Jointly is a South African co-parenting platform that helps separated and divorced parents manage maintenance payments, custody scheduling, communication, documents, and their children’s wellbeing, all in one secure, POPIA-compliant place.

Separated or divorced co-parents who need to coordinate maintenance and custody, as well as the mediators, family-law practitioners, and service providers who support those families.

Yes. Jointly uses ZAR currency and PayFast, includes South African public holidays, supports SA ID numbers, and is designed around South African maintenance law. Your data is handled in line with POPIA.

No. Jointly is a private tool for you and your co-parent, and it isn’t monitored by any court or third party. If you ever need to, you can export your own records and reports to use as you see fit.

Head to the web app and create your account in a few minutes, then set up your profile and invite your co-parent.

Jointly works best when both parents take part, so shared calendars, payments, and messages stay in sync. Each parent uses their own login.

From inside Jointly you invite them by email. They receive a secure link (valid for 14 days); when they open it and sign up with that same email address, they’re linked to your shared matter automatically.

Yes. You can use Jointly as a personal record even if your co-parent hasn’t joined: log payments, store documents, and use the calendar, journal, and children’s profiles. Shared features like payment confirmation and message threads activate once your co-parent accepts your invite, which they can do at any time.

The full-featured web app is available now and works in any modern browser. Native iOS and Android apps are coming soon, and your account stays in sync across all of them.

You each have your own login. Shared features (like the calendar, messages, and payments) are visible to both of you, while private spaces like your journal are visible only to you.

Parent plans are Starter (R99/mo), Standard (R149/mo), and Professional (R249/mo). Plans for mediators and practitioners start at R299/mo. All prices are in ZAR.

Yes. Every new account starts with a 14-day free trial of our Professional plan. When the trial ends, you can continue on any plan: Starter, Standard, or Professional.

Yes. Each parent has their own subscription, so one parent’s plan doesn’t cover the other. You each get the features of your own tier.

Payments are processed securely in South African Rand through PayFast.

Yes. You can cancel whenever you like and keep access until the end of your current billing period.

Yes. See our For Providers page for directory listings, profile management, analytics, and consultation booking, all with a 14-day free trial.

Yes. You can set up maintenance obligations, log and confirm payments, split shared expenses with receipt uploads, and raise reimbursement requests, all kept in a clear ledger.

When a payment is logged, the other parent can confirm receipt, so there’s an agreed, timestamped record rather than a dispute.

No. Jointly is for record-keeping. You make payments however you prefer (bank transfer, cash, and so on), then log them in Jointly so they can be confirmed and kept on record. PayFast is only used to pay for your Jointly subscription, not to move money between parents.

Yes. Jointly includes a calculator that estimates amounts based on South African maintenance guidelines, so you can sanity-check a figure.

Yes. You can export a clean payment ledger and reports to PDF whenever you need them.

Yes. Apply custody templates like week-on-week-off or 2-2-3, and view everything in month, week, day, or agenda views.

You can raise a change request, and the event only updates once both parents approve it, so the calendar always reflects what was agreed.

Yes. SA public holidays are built in, so it’s easy to plan around them.

Yes. You can plan pickups and drop-offs so everyone knows where to be.

Jointly offers threaded messaging that’s kept on record, with the ability to mark a message as a formal notice and to star important messages so they’re easy to find later.

No. Messages are append-only: once sent, they can’t be edited or deleted by anyone. That gives you a tamper-evident record, and important messages can be marked as a formal notice.

Yes. The document vault keeps court orders, parenting plans, receipts, and more, with version history. Documents are shared through short-lived signed links rather than open URLs.

Yes. Built-in video calling is included, so you don’t need a separate app.

Yes. You can book consultations with mediators and practitioners from inside Jointly.

Each child gets a profile for medical, school, and emergency information, along with per-child custody arrangements.

Yes. Your personal journal, including mood tracking, is visible only to you, never to the other parent.

SOS lets you raise an urgent alert when something needs immediate attention.

Yes. You can generate reports and export them to PDF whenever you need them.

Your information is encrypted and access-controlled, and documents are shared via short-lived signed links. Your private journal is visible only to you.

Yes. Jointly is built to handle your personal information in line with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). See our Privacy Policy for the detail.

Shared features are visible to both co-parents. Private spaces, like your journal, are visible only to you.

Yes. You can export your records and reports at any time, so your data stays useful to you.

You can request deletion, and we anonymise your personal details. Certain records (such as payments and messages) are retained as required by South African law, typically for the life of the matter plus five years. Contact us to make a request.