Starting out
Start a business, and start it properly.
If you have never registered a company, the hardest part is not the paperwork - it is not knowing which paperwork, in what order, or what it should cost. PayMe takes you through it, and checks your answers and documents before anything reaches CIPC.
Ready to use, limits listed. You can use this today. What it deliberately does not do is written beside it.
How this works, and who does what
What it costs
One payment, with CIPC’s charges itemised
You should not have to fill in a form to find out the price.
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.
What this costs
Official CIPC fees
Collected by PayMe as part of this payment and paid over to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. PayMe does not set these, does not keep them and cannot waive them. Paying PayMe is not the same as CIPC having been paid - PayMe lodges the registration and pays the fees when it does.
Official fees checked on 2026-08-27 against CIPC - Register a company and BizPortal (CIPC). CIPC can change its fees at any time.
What happens
From an idea to a registered company
Six steps. The first four are the registration itself; the last two are what PayMe is for afterwards.
Tell us about the business you want to start
What the business will do, who is involved, and whether you are aiming at government work. No forms full of terms nobody explains.
PayMe prepares your registration information
Your proposed names, the company type, the directors and the addresses - checked over before anything is submitted, because a rejected application costs weeks.
We take you through the official registration
The registration itself is done with CIPC, the government body that registers companies in South Africa. PayMe helps you through it; PayMe is not CIPC and does not decide the outcome.
Your company arrives in your PayMe account
You get a free PayMe account the moment you start. When CIPC registers the company, its registered name, its registration number and the certificate CIPC issues are added to that account for you.
Work towards being ready for government work
Tax status, the supplier database, banking details, the documents a department will ask for. PayMe will help you see what is still missing.
Use the rest of PayMe as the work comes in
Cases, invoices, payments, promises and follow-ups - the part of PayMe that already works today.
Worth knowing
What to expect
- Registering is the first step towards government work. Once your company exists, PayMe takes you on from there: the documents buyers ask for, Government Ready, finding tenders and preparing your bids.
- CIPC decides whether a registration succeeds. PayMe checks your application before it goes, which makes it far less likely to come back for something avoidable.
Ready to start?
Creating an account costs nothing, and you can stop and come back to a registration at any point - it saves as you go. Already registered? The rest of PayMe is what you want.