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Sage Payroll makes paying your people effortless

Sage Payroll

Run payroll easily, stay compliant with local legislation and manage your employees with confidence.

Perfect your pay run with Sage Payroll

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Paying your people anywhere, at anytime, has never been easier with Sage Payroll, our online Payroll solution with HR capabilities.

Ready to make payroll and HR a breeze?

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Get everything you need in single package with Sage Payroll, an online solution including HR capabilities, security, accuracy, and compliance.

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Payroll Standard

With HR features Manage payroll, people and mobile expenses
includes VAT (15%) per month

Payroll Premium

With HR features Payroll with advanced HR like tracking hours
includes VAT (15%) per month

*Price is based on the number of employees added to the system. There are no set up or extra transaction fees.
**Start your free trial and receive 30 days free. No commitment. Cancel at any time. Terms and conditions apply.

Forestry

"I applaud Sage for staying current and focused on customer satisfaction, as well as being a market trend-setter."

Elsie Coetzee
Timber Logging Solutions

Engineering and construction

“Makes my job easier. It integrates Payroll and HR functions so well.”

Peter Siyaganda
Chagwe Industrial Services

Industrial maintenance

"We would greatly benefit from the add-ons and options available. Awesome product."

Ilze Human
Bonec Lubrication Services


Frequently asked questions

Accounting Integration is a way of linking Sage Payroll, and Sage Accounting. If you have access to both, you can set up the link and have all of your financial information from each pay run sent directly from Payroll. This saves time and reduces the potential for any inaccuracies in your data.

With the Sage Payroll Essentials plan, you get built-in HR tools from the Sage HR app to help manage employee records, track time off, run basic HR reports, and share documents electronically. Employees can also self-serve to access payslips and documents. For more advanced features like HR analytics, custom workflows, expenses, timesheets, and shift scheduling, you can upgrade anytime to our Standard or Premium plans.

Sage Payroll is trusted by South African businesses to simplify compliance and streamline pay runs. It’s built to stay up to date with the latest legislative requirements, helping you calculate PAYE, UIF, and SDL with confidence. You’ll save time with automated calculations, electronic submissions, and employee self-service for payslips and documents. Plus, Sage Payroll grows with your business — from essentials to more advanced people management through in-built Sage HR integration.

Sage Payroll works on any device, including:

  • PCs and laptops (Windows and Mac)
  • Smartphones (iPhone and Android)
  • Tablets (iPad and Android)

Since Sage Payroll is a cloud solution, there's no need to install anything. You can access it directly through your web browser.

Security and performance:

  • Your data is protected with bank-level security and backed up automatically in the cloud.
  • For the best experience, we recommend using the latest version of your web browser.

All data is secured in the cloud; no manual backups are required.

With our 3-step setup you can be up and running a pay run in just minutes. For a 10-employee business with different pay frequencies we expect you to be up and running in no more than a couple of hours.

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