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Ridwaan Shabalala
HR and Payroll Officer · Pretoria Consulting
5 May 2025
A good product that Sage clearly wants you to outgrow. The interface is pure desktop nostalgia and not in a charming way. Backups are quick and restoring a period to check history actually works.
Cons
Custom reports take patience
Natasha Mokoena
HR and Payroll Officer
3 May 2025
February used to mean overtime for me, now the EMP501 recon is days not weeks. Every SARS code change over the years has arrived on time in an update. The tax certificate run at year end is genuinely a few clicks.
Johan September
Office Manager
25 March 2025
I am not a payroll specialist by training and I manage fine. Leave balances finally match reality because everything is captured in one place.
Pros
UIF declarations generated automatically
Cons
Year end update process is a ritual
Clinton Van der Merwe
Admin Manager · Cape Town Medical
18 March 2025
We run weekly wages for the factory floor and monthly for the office, both smooth. It has earned its licence fee every single February.
Pros
Bulk increases are quick; discount when bundled with Pastel accounting
Cons
Dated desktop interface
Chantelle Bester
Karoo Attorneys Group
16 March 2025
The engine is right, the experience around it is dated. The year end update is an annual ritual of downloads, codes and crossed fingers. Custom reports beyond the standard set need more patience than they should.
Cons
Tied to one machine without hosting
Tumelo Cloete
Financial Manager · Legacy Freight SA
5 February 2025
The cloud alternatives do the same job with none of this ceremony. A reinstall mid month meant recapturing a week of changes from paper.
Pros
Termination calculations are reliable
Cons
Registration and licensing admin wastes days. Feels like a legacy product at premium pricing
Kiara Smith
Financial Manager · Klerksdorp Textiles Supplies
18 January 2025
Support used to know payroll deeply, now I get script readers. We paid consultant hours just to apply the annual update correctly.
Cons
Support cannot resolve its own error messages
Wayne Singh
Payroll Administrator
11 December 2024
After 4 years I have made peace with its quirks. Support in tax season means long waits, plan your questions early.
Pros
UIF declarations generated automatically
Cons
Year end update process is a ritual
Mark Pillay
Wage Clerk
18 October 2024
The e@syFile export works first time, every time, which is more than I can say for e@syFile itself. The 20 percent discount for having Pastel accounting made the renewal easier to swallow.
Pros
UIF declarations generated automatically
Cons
Support waits get long in tax season
Naadira Chetty
Payroll Administrator · Winelands Catering Solutions
24 August 2024
We trust the numbers completely, the workflow less so. The interface is pure desktop nostalgia and not in a charming way.
Pros
IRP5 and IT3a certificates in a few clicks; handles weekly, fortnightly and monthly runs
Cons
Needs SMTP setup for emailing payslips
Sello Xaba
Admin Manager · Marula Trading and Sons
31 July 2024
I am not a payroll specialist by training and I manage fine. Leave balances finally match reality because everything is captured in one place. Backups are quick and restoring a period to check history actually works.
Cons
Training needed for new payroll staff
South Africa