Payroll software for accountants and payroll bureaus
Payroll Africa lets an accounting practice run payroll for every client from one login. Each company keeps its own tax numbers, pay calendar, users and audit trail, while your team switches between clients, approves runs and exports EMP201, EMP501 and IRP5 files without leaving the platform.
Payroll Africa Editorial · SARS Payroll Compliance Team
The Payroll Africa editorial team is composed of registered tax practitioners, payroll administrators and BCEA specialists who maintain the SARS PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI engines that power the platform. Every article is reviewed against the current SARS BRS and Basic Conditions of Employment Act before publication.
- SARS registered tax practitioners
- SAPA-affiliated payroll administrators
- BCEA and LRA compliance reviewers
Last updated 15 Aug 2026
One login, every client
Practices lose hours to logging in and out of separate client accounts. In Payroll Africa a user can be attached to as many companies as the practice manages, with a switcher at the top of the workspace. Each company remains legally separate — its own PAYE, UIF and SDL reference numbers, its own EMP201 history, its own bank details and its own document store.
- Unlimited client companies under one practice login
- Per-company tax references, pay calendars and payslip branding
- Client staff can be invited with limited, scoped access
- Full audit log per company for review and dispute resolution
Role-based access for your team and your clients
A bureau needs finer control than admin-or-nothing. Payroll Africa ships fifteen granular permissions and roles including payroll clerk, wage clerk, accountant, line manager and auditor. A clerk can be scoped to a single payroll group — for example the weekly wage staff on one client's farm — and will see nothing outside it.
Clients can be given read-only access to their own reports and payslips so they stop emailing you for copies, without any ability to alter a processed run.
Statutory output your practice signs off on
Every filing artefact SARS expects is produced from the same processed data, so the numbers on the payslip, the EMP201 and the IRP5 reconcile by construction.
- EMP201 monthly return per client, ready for eFiling capture
- EMP501 CSV for import into SARS e@syFile Employer
- IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates with balancing checks
- ETI calculated and claimed for qualifying employees
- Department of Employment and Labour returns and UI19 forms
Integrations that end double capture
Payroll journals post to Xero and QuickBooks Online, or export as a generic general ledger journal for Sage and Pastel. Bank payment files are produced in the format your client's bank expects, including Standard Bank Business Online, FNB, Absa, Nedbank and Capitec, with a custom layout builder for anything unusual.
Taking on a new client
Onboarding is the part practices dread. Migration from Sage Payroll, SimplePay, PaySpace, VIP, Crest or a spreadsheet is free and handled by our team: employees, year-to-date figures, leave balances and pay history are loaded and reconciled against the client's last payslips before the first live run.
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