Deel Local Payroll

Small Business

Scale your business.Without scaling your admin.

Accurate, compliant payroll for small teams without a dedicated payroll person. Real-time calculations, automatic compliance updates, and pay-per-employee pricing.

Small business payroll platform

Trusted by 19,000+ customers  ·  45+ countries  ·  Support NPS 97  ·  Backed by Deel

What you get

Built for small teams.Not scaled-down enterprise software.

Compliance, handled automatically

Tax tables, statutory rules, and legislative updates applied automatically across South Africa, the UK, Brazil, and Africa. No manual tracking required.

Calculations that are always correct

Every payslip is calculated in real time. PAYE, UIF, SDL, NI, FGTS, accurate every pay run, on any device, from anywhere.

Employee self-service via WhatsApp

Your team accesses payslips, applies for leave, and submits claims through our WhatsApp AI assistant. No app download. No admin back-and-forth.

Integrated HR and accounting

Payroll, HR, and your accounting stack — running together. Free basic HR with every plan, plus native integrations with Xero, QuickBooks, and Acumatica.

Pay only for what you use

Simple per-employee, per-month pricing. No setup costs, no annual fees, no surprises. Scale up or down as your headcount changes.

Move between plans as you grow

Start on Lite and upgrade to Premier or Master when you need advanced reporting, multi-entity support, or HR modules without losing historical data.

WhatsApp employee self-service

WhatsApp ESS (add-on)

Your team. On WhatsApp.

Pacey gives employees self-service access to payslips, leave, claims, and tax certificates through WhatsApp — reducing HR admin as your team grows. Available 24/7.

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What our customers say

Trusted by teamswho made the switch.

Our payroll now runs in half a day instead of four, there’s no downtime, and even our store staff can access everything on mobile.

Brendan Keogh, System Analyst

Cape Union Mart

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 & Organisation

PUMA South Africa

The employee self-service, together with WhatsApp, is outstanding. Very easy to use, accessible anytime, anywhere in the world. Deel Local Payroll makes payroll a breeze with reports for every need.

Leana Pretorius, Payroll Manager

Mukuru

I switched to Deel Local Payroll and it’s now my payroll software of choice. The system is intuitive and easy to learn, both for me as an accountant and for my clients as end users. Support is fast and helpful.

Ruan Fourie, Director — Professional Tax Practitioner

Summit Professional Accounting

Deel Local Payroll helps us stay resilient in a fast-changing industry. With scalable operations, we can focus on what we do best — serving customers and growing the business.

Chantal Lombaard, HR Executive

BSI Steel

Add-on modules

Add modules as your business grows.

Every edition includes payroll, HR, and Pacey AI. Extend further with add-ons.

WhatsApp ESSPower BIOrgChartRecruitment Management
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Payroll sorted.From day one.

Pick the pay run frequency that fits your business. Pay per employee, per month — run payroll as often as you need, no annual licence, no hidden software fees.

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