Calculate PAYE, UIF and SDL on the right tax year
Pay people the correct amount without checking a table by hand. The rules are versioned per tax year, so a pay run keeps the figures it was calculated on.
Core Platform Core Payroll
Core Platform module
LiveStop paying for payroll as a separate product, with Core Payroll.
PAYE, UIF and SDL calculated on a versioned tax year, with payslips and leave, for a South African employer. The pay run posts to the same ledger as everything else instead of arriving as a monthly journal. Start free and run one cycle in parallel.
What it does
What Core Payroll does
Give staff a payslip without assembling one
Answer a payslip question in seconds. Each pay run produces payslips off the same figures that posted to the ledger.
Keep leave next to the pay run that pays it
Stop cross-checking a leave spreadsheet at month-end. Leave sits on the employee record in the same system as the pay run.
Post the pay run without a journal
Take a month-end step out of your bookkeeper’s list. The pay run writes to the ledger as it’s finalised, so payroll isn’t an entry somebody types in afterwards.
One ledger
Payroll that lands in the books on its own.
The general accounting tools in this market treat SARS payroll as a separate product or a third-party add-on, which means a monthly journal carried from one system into another. Core’s payroll writes to the same ledger the invoices do.
- The pay run posts PAYE, UIF and SDL against the ledger in Core Accounting as it’s finalised.
- Staff claims approved in Core Expenses post themselves rather than riding along on a payslip.
- Employee records sit in the same system as the rest of the business rather than in a payroll silo.
- The payroll cost lands in the same reports as every other cost, in the month it happened.
Straight answer
Who Core Payroll is for
Switch it on if
- A South African employer running PAYE, UIF and SDL.
- A business paying for payroll as a second subscription next to its accounting.
- A team that wants one system to answer what it costs to run the month.
Leave it alone if
- You sit under a bargaining council or a sector arrangement with unusual rules. Ask us first and we’ll tell you plainly whether Core covers it.
- You need a decade of filing history behind the product before you trust it. Core Platform is in Early Access and runs the live books of Randcore and of Omnitronix, which is a real answer and a small one.
- You employ people outside South Africa. Core Payroll is built to SARS rules.
What it costs
Flat monthly pricing, in rand.
No per-seat charge and no invoice limit on any tier. A bundle always costs less than buying the same modules separately.
Core Payroll is included in the Operations and Full suite plans.
The current price of each is in the pricing section on the Core Platform page, along with what every plan carries. If you want a straight answer on which one fits, ask us and we’ll tell you.
Moving over
Moving over from a separate payroll product
The common setup is accounting in one product and SARS payroll in another. On Zoho, payroll is a separate Zoho product rather than part of Books. On Xero and QuickBooks, SARS payroll comes through a third-party add-on. That is a monthly journal carried from one system into another, and it’s the step Core removes. Load your employees, run one cycle in parallel against what you have today, and compare the two before you switch anything off.
We went through the alternatives properly, feature by feature, including where each still beats us: Core against Xero and Core against Zoho Books.
Questions
Common questions
PAYE, UIF and SDL, on rules versioned per tax year so an old pay run keeps the figures it was calculated on.
Yes, to the same ledger as everything else in Core, as the run is finalised. There is no monthly journal to type in afterwards.
Yes. Each pay run produces payslips from the same figures that posted to the ledger, so a payslip and the books can’t disagree.
You can, and the safer route is to run one cycle in parallel against your current payroll and compare both before you stop the old one.
Try it on your own numbers.
Open an account, load a month of real data and run Core Payroll against what you do now. No card, and nothing to cancel.
Start free→ See what we have shippedReal South African businesses, most of them still running on what we built for them.
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