4.6

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Sage Business Cloud Payroll

Online payroll for South African small businesses, with SARS-compliant tax, UIF, SDL and Sage Accounting integration.

  • Fully SARS-compliant SA payroll
  • Handles PAYE, UIF, SDL & IRP5s
  • Direct integration with SBCA
  • Unlimited companies & users

Why choose Sage Payroll?

Sage Business Cloud Payroll is a cloud-based payroll solution built to help small and growing businesses run compliant payroll without needing deep payroll expertise. It automates salary and wage calculations, applies the correct PAYE, UIF and SDL rules, and supports IRP5s and UIF declarations, so you can focus on the business instead of spreadsheets and tax tables.

 

Because it’s part of the Sage Business Cloud, it integrates directly with Sage Business Cloud Accounting, pushing journals across so your accounts reflect payroll activity with minimum manual work. The solution runs entirely online, with automatic updates to legislation and features, so there’s no installing patches or doing year-end “rollovers”.

 

Choose Sage Business Cloud Payroll if you want to:

  • Run SARS-compliant payroll for SA staff with PAYE, UIF and SDL handled correctly
  • Use a payroll system that integrates with Sage Accounting
  • Manage multiple companies and users on one cloud platform
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Sage Payroll capabilities

01. SARS-compliant payroll processing

  • Automates earnings, deductions and tax, ensuring PAYE, UIF and SDL are calculated according to the latest South African legislation.

02. Tax & statutory submissions support

  • Helps you prepare and manage EMP201/501 data, UIF declarations and IRP5s so you can submit correctly via SARS and Department of Labour systems.

03. Automatic legislative updates

  • Sage updates the software automatically to reflect tax and payroll law changes, so your calculations remain accurate without manual table updates.

04. Leave management & UIF declarations

  • Track leave balances and capture statutory leave correctly, with UIF declarations supported as part of the payroll process.

05. ACB / bank payment files

  • Generate bank or ACB files so you can pay employees from your bank or via integrated payment solutions like Netcash.

06. Integration with Sage Accounting

  • Sage Business Cloud Payroll integrates exclusively with Sage Business Cloud Accounting, sending payroll journals directly into your accounts.

07. Unlimited companies & users

  • Run payroll for multiple companies and allow multiple users (e.g. accountant, owner, HR) with appropriate access rights.

08. Real-time calculations & reporting

  • See the impact of changes instantly and use built-in legislative and payroll reports for audits, reconciliations and management reporting.

09. Cloud-based access & backups

  • Access payroll from any browser, with data hosted and backed up in Sage’s cloud environment rather than on a local desktop.

10. Help resources & training

  • Access help articles, support and formal training via Sage University for Sage Payroll, ensuring you and your clients can get up to speed quickly.
  • Pros
  • Trusted payroll brand in SA
  • Fully SARS compliant & updated
  • Multi-company, multi-user cloud
  • Linked with Sage Accounting
  • Cons
  • Feature set lighter than desktop
  • Reports can feel slow at times
  • More suited to small–mid payrolls
  • Not a global EOR / multi-country tool

We provide general advice only. Always compare features, pricing and terms before making a final decision.

Our Review

4.6/5

Overal Rating

Customer Support
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Easy to use
90%
Easy to set up
88%
Easy to deploy
88%

Small and growing South African businesses that want online, SARS-compliant payroll with easy integration into Sage Business Cloud Accounting.

Yes. It’s fully SARS compliant, calculating PAYE, UIF and SDL correctly and helping you produce EMP returns, UIF declarations and IRP5s.

Sage Business Cloud Payroll is designed to integrate exclusively with Sage Business Cloud Accounting, giving a seamless Sage-to-Sage workflow.

It’s a cloud (SaaS) solution, accessed via web browser, with no need for local installs or manual patches. Desktop Sage Pastel Payroll is a different product.

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  • PAYE, UIF, SDL & IRP5 handled
  • Leave & UIF declarations
  • ACB/bank payment files
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