PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI on every payslip. EMP201 and EMP501 prepared for SARS eFiling from the same data. Priced in rands, POPIA-aligned, and simple enough that your payroll clerk actually enjoys month-end. This is PeopleCore.
If you run payroll in South Africa, you already know the pain. Global payroll platforms treat PAYE as an afterthought, have never properly modelled the UIF ceiling, and leave ETI, EMP201 and EMP501 to you and a spreadsheet. Every SARS change means a workaround. Every EMP501 reconciliation season means late nights reconciling figures that should already balance.
The local alternatives aren't always better. Legacy desktop payroll ties you to one machine, needs a manual patch every time the tax tables change, and offers your staff nothing, no self-service, no mobile payslips, no WhatsApp. Meanwhile your payroll administrator is the single point of failure for the whole business.
PeopleCore was built the other way around. It starts from South African statutory reality, PAYE, UIF, SDL, ETI, the BCEA, POPIA, and Employment Equity, and builds the software on top of that. You are not adapting a foreign product to your country. You are running software that already understands it.
Foreign payroll systems make you bridge the gap between what they do and what SARS requires. That gap is paid in hours, in spreadsheets, and in the risk of getting a statutory return wrong.
When payroll lives on one desktop and in one person's head, a resignation or a laptop failure becomes a business emergency. Cloud payroll with proper access control removes that risk.
Every deduction calculated on every payslip using current SARS tax tables. The UIF ceiling, the SDL exemption threshold and ETI qualification are all handled for you.
Your monthly EMP201 and bi-annual EMP501 reconciliation are prepared from the same payroll data, ready to submit through SARS eFiling.
Tax certificate values accumulate automatically through the year, so year-end is a review, not a rebuild.
Staff get payslips, leave balances and personal details on mobile and WhatsApp, cutting the questions payroll answers every month.
Annual, sick, family responsibility and study leave, accrued and approved with BCEA rules applied automatically.
Workforce profiles and EEA2 / EEA4 reports generated from live payroll data, ready for your EE committee and the Department of Labour.
AVAV has built enterprise systems in South Africa since 2019. PeopleCore carries that same standard into payroll.
Tax tables, the UIF ceiling, SDL thresholds and ETI rules are maintained centrally, so your payroll stays correct when SARS changes the numbers, no manual patches.
Employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based, and every change is captured in an audit trail. Processing is handled with South African data protection in mind.
EE reporting draws on the same workforce data, so EEA2 and EEA4 submissions stop being a quarterly spreadsheet marathon.
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. Pricing scales with your headcount, and implementation, data migration and integrations are quoted separately. All prices are in rands and include VAT, so what you are quoted is what you pay. Annual billing options are available.
There is no per-payslip surcharge for adding self-service, and no separate fee to keep your tax tables current, that is simply how the product works. Book a demo and we will size it for your business honestly.
Yes. PeopleCore calculates PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI on every payslip using current SARS tax tables, and prepares your EMP201 monthly return and EMP501 reconciliation from the same payroll data, ready for SARS eFiling.
PeopleCore starts from R40 per employee per month. Pricing scales with headcount, and implementation, data migration and integrations are quoted separately. All prices are in rands and include VAT.
Yes. UIF is calculated at 1% from the employee and 1% from the employer, capped at the monthly remuneration ceiling, and the UIF declaration is prepared automatically for submission.
Yes. PeopleCore includes an employee self-service portal that delivers payslips, leave balances and personal information on mobile and via WhatsApp, reducing the questions your payroll team fields each month.
PeopleCore is built with POPIA in mind: employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based, and every change is captured in an audit trail. Data is hosted with South African processing in mind.
Yes. The Employment Tax Incentive is calculated automatically for qualifying employees and flows through to your EMP201, so you claim the incentive correctly without manual spreadsheets.
Most migrations are completed in weeks, not months. AVAV runs the data migration with you, imports year-to-date figures so IRP5 values stay correct, and trains your team before go-live.
Book a free demo. 45 minutes. Your headcount, your pay structure. No slides, just the system.
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