Sovereign cloud base
100% locally hosted across multi-zone Veritech infrastructure. Per-tenant KMS keys, hardware-backed encryption at rest, and continuous automated POPIA auditing.
P/01Platform
Infrastructure first.
Storefront second.
Most platforms sell themes and call it commerce. Vela ships the perimeter, the rails, the residency, and the failover — then lets your brand sit confidently on top.
Optimised mobile checkout
A storefront and checkout engineered for data-constrained networks — sub-200KB initial payload on the buyer flow, no third-party trackers in the critical path.
Polymorphic payment failover
Dynamically detects gateway degradation across Ozow, Stitch, Netcash and Capitec Pay, then re-routes the authorisation stream in real time. One failure does not become a lost customer.
Tiered tenant isolation
RLS, schema, or dedicated DB — chosen per contract. A unified codebase serves all three, with a tenant router interceptor picking the right connection profile for every request.
Native local rails
First-party integrations to Pargo and Bob Box smart-locker fulfilment, plus instant EFT and emerging local wallets. No dollar-priced plugin tax.
Compliance interceptor
A perimeter middleware that programmatically intercepts and anonymises any outbound PII stream from third-party extensions — protecting you from plugin-introduced POPIA breaches.
P/02Comparison
Why local merchants leave global platforms.
Hosting jurisdictionForeign regionSouth Africa, multi-zone
Payment railsPlugin-tax modelFirst-party + failover
Mobile checkout weight1.5MB+ typicalSub-200KB critical path
POPIA postureMerchant's problemPlatform-enforced perimeter
Support timezoneOff-hoursZA business hours, hyperlocal SLAs