustee board sees only what they should.
Your levy and accounting system stays in place. Zyden integrates via API where available, or links residents directly to your existing portal with a clearly labelled "Open statement portal" button and an "As of:" timestamp on any cached balance shown.
Each trustee board and managing agent gets exactly the permissions they need — nothing more.
Who approved the move-in? When was the rules document signed? Every event is logged with identity and timestamp.
Each complex has its own isolated admin console at its own subdomain. No data crosses estate boundaries.
Build your standard pet, vehicle, and intercom request forms once — deploy across all managed schemes.
No lengthy onboarding. Your estate is live as soon as your subdomain is provisioned.
Select the right tier for your estate size and submit your details. We provision your subdomain within the same business day.
Pick a plan belowSet up your branding, build your custom forms, configure ticket categories, and upload your rules documents via the admin console.
Zero technical skills neededIssue resident and owner invites with one click. Everyone joins through your unique subdomain — fully isolated and secure.
Residents onboard in under 5 minutesA base platform fee plus a small per-unit rate — you only pay for what you actually manage.
Perfect for smaller estates and sectional title schemes up to 50 units.
e.g. 30-unit estate ≈ R949/month
For growing complexes and HOAs that need the full platform capability.
e.g. 100-unit estate ≈ R2 699/month
For managing agents and property groups running multiple schemes.
200+ units · multi-scheme groups
All prices exclude VAT. Annual billing available at 2 months free. Setup fee of R500 applies to Community & Estate.
I became a trustee the way a lot of people do — frustrated. The previous board had let things slide, maintenance was being neglected, and a group of us put our hands up with no real idea what the job involved. We had a managing agent and were frustrated with them too. So we jumped in: changed the security service, took on the problems nobody had touched, and I started trying to drag our processes out of the filing cabinet.
I began with Google Forms — anything to stop printing paperwork that ended up gathering dust in a storage unit. It helped, but every form still had to be chased by hand, and I spent my evenings watching an inbox for approvals.
The real gaps were the ones a spreadsheet couldn't close. We often didn't know a unit had changed hands until we were suddenly under pressure to approve a pet, add someone to the intercom, and confirm the tenant was even legal. Owners got blindsided when tenants left without notice or overstayed. On fines we were flying blind — unsure when one was justified, and with complaints scattered across messages, we couldn't even tell you how many we'd logged.
Then there was the WhatsApp group. A resident had started it, it turned ugly, and as trustees we had no standing to manage it and no control over who was in it. Setting up a proper one just created a new burden — chasing everyone to agree to how it should be run.
What I kept wishing for was simple: a body corporate should always know who lives in which unit, who has approval to do what, who's on the intercom — a record that stays current, so the next set of trustees inherit clarity instead of a storage unit full of dusty forms. That's what I built. Zyden is the system I needed and couldn't find.
Jurgens van Eeden
Founder · former Chairman of Trustees
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