South Africa's first complete digital ecosystem for the hunting industry - five apps, one shared backend, one account.
South Africa's hunting industry generates billions of rands every year but operates almost entirely on phone calls, WhatsApp messages, physical paperwork and word-of-mouth referrals. Hunters have no reliable way to discover and book experiences. Outfitters manage everything manually. Butchers and taxidermists receive work through informal channels. There is no digital infrastructure connecting the ecosystem.
ElcoHunt is the answer: five purpose-built apps that connect every role in the value chain - from the hunter booking a trip, to the outfitter managing their farm, through to the butcher processing the meat and the taxidermist preparing the trophy. All participants share a single account system, so one login works across the entire platform.
A purpose-built app for every participant in the South African hunting value chain.
Discover verified farms across South Africa, browse packages, book hunts end-to-end with PayFast, log trophies, plan hunts, browse a species encyclopedia and chat directly with outfitters and service providers.
Complete farm and lodge management for outfitters: bookings, packages, availability calendar, arrivals, financial dashboard with 90/10 split payouts, professional hunter management, trophy register and permits.
Order workflow from intake to collection with cut-sheet management, cold-room and drying-room tracking, deboned-yield calculations, client management and financial reporting.
End-to-end trophy preparation: 10-stage status workflow, queue management, tannery tracking, CITES export documentation and per-trophy progress visible to hunters in real time.
Booking and member management for shooting ranges. Lane configuration, training sessions, equipment tracking, safety incident logging, digital check-in with licence verification and analytics.
End-to-end payment via PayFast aggregator. The platform retains a 10% fee and pays out 90% to outfitters automatically. Full payout history in the Outfitter app.
Free, unlimited maps via OpenStreetMap and flutter_map - no API keys, no quota limits, complete coverage of South Africa.
Push notifications powered by pure Supabase Realtime - no Firebase or FCM required. Booking confirmations, messages and order status updates delivered instantly.
Structured threaded conversations between hunters, outfitters, butchers and taxidermists - replacing the WhatsApp chaos that runs the industry today.
Hunters store hunting licences, permits and identity documents securely in the app - ready to present at the farm or range.
Service providers subscribe via RevenueCat for unlimited bookings and orders, full financial reporting, advanced analytics and featured listings on the Hunter app.
All five Flutter apps depend on a shared package (elcohunt_shared) that centralises business logic, data access and domain models - so a fix in one place flows to every app.
Visit the public website or get in touch for a guided demo of the ecosystem.
