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.
Photograph a slip, confirm the figures on WhatsApp, and it posts straight into Sage with VAT split and the receipt attached. The four steps, plainly.
Read more →Your options, how to connect it once, the one habit that makes it stick, and keeping every slip SARS-ready without typing.
Read more →The real bottleneck in a Sage clean-up isn't the bookkeeping, it's the collection. How WhatsApp capture fits against Dext and AutoEntry.
Read more →An honest comparison — local presence, accountant support, receipt capture and VAT handling — plus how to feed either one without typing.
Read more →It taxes revenue, not profit — so for roughly half the businesses now eligible it's a tax increase. The brackets, the break-even margin, and the one-way door.
Read more →Verification is a check, not an accusation — but you get one upload, capped at 20 documents and 5MB each. The process, the traps, and what ignoring it costs.
Read more →A whole band of businesses no longer have to be registered. The obvious move is often wrong — deemed exit VAT on your stock and assets is the catch.
Read more →Provisional taxpayers are being auto-assessed at scale, loss ring-fencing now bites at 39%, and SARS takes supporting documents over WhatsApp.
Read more →The prescribed rate just went up. What changed, the 80/20 rule, the logbook SARS requires, the two ways to claim, and a worked example in rand.
Read more →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 →The six criteria that actually separate WhatsApp receipt apps — accounting integration, data ownership, VAT, price — with a checklist to judge any tool.
Read more →What input VAT is, which receipts qualify, the tax-invoice rules SARS expects, and how to keep your claimable VAT tallied all year.
Read more →The 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 →How VAT works end to end — the 15% rate, output vs input VAT, zero-rated vs exempt, registration, tax invoices, VAT periods and filing the VAT201.
Read more →The R2.3 million and R120,000 thresholds, whether to register voluntarily, the documents SARS wants, and the eFiling steps — without the jargon.
Read more →Why profit isn't cash, how to forecast it, getting paid faster, building a buffer, and keeping VAT and provisional tax from catching you out.
Read more →Who 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 →What bookkeeping really is, the records SARS expects, separating business and personal money, and a simple monthly routine that keeps you audit-ready.
Read more →Why thermal slips fade, whether SARS accepts digital copies, how to scan and back up, and a folder structure that scales for years.
Read more →Get 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 →The 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 →An 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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