Payroll’s a pain.
We made it a pleasure.
You already know SARS, POPIA, UIF, COID inside-out. PayrollOne is built around how you actually work — capture once, review properly, ship every statutory return in a click. The compliance is the floor. The hours we hand back are the point.
We don’t sell payroll. We sell the evenings and weekends a bureau owner usually trades for it. Compliance is table stakes; flow is the product.
Same job. Wildly different month.
- ×Chase 12 client WhatsApps for changes
- ×Open 7 different spreadsheets
- ×Re-type leave & overtime from PDFs
- ×Pray nothing got missed
- ✓Open the cycle — last month is pre-filled
- ✓Mark joiners, leavers, hours captured
- ✓Hit submit. Done.
- ×Re-compute PAYE, UIF, SDL, ETI by hand
- ×Format the EMP201 in Excel
- ×Re-key totals into SARS eFiling
- ×Find last year's IRP5 template, fix it
- ✓Pick the period
- ✓Click 'Generate EMP201' (or EMP501 · IRP5 · UI-19 · COID)
- ✓Download the SARS-ready PDF
- ×Email PDF payslips to the client
- ×Wait. Chase. Wait. Chase again.
- ×Apply scribbled corrections
- ×Re-email and hope it's the right version
- ✓Capture posts a draft for review
- ✓Bureau approves, client sees payslips
- ✓Audit trail is automatic
14 hours of payroll.
Compressed to 90 minutes.
50-employee monthly close — capture, review, EMP201 and IRP5 included. That’s 12+ hours every bureau gets back, every month, for the work that actually grows the firm.
Benchmarked across the 48 bureaus on our pilot. Your mileage may vary — ask for our methodology in the brochure.
Pick the period.
Click once.
SARS-ready PDF in your hand.
No re-keying. No Excel formulas. PayrollOne pulls every captured line from the cycle, applies the live SARS tax tables, ETI rules, UIF caps and SDL exemptions — and renders the EMP201, EMP501, IRP5 / IT3(a), UI-19 and COID W.As.8 in the same engine.
- Live SARS tax tablesWe update them — you don't ship a new version of anything.
- ETI / UIF / SDL / COID built inCodes, caps and exemptions, all 2026/27 current.
- Audit-trail PDF on every outputWho ran it, when, against which captured numbers.
| Employee | Salary | Hrs OT | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Khumalo | R 22,500 | 0 | ✓ ok |
| T. van der Merwe | R 31,000 | 4 | ✓ ok |
| L. Naidoo | R 18,200 | 2 | ✓ ok |
| M. Botha | R 45,800 | 0 | ✓ ok |
| P. Dlamini | R 19,400 | 6 | ✓ ok |
- PAYE ····· R 248,330.45
- UIF ······ R 18,420.12
- SDL ······ R 9,210.06
- ETI ······ R −4,600.00
- Net due ··· R 271,360.63
Every statutory framework a SA bureau has to defend.
Tax tables, employee privacy, jobless insurance, workplace cover — built in, kept current, never your homework.
Names of the South African statutory frameworks PayrollOne complies with. No affiliation implied.
Start with one client. Pay when it’s working.
Run 2 clients and 25 employees on us. When you close your first payroll, you’ll have a week to pick a plan — no card up front, no auto-billing.
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