Hold estate firearms under your own licence. We handle the estate.

Matters referred through Firearmdesk stay on the Firearmdesk statement: your fee invoices are prepared on the portal for the estate, care of Firearmdesk as its agent, and Firearmdesk pays them 15 days after month end. On a sale, your account sale is the only document you give the estate directly. You hold the firearm under your licence. Your own customers and your own estate work remain yours.

You are paid regardless. Firearmdesk pays your fees 15 days after month end whether or not the estate has paid its invoice; collecting from the estate is our risk, not yours. Payment status never holds up a lawful release either.

In short: after 24 months in your custody, either of us can require the executor to give a disposal instruction. If none is given within 60 days of the notice, we keep paying your storage for up to 12 more months, and a firearm is sold or surrendered only as the executor’s mandate allows. If it is still with you after that, you hold it for the executor directly and invoice the estate at no more than your storage fee.

After 24 months either of us may ask the executor for a disposal instruction. If none follows, we keep paying your storage for up to 12 more months. In that time a firearm with value is sold only if the heirs or the Master approved the sale at the outset, and a firearm without value is surrendered at a police station; storage is settled from any sale proceeds. If an executor ends the mandate, we keep paying for 10 business days after we tell you; if it ends any other way (an executor dies, is removed or replaced, or the estate is sequestrated), for up to 12 months; a mandate we end for non-payment changes nothing for you. After that, or if the firearm is still with you when the 12 months after a disposal request end, you hold it for the executor directly and invoice the estate at the same rate. On a section 21 holder’s deposit that no executor takes over, our payments stop 12 months after receipt or when the authorisation expires, and you then hold it for the holder.

In short: no. Your own customers, storage and estate work stay yours. The only limits are that you deal with an executor through us while its matter is with us, and that, while the agreement runs, you do not approach the firm that referred a matter allocated to you to take its estate work around Firearmdesk (firms you dealt with before signing are excluded).

No. You stay free to run your own business, including your own estate work. While a matter is with us, you deal with its executor through us. While the agreement runs, you also do not approach a firm that referred a matter allocated to you, and that we name to you on the portal, to take its estate work around Firearmdesk. Firms you dealt with before signing are excluded.

In short: a dealer may not store another dealer’s firearms, so each firearm comes to you from the estate, carried by a permitted transporter or brought by the executor, and never from another dealer.

Because a dealer may not store another dealer's firearms. The Supreme Court of Appeal held so in Outdoor Investment Holdings v Minister of Police [2023] ZASCA 72. Each firearm therefore comes to you from the estate, carried by a permitted transporter on the executor's consent or brought by the executor, into your own safe-custody register. If a firearm ever has to move to another custody site, it is released back to the estate and received afresh; it never passes dealer to dealer.

You do. Your statutory registers stay your responsibility under your licence. Firearmdesk’s record mirrors each receipt and release as the evidence for the estate file; it does not replace your registers or submit anything to SAPS on your behalf.

In short: the business insurance you already have for your shop, covering fire and theft of goods on your premises; no special goods-in-trust policy, broker’s letter or fidelity cover is needed. Until we have confirmed from your policy wording (or a broker’s letter, if you have one) that it responds to theft by your staff, we place at most R100,000 in declared values with you; after that, at most the lower of your sum insured and R350,000. We pay any increase in your existing premium that our firearms cause, but never the premium for cover against staff theft.

The business insurance you already have for your shop, as long as it covers fire and theft of goods on your premises. You do not need a special goods-in-trust policy, a broker’s letter or fidelity cover. Until we have confirmed from your policy wording (or a broker’s letter, if you have one) that your cover responds to theft by your staff, we place at most R100,000 of firearms with you; after that, up to the lower of your sum insured and R350,000. Firearmdesk is not noted on your policy and pays any increase in your existing premium that platform firearms cause, but never the premium for cover against staff theft. The schedule is recorded as a required site credential with its expiry date, and a site receives no new allocations while a required credential has lapsed. The partner agreement sets out the detail.

In short: if a firearm is lost, stolen or damaged through your negligence or breach, or your staff’s, staff theft included, you make good the estate’s whole loss, and you repay what Firearmdesk pays the estate for you. Firearmdesk’s own claims against you are capped at each firearm’s declared value, except in cases of fraud, dishonesty or wilful misconduct by your owners, directors, members or managers, or gross negligence. Where our own written valuation was late, missing or negligently low, we indemnify you above the declared value, up to R150,000 a year for you.

For a loss, theft or damage caused by your or your staff’s negligence or breach, staff theft included, you make good the estate’s whole loss, and you repay in full anything Firearmdesk pays the estate for you. Firearmdesk’s own claims against you are capped at each firearm’s declared value. Firearmdesk indemnifies you above the declared value only where its own written valuation was late, missing or negligently low, or showed a value above your per-firearm insured limit when its estimate was within it: up to R150,000 a year for each partner (R300,000 for all partners together), backed by a claims reserve of R150,000 until its professional indemnity cover responds. Neither applies to fraud, dishonesty or wilful misconduct by your owners, directors, members or managers, or to gross negligence. The declared value is the higher of your estimate at receipt and a written valuation by someone other than you, which Firearmdesk obtains within 20 business days of receipt, or at receipt above R25,000.

In short: a permitted transporter that Firearmdesk books for the estate brings the firearms to your counter, on the executor’s prior written consent and your own written consent to each delivery; an executor named in the letters may also bring them in person. You never collect them, and the transporter invoices the estate, not you.

A permitted transporter that Firearmdesk books for the estate collects them where they are kept and brings them to your counter, with the executor's prior written consent and your own written consent to each delivery; an executor named in the letters may also bring them in person. You never collect, even under a transporter's permit of your own. The transporter's staff sign your register for the executor; Firearmdesk does not need your designated firearms officer's prior written agreement, but if your DFO objects in writing, tell us and transporter deliveries stop, and firearms are brought to you in person. The transporter invoices the estate, not you, and Firearmdesk never carries a firearm or sells collection or transport.

Yes. Your licence photo can follow; we countersign once we have checked it. A site is activated only with a current dealer's licence on record, and a site whose licence lapses stops receiving new allocations until the renewal is recorded. Firearms in your custody may need to move to another licensed site until your licence is renewed; we arrange that with the executor.