The books
Invoices, bills, VAT, banking and reports. Journals, cashbook, general ledger and trial balance underneath them, and a year end that closes properly, not by starting a new file.
The books, and everything that feeds them.
Lumarix is a South African ERP: bookkeeping, bank, selling, buying, stock, payroll and reports, all speaking to each other and all adding up to the cent. It runs in your browser and on your phone. It is the first product on Dachshund, and unlike the platform underneath it, this one you can use today.
In plain words
What it actually is.
Most small businesses run their money across four things that do not know about each other: a spreadsheet for quotes, an invoicing tool, a bank statement in a download folder, and a bookkeeper who reconciles all three once a month and finds out in the third week what happened in the first.
The cost of that is not the software licences. It is that nobody can answer a simple question quickly. What did that job actually make. Whether the stock figure is real. Whether the VAT number about to be filed came from the same records as the invoices. Each answer takes somebody a morning, and every morning it takes is a morning nobody spends on the business.
Lumarix is one system for all of it. A quote becomes an order, an order becomes a delivery, a delivery becomes an invoice, and the invoice lands in the ledger without anybody retyping it. The stock moves when the delivery goes out. The payslip posts to the books when the pay run closes. The bank statement comes in and matches itself against what is already there.
Because it is one system, the reports are not an assembly job. The trial balance, the income statement and the VAT figures come off the same records as the documents, so they agree by construction rather than by somebody checking. That is the whole point of the thing, and it is the part that is hardest to bolt on afterwards.
It sits on Dachshund, which handles the account, what your company is licensed for, and the billing. That is why the sign-in says Dachshund account rather than Lumarix account: one login for this and for whatever we make next.
What is in it
Seven parts, one set of numbers.
Each part is licensed on its own, so you can hold the ones you use. They are not separate programs, and there is no export step between them.
Selling
Leads, quotes, orders and deliveries, in that order and each one carrying into the next. Credit notes, receipts and refunds where the money has to go back.
Buying
Purchase orders and goods received, matched against the bill when it arrives so you find the difference at the point it happens, not at month end.
Stock
Items, receiving, issuing, counts and costing. More than one location, stock takes that reconcile, and costs that stay honest when a sale goes through before the delivery lands.
Payroll
Payslips, PAYE, UIF, leave and year end. EMP201, and the year-end paperwork that has to agree with what the pay runs actually did.
Reports
Dashboards and reports across all of the above, on screen, on paper and in a spreadsheet. Budgets against actuals, and figures you can click through to the entry behind them.
What it costs
One price, per person who uses it.
No tiers, no feature gates that unlock at a higher plan, and no quote to sit through before you can see a number.
- R250 per user, per month
- Billed to the business, not to the person who signed up. A user is someone who signs in and does work. If they leave, the seat stays with the company.
- Or R2 750 per user, per year
- The same thing paid annually, which comes to two months off the monthly rate. Nothing is withheld from the monthly price to push you onto it.
- The first month is free, once per business
- You create a Dachshund account, tell us a little about the business, and ask for the free month. We switch it on by hand. That is a real person reading it, not an automatic trial, so it is not instant, and it is one free month per business rather than one per user.
- No VAT is added
- The Reichmann Co. is not registered for VAT, so the price you see is the price you pay. If that changes, it changes on the invoice and we will say so before it does.
Status · updated 18 August 2026
Where it actually stands.
- Open, and taking money
- You can create an account and use it today. The platform underneath it was finished first, and Lumarix is the product standing on it.
- Shipping most days
- 108 dated changes between 4 and 18 August 2026, each one written up in plain language inside the product, so you can see exactly what moved and when.
- Where your records sit
- On servers in Johannesburg. That was a genuine blocker when the Dachshund page was written, because a South African rule requires electronic tax records to be kept in the country and the obvious hosting choice would have broken it. It is the reason the hosting is what it is.
- Terms, privacy and operator agreement
- All three are published inside the product and dated 8 August 2026. The operator agreement is the one that matters if you are handing over employee information, and it exists because POPIA requires it rather than because it looks thorough.
Start here
Take a look at it yourself.
Create a Dachshund account and ask for the free month. If you would rather talk to a person first, or you want to know whether it fits how your business actually works, say so and we will answer, including if the answer is no.