You did the work. Now prove it, chase it, and get paid for it.

Create an account, invite the people who work on your invoices, and decide what each of them may do.

Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles, with authenticator-app codes and single-use recovery codes. Owners and Admins must use two-step sign-in before anything consequential, such as inviting people or approving a letter.

Record your legal name and registration number once. Confirming a detail records who checked it, so a later correction never quietly overwrites something somebody verified.

Add another company to your PayMe login and switch between them. Each company keeps its own records, its own people and its own plan, and nothing is shared between two companies except your login.

Answer the questions PayMe asks, PayMe checks your documents and lodges the application with CIPC on its own CIPC account. CIPC decides, and we record what they say. You pay once, by card through Yoco or by bank transfer. Starting gives you a free PayMe account, and when CIPC registers the company its registered details and the certificate CIPC issues are added to that account.

A company owner records who holds the company’s shares and prints a share certificate for each shareholder, with the company’s own logo and colour. It prints what the owner recorded; the company’s own share register is the legal record, and the company signs the certificate.

Upload supporting documents against your company profile, a case or an invoice. PayMe works out what a file really is from its contents rather than its name, and every file is checked for malware before anybody can open it. PayMe does not read what your own documents say.

Keep your company documents in one place - your registration, your tax clearance, your B-BBEE certificate, your bank letter - so the same certificate does not have to be found again every time. Upload a newer version and PayMe keeps the old one, so work that used it still points at what was actually sent. When somebody asks for them, email documents straight from the vault, in your company’s name - from your own sending address once you choose one. PayMe stores and organises what you give it; it does not read your documents or check them with any issuer.

A short, checked list of the forms and guides government asks suppliers for - the standard bidding documents, CIPC company forms, the B-BBEE affidavit templates, SARS tax-compliance, VAT and employer registration material, the cidb contractor register - each with the body that publishes it, a link to that body’s own copy, and the date PayMe last opened the link. PayMe keeps no copies and publishes none of these documents itself; where a publisher states no version, PayMe says so rather than guessing. It is a starting set rather than a full index of government paperwork.

Track each job as its own case, with a reference, a status you move yourself, and a history of what happened and when.

Search a built-in register of departments, municipalities and state-owned entities. It is small, so most payers are still typed in by hand - and when you type one, PayMe keeps it as your words rather than pretending it verified them.

Record a contract, its variations, advances, progress claims, certificates and retention. PayMe works out what is payable now on each claim from the figures you record, and keeps money you already have apart from money you are owed. PayMe has not read your contract.

Capture an invoice with its VAT and its total to the exact cent, and record the dates separately: the date you issued it, the date you submitted it, and the date the department confirmed receiving it.

Write an invoice on a case line by line, and PayMe works out the VAT and the total to the exact cent, lists anything still missing - your confirmed company details, your VAT status, your banking details - and then numbers it and produces a PDF you can download. An Owner or Admin issues it, using two-step sign-in. PayMe can then email it to your customer - a department or another business - once a person approves the exact message, recipient and attachment - the same approval as a follow-up - or you can send it yourself.

Add your logo, choose one of three layouts and a colour, and add your own wording to the invoices PayMe writes for you. It applies to invoices you issue after you set it; an invoice already issued keeps the look it was issued with.

Correct an invoice you issued through PayMe: a credit note when the department owes less, a debit note when it owes more. Each has its own number, names the invoice it corrects and is never edited afterwards, and the amount outstanding follows it. A note is not a payment, and it is only for an invoice PayMe issued.

Use PayMe for customers who are other businesses, not only for government. Tell PayMe your company sells to private customers and it leaves the government-only screens off your menu. For a private customer, PayMe works out the payment date from the payment terms you record, because no government payment rule applies to them. Save a customer once - name, address, VAT number and a contact person - and their details fill in on each new invoice. It is for money one business owes another: PayMe is not a debt collector and is not for chasing individuals.

Registering the company, keeping its documents, finding and preparing tenders, invoicing, following up, recording payments, contracts and your costs all sit in one PayMe account, so work that is usually spread across spreadsheets, inboxes and a filing cabinet is in one place. PayMe does the working out, the drafting, the matching and the reminding; you check and approve, and you or your accountant still file with SARS.

Record what your business spends - snap a photo of the slip and PayMe keeps it with the cost. See profit so far on each contract, profit and loss for any period, and a running VAT estimate. Import your bank statement at least every two weeks: PayMe records every line at the bank’s amount, matches what it can, and you say what the rest were and upload the invoice where one is needed. You can type the figures from a slip yourself, or ask PayMe to read it: the photo is then sent to an outside AI provider to be read, PayMe suggests the figures, and nothing is saved as a cost until you have checked them. The VAT figure is an estimate: you or your accountant still file with SARS.

Your invoices and payments post into your books by themselves. See a trial balance, a balance sheet and the figures your VAT201 asks for, and download everything for your accountant. You still file with SARS yourself. This is not switched on yet: an accountant is checking the VAT rules first.

Add your employees, run each month, and PayMe works out PAYE, UIF and SDL on their salaries and makes their payslips. Employees can read their own payslips. You get the EMP201 and IRP5 figures for SARS, and you still submit them yourself. This is not switched on yet: a tax practitioner is checking the tax rules first.

See this month against last month and last year, the money expected in and out over the next twelve weeks, what each payer owes and how long since its payment date passed, what became of promises, when invoices were paid, and where your money went. Print a report or download it as a PDF. Every figure comes from what you recorded; PayMe gives no payer a score or a ranking, and it works out no average.

Ask Paya a question about your own cases, invoices and documents, or about the government side of running your business, and PayMe shows what each answer rests on. Nothing changes because of an answer - no status moves, no payment is recorded and no message is sent. Each company gets 2 free questions a day; after that, Paya answers again the next day. From 16 November 2026 Paya is part of the paid plans, and a company on Free cannot ask it questions. To answer, PayMe sends your question, the earlier part of the conversation, its own sentences about the records you ask about, and any PDF or image you attach, to an outside AI provider in the United States. Reading a published tender pack, and reading a cost slip when you ask for it, are separate and are described under those capabilities.

Once you are signed in, open a support ticket or send a suggestion from inside PayMe. A person at PayMe reads every ticket and replies there, and PayMe emails you when there is a reply. It is for signed-in customers only, and PayMe does not promise a response time.