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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.
How to send receipts to Sage Accounting from WhatsApp
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 →Sage receipt capture: how to automate expenses into Sage
Your options, how to connect it once, the one habit that makes it stick, and keeping every slip SARS-ready without typing.
Read more →How accountants can get client receipts into Sage — without chasing
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 →Sage vs Xero for South African small business
An honest comparison — local presence, accountant support, receipt capture and VAT handling — plus how to feed either one without typing.
Read more →Turnover tax moved to R2.3m. Is it actually cheaper?
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 →SARS asked for supporting documents. What to do.
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 →The VAT threshold moved to R2.3m. Should you deregister?
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 →SARS Filing Season 2026: five changes that matter
Provisional taxpayers are being auto-assessed at scale, loss ring-fencing now bites at 39%, and SARS takes supporting documents over WhatsApp.
Read more →SARS travel allowance & the new R4.95/km rate (2026/27)
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 →How to track business expenses in South Africa (2026 guide)
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 →How to choose a receipt app in South Africa
The six criteria that actually separate WhatsApp receipt apps — accounting integration, data ownership, VAT, price — with a checklist to judge any tool.
Read more →How to claim VAT back, and what makes a valid tax invoice
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 →What business expenses are tax deductible?
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 →VAT in South Africa: the complete guide
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 →How to register for VAT in South Africa
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 →Cash flow management for small business
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 →Provisional tax explained (sole proprietors)
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 →Small business bookkeeping: a beginner's guide
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 →How to digitise & store receipts
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 →How to scan receipts with your phone
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 →What actually happens when you WhatsApp a receipt
A step-by-step walkthrough of what follows after you hit send — how it's read, where you check it before anything is confirmed, where the original ends up, and what updates.
Read more →How long must you keep receipts & records for SARS?
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 →QuickBooks vs Xero for South African businesses
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 →Receipts into Xero: the South African guide
How a receipt actually gets from the slip in your hand to a posted entry in Xero — capture, extract, check, post, reconcile, with VAT and record-keeping along the way.
Read more → CompareSlipStack vs Dext
How 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 → CompareSlipStack vs Hubdoc
Hubdoc 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 → ToolThe WhatsApp expense tracker
See how SlipStack tracks every expense from a single WhatsApp photo — with or without accounting software.
Explore SlipStack → ToolTrack expenses without accounting software
A live Google Sheet cost dashboard built from your receipts — no Xero, no Sage, no bookkeeping app required.
See how →The ones we get asked most
How long do I have to keep receipts for SARS?
Can I claim VAT back on a till slip?
Do I need accounting software to track expenses properly?
Is a photo of a receipt good enough, or do I need the paper?
Which of these guides should I read first?
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