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For South African businesses that work with government

Start your business, find government work, and get paid for it.

PayMe Gov takes you from registering a company to the last rand a department owes you: your documents, the tenders you go after, the invoices you send, and every payment, promise and letter - in one place, with the proof behind every figure.

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Or try the due-date engine first
  • PayMe does not take a percentage of anything you recover. What government pays you is yours.
PMG-7K2Q-9XWDExample · fictional
Dept. of Example Works (fictional)National department · Invoice INV-0412
Invoiced
184,000 rand
Received
100,000 rand
Outstanding
84,000 randPayment date passed 11 Apr
  1. 3 MarInvoice INV-0412 issuedR160,000.00 plus VAT of R24,000.00
  2. 5 MarSubmitted by emailYour record of sending it
  3. 12 MarReceipt confirmedAn acknowledgement from accounts payable
  4. 11 AprPayment date, worked out by PayMeTreasury Regulation 8.2.3, from the confirmed receipt date
  5. 14 AprPromise recordedThe full balance by 30 April, said on a phone call
  6. 20 AprPayment receivedR100,000.00 by EFT, in your bank account
  7. 30 AprThe promised dateChecked against what actually arrived
  8. 6 MayFollow-up approved by youDrafted from the figures on the case

Promise: Partly kept

This is concerning.

Assessment, not a confirmed fact
  • Payment has run beyond the window PayMe expected it in.
  • A promised payment date has passed and only part of the promised money arrived.
  • Part of the payable amount has been received and a balance remains.
6 May 2026

Everything above is worked out again from the recorded facts, by the same rules PayMe uses on a real case. Nothing is stored.

Two ways in

Which one sounds like you?

Both begin with an account, and there is nothing to pay to create one.

  • Starting out

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    I want to start a business

    I do not have a registered company yet, and I would like to work with government.

    PayMe helps you register your company and start building the business record you will need before a government department will buy anything from you.

    Start my businessWhat it costs

  • Already trading

    Available now. You can use this today.

    I already have a business

    My company is registered, and I need help managing the government side of it.

    Keep your invoices, payments, promises and correspondence with a government customer in one place, so you can always show what was sent, what was said and what is still outstanding.

    Continue with my businessWhat PayMe does for you

The whole road

From a new company to your first government payment

Start at whichever step you have reached. Each one says how much of it works today.

  1. Register your company

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    Answer PayMe’s questions, and a person at PayMe lodges the application with CIPC. CIPC decides, and PayMe records what it says.

  2. Keep your documents in one place

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    Registration, tax clearance, B-BBEE certificate and bank letter, with every version kept and ready to send.

  3. Get government ready

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    See what government buyers ask suppliers for, and where your own records stand against each item.

  4. Find tenders

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    Search what the eTender Portal publishes by sector, province and closing date, and add a tender in a click.

  5. Prepare your bid

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    The closing time, the documents and every returnable, in one workspace. You submit the bid yourself.

  6. Track the job

    Available now. You can use this today.

    Each piece of work as its own case, with a reference and a history of what happened and when.

  7. Send the invoice

    Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.

    Write it in PayMe, with the VAT and the total worked out to the cent, and email it once a person approves the message.

  8. See every payment arrive

    Available now. You can use this today.

    What has been paid, what was promised and what is still outstanding, with the proof behind every figure.

The problem

The story of one unpaid invoice is usually spread across seven places.

None of that is anybody's fault. A government job runs for months, and every part of it arrives through a different channel.

Without a single record

  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • A PDF on somebody’s laptop
  • A spreadsheet
  • A government portal
  • A colleague who has left
  • A filing cabinet

With PayMe: one case, every fact dated

Invoice submitted
5 Mar · by email
Receipt confirmed
12 Mar · acknowledgement
Payment date
11 Apr · Treasury Reg. 8.2.3
Promise
The full balance by 30 Apr
Still outstanding
84,000 rand

The same fictional example as above.

The due-date engine

When is payment actually due? Try it.

This is the reasoning PayMe applies to every invoice, running here in your browser. Change the answers and watch it work out a date - quoting the regulation - or tell you exactly why it cannot.

Who are you invoicing?
What can you prove?

Payment due by

Saturday, 11 Apr 2026

Receipt confirmed
12 Mar 2026
Plus 30 days
11 Apr 2026
Rule
Treasury Regulation 8.2.3

It falls on a Saturday, and that stands: the Interpretation Act moves a deadline only past a Sunday or a public holiday.

Unless determined otherwise in a contract or other agreement, all payments due to creditors must be settled within 30 days from receipt of an invoice or, in the case of civil claims, from the date of settlement or court judgement.Treasury Regulation 8.2.3, quoted exactly

A term in your contract can displace the statutory period, and PayMe asks for it. Nothing you enter here is stored or sent anywhere.

Along the way

Everything else you will use on the road

Every area says plainly whether it works today or is ready to use with its limits listed.

See the full list

Pricing

Free to start. Every price is published.

Five levels, from free upwards, each paid ahead for 1 to 12 months with nothing charged again automatically. Each level sets how many government contracts a company can have active at once, and the pricing page says from when.

Free is enough to set your company up, see what government buyers ask suppliers for, and track what you are owed.

500 randonce-off PayMe service fee for business registration assistance

A company registration costs R675.00 altogether, in one payment: PayMe’s R500.00 service fee, plus CIPC’s own charges for registering the company and reserving its name. CIPC’s charges are set by CIPC rather than by PayMe, are paid over to CIPC, and are itemised before you pay anything.

See all five levels

See it working

See PayMe in action

A few minutes each of the real screens: your home screen, finding tenders, and adding the invoices a department still owes you. The companies in the videos are made up.

Your Home screen (1 min 34 sec)

Finding tenders (1 min 24 sec)

Adding your outstanding invoices (1 min 51 sec)

Straight answers

What you can expect from PayMe

  • When you follow up on a payment, you have the invoice, the dates, the replies and the figures in front of you - and nothing is sent until a person has approved every word.
  • Your organisation’s records are kept separate from every other customer’s - in the application, and again in the database underneath it.
  • Where PayMe reads a situation rather than records a fact, it says so on the screen and shows its working.
Common questions

Start where you are.

Whether you are registering your first company or following up an invoice from last year, creating an account costs nothing.

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Ask Paya

Hi, I am Paya. I help South African businesses do business with government.

  • Do you want to start a company?
  • Is your company ready to supply government?
  • Are you going after a tender?
  • Or are you waiting to be paid for work you have already done?

Whichever it is, you are in the right place. Tell me where you are and I will point you at the part of PayMe that helps.

Where are you?

These are prepared answers, not a conversation with an AI, and I know nothing about you. Nothing you press here is recorded.