East London combines vehicle manufacturing and the East London IDZ with a large retail, education and provincial-government employer base in Buffalo City. Patuza handles SARS submissions (EMP201, EMP501, IRP5), UIF, SDL and payslips for East London employers — fixed monthly pricing, no lock-in, POPIA-aligned.
Registered Tax Practitioner + Certified Payroll Practitioner. EMP201, EMP501, IRP5, UIF and SDL submitted on your behalf.
We work with East London-based SMEs, professional firms and franchises across East London CBD, Vincent, Berea and surrounds.
Per-payslip pricing with no setup fees. Switch mid-year without breaking IRP5s at year-end.
East London employers in the IDZ, Wilsonia and West Bank run assembly, components, agro-processing and logistics operations where payroll turns on shift patterns, production bonuses and council membership. We keep MIBCO, MEIBC and NBCRFLI obligations current, calculate each contribution per member per cycle, and file the returns so a council audit finds nothing outstanding.
Buffalo City also employs heavily in services — schools, medical practices, retail groups and public entities around Vincent, Beacon Bay, Southernwood, Mdantsane and Bhisho. For those employers we handle leave and BCEA record-keeping, terminations and severance calculations, UIF declarations for claims, and a monthly payroll journal for the audit file.
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Sector-specific payroll rules — bargaining councils, MIBFA, MEIBC, NBCRFLI, provident funds — handled correctly the first time.
Shift premiums, overtime and Sunday pay under BCEA, MEIBC and MIBCO rates, short time and production bonuses.
See how we run it →Shift premiums, overtime and Sunday pay under BCEA, MEIBC and MIBCO rates, short time and production bonuses.
See how we run it →Weekend and public holiday pay, commission structures, casual and student staff, and multiple store cost centres.
See how we run it →Grant-funded posts, council and public-office pay scales, MFMA-friendly reporting and full audit trails.
See how we run it →Term-time contracts, governing-body posts, boarding staff allowances and 13th cheques timed to the academic year.
See how we run it →Night duty and standby allowances, sessional doctors, HPCSA-registered staff and 24-hour shift rosters.
See how we run it →Driver trip and subsistence allowances, NBCRFLI contributions, night work and overtime capped correctly.
See how we run it →Councils and determinations we work with around East London: MEIBC, MIBCO, NBCRFLI.
Payroll touches the owner, the finance team and HR differently. Here is what each of them gets from Patuza.
Everything a growing South African employer needs — SARS registrations, compliant payslips and monthly submissions — for a predictable per-payslip fee.
A payroll you can reconcile, defend in audit and forecast from — with EMP201s, EMP501s and the general-ledger interface handled to deadline.
Balanced payroll journals, cost-centre reporting and third-party schedules delivered before your month-end close — every cycle.
Accurate payslips, defensible leave balances and clean terminations — so HR spends its time on people, not pay queries.
Extra capacity and a second pair of expert hands — parallel runs, leave liability, council rates and EMP501 reconciliation handled with you, not around you.
Hand the payroll over with confidence — Patuza takes the processing and the deadlines, and you keep control and visibility.
Payroll evidence packs built for the Auditor-General: complete audit trails, council-agreement compliance and MFMA/PFMA-aligned controls.
Term-aware school payroll: SGB staff, pro-rata contracts, staff fee rebates and clean records for your governing body and auditors.
Clocking-to-payslip flow that works on site — overtime, shift and contractor hours captured, costed and reported per site before they blow the budget.
Patuza is 100% cloud-based, so we serve every suburb — each area below has its own payroll page:
Which model fits your headcount and budget.
ReadReal 2026 pricing benchmarks and hidden costs.
ReadSARS-aligned PAYE, rebates and medical credits.
Read1% + 1% split and the current ceiling.
ReadBCEA s.41 plus SARS lump-sum tax.
ReadBCEA notice periods and pay in lieu.
ReadLast reviewed 2026-09-10. Rulings change — confirm current wage schedules with your council before each increase date.
Most East London employers pay between R70 and R135 per payslip per month, with no setup fee. The price is fixed monthly and covers processing, payslips, EMP201 filing, UIF declarations and year-end IRP5s.
Vehicle and component manufacturers, IDZ tenants, retailers and wholesalers, schools and colleges, healthcare providers and public entities. We build the earnings, deduction and allowance structures those employers actually use, rather than a generic template.
Yes — MEIBC and automotive agreements for manufacturing, MIBCO for motor businesses and NBCRFLI for freight operators. Contributions are calculated per member each pay cycle and the council returns are filed on your behalf.
No. Patuza runs entirely in the cloud, so we serve East London, Gonubie, Beacon Bay, Mdantsane, Bhisho and Qonce and the surrounding district with the same turnaround. Documents are exchanged securely and no site visit is required.
Yes. We take over from Sage, SimplePay, PaySpace, Pastel or a spreadsheet mid-year without breaking the IRP5 reconciliation. Take-on usually runs two to four weeks, including a parallel run so the figures agree before we go live.
Usually the owner, financial manager or HR lead. We give each of them what they need — a reconciled payroll journal for finance, clean leave and engagement records for HR, and a single monthly figure for the owner.
Yes. IDZ plants running double or continuous shifts get night premiums, overtime and public-holiday pay calculated from clocked hours, with a per-line reconciliation before payment.
Yes. Weekly wage staff and monthly salaried staff run on the same payroll with separate pay cycles, and both feed one EMP201 and one IRP5 set at year-end.
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