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PaySpace · Payroll software
Payroll and HR that scales from fifty employees to multinational, quoted per employee.
PaySpace is a South African payroll and HR platform in three tiers: Lite for up to 50 employees, Premier for growing businesses and Master for large or multinational organisations. It says it serves more than 20,000 customers and has payroll configured for 49 countries. It gives its rate in a demonstration, charged per employee per month with no annual licence.
Price
On request
Per employee a month, no annual licence
Tiers
3
Lite, Premier and Master
Lite limit
50 employees
Premier and Master go beyond
Countries
49
Payroll configured
Customers
20,000 plus
PaySpace's own count
Figures marked as a vendor's own are that vendor's claims about itself and are not tested here.
Every plan PaySpace lists, in rand, with a button to its own pricing page.
Quoted by the vendor
Per employee per month with no annual licence. PaySpace gives the rate in a demo.
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PaySpace 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.
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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.
2 official videos from Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace on YouTube. Software Register did not make or edit them. They are the vendor's own account of the product, so read them beside the prices and limits on this page.
PaySpace Lite for small business, accountants and bookkeepers
Overview, 2:15, published 19 August 2024. From the Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace channel on YouTube.Made for South Africa
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PaySpace offers payroll, HR, an AI assistant that answers employee and administrator questions, and employee self service delivered through WhatsApp. It runs a self serve model and a managed model, and it provides sandbox environments for testing. Its three tiers make it one of the few products in this sector that scales from a small business to a multinational.
PaySpace says it automates tax updates and statutory reporting, and offers more than 95 country specific reports, pre populated to meet local revenue authority standards. HR features cover employee records, leave management, electronic onboarding and performance tracking.
PaySpace is South African in origin and handles employees' tax and social security contributions across its markets. The homepage does not spell out SARS returns, UIF, Employment Equity or COIDA by name, so ask for a written list of South African statutory outputs. Search results also describe a Deel Local Payroll offering powered by PaySpace.
The missing public rate is the obvious gap, and so is the absence of named South African statutory detail on the homepage. For a ten person business, the breadth of the platform may be more than is needed.
Against SimplePay, PaySpace is broader and more international, and SimplePay is simpler to try. Read the full comparison for the trade offs.
Strengths
Limits
Best for
Think twice if
In short
A good fit for an employer that expects to grow past a basic payroll. Book the demonstration, ask for the rate by tier, and check the SARS returns you need are in the tier you are quoted.
Start where the vendor sells it, and keep this page open beside you for the limits.
Price on request
PaySpace gives its rate in a demonstration. Ask for the per employee price by tier, what is charged once only and the VAT basis, in writing.
PaySpace 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 payroll platform that also runs payroll in more than 45 countries.
On this register the closest are PaySoft, 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 PaySpace: 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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