People
The payroll platform built for South African businesses and family office structures — process payslips, calculate PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI automatically, and submit EMP201 and UIF electronic declarations without leaving the platform. Upload a pay register in any format and let AI do the capturing.
Payroll that captures itself. Compliance that keeps up.
People is the payroll module inside Mosaic Hub. It replaces the manual pay register capture, the standalone UIF submission tool and the spreadsheet loan ledger with one platform that processes payslips, calculates statutory deductions and keeps every pay cycle audit-ready.
Payslip lifecycle
Draft, approve and mark paid — every payslip moves through a controlled lifecycle with a full audit trail. Reverse a step or void a payslip when something needs correcting, with every action batch-coded.
AI bulk import
Upload a Sage-style pay register — PDF, screenshot, spreadsheet or CSV — and AI groups every line item under the correct employee. You confirm each match before anything is imported.
Recurring transactions
Standing earnings, deductions and company contributions carry forward automatically every period. Copy an entire prior period's payslip in one step when nothing has changed.
Loans & recurring deductions
Track employee loan deductions against payslips as they're processed, alongside standing recurring deductions that count down their remaining instalments automatically.
Payslip delivery
Send payslips directly to employees by WhatsApp or email from inside the platform, or download every payslip for a pay period as a single ZIP archive.
Multi-cycle & multi-client
Run monthly salaries and weekly wages as separate pay cycles for the same client, and switch between every client you administer from one login.
PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI — calculated, not guessed.
Statutory calculations run against the current SARS tax tables on every payslip, and the monthly and annual submissions built from that same data are generated on demand — no separate compliance tool, no re-keying figures.
PAYE, UIF, SDL & ETI engine
Employees' tax, unemployment insurance, skills development levy and the employment tax incentive are calculated automatically against the current SARS statutory tables on every payslip.
EMP201 declarations
Monthly Employer Declaration figures are calculated straight from approved and paid payslips — drafts are excluded automatically so a submission is never built on unfinished work.
UIF electronic declaration
Generate the UIF electronic declaration (E03) file straight from your payslip data, with built-in data-quality checks, and email it directly to the Department of Employment and Labour from the platform.
Payroll reports
Payroll Summary, Payroll Register, a Sage-style Pay Register and a Monthly Payroll Report spanning every pay cycle — downloadable on demand, any period.
Compliance dashboard
Headcount, payroll cost trends and your latest EMP201 status — calculated, submitted or overdue — surfaced the moment you open the module.
Statutory registration aware
PAYE, UIF, SDL and Compensation Fund registration details are captured once and referenced everywhere — the platform flags missing or incomplete registration before it affects a payslip.
Ask your AI anything about your payroll.
People is built on the same Model Context Protocol server as every other Mosaic Hub module. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or any MCP-compatible AI assistant to your live payroll data in three steps — no export, no copy-paste, no waiting for month-end. Just ask.
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Add the connector
Inside your AI assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Zed and more — add the Mosaic Hub connector at https://mcp.mosaic.co.za/mcp. No keys, no codes, no copy-paste configuration. Just the URL.
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Sign in once
A Mosaic Hub sign-in window appears. Log in as you normally would and tick which clients and modules the assistant may read. Your password never leaves the login screen — the AI receives a short-lived, scoped ticket and nothing else.
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Start asking
Open a chat and ask anything. Your assistant reads the same live, committed data you see in your portal — payroll cost, headcount, statutory declaration status — answered in plain English, in seconds.
Payroll cost on demand
“What was our total payroll cost last month across every pay cycle, and how does it compare to the month before?” No export, no spreadsheet, no waiting.
UIF ceiling check
“Which employees are close to the UIF earnings ceiling this tax year?” Your AI reads the live contribution data, not a report exported this morning.
Compliance status check
“Is this month's EMP201 submitted, and is anything overdue?” A direct answer from the same declaration data the compliance dashboard shows.
Headcount across clients
“For every client I administer, how many active employees do we have and which pay cycle are they on?” One question, every client you have access to.
Loan balance overview
“List every employee with an active loan deduction and how many instalments are left.” Live data, not a manually maintained spreadsheet.
Read-only. POPIA compliant.
The connector can only read data — never change it. Scoped to the clients you explicitly granted. Session-isolated. Revokable any time from your portal. Built for South African data regulation from the ground up.
Built into your ledger. Not bolted onto it.
Most payroll software runs as a standalone product, exporting journals for someone else to re-key into the accounts. People runs inside Mosaic Hub, alongside Numbers — one login, one client record, one audit trail.
Traditional payroll software
- Separate login from your accounting platform
- Standalone UIF submission tool, run outside the payroll system
- Pay register captured manually, line by line, every period
- Loan deductions tracked in a side spreadsheet
- Payroll journals exported and re-keyed into the general ledger
- No AI integration — copy figures into a chatbot manually
- Payslips distributed by email attachment, one at a time
People — Mosaic Hub
- One Mosaic Hub login, alongside Numbers accounting
- UIF electronic declaration (E03) generated and emailed from the platform
- Upload any pay register format — AI captures every line automatically
- Loan deductions tracked against payslips as they're processed
- Built-in MCP server — your AI reads your live payroll directly
- ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor connected in three steps — no keys, no config
- Payslips sent by WhatsApp or email, or bulk-downloaded as one ZIP
One platform. Every pay cycle you run.
People is purpose-built for the payroll complexity of South African businesses and family wealth structures — not adapted from a single-cycle bookkeeping product.
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Growing SME teams
Full payslip processing, statutory calculations and EMP201/UIF submissions — for businesses that need proper payroll without a full-time payroll administrator.
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Family office & household staff
Domestic and estate staff payroll, processed with the same compliance rigour as any registered business — consolidated alongside the family's other financial structures.
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Multi-cycle employers
Weekly wages and monthly salaries run as separate pay cycles for the same client, each with its own pay periods, payslips and roll-over safeguards.
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Bookkeepers & payroll administrators
Switch between every client you administer from one login, with access rights scoped per client and per action — view, process, approve or export, independently controlled.
The numbers behind People.
People is built by accountants and family office practitioners — not by a software company that consulted a payroll administrator once. AI-native, SARS-compliant, and designed around the way South African payroll actually runs.
Simple, transparent pricing.
One flat monthly fee per active employee — no setup costs, no hidden charges, no minimum headcount.
Payroll
Full payslip processing, statutory compliance, EMP201/UIF declarations and AI integration — priced per active employee, billed monthly.
per active employee / per month, excl. VAT
Billed per active employee, per month — no minimum headcount, no setup fees.
What’s included
- Per active employee pricing — no minimum headcount
- Unlimited users per client
- Payslip processing & approval lifecycle
- AI bulk pay register extraction
- PAYE, UIF, SDL & ETI calculation engine
- EMP201 & UIF electronic declarations
- Built-in MCP server — AI reads your live payroll
- Multi-cycle, multi-client support
- Tamper-evident audit trail
- South Africa — SARS, UIF, SDL, POPIA
Start on WhatsApp. No forms. No waiting.
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