One system for employee records, leave, onboarding, performance and Employment Equity, with SARS-native payroll underneath and self-service on the phone your staff already carry. Built in South Africa, for South African HR. This is PeopleCore.
In most South African businesses, HR spends its week on things software should handle. Leave lives in a spreadsheet and an inbox. Employee files are half paper, half PDF, half nobody-is-quite-sure. Onboarding a new starter means chasing the same information across four different forms. And every quarter, the Employment Equity report becomes a two-week manual exercise in reconciling numbers that should already be in one place.
Global HR platforms rarely fix this for South Africa. They do not understand BCEA leave rules, POPIA is bolted on rather than built in, and Employment Equity, an obligation that carries real penalties here, is simply not something they were designed for. You end up paying for a foreign product and then paying again in workarounds.
PeopleCore is HR built for the country you actually employ people in. Records, leave, onboarding, performance, EE reporting and payroll live in one POPIA-aligned system, and your staff can use most of it themselves from their phones.
When leave, records and EE data live in disconnected spreadsheets, every report is a manual reconciliation and every audit is a scramble. One source of truth removes that.
Employee data is exactly the kind of personal information POPIA governs. Storing it in email threads and shared drives is a real compliance risk, one proper HR software is designed to reduce.
A single, POPIA-aligned home for contracts, documents, qualifications and personal details, with role-based access so people only see what they should.
Annual, sick, family responsibility, maternity and study leave, accrued and approved with BCEA rules applied and balances that update instantly.
Digital contracts and structured checklists get a new starter live in minutes and make exits clean and compliant.
Goals, quarterly reviews and salary-linked scoring, with Employment Equity considerations built into the process.
Workforce profiles and EEA2 / EEA4 reports generated from live data, ready for your EE committee and the Department of Labour.
PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI on every payslip, with EMP201 and EMP501 prepared for SARS eFiling, all from the same employee data.
AVAV has built enterprise systems in South Africa since 2019. PeopleCore carries that standard into everyday HR.
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access and a full audit trail. Personal information is treated as the regulated data it is, not left in inboxes and shared drives.
EE reporting draws on the same workforce data your HR team maintains daily, so EEA2 and EEA4 stop being a quarterly emergency.
Because payroll and HR share one system, PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI stay correct and current without a separate tool or a manual patch.
Proven in production: the AVAV platform runs live enterprise deployments including the SA Reserve Bank bursary portal (via TTI) and TTI Bursary Management, with 1,358+ bursars across 26 universities.
PeopleCore starts from R40 per employee per month and scales with your headcount. All prices are in rands and include VAT, and implementation, data migration and integrations are quoted separately, so you are never surprised by a bill.
HR self-service, leave, records and EE reporting are part of the product, not costly add-ons. Book a demo and we will size PeopleCore honestly for your organisation.
South African HR software needs to understand local reality: BCEA leave rules, POPIA data protection, Employment Equity reporting, and payroll built on PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI. PeopleCore is built around these from the ground up rather than adapted from a foreign product.
PeopleCore is built with POPIA in mind. Employee records are encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based so staff only see what they should, and every change is captured in an audit trail. Processing is handled with South African data protection in mind.
Yes. Annual, sick, family responsibility, maternity and study leave are accrued and approved with BCEA rules applied automatically, and balances update instantly for both employee and manager.
Yes. Workforce profiles by race, gender and occupational level are maintained from live HR data, and EEA2 and EEA4 reports are generated for your EE committee and Department of Labour submissions.
Yes. PeopleCore is HR and payroll in one system. PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI are calculated on every payslip, and EMP201 and EMP501 are prepared for SARS eFiling from the same employee data.
PeopleCore starts from R40 per employee per month. Pricing scales with headcount, all prices are in rands and include VAT, and implementation, migration and integrations are quoted separately.
Yes. Employee self-service works on mobile and via WhatsApp, so staff can view payslips, request leave and update details without emailing HR, which cuts the admin load on your HR team significantly.
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