Small Business Articles
Plain-language articles on running a small business in South Africa: tax, invoicing, structure, and cash flow.
PayFast Transaction Sync: automatic income tracking on Pro
Connect your PayFast merchant account to SortedNexus Pro and see paid sales, and PayFast's own commission, land in your Cash Flow Tracker automatically. What still needs a manual entry.
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Regulatory compliance for small businesses in South Africa
What regulatory compliance actually covers for a South African sole trader or small business, what it costs to get wrong, and why the deadlines are the hardest part to manage.
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Quoting and invoice record keeping in South Africa: why both matter
Why a written quote protects you before a job starts, why every invoice needs to be kept for years afterward, and how to build a record trail that survives a dispute or a SARS review.
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CIPC Beneficial Ownership filing: submit it before your Annual Return
CIPC will not accept your Annual Return until your Beneficial Ownership filing is up to date. What it is, and why the deadline is tied to your registration date, not your financial year end.
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Tracking business expenses in South Africa: what to log and why it pays off
What to log for every expense, how input VAT gets claimed back, and how expense tracking on Starter compares to the Annual Financial Summary on Pro.
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Getting your books ready for your CIPC Annual Return: what we built and why
We added a Statement of Comprehensive Income to SortedNexus, built straight from your invoices and expenses. What it does, what it does not do, and why.
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Why we built SortedNexus: the small business admin toolkit South Africa needed
We ran a small South African tech business and could not find admin tools that actually worked for us: the right price, the right VAT rules, built for ZAR. So we built SortedNexus.
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Provisional tax for sole traders in South Africa
What provisional tax is, who has to pay it, when the deadlines are, and how to calculate your first and second provisional tax payments.
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How to write a business quote in South Africa
The difference between a quote and an invoice, what every quote must include to be legally useful, and how to get more quotes accepted.
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What is a sole proprietor in South Africa?
How a sole proprietorship works, how it differs from a Pty (Ltd), what taxes you pay, and whether you need to register with CIPC.
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