Always up to date, always on time payroll. 97 NPS to prove it.
Deel Local Payroll automates recurring pay items, supports multiple pay frequencies, and ensures compliance with automatic legislative updates across Africa – saving time, reducing errors, and keeping your business fully compliant.
Join 16,000+ customers running payroll locally
Cloud-native payroll with HR modules included.
Deel Local Payroll is built for businesses of all sizes across Africa, with partner options available for those supporting multiple clients. Our cloud-native platform ensures accurate calculations for deductions, social security, and local tax contributions – minimising errors, saving time, and keeping payroll fully compliant across Africa. And with direct, local support always on hand, you get fast, expert help whenever you need it.
Fully SARS compliant
Deel Local Payroll keeps you aligned with SARS requirements in real time, including PAYE, UIF, SDL, and EMP201/501 submissions with zero manual updates. Automatic tax table updates mean you’ll never miss a legislative change or risk penalties.
Payroll automation saves time
Run payroll faster and with greater accuracy. Instant gross-to-net calculations handle mid-month changes, bonuses, and terminations on the spot, giving you fewer errors and freeing your payroll and HR team to focus on strategy, not admin.
Employee self-service
Give employees and clients easy access to payslips, leave applications, claims, and tax certificates – anytime, on any device. Whether on desktop, tablet, mobile, or through our WhatsApp ESS add-on module. Deel Local Payroll empowers employees to stay connected and in control. Reduce payroll queries and boost satisfaction with a system designed for seamless, flexible access.
Audit-ready payroll records
Maintain a full audit trail of all payroll submissions, employee payments, and compliance reports. Be prepared for SARS audits with secure, accurate record-keeping.
Available integrations
Key benefits of Deel Local Payroll
Effortlessly submit UIF contributions
Submit Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) contributions electronically with a single click. No manual data entry required.
Automated medical scheme rate update
Medical aid rates are automatically updated, saving you time and ensuring accuracy.
Simplified
equity management
Stay compliant with SA equity laws and easily create EEA2 & EEA4 submissions for reporting.
Earned wage access integration
Offer your employees instant access to the earned portion of their salaries through our integrated third-party solution.
Centralised payroll insights
Access pre-defined reports, create custom dashboards and generate audit-ready reports.
Scalable for growing teams
Deel Local Payroll scales with your workforce, ensuring timely and accurate payments every time.
See it in action.
Experience the seamless process of paying locally.
Discover simplified
multi-national payroll
Manage payroll across 40+ African countries from one platform.
Stay compliant with automatic updates, ensuring accurate payroll - freeing you from tax deadline stress.
Access payroll info anywhere, anytime, on any device.
WhatsApp employee self-service for payroll and HR tasks
Why choose
Deel Local Payroll for your business
Securely manage payroll across multiple tax locations from one platform.
Tailored payroll and standard HR features for businesses of any size - employee self-service included.
Pay per employee per month — no annual license fees, and get direct, local support with calls answered in just 10 seconds.
Explore the right payroll and HR solution
for your business
Lite Edition
Seamless, low-complexity payroll for businesses up to 50 employees. Get essential payroll, done right.
- Unlimited interim payslip runs
- 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.
- List ItemIncludes 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 - expand on this feature
- 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