Buying guide15 Jul 20262 min read
Accounting software for sole traders in South Africa
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
Buying guides
Buying guides, compliance explainers and the practical detail that decides whether a purchase works out.
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
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
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
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
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
Six HR platforms judged on BCEA leave accrual, POPIA handling of employee data, and whether managers will actually use them.
Haseeba bibi
Six tools compared on adoption, the real rand cost for teams of five, ten and twenty five, and which shapes of team each one actually suits.
Kinza Shahzad
Seven ERP systems assessed on local statutory reporting, manufacturing depth, landed cost handling and the factor that decides most implementations: the partner.
Kanizan Hassan