POPIA made careless calling risky, and your call records live in three places, none of them auditable.
RMDialer keeps every call, consent note, remark and follow-up on one lead record, synced from the phone that made the call, with reports the owner can read in any browser.
POPIA makes an auditable record of contact and consent genuinely useful · WhatsApp is the standard business follow-up channel
Your own SIM, no virtual number · Android and iPhone apps + Web CRM in one plan · No card for the trial
Short answer
One that keeps an auditable record of who was called, when, and what was agreed, because South Africa POPIA regime makes that record valuable rather than optional. RMDialer dials any list from the team own SIMs, captures each call outcome with a remark in two taps, keeps WhatsApp against the same record, and reports per employee in the Web CRM.
Key takeaways
Set per person on their own phone, so a mixed team shares one set of leads while each caller works in the language they think in.
Part of 40 app languages in total.
Anything that can fill a Google Sheet or call a REST API becomes a lead source: new rows come in at each scheduled check, and Live Sheets in the Web CRM can share them round robin across the team.
| Step | What happens | In detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connect the sources South Africa actually uses | Property24, Private Property, Gumtree and anything else that can fill a Google Sheet or call a REST API. Connect once; new rows keep importing on their own. |
| 2 | Each lead gets one owner | New enquiries land in the calling queue at each scheduled check, and Live Sheets in the Web CRM can share them round robin across your callers instead of leaving them in a shared inbox nobody owns. |
| 3 | The caller dials from their own South Africa SIM | Press Start and the app calls the list one number at a time. The customer sees a normal local mobile number, so it is answered and can be called back directly. No virtual numbers, no per-minute platform charge. |
| 4 | The record writes itself, in English | Between calls the after-call sheet takes the status, a remark and the next follow-up in two taps. WhatsApp can send the details automatically, and the owner reads calls, outcomes and lost leads in the Web CRM from any browser. |
Real businesses, real numbers: how owners and sales teams across India and 12+ countries use RMDialer every day.
“We needed an auto dialer app that works on our own MTN and Airtel lines, not a call centre subscription in dollars. RMDialer runs on the phones my agents already have, dials the enquiry list, and the WhatsApp follow-up goes out after every call. Calls still go out on the SIM when data drops, and the notes sync once we are back on the network.”
“Telecaller app for Android that my staff actually use. Enquiry list is assigned to each telecaller, the auto dialer calls it from their own SIM, and test ride bookings come to me live. Punjabi interface for the girls at the desk. Price is honest, everything included, no per-user surprises.”
“Most CRM tools here are built for a desk. Our brokers sell from their phones, so a telecalling CRM inside the dialer made sense. Leads from Facebook ads land in the app, the auto dialer calls them, and the tripping schedule rings each broker. Tagalog interface, own Globe SIM, no VoIP number for clients to distrust.”
“Multilingual team, so a CRM with English, Malay and Chinese interfaces mattered. The auto dialer runs our launch lists on the agents' own Maxis SIMs and the manager sees every call and remark live. We compared three cloud call centre tools; this cost a fraction and needed no virtual numbers.”
“Subscription business: every client's plan expiry is a renewal reminder and every prospect from the webinar list is auto dialled the next morning. Paid vs due on each client is visible, so collections are not in my head anymore. The daily call report keeps my two callers honest.”
“Order calling to 350 chemists every week. The list auto dials from each MR's own SIM, the order remark goes on the chemist's number, and I see calls and talk time per MR every evening on the web. Bulk WhatsApp for the new scheme went to the whole list from the call log in one go.”
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The same product is searched under different names in South Africa. These all describe what RMDialer does.
| Term people use | What it means |
|---|---|
| Sales CRM South Africa | The common SMB framing. |
| POPIA compliant CRM | Reflects how much POPIA drives software choice. |
| Telesales CRM | Used by outbound teams. |
| Field sales app | For reps working from vehicles. |
South Africa Protection of Personal Information Act, POPIA, governs how personal information including phone numbers is collected, used and stored, and direct marketing has specific consent requirements. Keep records of where each lead came from and what was agreed, honour opt-outs immediately, and take advice before direct marketing campaigns.
This is general information, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm the current position with your own regulator or adviser before running promotional calling.
One app. Every feature. One price.
Whether you are one person or one thousand, every RMDialer user gets the complete feature set. No tiers, no locked buttons, no "upgrade to unlock".
POPIA changed the calculation for South African outbound teams in a way that quietly favours better tooling. Once you are expected to show where personal information came from, why it was used, and that objections were acted on, a call log full of bare numbers and a spreadsheet maintained from memory become a liability rather than merely untidy. A system that records the source of every lead and the outcome of every call is doing compliance work as a side effect of doing sales work.
The commercial pattern is otherwise familiar: high-intent enquiries from property and vehicle portals, follow-up conducted on WhatsApp, and a customer who answers a normal mobile number more readily than an unfamiliar one. Keeping the dialer on the team own SIMs preserves that answer rate while avoiding the per-minute costs that make cloud contact-centre platforms hard to justify below a certain scale.
Everything else is the same product you can read about across this site: the auto dialer app, the CRM dialer where the record opens as the phone rings, the automatic WhatsApp after a call, and the telecalling CRM the owner watches in any browser. Pricing is the same worldwide at a free 3-day trial, then one plan with every feature included.
Distance and currency stop mattering when the first step is free. The dialer, call log, caller ID and call analytics cost nothing permanently, on any SIM in any country, and a card is only needed if you later want the paid half.
Free WhatsApp sends every day with a free account: 15 a day for your first 15 days, then 3 a day. The dialer itself needs no login at all.
Try it free for 3 days: unlimited use, no credit card required. Prices are per user, exclusive of taxes.
The tool is not the deciding factor; how you use it is. POPIA governs consent, purpose and record keeping for personal information, so what matters is that you can show where a number came from, why you called it, and that opt-outs were honoured. A dialer that records the source, the outcome and the remark for every call makes that far easier to evidence than a spreadsheet.
Yes. Every lead carries a source tag, so Property24, Private Property, Gumtree, AutoTrader, Facebook and Google enquiries can be reported separately, both for spend decisions and for showing where a contact record originated.
Not if your team calls from mobiles. The calls go through their own SIMs at normal rates, which avoids per-minute platform billing entirely, while the management layer, records, reminders and reports, lives in the app and the Web CRM.
Yes. The dialer places ordinary SIM calls from the phone, so it works on Etisalat and du, MTN and Airtel, Globe and Smart, or any other operator, at the operator's normal call rates. Follow the local rules on marketing calls (for example the UAE's and the Philippines' consent requirements) exactly as you would for manual calls.
A power dialer calls one number at a time for one agent and waits for that call to end, so every answered call has a person ready. A predictive dialer calls several numbers at once and connects the ones that answer to whichever agent is free, which needs a call-centre server and causes dropped "silent" calls. Mobile auto dialers like RMDialer are power dialers on a SIM.
Yes, for calling your own leads and customers. An auto dialer is only a faster way to place normal SIM calls, so the same rules apply as for manual calls: do not call numbers registered on the national DND list with promotional offers, honour opt-outs, and follow TRAI's rules for commercial communication. Calls to people who enquired with you, existing customers and service calls are routine.
A SIM-based dialer places calls from the SIM in the user's own phone, so the customer sees a normal mobile number and the call costs whatever the operator plan charges. Cloud telephony routes calls through a virtual number on a server and bills per user plus per minute, in return for features like IVR and recording. For outbound sales on mobile numbers, SIM calling gets answered more often and costs far less.
Because caller ID apps and phone dialers increasingly flag pooled virtual and VoIP numbers as spam or business calls, and because the same virtual number is often used for many campaigns. A real mobile number from a local SIM looks like a person calling, which is why SIM-based dialers report higher connect rates in India.
Call from a real SIM rather than a pooled virtual number, keep daily volumes reasonable, do not call DND numbers with offers, save your business name in Truecaller and similar caller ID apps, and send a WhatsApp before or after the call so the customer recognises you. Numbers get flagged by patterns of unanswered cold calls, not by calling your own enquiries.
TRAI's commercial communication rules cover promotional and telemarketing calls: do not call numbers registered on DND with offers, use the 140 series if you run bulk telemarketing, and stop when asked. Calling your own enquiries, customers and service contacts is not telemarketing. Keep records of consent and be reachable on the number you call from.
हाँ, अपने ग्राहकों और इन्क्वायरी को कॉल करने के लिए। ऑटो डायलर सिर्फ SIM से कॉल लगाने का तेज़ तरीका है, इसलिए वही नियम लागू होते हैं जो हाथ से कॉल करने पर: DND रजिस्टर्ड नंबरों पर ऑफर के लिए कॉल न करें, कोई मना करे तो रोक दें, और TRAI के कमर्शियल कॉलिंग नियम मानें।
An auto dialer app calls a list of phone numbers one after another so the caller never types a number. On Android, an app like RMDialer runs the session on the phone itself using the SIM already in it: you pick a list from Excel, a Google Sheet, an API or assigned leads, press start, and the app dials each number in turn while you mark the outcome between calls.
Yes. There is an iPhone app as well as the Android one, and it carries every feature except the native call log: leads, statuses, remarks, follow-up reminders, WhatsApp, templates, clients and team sync all work on iOS. Apple opens the call log to no app, so calls made on an iPhone are not recorded into the history by themselves, and only Android lets RMDialer become the phone app that answers with the customer on screen. The iPhone app is free on the App Store for iOS 17 or newer. The Web CRM works in any browser, including Safari.
The app itself runs in 40 languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia and Assamese for India, and Arabic, Bahasa, Tagalog, Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, French and others for teams abroad. Each user picks their own language on their own phone.
Try it with your own list in South Africa
Try it free for 3 days: unlimited use, no credit card required.
₹159/user/month on yearly · every feature included · Prices are per user, exclusive of taxes.
Free forever: the business dialer never expires, and needs no account
Call recording supported · our team sets it up with you during training
On iPhone and Android. The iPhone app has every feature except the native call log.
