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Sage alternative

Sage stays where it is. We build the work that happens before it, and connect.

Sage is accounting and payroll software, and we do not build that. We build the work that happens before the ledger, quoting, jobs, assets and people, and the invoice it produces reaches Sage without anybody typing it a second time. If Sage is doing its job and nothing is being typed twice, you do not have a software problem and this page will say so.

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What Sage is for, and where we stop.

Real strengths
  • Your accountant already knows it, which is worth more than any feature
  • VAT, EMP201 and the statutory payroll returns are built for South Africa rather than localised afterwards
  • A long track record and an established local support and partner network
What sits outside it
  • Accounting software records what already happened. Quoting against live stock, scheduling a job and proving it was done happen before the ledger ever hears about it
  • Asset registers with certificate expiry, rosters carrying skills and compliance status, and recruitment pipelines are not what a ledger is for
  • The join between the work and the books is usually a person retyping, and that is the part we take away

Two bills, and ours does not replace theirs.

Sage

Per company, per month, by plan tier

Sage publishes South African pricing publicly, by plan, with payroll priced separately from accounting. Nothing about working with us changes that bill. You keep the licence you have and the relationship your accountant has with it.

Source: Sage South Africa, Accounting pricing. Checked 28 August 2026. Vendors change pricing, so treat this as the position on that date and confirm it with them.

Zorah

One fixed monthly fee, sized to the work, not to headcount

No per seat charge and no hourly rate that drifts, so putting the system in front of a whole field team does not change the bill. The fee is set after a discovery call, against the volume the business actually runs, and reset annually against what it turned out to be.

How the four engagements work

Keep Sage. The question is what sits in front of it.

Sage is the right call if
  • You are asking whether to leave Sage. You almost certainly should not
  • Your accountant works in it and the year end runs smoothly
  • The books are accurate and nothing is being typed twice
Worth a conversation if
  • The same job is typed into a spreadsheet, then into Sage, and the two disagree at month end
  • You cannot say what a job cost without opening three files
  • The compliance you actually get audited on is not financial: PSIRA grades, employment equity evidence, certificate expiry, B-BBEE supplier records
What moving actually involves

Nothing moves off Sage. The work that produces the invoice moves onto one system, and the finished invoice reaches the ledger already made, so nobody re-keys it. Sage stays the books, your accountant carries on, and the retyping stops. That is an integration rather than a migration, and it is where a discovery audit usually lands.

What people ask about running both.

Do we have to leave Sage to work with Zorah?
No, and we would advise against it. Sage is the ledger and it is good at being the ledger. We build the work that happens before the ledger, quoting, jobs, assets, people, and connect so the invoice arrives in Sage without anybody typing it again.
Would you ever build accounting software?
No. Statutory accounting is a solved problem with decades of local compliance behind it, and rebuilding that would be a bad use of your money. We raise the invoice from the work and hand it to the ledger you already trust.

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