Platform Overview

Every tool your Wills
department needs.

SimplyWill™ covers the complete Will lifecycle — from the first client meeting to signed original in the vault and estate handover. All in one offline-first platform built for South African law firms.

7 Will types 50+ clause types English + Afrikaans Wills Act 7 of 1953
The SimplyWill clause library open beside a Will in progress
Module 01

Document
Drafting

A guided wizard takes your team from client details to a complete, print-ready Will document in minutes — in English or Afrikaans, formatted to legal standard, with your firm's own clause wording if you subscribe to the Custom Will Suite.

5-step Will drafting wizard
Single, Joint & Living Wills
Power of Attorney (POA)
Bilingual: English and Afrikaans
Times New Roman legal formatting
Branded firm cover page
Firm letterhead and footer
Automatic page numbering
Wills Act 7 of 1953 compliant
PDF output — print or email
QR code linked to Will Dossier
The Branded Cover settings screen, with a firm logo uploaded and the generated Will cover page beside it
Module 02

Clause
Library

A comprehensive library covering every Will clause type recognised in South African testamentary law. Select clauses interactively during drafting — no copy-pasting from Word templates. Custom Will Suite subscribers load their firm's approved precedent wording as the default.

Residue and specific bequests
Testamentary Trust clauses
Usufruct & bare dominium
Special Needs Trust (SNT)
Accrual & ANC marital regime
In community of property
Executor & trustee appointment
Guardian appointment (minors)
Pre-deceased heir substitution
Fideicommissum
Massing clause
Revocation of prior Wills
Custom precedent wording (Custom Suite)
Clause search & preview
New clauses added in updates
Module 03

Client & Firm
Management

A complete CRM built around the South African Will client — SA ID validation, marital regime tracking, spouse linking, legacy import from your existing spreadsheets. Firm-level contacts — executors, banks, master's offices — stored once and reused across all matters.

Full client profile with SA ID validation
Marital regime field per client
Spouse linking and joint Will support
Beneficiary and heir directory
Firm contacts: executors, trustees, banks
Search and filter across all records
Legacy import from Excel or CSV
POPIA-compliant data handling
Module 04

Custody &
Compliance

A complete audit trail for every original Will — who has it, where it is, every movement recorded. When the signed original is uploaded, SimplyWill™ checks it against the formal requirements before it is filed — signatures page by page, the Commissioner of Oaths co-signature where the will was signed by mark, and each field of the certificate page.

Automatic signature verification on upload
Names the exact page that is missing or duplicated
Reviewer confirmation logged to the custody trail
Your firm's Chain of Custody log per Will
Vault number assignment
Will status tracking (Draft → Signed → Vaulted)
Pending sign-up dashboard
Module 05

Will
Dossier

Every client gets a Will Dossier — a living case file your entire team shares. Practice notes, scanned originals, Outlook emails dragged in, and a full evidence locker. When a client passes, the Estate Intake Form hands off everything the Estates department needs.

Persistent practice notes per client
Evidence locker: attach any file type
Drag Outlook emails into Dossier
Estate Intake Form for handover
A Will Dossier open on the Chain of Custody tab, listing each action with its date, the staff member who performed it and the location details, beside a QR code that verifies the document history. Staff and client identifying details are blurred.
Module 06

Office
Automation

Branded bilingual email templates, a Referral Register to track introducers and referral sources, and a Monthly Production Report with status breakdowns and year-to-date graphs — everything to keep your Wills department running professionally.

Branded bilingual email templates
Referral Register with source tracking
Monthly Production Report & graphs
The Statistics screen showing total Wills, safe custody, monthly velocity, estate conversions, a status breakdown and referral sources
Module 07

Data &
Security

SimplyWill™ is local-first by design. Every workstation holds a complete database and works entirely offline. What syncs between your own devices is encrypted with your firm's key before it leaves the machine — unreadable to us and to the hosting provider. POPIA compliance is built in, not bolted on.

Local-first — full database on every workstation
Encrypted with your firm's key before it syncs
POPIA-compliant data handling
AES-256 encrypted database
Automatic silent updates via secure channel

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