Most South African small businesses don't run payroll — they survive it. A spreadsheet someone built years ago, a tax table printed off SARS, and a monthly evening spent checking whether UIF was capped correctly. It works until it doesn't: a new hire, a mid-year rate change, or an employee asking for a payslip they can take to the bank.
Why we built Danko Wage
Danko Wage is the sibling app to Danko Invoice. Invoicing happens there, payroll happens here — same company, Buntu Hosting (Pty) Ltd, and the same idea: software that does one job properly for a South African business, without an enterprise price tag or a two-week onboarding.
You add an employee, enter a salary, and Danko Wage works out PAYE using the current SARS brackets and rebates, UIF at 1% each side up to the monthly ceiling, and SDL where it applies. What comes out is a clean, SARS-ready payslip you can download as a one-page A4 PDF or email straight to the employee.
What you get
- Payslips in under two minutes. Add an employee, run payroll, done — no setup project required.
- Statutory maths handled. PAYE, UIF and SDL calculated against current SA tax tables so the numbers hold up.
- Email delivery. Payslips go out as secure PDF links and are filed automatically against each employee's profile.
- Automatic payroll runs. Set a monthly cadence and let it run, with a notification when it's finished.
- A mode for accountants. Bureau accounts manage every client company from one dashboard and switch between them in a click.
Built for two kinds of people
If you run a business, you want payroll off your desk by lunchtime. If you run a practice, you want twenty clients' payroll in one place without twenty logins. Danko Wage has separate account types for exactly that — business plans start at R79 a month, bureau plans at R349.
Try it without signing up
You don't need an account to see what a payslip looks like. Enter one employee, see the full breakdown, and only create an account if you want to save it.
See your first payslip
No card, no commitment — and three months free when you're ready.
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