The field tools your guards need, at a fair Rand price.
Picket is a PSIRA-aware, offline-first mobile app for small and mid South African guarding companies and the estates, factories and body corporates they serve. Patrol and proof-of-presence, a digital occurrence book, visitor pre-authorisation and guard-safety escalation, with optional shift rostering, in one app. It assists guards, it does not replace them.
Built for SA guarding firms without a fancy control room
See Picket in action
A quick walkthrough of Picket on the ground: patrol proof, the digital occurrence book, visitor pre-authorisation and guard-safety escalation, in one app.
The big platforms are built for the big operators.
A small guarding firm still has to prove its guards did the rounds, keep an occurrence book that stands up, manage visitors at the gate and know its people are safe. The enterprise tools that do this are priced for national operators, sold as a subscription only, and assume a proprietary baton and a full control room you do not run.
So the small firm makes do: a paper book, a WhatsApp group and a spreadsheet. When a client asks for proof, or PSIRA asks for the record, that is not a strong answer. Picket gives a small firm the field discipline of a big one, priced for its reality.
Three core jobs, done properly, in one app.
The operational field tools a guarding firm actually runs on, built for South African conditions and priced for a small team, with an optional Scheduler module for rostering on top.
Patrol and proof-of-presence
Phone-native checkpoint scans that prove the round was walked, when it should have been, by whom.
- NFC or QR checkpoints, no proprietary baton or dock
- GPS, timestamp and photo on every scan
- Geofenced clock-in, offline-first with automatic sync
- Randomised round order to stop collusion, with push-prompts for the next round
- Missed-checkpoint alerts, live and historical patrol views
Digital occurrence and incident book
A tamper-evident record that replaces the paper PSIRA occurrence book and holds up when it is questioned.
- Hash-chained, append-only entries
- Timestamp and location locked on every entry
- Photo and voice attachments, structured incident types
- One-tap PDF export for clients, SAPS and insurers
Visitor pre-authorisation
Residents and hosts pre-book guests, so the gate knows who is coming and the record is clean and POPIA-minimal.
- Resident and host pre-booking
- QR or PIN guest passes
- ID and plate capture at the gate
- POPIA-minimal retention, aligned to the incoming Gated-Access Code of Conduct
Scheduler: rostering and the payroll close
Add rostering on top of Core when you need it. Recurring shift patterns, including rotating cycles like 12-hour four-on-four-off, site rosters with posts and coverage, applying a pattern across a month with a clash-checking preview and undo, PSIRA-gated guard-to-shift assignment, and roster-fed timesheets that surface no-show and out-of-geofence exceptions and flow into a Supervisor to HR to Director approval close. R25 per active guard a month, on any Core plan.
It knows when the guard is in trouble.
Most patrol apps only tell you a point was missed. Picket is built to tell you something has happened to the person. On a lone night shift, that is the difference that matters.
A panic call, a phone that stops moving, a check-in that never comes: each one escalates up the chain, from supervisor to control room to client, until someone responds.
Everything a small firm needs, nothing it does not.
The cross-cutting strengths that make Picket a fair, complete tool rather than a stripped-down enterprise product.
PSIRA-aware, with gating
Tracks guard grade and licence-expiry dates and gates assignment, so a guard whose PSIRA lapses cannot be assigned to a site.
Offline-first, by design
Patchy signal and load-shedding are the norm here, so Picket captures on the device and syncs automatically when the connection is back.
Multi-site operations dashboard
Every site, patrol and open incident on one screen for the supervisor and ops team, without a dedicated control room.
Client SLA proof-of-service
The report that renews a contract: rounds walked, incidents handled and response times, ready to send the client each month.
Rostering and payroll close
Hours from geofenced clock-in flow out to SimplePay, Pastel and Sage formats without re-keying. The optional Scheduler module adds shift rostering and the Supervisor to HR to Director approval close on top.
POPIA-aligned throughout
Personal information is minimised and retention is controlled by design, from visitor records to incident attachments.
The phone they already carry
No proprietary baton, no dock, no extra device to lose or maintain. Guards use the Android or iOS phone in their pocket.
AI only where it helps
We do not force AI in. It is optional and used only where it genuinely helps, such as ID OCR at the gate. The core is solid software.
One app for the whole field, at a price a small firm can actually say yes to.
Nobody local bundles patrol, the occurrence book, visitor management and optional rostering into one PSIRA-aware app. That integration, plus pricing published right on the page, is the point.
You stop paying for several disconnected tools, or making do with paper and WhatsApp, and get one record that ties the round, the incident and the visitor together, with rostering that feeds the same timesheets when you add the Scheduler module.
The right view for each person.
One product, four roles, so the guard, the supervisor, the client and the admin each see exactly what they need.
Guard
A simple mobile app: scan checkpoints, log incidents, raise a panic and check in, on the phone they already carry.
Supervisor and ops
Web and mobile: live patrols, incidents and guard safety across sites, with escalation chains, and optional rostering and the payroll-approval close.
Estate and client
A read-only view of the proof that matters: rounds walked, incidents handled and the SLA report each month.
Admin
Manage sites, guards, checkpoints, PSIRA records and clients, and configure the SOP and escalation for the firm.
Transparent pricing, published on the page.
Picket is modular. Start with Picket Core, the full field-operations platform from R2,500 a month, and add the optional Scheduler module when you want rostering and the payroll-approval close. We publish every number right here so you can budget before you email us.
| Once-off setup | R15,000 to R90,000 |
| Then monthly | From R2,500 |
| Your Core plan | As above |
| Scheduler, per active guard / month | + R25 |
| Extra setup and floor | None |
Picket Core
The complete field-operations platform. A once-off setup, then a simple monthly plan, priced per active guard or in a flat band, your choice.
- Patrol and proof-of-presence
- Digital occurrence and incident book
- Visitor management and pre-authorisation
- Time and attendance with geofenced clock-in
- Guard-safety escalation and PSIRA-aware gating
- Multi-site dashboard, SLA reports and payroll CSV export
No per-scan meter and no lock-in tricks. Visitor pre-authorisation is included from the Growth plan up, and available on Starter as an add-on from +R599/month. All your estates and sites run in one account, each with its own geofence, checkpoints and SLA report, and each plan includes a site allowance (5 to 60 sites by band, then R250/month per additional site). The same core toolkit is in every plan, you are only choosing how you want to be billed.
| Active guards | Per guard / month |
|---|---|
| 1 to 50 | R45 |
| 51 to 150 | R38 |
| 151 to 300 | R32 |
| 301 to 500 | R28 |
| 500+ | By arrangement |
| Plan | Covers | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 50 guards | R2,500 |
| Growth | 51 to 150 guards | R6,500 |
| Scale | 151 to 300 guards | R11,000 |
| Scale+ | 301 to 500 guards | R14,000 |
Scheduler module (optional)
Add rostering and the payroll-approval close on top of any Core plan. One flat rate per active guard, using the same active-guard count as your Core plan.
- Recurring shift patterns, including rotating cycles like 12-hour and four-on-four-off
- Site rosters with posts and coverage per site
- Apply a pattern across a month with a clash-checking preview, then apply or undo
- Guard-to-shift assignment with the PSIRA check applied, so a lapsed guard is blocked
- Roster-fed timesheets with exceptions surfaced: no-show, zero-hours and out-of-geofence
- A Supervisor to HR to Director approval close, then a locked payroll export
At R25 per active guard, the Scheduler module costs less than standalone rostering tools charge for rostering alone, and it lives in the same platform as your patrols, occurrence book and time and attendance. Choose Picket Core on its own, or Core plus Scheduler.
All prices exclude VAT and are in South African Rand. Picket Core setup bands: Starter, up to about 50 guards, R15,000 to R25,000 · Growth, about 50 to 250 guards, R35,000 to R60,000 · Scale, about 250 to 500 guards, R60,000 to R90,000. The Scheduler module is R25 per active guard per month, added to any Core plan, with no separate setup fee or floor.
Running a control room too?
Picket is the field-operations layer. For firms that also run a control room, it pairs with Cordon, our control-room incident-intelligence product, so what your guards capture in the field lands in one live incident for the operator.
The things firms actually ask.
Straight answers, before you spend a minute on a form.
Do guards need special hardware or a proprietary patrol baton?
What happens when there is no signal or the power is out?
How is the occurrence book tamper-evident?
Does Picket keep me aligned with PSIRA?
What does Picket cost?
We guard multiple estates. How does that work?
What is the Scheduler module and what does it add?
Does Picket replace my guards or my control room?
See it on your operation.
Tell us how many guards and sites you run, and what you use today. We will reply by email with a tailored Rand quote and a practical first deployment path for your firm. We are onboarding our first pilot firms now.
- A tailored Rand quote, scoped up front
- A first deployment path for your sites
- No call required, we reply by email, usually same day
Prefer email? info@eyonasoftware.co.za · Typically replies same day