Legal practice management · South Africa

The practice, in order.

Trust accounting, matters and billing built for South African law firms — every cent reconciled, every ledger audit-ready, every firm in its own database.

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Section 86 trust compliant78 automated testsData resident in South Africa

Trust Ledger — Estate Late M. NaidooBAL R 248 500.00

Deposit received2026-07-02 · EFT+248 500.00Cleared

Transfer to business — fees2026-07-08 · Invoice 1042−32 400.00Invoiced

Disbursement — Deeds Office2026-07-09−1 850.00Receipted

Interest — Section 86(4)2026-07-11 · to LPFF+1 214.36Accrued

Reconciled to bankTrust vs business: balanced

Why Praxia

Trust accounting is where firms get hurt.

South African firms carry obligations no generic practice tool understands — and the incumbents are expensive, dated, and built for a different era. Praxia is written for the Legal Practice Act, not adapted to it.

01Trust and business ledgers that don't reconcile — the fastest route to a qualified audit.

02Section 86(4) interest calculated by hand, or not at all.

03Fee narratives and tariffs rebuilt from scratch on every matter.

04Client data pooled with other firms on someone else's shared database.

05Legacy systems priced for large firms, sold on long lock-ins.

Seven modules

Everything the practice runs on.

Built and tested as one system — no bolt-ons, no third-party accounting package to reconcile against.

Trust accounting

Trust and business ledgers, deposits, transfers, disbursements and Section 86(4) interest — reconciled to the bank, audit-ready by default.

General ledger

A full double-entry ledger underneath the practice — not a spreadsheet bolted to a case list.

Court tariff engine

Party-and-party tariffs computed, not looked up.

Billing

Fee narratives, invoices, WIP and disbursement recovery.

Documents

Matter-linked storage with version history.

Auth, roles & audit trail

Every action attributable to a person and a timestamp — the record your auditor asks for.

Tenancy — database per firm

Your firm's data sits in its own database. Not a row in a shared table with a tenant ID.

Built for the Act

Compliance isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Praxia was written against the Legal Practice Act and POPIA from the first line — with the tests to prove it.

Section 86 trust rules enforced in the ledger

automated tests passing on every build

POPIA

data protection by design, resident in SA

1:1

one database per firm — no pooled client data

Hosting

On our servers, or on yours.

Trust data is the most sensitive data a firm holds. You choose where it lives.

Hosted

Praxia Cloud

We run it. PostgreSQL, one database per firm, hosted in South Africa, backed up nightly.

On-premise

Your server

SQL Server on your own infrastructure, behind your own firewall. The full system, none of it offsite.

Migration

Off the incumbents

Bring your matters, balances and history across from GhostPractice or AJS without starting over.