KyDec for South Africa · ZAR · VAT 15%

Every rand, every tax invoice, one set of books.

Sales, purchases, stock, bank and double-entry accounting on one cloud platform — tax invoices with the 15% VAT line done right, and the VAT on your sales and purchases added up before the 25th.

Basic is free, no card neededHuman support on every plan
Built for South Africa’s rules

VAT, the way SARS sets it out.

VAT is run by SARS. KyDec prints the tax invoice, keeps standard, zero-rated and exempt lines apart, and adds up the VAT for each period. VAT numbers (10 digits, starting with 4) sit on every client and vendor; amounts print in your number format.

Standard-rated

VAT on R100 = R15,00
15%

Most goods and services. The proposed rises to 15.5% and 16% were withdrawn.

Zero-rated

VAT on R100 = R0,00
0%
  • Exports
  • Brown bread
  • Maize meal
  • Fresh fruit & vegetables

Taxable at 0% — shown separately in your tax summary.

Exempt

No VAT charged
—
  • Financial services
  • Residential rental
  • Public road & rail passenger transport

Marked exempt, kept out of output VAT.

The VAT201 cycle
Every two months, mostly.
25
Due by the 25th — or the last business day of the month when you file and pay via eFiling.
Category A / BEvery two months
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
Category CMonthly, turnover above R30 million
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Longer periodsSome small and farming vendors
Period length set by SARS for the vendor
Month 112 months
Return due after each periodKyDec: VAT totals for any period you pick

Per invoice: which invoice?

Value of the supply, including VAT.

Below R50 — no tax invoice needed.
R5 000 or less — an abridged tax invoice is allowed.
Over R5 000 — full tax invoice, with the recipient’s details.

Per year: do you register?

Taxable supplies in any 12 months.

From R120 000 — you may register voluntarily. Was R50 000.
Over R2.3 million — registration is compulsory from 1 April 2026. Was R1 million.
Above R30 million — Category C, monthly VAT201.
  1. What a tax invoice must show.

    Every KyDec template carries all five.

  2. 1

    The words “Tax Invoice”.

  3. 2

    Your name, address and VAT registration number.

  4. 3

    A serial number and the date of issue.

  5. 4

    Over R5 000: the recipient’s name, address and VAT number (if registered).

  6. 5

    Description, quantity, value of supply, VAT charged and total — or “VAT at 15% included”.

E-invoicing in South Africa

Coming, not here yet. PROPOSAL

No mandate is in force. SARS has proposed standardised e-invoices validated by accredited service providers, with the data used to pre-fill VAT returns. The timeline is a proposal and may change.

Today
In force

No mandate. PDF and other electronic tax invoices are fine when they carry the section 20 details.

16 Oct 2026
Deadline

Public comment closes on the SARS VAT modernisation proposal.

2026/27
Proposed

Preparation and piloting.

2030
Proposed · not legislated

Expected start, phased over about 36 months: large-taxpayer B2B first, then B2G, smaller businesses and B2C.

KyDec does not file with SARS.

Today KyDec keeps your tax invoices in the required shape and totals the VAT on your sales and purchases. You (or your accountant) prepare and submit the VAT201 on SARS eFiling or the SARS MobiApp.

Not connected yet: KyDec prepares the figures, you file on the official portal.
The idea, in one picture

Enter it once. It shows up everywhere it should.

A document in KyDec is not a form that gets copied into other systems later. Saving it is what updates your books, your stock and your VAT figures, at the same moment.

You enter
Tax invoiceINV-2026-0418 · R1 437 500,00
Supplier billInput VAT at 15% captured
Stock transferGqeberha → Durban warehouse
One record
KyDec database
One ledger · one stock count
one VAT figure
Updated instantly
Ledgers & income statementDouble entry, posted on save
Stock valuationPer warehouse, batch and serial
VAT totalsOutput and input VAT for your VAT201
Ageing & 40+ reportsWho owes what, and for how long
Data written onceRead by every moduleNo export, no re-keying, no second register
The platform

One login. Numbers that agree.

One database. Every document writes its own double entry, so invoice, stock, bank and trial balance never disagree. Sixteen modules, cloud-based.

Sales & invoicing

Quote to proforma to order to tax invoice to credit note. Recurring invoices, reminders, 11 templates, WhatsApp sharing, and email with open tracking.

Purchases & expenses

Purchase orders, vendor bills, debit notes, expenses paid by staff, RFQs — with multi-stage approvals.

Accounting

True double entry. Ledgers, day book, trial balance, income statement, balance sheet, cash flow. Audit trail coming soon.

Banking

Import your bank statement and reconcile with suggested matches — EFTs and PayShap receipts included.

Inventory

Multi-warehouse stock with batch, serial and expiry tracking, reorder alerts and transfers.

Sales CRM

Pipelines, lead capture forms, follow-ups and meetings — leads become quotes in one click.

40+ reports

Ageing, outstanding, VAT report, tax summary, project P&L, client retention; product-wise P&L coming soon.

Multi-business & team

Several businesses on one login, each with its own books. Roles decide who sees what.

Coming soon

Payroll & HRMS

Not live yet. We’ll say so here the day it is.

Greetings

Branded Christmas and New Year cards to share with your customers.

Getting paid in SA

Taking card payments through KyDec is not offered in South Africa yet. Payments land in your bank and are matched on statement import.

Not offered yet

Card payments

Bank reconciled

EFT

Bank reconciled

PayShap

Bank reconciled

Instant EFT

Bank reconciled

QR (SnapScan, Zapper)

Bank reconciled

Debit orders

Works with

WhatsApp Business

Send documents and reminders.

Lead capture forms

Leads from your website land in the CRM.

Google Calendar

Meetings from the CRM.

Invoices API

Create invoices from your own systems.

Your own domain

Emails sent from your domain.

Custom labels & fields

On your documents.

KyDec AI

AI that does the dull parts.

KyDec does the first pass on four dull jobs; you check and approve.

01

Reads the vendor bill

Photograph a supplier’s tax invoice. AI OCR fills in the lines, the VAT and the total.

VendorHighveld Steel
Excl. VATR18 400,00
VAT 15%R2 760,00
TotalR21 160,00
02

Sorts the bank lines

Each statement line is sorted by type and matched to its receipt or payment.

Municipal electricityUtilities
Fuel — delivery bakkieMotor vehicle
Cloud hostingSoftware & IT
PayShap inINV-2026-0402
03

Sees trouble early

Shows which clients usually pay late and which items are below their reorder point.

Vaal Bricks~3 weeks late
Bluegum Events~1 week late
200 W floodlightsBelow reorder
04

Answers in plain words

Ask the books a question the way you’d ask your accountant.

Which invoices are overdue?
Vaal Bricks · 41 dR86 250,00
Bluegum Events · 33 dR57 500,00
TotalR143 750,00
Trust & switching

Safe books. Easy switch.

How we protect your figures — and how we bring them over from Excel, or exported from Tally or whatever you use now.

Security

Kept as sent

A copy of every document you email or WhatsApp.

Daily backups

A copy of your books every night.

Encrypted

In transit. Data is hosted in India.

Roles & permissions

Your bookkeeper sees the books, the sales rep sees the pipeline.

Export any time

All your data, whenever you want it. No lock-in.

How switching works

Week 1

We take your data

Clients, vendors, items and opening balances from Excel, or exported from Tally or other software.

Week 1–2

Your formats

Tax invoice layout, numbering series, VAT rates, Rand format.

Week 2

Team training

About an hour, for the people who’ll use it.

Week 4

First month-end

We sit through it with you and your accountant.

Pricing

Basic is free.
No card needed.

Paid plans are priced per region. Human support by email and phone on every plan.

Start free

Basic

The free plan. Move up when you need more.

R0

Accounts Lite

Accounting plan for smaller books.

Local pricing: talk to us

Accounts Pro

Accounting plan for growing teams.

Local pricing: talk to us

Inventory Starter · Inventory

Stock plans, from one store to many warehouses.

Local pricing: talk to us

CRM Essentials · CRM Pro

Sales CRM and lead plans.

Local pricing: talk to us

Workflows · Operations · Services

Bigger setups and bundles. Services is on quote.

Local pricing: talk to us
Questions

Straight answers.

Asked by South African owners and their accountants. Anything else: info@techbizsolution.co.in.

Does KyDec submit my VAT201 to SARS?

No. KyDec totals your output VAT, input VAT and what’s payable. You or your accountant submit the VAT201 on SARS eFiling.

Is e-invoicing compulsory in South Africa?

Not today. SARS has proposed it with near real-time reporting, expected from about 2030. It’s a proposal, not law, and dates may change.

We’re under R2.3 million. Do we need VAT at all?

Registration is compulsory over R2.3 million and voluntary from R120 000 — a call for you and your accountant. KyDec works with VAT off until you register.

Can amounts print the South African way?

Yes: the number format is set per business. Dates print as Oct 13, 2026 for now.

Does KyDec run payroll — PAYE, UIF, EMP201?

Not yet — Payroll & HRMS is coming soon. Keep your payroll tool and post the monthly journal into KyDec.

Where is my data kept?

Hosted in India, encrypted in transit, backed up daily. Download every list and report as CSV, any time.

Open your books in Rand today.

Start on the free Basic plan, raise your first tax invoice at 15% VAT, and see the VAT totals fill in as you trade.