LawFlow · Estate Administration for SA Law Firms
Modern Estate Administration Software for South African Law Firms
LawFlow replaces outdated Excel templates and legacy desktop systems with an intelligent cloud platform for drafting compliant Liquidation & Distribution accounts — faster, with fewer errors, and complete audit confidence.
| Executor's fee (3.5%) | R 224,717 |
| VAT on executor's fee (15%) | R 33,707 |
| Master's Office fee | R 7,000 |
Enterprise legal-tech · purpose-built for SA estate practice
Estate administration shouldn't run on Excel and hope.
Most South African law firms still draft Liquidation & Distribution accounts in legacy Excel templates and desktop systems. LawFlow replaces that with an intelligent, audit-ready cloud platform.
Slow, error-prone, hard to audit
- Drafting L&D accounts in 20-year-old Excel templates
- Manual recalculation of executor's fees, VAT and Master's fees
- Master's Office rejections from formatting and balancing errors
- Estate files scattered across email, OneDrive and filing cabinets
- Junior staff blocked until a partner reviews every line
- No audit history when a beneficiary or auditor questions a figure
- Onboarding a new estate administrator takes weeks
Compliant, automated, audit-ready
- Guided wizard walks every estate through the same compliant path
- Executor's fee, VAT and Master's Office fees calculated automatically
- Master's-Office-ready PDFs with the formatting estates officers expect
- Centralised estate file: assets, liabilities, heirs, bequests, documents
- Junior staff can draft confidently with validation panels at every step
- Immutable audit trail on every figure, document and approval
- New staff productive in days, not months
Everything an estate file needs, without the spreadsheets.
Nine purpose-built capabilities — from first asset capture to a signed L&D account at the Master's Office.
Centralised estate records — assets, liabilities, heirs and bequests in one structured workflow.
Executor's fees, VAT, Master's Office fees and real-time balancing — no spreadsheet formulas to maintain.
Professionally formatted, compliant PDF Liquidation & Distribution accounts with full version history.
Step-by-step completion with validation panels, progress tracking and error prevention at every stage.
Separate firms, branding and document output. Secure tenant isolation enforced at the database layer.
Principal, administrator, junior and client-view roles with granular, screen-by-screen RBAC.
Send draft L&D accounts and updates straight from LawFlow with branded client communications.
Responsive design, sticky estate summaries and fast action buttons — review files on any device.
Daily backups, audit-grade security, row-level security and secure SA-friendly cloud infrastructure.
From opening file to signed L&D account.
One continuous, compliant workflow. Every figure traceable, every step auditable.
Compliant L&D accounts, auto-balanced.
LawFlow turns the assets, liabilities, heirs and bequests you capture into a Master's-Office-ready Liquidation & Distribution account — formatted, balanced, version-tracked.
Late Botha, J.M. · 2026/00412
- Immovable property — Erf 1234, SandtonR 4 250 000
- ABSA cheque account ****8821R 612 500
- Allan Gray unit trust portfolioR 1 248 000
- Motor vehicle — Toyota Fortuner 2022R 310 000
- Gross estateR 6 420 500
- Outstanding bond — Erf 1234R 312 000
- Funeral expenses (Avbob)R 42 500
- Outstanding income taxR 58 250
- Total liabilitiesR 412 750
| Net estate | R 6 007 750 |
| Executor's fee (3.5%) | R 210 271 |
| VAT on executor's fee (15%) | R 31 541 |
| Master's Office fee | R 7 000 |
| Available to heirs | R 5 758 938 |
Try it. Draft, balance, generate.
Switch between Principal, Estate Administrator, Junior Staff and Client View. Capture assets, allocate heirs, then generate a compliant L&D account — all live.
Late J.M. Botha
Master's ref 2026/00412 · Testate (will dated 2019-08-04)
- Executor's fee (3.5% of net estate)
- R 210 271
- VAT on executor's fee (15%)
- R 31 541
- Master's Office fee
- R 7 000
- Net distributable to heirs
- R 5 758 938
Demo data only — nothing is persisted. Use the Reset button to start over.
Built for the people who administer SA estates.
From boutique estate practices to multi-branch firms drafting hundreds of L&D accounts a year.
Full-time fiduciary staff managing complex estate workflows end-to-end.
Independent trust and estate specialists who need professional output without the IT overhead.
Practices ready to retire 20-year-old templates and move to a modern, compliant cloud platform.
What estate practices live with today
- Hours wasted preparing every L&D account by hand
- Manual calculation errors caught only by the Master's Office
- Master's Office rejections that delay every estate
- Poor collaboration across partners, admins and juniors
- No audit history when figures are questioned
- Difficult, slow onboarding of junior estate staff
Allow junior staff to produce senior-quality estate accounts with confidence.
Guided wizards, validation panels and automatic statutory calculations mean that the knowledge of your most experienced practitioners is built into every estate file — and every L&D account that leaves the firm.
The outcomes principals care about.
LawFlow isn't a feature list — it's a way to run a faster, more compliant, more scalable estate practice.
Cut hours of manual drafting per estate. Capture once, calculate everywhere.
Statutory calculations and validation panels prevent the errors that cause rejections.
Immutable audit trail on every figure, document, signature and approval.
Every estate follows the same compliant, repeatable path — regardless of who drafts it.
Retire fragile Excel templates and broken VLOOKUPs for good.
Add staff, branches and matters without adding spreadsheet maintenance overhead.
Purpose-built for South African estate practice.
Estate departments at boutique, mid-tier and multi-branch firms.
Independent trust, estate and curatorship practitioners.
Conveyancers handling deceased-estate property transfers alongside L&D drafting.
Bank and corporate trust departments administering large books of estates.
Specialist estate boutiques needing enterprise-grade tooling at boutique scale.
Estate data you can defend in any audit.
LawFlow is built on a production-grade SaaS architecture with the controls partners, auditors and the Master's Office expect.
Database-enforced isolation. A firm's estate data is only ever visible to that firm.
Run multiple firms or branches from one platform with separate branding and output.
Principal, administrator, junior, client — granular, screen-by-screen access control.
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Designed around POPIA principles for SA practices.
Every figure, edit, approval and document action logged with actor and timestamp.
Point-in-time backups and disaster recovery on production-grade cloud infrastructure.
- Drafted by
- Jess T. · Junior Administrator
- Reviewed by
- Anton P. · Principal
- Locked at
- 2026-05-22 14:08 SAST
- Account hash
- sha256: 7a9f…c421
- L&D version
- v3 · First & Final
Plans that scale with your estate practice.
Transparent enterprise pricing for SA law firms. Pick the tier that matches your team and estate volume.
- 1 seat · 1 firm
- Estate wizard
- Automated calculations
- Master's-Office-ready PDFs
- Email support
- Up to 5 seats
- Up to 250 active estates
- RBAC & approvals
- Branded firm output
- Audit trail
- Up to 25 seats
- Unlimited estates
- Multi-branch tenancy
- Client portal access
- Priority support
- API access
- Unlimited seats
- SSO + SCIM
- Dedicated success manager
- SLA & DPA
- Custom integrations
Questions about LawFlow.
Is LawFlow compliant with South African Master's Office requirements?+
Yes. LawFlow generates Liquidation & Distribution accounts in the format expected by the Master's of the High Court — including executor's fees, VAT on executor's fees, Master's Office fees, and the standard asset, liability and distribution sections. Every figure is auto-calculated and balanced before the PDF is issued.
How does LawFlow replace our existing Excel templates?+
LawFlow captures the same estate data you'd put into a template — assets, liabilities, heirs and bequests — but runs all calculations (executor's fee 3.5%, VAT 15%, Master's fee) automatically, prevents balancing errors, and produces a professionally formatted PDF L&D account. No more broken formulas, no more version-control chaos.
Can multiple firms or branches run on one LawFlow installation?+
Yes. LawFlow is a true multi-tenant platform. Each firm has its own isolated workspace, branding, document templates and user permissions — enforced at the database layer with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security.
What roles and permissions does LawFlow support?+
Principal, Estate Administrator, Junior Staff and Client View. Junior staff can draft accounts but cannot lock or send them. Beneficiaries can view their estate via a read-only client portal. All actions are recorded in an immutable audit trail.
Is our estate data secure and POPIA-compliant?+
LawFlow runs on production-grade cloud infrastructure with daily backups, encryption at rest and in transit, Row-Level Security and audit-grade logging. It's designed around POPIA principles — data minimisation, role-based access, encryption and complete audit trails.
What does pricing look like for SA law firms?+
Four tiers: Solo Practitioner, Boutique Firm, Established Firm (most popular), and Enterprise for multi-branch and corporate trust departments. Pricing is transparent and per-seat — book a demo for a quote tailored to your estate volume.
Modernize your estate administration
Replace Excel with intelligent automation.
Start managing estates smarter. Compliant L&D accounts, automated statutory calculations, and a complete audit trail — built for South African law firms.
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