Every product we have reviewed

Zoho CRM is priced in rand, carries functionality that competitors charge three times as much for, and is the pragmatic choice for most South African sales teams.

Sage HR is a modular cloud HR system with genuinely BCEA aware leave, sold module by module so you only pay for what you switch on.

Asana has the clearest structure for work that spans teams, with a strong free tier and a per seat price that scales linearly rather than in bands.

Sage Business Cloud Payroll brings the Pastel Payroll compliance engine to a cloud product with per employee pricing and no local installation.

Odoo covers almost every business function in one open source suite, at a fraction of traditional ERP licence cost, provided you can support it properly.

Zoho Books offers more functionality per rand than anything else on this list, with a free tier for very small businesses and a genuinely capable paid range.

ClickUp packs docs, tasks, goals, time tracking and whiteboards into one low priced product, at the cost of a steeper learning curve and occasional performance complaints.

Salesforce is the most configurable CRM in existence and the right answer for complex sales organisations, provided you budget for the implementation as well as the licence.

Trello is a kanban board and very little else, which is exactly why small teams adopt it in an afternoon and keep using it for years.

BambooHR is the most polished HR platform available, with excellent onboarding and reporting, but it is billed in dollars and needs configuration for BCEA leave.