Don't read about it. Phone it and hear it answer.
Receva builds AI agents and automations for South African business. The agent answers your calls, web chat and WhatsApp 24/7, in a real South African accent, English or Afrikaans. It books the job, takes the message, and never lets a call ring out. Phone the demo line and talk to it yourself. It is a test assistant, not a real client's line, so go ahead and push it.
- Free to call, no signup
- Real SA accent, English and Afrikaans
- Or chat to Jono, or on WhatsApp
Hear it live
Call the bot. Right now.
+27 87 250 3270SA accent. Real Col'Cacchio menu loaded. Place a takeaway order, book a table, or just say hi.
Demo line. This is a test assistant, it is not connected to a live restaurant, so anything you order or book here is not real and reaches no business. Call it freely to hear how it works.
Connects to the tools you already use
Cal.com 
Google Calendar 
WhatsApp 
Slack 
OpenAI 
Stripe 
Twilio 
Notion 
Zapier 
Vercel 
HubSpot 
Airtable 
Mailchimp 
n8n Receva AI Solutions
Two halves of one AI layer.
Receva Agents answer your customers. Receva Automations run the work behind them. Most businesses end up wanting both, but start where it hurts most. You can hear an agent working in thirty seconds, so most owners begin there.
Receva Agents
Answer every customer
The AI voice and chat receptionist picks up every call, web chat and WhatsApp, day and night. It books, captures enquiries, answers the usual questions, and escalates the tricky ones. Built per industry: restaurants, lodges, clinics, and law firms.
Receva Automations
Take the busywork off your team
AI agents and automation for the back office. Task handoffs, reminders, accounting and admin prep, inbox and document triage, daily reporting. We start with a paid, fixed-scope audit to find where time and money leak, then build and run it.
Packaged for your industry
One engine. Tuned to your trade.
The same Receva agents and automations, packaged for the way your industry actually runs. Pick yours, or ask us to build a new one.
Receva Eats
Restaurants and takeaways. Bookings, takeaway orders, menu questions, missed-call recovery. Jono runs a live Col'Cacchio Blouberg line today.
Explore Receva EatsReceva Lodges
Game lodges and boutique hotels. A multilingual reservations concierge that never misses a high-value booking across time zones.
Explore Receva LodgesReceva Clinics
Dental, medical and aesthetics. 24/7 bookings, recalls, FAQs and reminders. POPIA-aware by design.
Explore Receva ClinicsNeed a vertical we have not built yet? Law firms, salons, trades, property. Tell us your industry →
What the agent actually does
It answers, it books, it never goes home.
This is the Receva agent, the receptionist that is your entry point. The same brain across phone, web chat and WhatsApp, so a customer gets the same answer wherever they reach you. The specialist systems and automations build on top of it.
Answers every call, day or night, weekends and public holidays, even while you are slammed in service.
Books appointments and tables straight into your calendar.
Captures enquiries and messages so nothing gets lost on a sticky note.
Knows your hours, your menu, your prices and your rules, and answers from them.
Escalates to a human when it should, instead of guessing.
An illustration, not a promise
Work out what your missed calls could be costing you.
Most small businesses miss more calls than they think. After hours, during the lunch rush, when everyone is already on the phone. Set the sliders to your own numbers. We assume only three in ten of those callers would have booked, so this is a conservative worked example, not a result we have delivered.
Could be slipping away each month
R8,550
About 65 missed calls a month. If 3 in 10 book, that is 19 bookings at R450 each.
Illustrative estimate, assuming 3 in 10 missed callers would have booked. Not a result we have delivered.
Receva starts at
R1,500/month
The question everyone asks
Worried it sounds like a robot? Good. Go and check.
This is the whole reason the demo line exists. We are not going to tell you it sounds natural, we are going to let you hear it. It talks in a real South African accent, handles interruptions, and does not read like a script. Interrupt it, change your mind mid-sentence, switch to Afrikaans. If it sounded like a 2010 phone tree, we would not put the number at the top of the page.
Call it and try to trip it upThe honest answers
What you are probably thinking.
The real buying questions, answered straight.
Is it just a chatbot? +
No. Receva is an AI agency, not a single chatbot. The entry point is the Receva agent, a receptionist that holds a real phone conversation on a real number, books into your live diary, and hands off to a human when it should. The chat widget and WhatsApp are the same brain, just typed. On top of that we build specialist systems for your industry and back-office automations, scoped to your business.
Is my customers’ data safe? +
We build with POPIA in mind from the start. Your data stays yours, used only to answer and book, never sold or reused. You decide what it can access and what it must escalate, and we can show you where it sits.
Am I locked in? +
No long contract. Month to month once you are live, cancel when you like, and you keep your existing number.
Why you and not a big vendor? +
Because you get the founder, not a ticket queue. Ruan runs a Col’Cacchio in Bloubergstrand, so missed calls and booking chaos are problems he lives, not slides he read. Being early means more attention, faster changes, and an honest relationship.
How long to set up? +
Days, not months, once we have your hours, services or menu, and your booking tool. Nothing to install.
Plain pricing, no surprises
Clear prices. Annual or monthly. No lock-in.
The Receva agent plans below are where most owners start, plus a specialist system for your trade and back-office automations. Annual saves you the most and is our default. Prefer flexible? Month-to-month, cancel any time.
Starter
R1,290/mo
Annual, billed monthly, 12-month. Month-to-month, no lock-in. R3,500 setup.
One location. Your phone answered and bookings captured.
Pro
R2,990/mo
Annual, billed monthly, 12-month. Month-to-month, no lock-in. R7,500 setup.
Adds web chat, WhatsApp, and deeper integrations.
Max
R5,490/mo
Annual, billed monthly, 12-month. Month-to-month, no lock-in. R15,000 setup.
Higher volume, multiple lines, custom automations.
Or a specialist system, built for your trade
Receva Recall
Dental & clinics
from R2,990/mo
Receva Intake
Law firms
from R3,300/mo
Receva Source-Doc Chaser
Accounting
from R2,990/mo
Receva Screen
Recruitment
from R2,990/mo
Receva Lead Catch
Estate agencies
from R2,150/mo
Same engine, a different specialist on top. Compare them all →
Receva Automations
Ready-made automation pack from R3,500 setup plus R750/mo, or a custom build led by an audit. You only build what pays for itself.
Each plan includes a block of call minutes. Above that, calls bill at R12/min. High volume like a call centre is a custom metered plan, just ask. No surprise invoices, no two-year contract, and you keep your number.
Who is behind it
Built by someone who runs a real counter.
Receva is built by Ruan Grobler in Cape Town. He also runs a Col'Cacchio in Bloubergstrand, so the missed calls, the no-shows and the booking chaos are problems he lives, not slides he read about. Receva is early and honest about it. We are onboarding our first clients now, which means you get the founder on the phone and a setup shaped around your business, not a ticket number in a queue. No fake logos, no borrowed case studies. Just a working product you can call.
Two minutes, one phone call
Then you'll know.
You can read landing pages all day. The fastest way to decide is to phone it and listen. It is free, there is no signup, and you will hear exactly what your customers would hear. If you like it, book 15 minutes and we will set it up for your business. Prefer to type? Send a WhatsApp.
Or WhatsApp Ruan if that is easier.