What does E·BIZI Pay cost?

R99 a month, including VAT, for your whole payroll. Paying yearly costs R990, which works out to two months free. There is no setup fee and no contract, so you can stop whenever you like. The first 30 days are free.

Do you charge per employee?

No. Most South African payroll software runs a meter per employee per month, so the bill climbs every time you hire. Ours does not. R99 covers the payroll whether you pay three people or 50.

How many employees can I pay?

Pay is built for payrolls up to 50 people. That is the small-business end of the market, and it is what the price is set for. Above 50 people, our sister company EJM runs a full payroll system that fits better.

What happens when we grow past 50 people?

Your EJM setup starts from the team you already have on Pay, so nobody gets re-captured and no payslip history is left behind. Run the month you are in on Pay, then start the next one on EJM. There is no overlap month.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, 30 days. Add your team, run a full cycle and send real payslips before you pay anything. Nothing changes at the end of the trial except that the subscription starts.

Does it work out PAYE, UIF and SDL?

Yes, per employee and per cycle. Pay also generates the EMP201 for SARS, tracks it to the payment, handles the UIF declaration and the annual EMP501, and produces IRP5s at year end. You do not keep the rate tables. We do.

Can my staff get their own payslips?

Yes. Every employee gets a self-service portal, and their ID number is how they sign in, so there is no password to hand out or reset. Payslips also go out on WhatsApp or email with the payroll run itself.

Payroll, made in South Africa

Everyone paid. Every deadline tracked.

Run the month in an afternoon. Pay works out PAYE, UIF and SDL, sends every payslip by email or WhatsApp, makes the bank file, and keeps every SARS deadline on one checklist.

Start free for 30 days See the year

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

PayslipMay 2026

T. Mokoena

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

All 8 payslips sent by email and WhatsApp

PAYE, UIF and SDL worked out per employee, per cycle

a month including VAT, however many people you pay: R99
a year if you pay upfront, two months free: R990
free to start, with no card on file: 30 days
bank file formats: 16

Payday takes an afternoon. Then the deadlines start.

One run in May starts a chain that ends a year later. Pay puts the whole chain on one checklist, flags what is due or overdue, and has the EMP201 ready each month.

every month

Payday

31 May

Confirm the run
Bank file out
Payslips out, WhatsApp or email

every month

Month end

By 7 June

EMP201 prepared
EMP201 paid
UIF declaration in

once a year

Interim

September, four months on

Interim EMP501
Six months reconciled against the EMP201s

once a year

Year end

May, twelve months on

Annual EMP501
An IRP5 for every employee

Every bank. Every phone.

Download the bank file in the format your bank wants, from 16 of them. Payslips go out on the channel each person prefers, WhatsApp or email, with email as the fallback.

Bank file formats

FNB
- Standard
- ACB alternate
- Encrypted South Africa
- Encrypted Namibia
Absa
- Standard
- CashFocus
Standard Bank
- SSVS
- Confidential
- Alternative
Nedbank
- CSV
- NedInform
Capitec
- EFTMS
Mercantile
- Standard
ACB
- Best/EFTs
Bank Windhoek
- Standard
- Encrypted

Payslips, May 2026

T. MokoenaWhatsAppDelivered
S. NaidooEmailDelivered
K. BothaWhatsApp, then emailSent by email

Each person's channel is set on their employee record. Send to everyone at once or to one person.

Employee self-service

Fewer “can you send my payslip?” messages.

Everyone you add to Pay can sign in on their phone with their ID number. No password to forget: they get a one-time code.

Included with Pay at no extra cost.

Employees sign in at ess.ebizi.co.za

ID number

850101 •••• •••

Enter the code

Every payslip

Every payslip they have had, ready to download.

Leave, tracked

Apply for leave and see what is left, without asking you.

Manager approvals

Managers approve leave from their phone, with the sick note attached.

Team calendar

See who is away before booking time off.

Several payrolls

On more than one payroll? Switch between them from one sign-in.

No passwords

ID number plus a one-time code.

Try it first. Then ask anything.

Before you sign up

Try it without an account

Open Pay, add a pretend employee and watch PAYE, UIF and SDL work out. Look through the monthly checklist too. Sign up when you're ready.

Try it now

Inside your account

Ask E·BIZI AI

Ask a payroll question in plain words. The answer comes from our help centre, shows where it came from, and points you to the right page in Pay.

When is the EMP201 due?

By the 7th of the month after payday. If the 7th falls on a weekend or public holiday, it's due on the last business day before it.Source: Help centre

One price, however many people you pay.

Every payslip, every deadline, and self-service for your whole team. Prices include VAT.

Monthly

R99 / month

Month to month. Stop whenever you like.

Start free for 30 days

Yearly Two months free

R990 / year

Pay once for the year and save R198.

Start free, pay yearly

Both include

Every SARS deadline tracked, EMP201 included
Payslips by email or WhatsApp
Employee self-service
No setup fee, no card to start

Their bill grows with your team. Ours does not.

What a payroll costs a month, at five sizes
Provider	1 person	5 people	10 people	25 people	50 people
E·BIZI Pay	R99	R99	R99	R99	R99
Panda Payroll	R25	R55	R93	R205	R393
SimplePay	R103	R193	R271	R461	R777
Sage	R90	R209	R401	R951	R1,712

R990 is a yearly subscription, paid once for the year. Against R99 a month, that is two months free. None of the others publishes a yearly price, so their year is twelve of their months. Rounded to the rand.

Every figure comes off the vendor's own published pricing page, checked 26 August 2026, with VAT added where a vendor quotes without it. Above the headcount a vendor's page reaches, we carry that vendor's own per-person rate forward.

This lists only vendors who publish a price, so it is not a survey of the whole market.

We built this for small payrolls. Yours has outgrown it.

Pay is for payrolls up to 50 people, and it is priced that way. When you need more than that, or more than a simple payroll, you want our sister company.

EJM is our sister company, and Pay is built on their platform. The People and Payroll module handles the complicated end: staff loans, industrial council deductions, custom formulas for earnings and provisions, mixed workforces, casual labour and subcontractors, across Southern Africa.

Growing out of Pay does not mean starting over. Your payroll history goes with you, so there is nothing to export, nobody to re-capture, and no month of running two payrolls side by side.

See EJM People and Payroll

New to payroll? Start here.

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What people ask before they switch

What does E·BIZI Pay cost?: R99 a month, including VAT, for your whole payroll. Paying yearly costs R990, which works out to two months free. There is no setup fee and no contract, so you can stop whenever you like. The first 30 days are free.
Do you charge per employee?: No. Most South African payroll software runs a meter per employee per month, so the bill climbs every time you hire. Ours does not. R99 covers the payroll whether you pay three people or 50.
How many employees can I pay?: Pay is built for payrolls up to 50 people. That is the small-business end of the market, and it is what the price is set for. Above 50 people, our sister company EJM runs a full payroll system that fits better.
What happens when we grow past 50 people?: Your EJM setup starts from the team you already have on Pay, so nobody gets re-captured and no payslip history is left behind. Run the month you are in on Pay, then start the next one on EJM. There is no overlap month.
Is there a free trial?: Yes, 30 days. Add your team, run a full cycle and send real payslips before you pay anything. Nothing changes at the end of the trial except that the subscription starts.
Does it work out PAYE, UIF and SDL?: Yes, per employee and per cycle. Pay also generates the EMP201 for SARS, tracks it to the payment, handles the UIF declaration and the annual EMP501, and produces IRP5s at year end. You do not keep the rate tables. We do.
Can my staff get their own payslips?: Yes. Every employee gets a self-service portal, and their ID number is how they sign in, so there is no password to hand out or reset. Payslips also go out on WhatsApp or email with the payroll run itself.

Run your first payroll this month.

Set it up yourself in an afternoon. Thirty days free, no card to start.

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