About Sokoleho
Every local business deserves a store where their customers already are. We put yours inside WhatsApp.
How it started
Sokoleho was born out of a simple observation: local businesses across South Africa already run on WhatsApp. It's where customers ask about prices, place orders, and book appointments — but all of it lives in chat scroll. Orders get missed, there's no menu to share, and nothing gets tracked.
Most solutions try to move businesses somewhere else — a website nobody visits, an app nobody downloads. We took the opposite approach.
We turned WhatsApp itself into the store. A Sokoleho business gets a beautiful storefront page to share anywhere — and every order, booking, and enquiry flows through the one app their customers already open every day.
Your WhatsApp Store
A storefront link to share anywhere
Orders & bookings in one place
Know your numbers
Who we are
Sokoleho is built by a small South African team — and every one of us comes from a small-business family. Spaza shops, salons, kitchens, side hustles. We know what it's like to run a business off a phone, because we've lived it.
Sokoleho is the tool we wished our own families had — and now we want to share it with everyone.
What we believe
No new apps
Your customers shouldn't need another download or another account. They already have WhatsApp.
Fair prices
Small businesses shouldn't pay big-agency prices for a digital presence that works.
Local first
Built in South Africa, for South African businesses and the communities they serve.
Your business, your terms
Your customers stay yours. Your data stays yours. We're the tool, not the middleman.
Our mission
To give every local business a WhatsApp Store — so they can sell where their customers already chat, serve their communities better, and grow on their own terms.
From restaurants and caterers to salons, shops, and service professionals — if your customers are on WhatsApp, Sokoleho is built for you. See what's included →
Ready to open your WhatsApp Store?
Join local businesses already using Sokoleho to take orders where their customers are.