A hunting trip in South Africa still often starts as a Facebook post, a phone call, and a deposit into an account the hunter has to take on trust. Dates, species, accommodation and the price sit in separate conversations. The farmer keeps the same booking a second time, in a spreadsheet or a notebook at the lodge. When the party arrives, the two sides are looking at two different versions of the trip.

VeldStories puts both sides on one record. On the web, a hunter searches vetted game farms by place, dates, party size, species and features, opens the farm — gallery, animals, trophy prices, reviews — and pays the deposit through Yoco. The farmer sees that booking on the web or in the VeldStories: Game Farmer app: who is due, which units are taken, what a special does to the price, and what to bill when a kill is logged. The hunter’s app, VeldStories: Hunter, keeps the trip, the log and the pages last opened, including when the signal drops. The interface is in English, Afrikaans and Spanish. The line already on the product is the right close: experience hunting the way it was supposed to be.