Zealo
Built for South African organisations of every size

Run your whole operation from one place.

Accounting, payroll, sales, HR, projects, inventory and cashflow — all from one tab. Built around Netcash, SARS, and the major South African banks.

From R99 / month Excl. VAT. No card to start.
POPIA-aware Netcash integrated Major SA banks SARS-aligned payroll Made in Cape Town

Everything you need

Stop juggling six apps and a spreadsheet

One login. One source of truth. Built for the way South African organisations actually run.

Companies

From sole traders to growing teams — quoting, invoicing, supplier payments, payroll, CRM and stock in one place.

Municipalities

Built for municipal finance — strict role controls and a complete audit trail, with mSCOA-aligned reporting coming soon.

Non-profits

NPOs and NGOs — manage staff and volunteers, track every rand, and produce the reports funders and boards expect.

And more

Schools, clubs, co-ops and agencies. If you invoice, employ people and watch cashflow, Zealo fits.

Money in & out

Quotes, orders & invoicing

Quotes → sales orders → invoices, emailed as branded PDFs. Recurring invoices, credit notes, multi-currency and payments — all VAT-ready.

Supplier payments

Pay creditors in bulk via Netcash. Build a batch, submit, track release — no spreadsheet exports, no recapturing.

Bills, POs & creditors

Capture supplier invoices, track due dates, schedule into batches. Raise purchase orders, receive goods into stock with electronic GRNs, send stock back with goods return notes, and convert orders to bills. Recurring bills auto-create each month.

Cashflow forecasts

See your cash position weeks ahead, not months behind. Walk into accountant meetings prepared.

Your team

HR & employees

Employee records, teams, org chart, contracts. Self-service for staff to update their own details.

Leave & attendance

Apply for leave, approve from a single queue, track attendance and clock-ins. Built around SA leave types.

Timesheets & S&T

Log time per project, claim subsistence & travel against SARS-default rates, manager approval flow built in.

Payroll & tax

SA-compliant payslips with PAYE, UIF & SDL, medical-aid and retirement tax credits, payslip PDFs, and salary batches that flow into Netcash. Year-end EMP501/IRP5 certificates and UIF declaration ready.

Self-service portal

Each employee sees their own profile, payslips, leave balance, timesheets, expense claims — no extra logins.

Organogram

Live org chart from your employee + team data. No PowerPoint sketches that go stale the moment someone joins.

Performance reviews

Set goals, run quarterly reviews and keep a record of how the team's tracking — all against the same employee data.

Workforce planning

Plan budgeted positions and a hiring pipeline, then see planned headcount and salary cost against your actual active team — with the gaps to fill.

Sales & operations

CRM & opportunities

Accounts, contacts, deals with stages and forecasts. Lightweight enough that sales actually keeps it current.

Project management

Active projects, who's working on what, and a true cost per project — labour, expenses, purchase orders and stock issued, all rolled into one report.

Inventory & stock

Track items and stock levels across multiple locations, log stock movements, link items to suppliers, set Min/Max reorder levels with low-stock alerts, and organise with your own categories.

Asset register

Know what you own — laptops, vehicles, equipment — what it cost, where it is, and who's holding it. Assign assets to employees or locations.

For software teams

Developer effort tracking

Connect your code repositories (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab and others) to estimate engineering hours from commits, surface contributor activity, and link work to projects. No timer apps, no chasing developers for timesheets.

Connected to your stack

One dashboard

Cash position, unpaid bills due this month, leave queue, opportunities — every module on one page.

Guided setup

A getting-started checklist walks new admins through company details, chart of accounts, team and first invoice.

Finance dashboard

Revenue, expenses and net profit for the period, money owed to you and money you owe, plus a month-by-month income-vs-expense trend and your worst overdue invoices and bills.

Banking & reconciliation

Import statements (CSV, OFX/QFX or QIF) and reconcile — Zealo suggests the matching invoice or bill and records the payment.

Chart of accounts & ledger

Real double-entry underneath — a chart of accounts, general ledger and trial balance. Invoices, bills and payments post themselves automatically; add manual journals when you need them.

Financial statements & VAT

Income statement, balance sheet and a VAT201 (output vs input VAT) — generated straight from your ledger for any period, always tied back to the journals.

Plays nicely with your accounting

Sync with QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Accounting or Sage Payroll if you've already invested there — or use Zealo's own books and skip the second tool entirely.

Roles & permissions

Finance sees finance. HR sees HR. Employees see their own stuff. Permission model that actually scales with your org.

Audit trail

Every create, change and deletion on your invoices, quotes, credit notes, bills, orders and customers is logged — who did what, when, and what changed. Built for auditors and compliance.

Import & export

Bulk-load customers, inventory and products from a spreadsheet to get started fast. Every list exports straight to Excel or CSV when your accountant or auditor asks.

Multiple companies, one login

Run several organisations from a single account and switch between them in a click — ideal for groups, and for accountants servicing many clients.

"We stopped paying for a stack of accounting, payroll, CRM and project-tracking tools. Zealo replaced all of them — and it's actually built for how we work."

— Founder, Cape Town

Pricing

A plan for every stage

Start small. Add more users, modules, and integrations as you grow. No surprise add-ons.

Starter
R99 / month

For solo operators

  • 1 user
  • Up to 5 employees
  • Quotes & invoicing
  • Bills & supplier capture
  • Supplier payments (Netcash integration)
  • CRM lite — accounts & contacts
  • Manual bank reconciliation
  • Cashflow forecast
  • Basic HR (employees, teams)
  • Payslips
Growth
R269 / month

When the team's growing

  • Up to 5 users
  • Up to 5 employees
  • Everything in Starter
  • Employee self-service (ESS)
  • Leave & attendance
  • Timesheets & S&T claims
Most popular
Business
R399 / month

The everyday Zealo plan

  • Up to 10 users
  • Up to 10 employees
  • Everything in Growth
  • Full CRM with opportunities
  • Project management
  • Advanced payroll
  • Accounting
  • Automated bank feeds & reconciliation
Pro
R789 / month

For scaling teams

  • Up to 20 users
  • Up to 20 employees
  • Everything in Business
  • Advanced reports
  • Priority support
  • API access
Enterprise
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Whitelabel & beyond

  • Unlimited users & employees
  • Everything in Pro
  • Custom modules
  • Whitelabel & custom domain
  • SSO / SAML
  • Custom integrations
  • Dedicated success manager

All prices excl. VAT. Pay monthly, cancel any time.

Contact us

Let's get your business on Zealo

Zealo is invite-only while we onboard new organisations. Tell us about yours and we'll set you up — usually within a business day.