Multi-currency payroll in 40+ African countries, Brazil, the UK and UAE.
Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace offers local or multi-country, multi-currency and multi-language payroll solutions for 40+ African countries, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the UAE.
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Global payroll that's built to scale with you
With seamless integrations, real-time reporting, and mobile-first access for employees, you get a single platform to manage payroll and your people.
Global access to data
Our secure, cloud-native platform keeps your payroll running, whether you have one location or operate across multiple countries. Automate tax, compliance, and reporting in over 45 countries, with legislative updates applied instantly.
Expatriate payroll solutions
Ensure your expatriate employees stay fully compliant in both home and host countries. Expatriate payroll management delivers built-in automation, local compliance, and advanced functionality for seamless multi-country, multi-currency salary and tax processing across Africa. Automated gross-up calculations simplify complex tax equalisation, saving time and reducing risk.
Tax compliance
Through our extensive network, Deel Local Payroll ensures local tax compliance and accuracy for any payroll, automatically applying legislative updates and managing filings with authorities like SARS, HMRC, and eSocial, reducing the risk of penalties or missed deadlines.
Global payroll simplified
Unify payroll across multiple countries with one secure, cloud-native platform.
Deel Local Payroll automates compliance, tax, and reporting across 40+ African countries, Brazil, the UK and the UAE, ensuring accuracy, scalability and real-time legislative updates.
Key benefits of Deel Local Payroll
Out-of-the-box configuration
A single-instance, multi-tenant platform delivering secure, scalable configuration with built-in tax and legislative updates and continuous compliance tracking.
Mobile-first experience
Employees can access payslips, apply for leave, download tax certiticates and submit claims directly via desktop, mobile or WhatsApp (add-on module).
Enterprise-grade security
SOC 1 & 2, ISO27001, GDPR, POPIA, and LGPD certified, with role-based access and full audit logging.
Pay-per-employee per month
Choose the pay run frequency that works for your business with transparent, scalable pricing. No annual license or software fees. You only pay for what you use.
Audit-ready payroll intelligence
Create custom dashboards and generate audit-ready reports, analyse payroll data and workforce trends based on your unique business requirements without manual number crunching. Export GL-ready data for your finance team.
Flexible payroll integrations
Integrate with Workday, and leading accounting platforms. With comprehensive API documentation and webhook support, you can build your own integrations (pushing or pulling data) or embed payroll functionality directly into existing systems.
Global payroll, local precision
WhatsApp employee self-service for payroll and HR tasks
Rethink the way you run payroll
Perfect for teams hiring fast or expanding across multiple regions
Securely upload, download, and track all your payroll files.
Secure, compliant payroll - without the risk on you
Payroll isn’t just admin - it’s financial intelligence
Global coverage and local expertise
All statutory calculations and reports are handled automatically. We cover the cost of confirming and updating every legislative change through our five-tier advisory process. Our compliance team regularly reviews each country setup and keeps public holidays and medical aid tables up to date.
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Congo
- Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea Conakry
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- United Kingdom
- Zambia
- Zanzibar
- Zimbabwe
Strategic relationships with various highly-acclaimed accounting firms across Africa, Brazil and the United Kingdom have been set-up to ensure the best possible solution and 100% legislative compliance in any country where Deel Local Payroll is offered. Together with multinational specific functionality, Deel Local Payroll provides powerful delivery that assists customers in rolling out into international regions rapidly.
Explore the right payroll and HR edition for your business.
Lite Edition
Seamless, low-complexity payroll for businesses up to 50 employees. Get essential payroll, done right.
- Unlimited interim payslip runs
- Tax and compliance dashboard (HMRC, SARS, eSocial & local authorities)
- Automated statutory leave pay
- Essential pre-defined reports and country-specific statutory reports
- Tax configuration aligned with legislation for businesses operating in a single country
- eOnboarding (SA, more countries launching soon)
- Employee self-service for payslips, leave requests, personal details, and tax certificates
- General ledger configuration
- Mock payslip generator
- Role-based security
- Single level organisational structure
- Automatic medical scheme rate updates (SA)
- Automated UIF submission (SA)
- Audit tracking
Premier Edition
The perfect fit for growing businesses that need advanced reporting, and multi-entity management.
- Includes everything in Lite, plus:
- Comprehensive reports
- Tax configuration aligned with legislation across multiple countries
- Third-party payment files
- Expense claims: single level approver
- Multi level organisational structure
- Built-in file attachments
- Email notes and reminders to employees and managers
- Incident and asset management
- Advanced position management and leave configuration
- Sandbox environment
- Equity reporting (SA and Namibia)
Master Edition
Designed for large or multi-national organizations demanding high-complexity features, extensive automation, and global scale.
- Includes everything in Premier, plus
- Advanced workflows with multi-level approval processes
- Integrated recruitment platform from job post to onboarding
- Dynamic, auto-generated organisational charts
- Automated retro-active salary calculations
- Multi-currency payment files via the expat module
- Automated tax equalisation for expat payroll
- Custom fields and forms
- Report writer
- Consolidated reporting across all regions
Optional Add-On Modules
Explore additional modules to extend your payroll capabilities
- WhatsApp Employee self-service
- TymeAdvance (South Africa)
- Workforce Planning
- Performance Management and Succession Planning
- Cloud Analytics / Power BI
- Onboarding & Requisition
- Org Charts & Talent Visualisation
- Recruitment & ATS
- Expat Management - Multi-currency
- Workday Connector (GPC Certified)
Outsourcing
We take care of it all.
- Full-service payroll management, including compliance with tax and legislative updates, accurate submissions, and secure employee payments, handled entirely by our experts.
“There are no headaches for our IT team. We don’t have to schedule manual updates or worry about compliance changes being missed. It all happens automatically—in real time.”
Alison Boruchowitz – Head of People and Organization
PUMA South Africa
550
Employees across South Africa
Awards & Recognition
Whether your business needs are to manage payroll or HR or both, we have a software solution for you that is accessible anytime, anywhere and from any device.
Winner: Transformation Project of the Year 2024
Winner: Payroll Innovation Award 2023
Winner: Payroll
Software Supplier of the Year 2019
Top 25 HR Software
Award 2019
Finalist:
The SaaS Awards 2019