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Yes. Every account starts with a 14-day free trial and we don't ask for card details to begin it. You get the complete platform, not a cut-down version, and the account you set up during the trial is your real account — subscribe on day 14 and everything you entered is still there.

Yes. OxyAccounting is a full double-entry accounting system. Every invoice, credit note, payment, expense, GRN and supplier invoice posts a balanced journal automatically. You get a journal browser with drill-through to source documents, per-account ledgers, a trial balance, an IAS 1 classified balance sheet with a prior-year column, a Fixed Asset Register with automatic depreciation, year-end close and a GL Control Tie-Out report that reconciles every subledger back to the ledger.

No, and we're careful not to claim otherwise. OxyAccounting's VAT201 is built against the real SARS VAT201 form, field by field (fields 1 to 20), and reconciles every figure back to your general ledger before you file. It is not a SARS-certified or government-approved product. You review the return and submit it yourself through SARS eFiling.

Yes. OxyAccounting supports CSV import from FNB (First National Bank), ABSA, Capitec, Standard Bank and Nedbank, across multiple bank accounts per company. All five are included at no extra charge.

Yes, and it is included. Take a photo of the till slip on your phone, or pick the supplier's PDF, and the date, total, VAT, supplier, VAT number and invoice number come back filled in for you to check. It also reads the slip against the SARS rules for a valid tax invoice and tells you what is missing while the paper is still in your hand — over R5,000 the document has to carry your own name and VAT number, not just the supplier's, and most people find that out long after the slip has gone. If the figures on the slip do not reconcile, it gives you the total and leaves the VAT to you rather than offering a number it cannot stand behind, and a slip carrying both zero-rated and standard-rated items is flagged as needing two expenses. Nothing is saved and nothing is posted until you press save yourself.

Not yet. OxyAccounting currently uses CSV import for bank reconciliation. Live bank feeds (open banking) are on the roadmap. CSV import is available from all five major SA banks and covers the reconciliation workflow fully, including reconciling more than one bank account.

Yes. Switch it on under Company → Settings and you can set a customer to be billed in dollars, euros, pounds or any of the other currencies we carry. Their invoices are raised and printed in their currency, and your books stay in rand: we take the daily South African Reserve Bank rate, fix it to the invoice on the day of supply and never move it afterwards. When the money lands you record what actually arrived in your rand account along with any bank fee, and the difference between that and the invoice is posted as an exchange gain or loss for you. Standard-rated invoices carry the rand amounts SARS requires on the face of a tax invoice, so your customer can still claim the VAT. Bills from overseas suppliers work the same way. If the money reaches you through a service like Wise or PayPal on its way to your bank account, that is covered: you record the receipt when the rand lands, which is the line you will see on your statement. What we do not do is keep a foreign balance as an account in your books, so money left sitting in dollars rather than brought across shows as an unpaid invoice until you bring it across. VAT on goods you import is handled on its own screen, because it is claimed from your customs bill of entry rather than from the supplier’s invoice: you capture the bill of entry, we work the VAT out on the customs value and put it on the return for the period the goods were released. If all your invoicing is in rand, none of this affects you and nothing on your screens changes.

Yes. South African payroll is included in the R149/month plan at no extra cost. Pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and pay people a fixed amount or by the hour with BCEA overtime, Sunday and public holiday rates. Every pay run calculates PAYE, UIF and SDL for each payslip from the official SARS tax tables, with medical aid tax credits and retirement deductions applied, and PAYE is annualised on the frequency you actually pay. Payslip PDFs are BCEA-compliant with year-to-date totals, and the salary journal posts to the general ledger when you finalise the run. Email payslips to staff, and download a payment file of everyone to be paid — a beneficiary CSV you map onto your bank's bulk payment screen, not a bank-specific import format. The EMP201 report gives you monthly figures ready to capture on SARS eFiling. At tax year-end you can claim the ETI, generate IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates and reconcile the EMP501. The e@syFile import file is produced too, but SARS changes its layout between releases and ours has not been confirmed against a live import, so test it on a copy first.

Yes. OxyAccounting is built with POPIA-compliant data handling. All data is processed in accordance with South African privacy law.

OxyAccounting costs R149/month with all features included in a single plan. Sage Business Cloud Accounting Start (the base plan, designed for sole traders) is R240/month including VAT, per the official Sage SA shop. The Standard tier is R435/month. Inventory, purchasing and other features are locked behind higher tiers, so the cost of an equivalent feature set on Sage is substantially higher than the base price. Always verify current pricing directly on Sage's website.

Yes, and you do not have to re-key it. Export your customers, suppliers, products, chart of accounts, outstanding invoices and bills, the quotes you are still waiting on and your staff list from your old system as CSV files and import them from Company → Import Data. Your column headings can say anything: you match them to ours on screen. Every row is checked before anything is written, so you see exactly what will happen before it happens, and any import can be undone in one click if it is not right. An opening balances screen brings the ledger itself across, so you can move part-way through a financial year. There is no charge for any of this.

Yes. From Company → Accountant Access, invite your accountant by email. If they're a registered OxyAccounting accountant, they'll receive an invite to accept. Once accepted, they can switch into your company and work in your real books, with the same numbers you see. You choose how much they can do when you invite them: read-only for reporting and export, standard for day-to-day bookkeeping, or full. You can change that level at any time without disconnecting them, see who has access and revoke it whenever you like.

Yes, they need their own login, but they do not have to pay for it. A verified accounting practice gets a free OxyAccounting account, with books of their own if they want them. We set those up by hand, so ask your accountant to email hello@oxyaccounting.co.za with their practice details. If they already subscribe to OxyAccounting for their own business, they can request accountant access from inside their account instead. Either way, once they are approved they work across every client who invites them from a single login.