Plain-English guides on tracking expenses, claiming VAT back from SARS, keeping receipts the right way, and choosing the tools that fit. No jargon — just what a small business actually needs to know.
A complete, practical walkthrough — what counts as an expense, how to capture receipts, the categories that matter for SARS, and how to keep it all without drowning in admin.
Read the guide → Buyer's guideThe six criteria that actually separate WhatsApp receipt apps — accounting integration, data ownership, VAT, price — with a checklist to judge any tool.
Read more → VAT & SARSWhat input VAT is, which receipts qualify, the tax-invoice rules SARS expects, and how to keep your claimable VAT tallied all year.
Read more → TaxThe plain-English list of SARS-allowable deductions — rent, fuel, phone, home office and more — the production-of-income test, and what you can't claim.
Read more → VAT & SARSThe R1 million and R50,000 thresholds, whether to register voluntarily, the documents SARS wants, and the eFiling steps — without the jargon.
Read more → TaxWho pays, the two payment dates, how to estimate your taxable income, the optional third payment, and how to dodge SARS under-estimation penalties.
Read more → BookkeepingWhat bookkeeping really is, the records SARS expects, separating business and personal money, and a simple monthly routine that keeps you audit-ready.
Read more → Record keepingWhy thermal slips fade, whether SARS accepts digital copies, how to scan and back up, and a folder structure that scales for years.
Read more → How-toGet a clean scan every time, skip the extra app, and turn each photo into a filed, categorised, VAT-split record straight from WhatsApp.
Read more → Record keepingThe five-year rule, what counts as a record, whether digital copies are allowed, and how to store them so an audit is a non-event.
Read more → SoftwareAn honest look at the two big cloud accounting options for SA — pricing, VAT handling, support and which suits which kind of business.
Read more → CompareHow WhatsApp receipt capture stacks up against Dext — on price, setup, data ownership and whether you need to install a new app at all.
Read more → CompareHubdoc comes free with Xero — so when is a WhatsApp-first tool the better fit? An honest side-by-side for South African businesses.
Read more → ToolSee how SlipStack tracks every expense from a single WhatsApp photo — with or without accounting software.
Explore SlipStack → ToolA live Google Sheet cost dashboard built from your receipts — no Xero, no Sage, no bookkeeping app required.
See how →SlipStack handles the capturing, filing and VAT-tallying for you — straight from WhatsApp.
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