Pricing
What PayMe costs, and what it never takes.
Five levels, published in full. You should be able to see what something costs without giving anybody your details first.
Plans are paid for inside PayMe
What a plan limits
Subscriptions
Understand, operate, collaborate, scale, control
Each level is for a different stage of supplying government. What separates them is scale - how many people work in PayMe, how much of your paperwork PayMe reads for you, and how much history you keep - and the exact allowances are set when subscriptions open.
Understand
Free
0 randa month
Get started and see where your business stands, without paying for anything.
- Set up your company and see what government buyers ask suppliers for
- Keep your documents in one place
- Track what you are owed
- From 16 November 2026: one payment case, one company, and Paya not included
- Up to 5 active government contracts at a time
Operate
PayMe Pro
499 randa month
or 4,990 rand a year, saving 998 rand
For a small business actively supplying government and running the work through PayMe.
- For the person doing the invoicing, the chasing and the paperwork
- More of PayMe reading documents and answering questions for you
- Room for every case and tender you take on
- No limit on payment cases
- Up to 10 active government contracts at a time
- Paya, PayMe’s assistant, included
Collaborate
PayMe Business
1,499 randa month
or 14,990 rand a year, saving 2,998 rand
For an established supplier where more than one person works on the same invoices and bids.
- Room for a team, with a role for each person
- More of PayMe reading and answering, shared across the team
- More history kept for the work you have already delivered
- No limit on payment cases
- No limit on active government contracts
- Paya, PayMe’s assistant, included
Scale
PayMe Professional
3,499 randa month
or 34,990 rand a year, saving 6,998 rand
For a high-volume government contractor with many cases and bids running at once.
- Built for volume rather than for the occasional bid
- Reporting across everything you have running
- Priority when something needs a person at PayMe
- No limit on payment cases
- No limit on active government contracts
- Paya, PayMe’s assistant, included
Control
PayMe Enterprise
From10,000 randa month
Contract pricing, agreed rather than published.
For large suppliers and groups running several entities and teams under one set of rules.
- Several companies or divisions under one arrangement
- Controls over who may see and do what, set centrally
- Terms, onboarding and support agreed in the contract
Annual is priced at ten months rather than twelve, so paying for a year costs about two months less than paying monthly. The saving shown on each row is worked out from the two figures beside it.
One-off
Help getting your company registered
Separate from any subscription. PayMe’s own fee, with CIPC’s charges itemised beside it rather than folded into it.
Business registration assistance
What the fee covers
- Working out what your company needs to be registered as, and what to call it
- Preparing your registration information and checking it before it is submitted
- Taking you through the official registration process
- Carrying everything you gave us into your PayMe business profile
What the fee does not cover
- The official CIPC charges for name reservation and company registration
- Any charge from another organ of state, such as SARS or a municipality
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.
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.
R500 buys PayMe’s help: PayMe checks your documents and lodges the application with CIPC on its own CIPC account. CIPC decides the outcome, and CIPC’s own charges are paid over to CIPC.
Pay as you read
Reading credits for tender packs
Prepaid, separate from any plan, and only spent when you ask PayMe to read a pack or answer a question about one.
One credit is 10 rand. Credits come in packs of 10, 25 or 50, paid by card through Yoco.
- Up to 1 MB: reading costs 2 credits, and a question costs 1 credit.
- Up to 3 MB: reading costs 5 credits, and a question costs 2 credits.
- Larger packs: reading costs 8 credits, and a question costs 3 credits.
What a reading costs is set by the size of the pack PayMe stores, and is shown before you confirm it.
For a tender you added from the eTender Portal, PayMe reads the pack using prepaid reading credits: which standard forms it contains, which documents it asks you to return, and which of those you already keep in your Business Vault. You can also ask a question about a pack. The pack and any question you ask about it are sent to an outside AI provider to be read; your own records are not. PayMe does not fill in, sign or submit anything, and the pack itself is always the final word.
How PayMe makes money
Not out of what you recover
PayMe takes no share of what you recover. What a department pays you is yours, in full, paid to you directly - PayMe never handles it and never sees your bank account.
It is worth saying plainly, because a cut of recovered money is the obvious business model for a company in this position, and it is not the one PayMe uses. PayMe is paid for the software and, if you ask for it, for help registering a company. Nothing else.
A card is taken in PayMe for three things only: the registration fee, reading credits, and a plan an owner chooses to pay for. PayMe never sees the account a department pays you into.
Questions about any of this?
The common ones are answered plainly, including the ones with an uncomfortable answer.