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PaySoft · Payroll software
A payments company first: salaries, collections and account verification, quoted on request.
PaySoft's own site presents a payments business rather than a payroll calculator. It offers salary, supplier and SARS payments, debit order collections including DebiCheck, account verification, a direct Xero integration and a service for non profits and schools. It publishes no price and asks you to request a quote or book a demonstration.
Price
On request
A quote or a demonstration
Core offer
Payments
Salaries, collections, verification
Settlement
Same or next day
PaySoft's own wording
Connects to
Xero
With automatic reconciliation
Figures marked as a vendor's own are that vendor's claims about itself and are not tested here.
Every plan PaySoft lists, in rand, with a button to its own pricing page.
Quoted by the vendor
PaySoft gives pricing on request.
Each button opens the vendor's own page in a new tab, where you buy or sign up. Prices are the vendor's, shown in rand.
PaySoft does not publish a price. The vendor gives it after you contact them, and the quote is the product: ask for the monthly price with the VAT basis stated, what is charged once only, and which SARS returns it handles for you.
Opens the vendor's own page in a new tab. Nothing is bought on this site.
Price on request
Starting prices of the priced products in the same category, cheapest first. This is a price sort, not a ranking: the cheapest product is not the best one, and some are priced per user, some per month and some excluding VAT.
Bar lengths use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
The middle starting price of the paid products here is R60.
Price on request, so not charted: PaySoft, PaySpace, Sage Pastel Payroll.
A dot is one plan. Free plans and plans on request have no price to place. A per user price is the price of one user.
The site says it serves businesses of all sizes, from those processing millions of transactions to those making a few payments a month, and names more than twenty clients, including Access Bank, Pick n Pay, Heineken and Media24.
The compliance features described are payment specific: SARS payments, authenticated and bank verified collections, and Section 18A certificates for approved organisations. The site is bank agnostic and works with major financial institutions. Support is local, by phone and email.
If you were looking for payslips and EMP201 returns, the site does not describe them. Treat PaySoft as a payments partner that pairs with a payroll engine, and confirm with the vendor whether it also offers payroll calculation.
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Best for
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In short
Read PaySoft as the payment side of payroll. If you need payslips and returns calculated, put a payroll product beside it, and ask PaySoft for a written quote for the payment service you need.
Start where the vendor sells it, and keep this page open beside you for the limits.
Price on request
PaySoft's site describes payments: salary, supplier and SARS payments, collections and verification. It does not describe a payslip or tax calculator, so pair it with payroll software if you need one.
PaySoft gives its price on request, so there is no published figure to quote. Ask for the monthly price in rand with the VAT basis stated, and for any one off charges in writing.
A South African payments company with a local phone line, SARS payments and Section 18A support.
On this register the closest are PaySpace, Sage Pastel Payroll, Sage Payroll, SimplePay. Each has its own page, and the compare tool sets any two side by side.
South African guides that help you weigh PaySoft: what the rules ask, what to test and what to put in writing.
From payslip to EMP501
Payroll is the one kind of business software where a mistake reaches your staff and SARS in the same month. These are the checks that matter in South Africa, from the payslip to the EMP501.
Read the guideDue by the 7th of every month
EMP201
South African payroll produces a chain of statutory documents. A mistake in one link costs penalties in the next.
Read the guideThe day the EMP201 is due, every month
7th
VAT, payroll, provisional tax and the annual returns each have their own rhythm. One page showing what falls when, and what your software should do about it.
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Price on request
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