Sage stays where it is. We build the work that happens before it, and connect.
Sage is accounting and payroll software, and it is good at it. We do not build accounting software and we are not asking you to move. The work that happens before the ledger, the quote, the job, the people and the assets, runs on our platform, and what it produces reaches Sage without anybody typing it twice.
What Sage is for, and where we stop.
Sage is the ledger most South African businesses keep their books in, and your accountant almost certainly knows it. We do not build accounting software and we have no interest in replacing it.
- 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
- 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.
Feature lists converge. How a system charges you does not.Feature lists converge. How a system charges you does not, and it is the thing that still costs or saves money in year three.
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.
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.
Sage keeps doing its job. Its data stops sitting on its own.
Nothing to replace. The question is what its data can do once it is joined up.There is nothing to replace here, so the question is not whether Sage is good. It is what becomes possible once what it knows is joined to the work that produced it.
- The invoice arrives already made, from the job that produced it, so nobody types it twice
- Costs land against the job they belong to, so a margin is a number rather than an afternoon
- What the ledger already knows becomes part of one view with the work, the people and the assets
- Your accountant carries on exactly as they are, in the system they know
- 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
- 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
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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