Buying guides
Buying guides, compliance explainers and the practical detail that decides whether a purchase works out.
Nine accounting packages, judged on VAT201 output, bank feed coverage for South African banks, accountant access and the true rand cost including VAT.
Kanizan Hassan, Reviewer
Below the VAT threshold your requirements are genuinely simpler, and paying for a package built for a fifty person business is money wasted.
Kanizan Hassan
The VAT201 is where accounting software either saves you time or quietly creates work. Here is what to test before you commit to a package.
Kanizan Hassan
Statutory obligations do not scale down. A five person employer files the same EMP201 as a five hundred person one, and needs software that does it correctly.
Haseeba bibi
Sticker price, VAT, exchange rate exposure, seat bands, implementation and the renewal. A realistic three year budget for a fifteen person business.
Kinza Shahzad
Six payroll systems measured against the submissions that actually matter: EMP201, EMP501, IRP5, e@syFile, UIF, ETI and a BCEA compliant leave engine.
Haseeba bibi
Every vendor claims POPIA compliance. Here is what the Act actually requires of the systems you buy, and the questions that separate a real answer from a marketing one.
Kinza Shahzad
Six CRMs compared on the two things that decide it locally: what they actually cost in rand once the exchange rate moves, and whether your reps will use them.
Kinza Shahzad
A migration plan that survives an audit: what to move, what to archive, when to switch and how to prove the opening balances are right.
Kanizan Hassan
