IN PRODUCTION SINCE 2002
The whenua system Māori organisations have trusted for 24 years
Share registers, successions, distributions and online grants — run cleanly, paid on time, IR-ready. Proven with almost 900 land blocks across 70+ organisations, not a pilot.
✓ Data hosted in an Auckland data centre
✓ Trusted & approved by trustees
✓ Built to Māori Land Court & IRD requirements
Lake Waikaremoana – under licence with photographer Hannah Kennedy, Kirikiriroa
24
Years Of Experience
INTRODUCTION
Built for the way Māori organisations work
Managing whenua ownership is unlike running a standard business. Registers grow, successions accumulate, distributions must be accurate, and trustees need confidence that every decision is supported by reliable information.
For more than 24 years, Arise Software has built systems specifically for Māori organisations. Our software has evolved alongside the people who use it every day, helping organisations manage ownership registers, distributions, grants and governance with confidence.
Purpose-built for Māori organisations
Every feature is designed around the real administration of whenua ownership, distributions, grants and governance—not adapted from another industry.
Proven in production
Support from people who understanding almost 900 whenua blocks across more than 70 Māori organisations, refined through 24 years of practical use.
DATA SOVEREIGNTY & GOVERNANCE
Proven, not promised
New software enters the market every year. What separates Arise Software is more than two decades of real-world distributions, successions and governance. Our systems are proven in production, with data hosted in Aotearoa and trusted by the organisations that rely on them every day.
Your data stays here
Hosted in an Auckland data centre — Māori data held in Aotearoa, under Māori Data Sovereignty principles.
Trusted by trustees
The trustees who govern these trusts subscribe to how we work — peer trust, earned across 70+ organisations.
Court & IR aligned
Succession, life-interest rules and Māori Authority distribution filing built to Māori Land Court and IRD requirements.
SERVICES LIST
Focused on Delivering the Right Solutions for You
GDPRO
Māori Land Ownership Register and Distributions
ONLINE GRANTS
Online Iwi Membership Registration and Grants System
GOVERNANCE & TRUSTEES
Trustee records, resolutions & approvals
Purpose-built
Designed specifically for Māori organisations. Every feature reflects the real administration of whenua ownership, distributions, grants and governance.
Proven in production
Supporting almost 900 whenua blocks across more than 70 Māori organisations, refined through 24 years of practical use.
Trusted by trustees
Chosen by Māori organisations that rely on accurate ownership registers, distributions and grants every day.
Court & IRD aligned
Built around Māori Land Court processes and Māori Authority distribution requirements, helping organisations work accurately and confidently.
24 years of experience
Developed continuously since 2002, shaped by real organisations solving real challenges—not by software trends.
A POSITIVE IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES
Real organisations. Real outcomes.
For more than two decades, Arise Software has helped Māori organisations manage ownership registers, process millions of dollars in distributions, administer grants and support trustees with accurate, reliable information. Our clients continue to choose GDPro because it works—year after year, distribution after distribution.
SUCCESS IN ACTION
Client Success Stories
Arise software has provided database services for the last 17+ years that we administrate to 9 of our trusts. David has the experience and knowledge to achieve our goals, vision, and aspirations for our Trusts.
The service and assistance from Arise is consistent and reliable, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Arise Software to anyone.
In the past 3+ years we have been working very closely with David to create the brand-new online database/grants service for one of our biggest Trust. David created a personalised website for us to administer whakapapa, registrations, and grants for over 8,000 members. A lot of trial and error has been exercised, as our Trust is always evolving and Arise moves with us to always improve our services to our people. Prompt assistance in this project was always provided. I think if I had to criticise Arise it would be there is not enough time in the day for our masses of project changes to be complete within a short time frame, with being allocated a certain number of hours per month you need to prioritise what jobs are the most important. Overall, we are confidant and satisfied with the mahi Arise does for us and will continue to work with them.
We have been encouraging owners to bring their enquiries to us for the last three years but as we didn’t control the Share Register this was not always effective. “Having regular contact with the Iwi is important to our office, as it keeps us grounded and to that end we investigated moving the Share Register from GHA, Accountants and running this ourselves.”
Following an investigation into options and also to continue to drive reduced costs, we have found a very robust Computer system, named GD Pro which will enable us to maintain the register and update successions and other transactions. Audit reports are able to be generated to ensure that every entry is traceable. This will mean considerable savings for us as, with our ever growing ownership list, comes greater administration costs and much of this has been alleviated by using our existing staff to do this.We were fortunate that through our Committee of Management member Kiriwaitingi Rei, we were able to see this program demonstrated at the Maori Investment Ltd office who have the same program, they are using it to help them trace owners, create effective methods to deal shareholders who have very small shares and make their AGMs more efficient.
Whilst it will take time to reach that level of detail in the short-term we should be able to deal with a number of anomalies in the Share Register such as, deceased owners, incorrect spelling, owners with multiple names and tracing unclaimed money to reduce this.
