Payroll for African businesses, with South African PAYE and UIF
Run payroll from recorded hours and employee details, with South African statutory calculations and month-end outputs in one workflow. Check the included payroll steps and reports.
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PAYE, UIF and SDL, to the cent.
Times reads approved hours, applies the 2026/27 statutory rules and the BCEA minimums, and gives every employee a payslip they can open on their phone or share as a PDF.
The annual-equivalent method, with primary, secondary and tertiary rebates by age. Pre-tax retirement contributions are capped at 27.5% of pay and R350,000 a year.
UIF is 1% from the employee and 1% from the employer, on pay up to R17,712 a month, scaled for weekly and fortnightly periods. SDL is 1% unless you're exempt.
Overtime starts after the daily limit and the 45-hour week, at 1.5× or more. Sundays are paid at 2× (1.5× for staff who usually work Sundays) and public holidays at 2×.
If an employee's effective hourly rate falls below R30.23, the pay run is blocked until it's fixed.
Salaries are pro-rated for people who join or leave mid-period. Recurring allowances and deductions can be a flat amount or a % of gross, before or after tax.
Finalised payslips can't be changed. Corrections go into new adjustment or reversal runs, so the history stays intact.
- Payslip PDF
- EMP201 figures
- EMP501 CSV
- IRP5 / IT3(a) CSV
- UI-19 list
- Bank file · FNB or generic CSV
- Draft
The period is suggested for each pay frequency.
- Calculated
Issues such as unchecked shifts or a missing rate link straight to the fix.
- Approved
A manager signs off the figures.
- Finalised
Hours lock, loan repayments and leave accruals post, and payslips reach phones.
- Paid
Upload the bank file and mark each line paid.