Payroll Help

Create your company, add employees and run your first payroll in under 30 minutes.

Everything to have on hand before your first live payroll run.

How the trial works, what is included and how to switch to a paid plan.

Add, switch between and archive companies in one login.

Configure company-level and employee-level statutory contributions.

Monthly, fortnightly and weekly cycles, and how period dates are generated.

Required fields, validation rules and common capture mistakes.

Bulk load or bulk update employees using a spreadsheet.

Move employees, year-to-date totals and leave balances across from Crest Payroll mid-year.

Handle rehires, breaks in service and employees with more than one income nature.

Notice pay, leave payout, severance and the termination certificate.

Create, review, finalise and reopen a payroll run.

Income, deductions, company contributions and fringe benefits explained.

Capture overtime, hours and once-off amounts for many employees at once.

Set up amortising loans, savings funds and court-ordered emoluments orders.

How PAYE is calculated on the year-to-date averaging basis.

Contribution rates, the earnings ceiling and who is excluded.

When Skills Development Levy applies and how it is calculated.

Qualifying employees, qualifying wage and how ETI reduces your PAYE liability.

Produce, check and pay your monthly PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI declaration.

Reconcile EMP201 declarations, payments and IRP5 certificates.

Generate, validate and distribute employee tax certificates.

Produce the W.As.8 earnings figures for the Compensation Fund.

BCEA minimums, accrual methods and custom leave types.

Capture leave, approve employee requests and see the impact on the payslip.

What employees can see and do in their own portal.

Deliver payslips through the channel that works for your workforce.

Connect Xero and push your payroll journal automatically.

Connect QuickBooks Online and sync your payroll journal.

Import employee hours from biometric clocks, timesheet apps and farm/packhouse clocking systems.

Generate EFT files for major South African banks.

Programmatic access to employees, payslips and reports.

The reports most employers run every month.

Build your own report layout and save it for reuse.

Add a second factor to protect payroll data.

Every change is logged with user, timestamp and before/after values.

How employee personal information is protected.

How pricing works and where to find your tax invoices.

Pre-load credit so invoices settle automatically.

Password resets, locked accounts and 2FA recovery.

The usual causes and how to fix each one.

Why tax jumps in bonus months and how to verify a calculation.