Payroll, made in South Africa

Everyone paid. Everything filed.

Run the month in an afternoon. Pay sends every payslip, then files the EMP201, the UIF declaration, the EMP501 and every IRP5 on the dates SARS wants them.

R99 a month including VAT, however many people you pay. Built for payrolls up to 50 people. No card to start, no setup fee, no contract.

T. Mokoena May 2026
Basic salary
18 500,00
Travel allowance
1 500,00
Gross
20 000,00
PAYE
−2 847,00
UIF
−177,12
Net pay R16 975,88
PAYE, UIF and SDL worked out per employee, per cycle

Payslips sent just now

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One run in May

Payday takes an afternoon.
Then SARS wants four more things.

Every payroll run starts a chain of statutory deadlines that runs a full year. Miss one and the penalty is yours, not your bookkeeper's. Pay tracks the chain and files on the date, every time.

  1. Payday every month

    31 May

    • Confirm the run
    • Bank file out
    • Payslips out, WhatsApp or email
  2. Month end every month

    By 7 June

    • EMP201 filed
    • EMP201 paid
    • UIF declaration in
  3. Interim once a year

    September, four months on

    • Interim EMP501
    • Six months reconciled against the EMP201s
  4. Year end once a year

    May, twelve months on

    • Annual EMP501
    • An IRP5 for every employee

All of it on the one price. See what R99 a month covers →

The run

Two people or fifty, it is the same afternoon.

Set the salaries once. Every month after that, Pay works out PAYE, UIF and SDL per person, and shows you what SARS is owed before you commit.

Current payroll May 2026 Draft
  1. S. NaidooOffice manager Gross27 500,00 Deductions4 078,12 Net pay23 421,88
  2. K. BothaAccountant Gross40 000,00 Deductions7 861,87 Net pay32 138,13
Total gross67 500,00 Total deductions11 939,99 Total net pay55 560,01

SARS What you owe on this run

PAYE
11 585,75
UIF, both halves
708,48
SDL
670,00
EMP201 declaration
12 964,23

Payslips out, bank file ready, EMP201 queued for 7 June.

Run one yourself, free for 30 days →

Employee self-service

Your team gets their own portal. An ID number gets them in.

If you've added someone to Pay, they can already sign in. No passwords to hand out, and none to reset when they're forgotten.

Step 1

Their ID number

The one you already captured when you added them. Nothing new to invent.

Step 2

A code, sent to them

Six digits to their email, or WhatsApp where that's set up. Good for ten minutes.

Step 3

Payslips and leave

Every payslip they've had, theirs to download. Leave applied for, and tracked to the sign-off.

  • Managers sign off in the same place

    Approve or decline with a reason, see the team's month on a calendar, and open the sick note that came with the request.

  • Two jobs, one login

    Someone on more than one of your payrolls picks the company they're looking at, and switches without signing in again.

What it costs

R99 a month

Three people or fifty. Same bill.

VAT
Included
Setup fee
None
Contract
Month to month
Payroll size
Built for up to 50 people
Yearly
R990, two months free

Run your first payroll. This month.

Add your team, run a cycle, see how it lands.

Start free for 30 days

No card to start. Questions? The help centre or email us.