South Africa's compliance-first HR and payroll platform — built for BCEA, SARS 2026/27 and POPIA.
South African employers carry the liability for every payroll run they get wrong. Yet most small and mid-sized businesses still calculate PAYE, leave and terminations in spreadsheets, and only discover the error once SARS raises an assessment or the CCMA sets a hearing date.
Humantix removes that exposure at source: a single platform with SARS 2026/27 tax tables, BCEA leave rules and POPIA-grade data handling built into the calculation engine itself — not bolted on as a policy document nobody reads.
Payroll that is correct by construction, compliance that is audit-ready by default, and the management hours currently lost to HR admin returned to the business.
Five failures show up in almost every manual HR and payroll operation we assess. Each one has a specific piece of legislation sitting behind it.
Compliance failure is expensive and slow to surface. Late or understated PAYE draws a penalty plus interest. An unfair dismissal award is calculated in months of remuneration. Neither risk is visible on a spreadsheet until it has already crystallised.
10% + interestFourth Schedule, Income Tax Act 12–24 months' payLRA s194(1), s194(3)
Manual payroll fails silently. Tax brackets, age-based rebates, UIF, overtime, Sunday and public-holiday rates each follow their own rule. One stale bracket, or a rebate applied to the wrong birth year, repeats undetected every month until year-end reconciliation.
2026/27 tablesSARS PAYE brackets & age rebates
Leave entitlement is routinely miscalculated. Three leave types run on three different clocks — and all must exclude public holidays and respect each employee's actual working days.
1 day per 17 workedAnnual leave, BCEA 30 days / 3-year cycleSick leave, BCEA
HR admin consumes commercial time. Payslip requests, leave-balance queries, contract chasing and task follow-ups all land on owners and line managers — because employees have no way to answer these questions for themselves.
Operational cost, not a statutory one — and the one most employers underprice.
Records you cannot produce cannot defend you. Signed contracts in a filing cabinet, payslips in an inbox and balances in a personal spreadsheet are indefensible at a hearing and non-compliant on data protection.
Record-keeping duties, BCEA & POPIA
Humantix consolidates the entire employment lifecycle — hire, pay, manage, comply, exit — into one platform, organised around three principles.
Tax, leave, overtime and severance are computed by a versioned rules engine, not by a person under month-end pressure.
Statutory requirements are encoded as system behaviour, so the compliant path is the default path.
Employees self-serve their own payslips, balances, tasks and contracts, removing the query load from management.
Every module exists to remove a specific, named risk — not to add a row to a comparison chart. Twenty-eight modules are live for every workspace; five more are activated per company when you want them.
Switched on for your workspace when you want them, so you only carry the modules you actually use.
Available to early-access clients. Flag your interest and we will prioritise your access.
For businesses entering new markets or managing remote teams, we take on the legal responsibility of employment — letting you hire compliantly in a territory without establishing a local legal entity.
Humantix is not a global platform with a South African localisation pack. SARS tax tables, BCEA leave cycles, LRA disciplinary process and POPIA data rules are the foundation of the product, not configuration you are left to maintain.
When brackets, thresholds or rates change, the update ships to every client. You are never running last year's tax year by accident.
Every record is scoped to your workspace at the data layer, access is short-lived and token-based, and administrative permissions are granular by functional area.
Sign up in under 60 seconds, onboard your workforce, and run compliant payroll the same day — no consultants, no migration fee, and no minimum term just to evaluate it.
Four free tools let you quantify your exposure and your savings before you speak to anyone: payroll risk assessment, HR compliance audit, workforce efficiency scorecard and ROI calculator.
Support, product and compliance decisions are made locally, in your time zone, by people working under the same legislation you do.
Three low-friction ways to start — each takes less time than resolving a single payroll query.
Eight questions, instant score. See exactly where your current process exposes you — no signup required.
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