Local Payroll

Switching payroll providers feels like a big decision, and it should be. But sticking with the wrong one is more expensive than most teams realise. The slow erosion of trust, the workarounds that compound, the legislative updates that...

Manual payroll looks like the cheap option. No software licence, no subscription, no implementation cost. But the accounting logic stops there. Every error in a manual run creates rework. Every compliance update that's missed creates...

When businesses go global with payroll, they face an early choice that shapes everything that follows: do you run the payroll yourselves on self-service software, or do you outsource it to a managed payroll provider? Both models have...

Deel Local Payroll powered by PaySpace, um provedor líder de soluções inovadoras de folha de pagamento, e PMóvel, um nome proeminente em soluções de Ponto e Acesso (T\&A) no Brasil, anunciaram hoje uma parceria comercial estratégica. Esta...

A year after being acquired by Deel, PaySpace has officially become Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace. This is more than a name change; it is the next step in the strategic vision behind the acquisition. Customers keep the same...

Employee benefits are a major part of compensation in Brazil and a key tool for attracting and keeping talent. Their tax treatment, though, varies a great deal, and getting the classification wrong risks penalties. Here is how the most...

Enterprise resource planning software has been a cornerstone technology for decades. But ERP belongs to an earlier era, and holding onto an ageing system increasingly does more harm than good. When one major South African bank needed to...

Scaling payroll across multiple countries is where most businesses hit their hardest HR and finance problems. What worked in one jurisdiction breaks in the second, and by the fourth or fifth country, every manual workaround has compounded...

In March 2024, Deel acquired PaySpace in what was, at the time, the largest acquisition in Deel's history. The move was significant for two reasons. First, it was one of the rare cases where a young Employer of Record (EOR) company bought...

Load shedding reshaped how South African businesses think about operational continuity. When the power goes out for two, four, or six hours at a time, every business function depending on local infrastructure grinds to a halt. Payroll...

Deel Local Payroll started as PaySpace in a Johannesburg garage in 2002. Four founders came from a background in international payroll software and saw the same thing from inside the industry: the products were built on decades-old...

Every payroll provider claims their software is reliable, accurate, and compliant. In practice, most of them are. So why do customers still switch? Because when something breaks (a tax calculation goes wrong, a submission fails, an...

Payroll system software is the platform that calculates employee pay, applies statutory deductions, generates payslips and tax certificates, and produces the submissions required by tax authorities. It sits at the intersection of HR...

White-label HR and payroll software lets you deliver payroll services to your clients, or employees, under your own brand, without building the underlying technology from scratch. For accountants, bookkeepers, HR consultants, and...

However you approach it, payroll is complicated, and the repetitive parts are where mistakes creep in. Automating payslips brings more accuracy, saves money, and lifts a time-consuming task off your team. Here is what a payslip is, and how...

Payroll looks simple on the surface. Calculate what people are owed, pay them on time, file the right returns. The reality involves tax law, statutory contributions, retirement schemes, medical aids, leave accruals, and a payroll cycle...

The benefits of the cloud are well documented: accessible anywhere, flexible, no hardware to maintain, no manual backups to keep on top of, no paper-based processes, and no large upfront capital outlay. Combine the cloud with outsourcing...

Cloud adoption has gone mainstream, with research showing around 94% of organisations have some kind of cloud strategy. But a lot of what's sold as cloud is actually legacy software repackaged with a web interface. The difference between...

The Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) is one of the most underused tools in South African payroll. Implemented on 1 January 2014, it was designed to encourage employers to hire young job seekers, a group hit hardest by structural...

When COVID-19 hit South Africa in 2020, the job market for payroll and HR professionals changed overnight. Companies froze hiring, retrenchments climbed, and skilled people found themselves out of work through no fault of their own. In...

Running payroll in one African country is one set of skills. Running it across 10 is another. The legislative rules, contribution ceilings, reporting formats, and statutory submissions vary in every jurisdiction — and the payroll...

The businesses that came through recent crises best had one thing in common: they were prepared. They had made the investment in cloud infrastructure, remote-capable systems, and flexible operating models before they needed them. Payroll...

Cloud payroll is talked about everywhere, but the term covers very different things, and the difference matters for compliance, security, and cost. This piece explains what true cloud payroll actually is. What “true cloud” means. True...

A security breach damages a company’s reputation and carries real financial cost. Payroll is a prime target, because it holds precisely the personal and banking information attackers can monetise or use to impersonate people. As...

There are good reasons to outsource payroll. A single global solution lets you manage payroll across multiple locations through one contract instead of juggling a provider in every country, which cuts the administrative load sharply. It...

Moving payroll and HR to the cloud isn't a technology project. It's an operating model change. Done well, it automates time-consuming tasks, reduces administrative load, and gives employees self-service access they've wanted for years....

Companies expanding into Africa usually arrive with good intentions, including following the law precisely. That is harder than it sounds. Payroll compliance across the continent is complex and easily misunderstood, and non-compliance...

South African tax year-end falls on the last day of February. The weeks before are when good payroll teams pull ahead and avoidable mistakes get baked in. This checklist covers what to verify, what to reconcile, and the deadlines that...