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Indigent register software for municipalities

Deis IndigentIQ is an indigent management system for South African municipalities and the service providers who win their indigent tenders: field teams capture household applications on a tablet, every applicant is checked against Home Affairs, CIPC, the Deeds Office and credit bureaus, and officials approve, decline or send back for review. Municipalities can host it themselves on a free platform licence, or ask about the Deis-hosted option on Azure South Africa North.

Platform:IndigentIQ

The problem

Help is lost in the paperwork around the policy

Where the time goes

  • Forms are filled in by hand and re-typed, and the same household is registered twice.
  • Identity, deceased status and property ownership are hard to verify by hand, so they often go unchecked.
  • Applicants never hear what happened to their application, and small teams have no queue, no workload view and no audit trail.

How IndigentIQ solves it

From the doorstep to the approved register

  • A tablet app captures the whole household on the first visit, with GPS and applicant consent.
  • Checks against Home Affairs, CIPC, the Deeds Office and credit bureaus combine into one indigent assessment.
  • A QA queue where every status change needs a reason and is logged with the user.
  • Applicants get SMS or WhatsApp updates in your municipality’s name.

What officials see

One household record, from capture to register

Applicant, address, household and income, grants, documents and the indigent assessment sit on one record that every step works from.

  • Five statuses: Applied, Verification in progress, Review required, Approved and Declined
  • Verification results from Home Affairs, CIPC, the Deeds Office and credit bureaus
  • The register of approved households, renewals and bulk exports
  • Daily operational reports and dashboards
  • Enrolment by ward on a GIS map

Illustrative visual. Figures are not from a real applicant.

Illustrative example of an IndigentIQ field application with household details and automatic verification checks.

Illustrative · sample data

How it works

How an application moves

  1. 1 · Capture in the field

    Field teams capture the household, documents and consent on a tablet.

  2. 2 · Verify automatically

    Home Affairs, CIPC, Deeds and bureau checks run, including the spouse where Home Affairs shows a marriage.

  3. 3 · Review and approve

    Officials approve, decline or send back for review, with a reason on every change.

  4. 4 · Inform, renew and report

    Applicants receive status messages, and the municipality runs renewals, registers, reports and ward maps.

Integration and hosting

Branded as your municipality

Everything applicants see, including SMS, WhatsApp, forms and the field app, carries your municipality’s name. IndigentIQ uses DocuFii for verification and OmniLink for SMS and WhatsApp status messages.

Each municipality is kept separate: users see only their own municipality’s applications, queues and reports, with role-based access, two-factor sign-in and a login history. When you host IndigentIQ, applicant records stay in your environment.

Pricing

A free platform licence, plus usage

There is a free platform licence when you host IndigentIQ in your own environment. You pay only for the verification checks you run and the messages you send, which are quoted on request. The Deis-hosted option, implementation and training are available on application.

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Won an indigent tender? Run your tender on IndigentIQ.

FAQ

Questions about municipal indigent administration

What is an indigent management system?

It is software that runs a municipality’s indigent programme: capturing applications, verifying households, approving them and keeping the register and renewals. IndigentIQ does this from field capture to the approved register.

We won an indigent tender. Do we need our own bureau agreements?

No. There are no separate agreements to set up: checks run through Deis’s registry and bureau access, so you can start capturing in days, not months.

Is the platform licence really free?

Yes, when you host IndigentIQ in your environment. You pay only for the checks you run and the messages you send, and a Deis-hosted option on Azure South Africa North is available on application.

Which sources does it check?

Home Affairs ID and alive status, CIPC directorships, Deeds Office property and credit bureau checks, on every applicant and on the spouse where Home Affairs shows a marriage.

Can one provider run several municipalities?

Yes. Each municipality is kept separate: users see only their own municipality’s applications, queues and reports.

Talk to us about your indigent programme

Whether you are a municipality or a service provider who has won a tender, we will show IndigentIQ running on a sample ward.

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