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. See the difference in 30 days.
Pilot with one client free for the first month. If you don’t hand back ten hours, don’t pay us.
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