Stop managing HR.
Start managing your business.
One platform to manage performance, leave, and payroll. Powered by Nala, Africa's first HR AI that creates goals, reviews, and PIPs on demand.
The reality of South African labour law
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CCMA referrals filed in 2024/25
Most employers who lost had the right answer. They just couldn't prove it.
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Max CCMA unfair dismissal award
One case costs more than 2 years of Synthro.
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Admin hours saved per year
HR teams on Synthro reclaim 60+ hours annually that were lost to manual processes.
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Increase in team productivity
Managers report a 34% improvement in team output after switching to Synthro.
Built for South African industries
SimplePay Payroll IntegrationThree approaches.Same outcome.
“Manual admin. No structure. No time left to actually manage people.”
Run structured performance reviews: goals, check-ins and ratings tracked in one place.
Every review cycle is scheduled, completed and stored automatically. No more chasing tabs.
Goals · Reviews · Ratings
Leave requests, approvals and balances handled in seconds, not spreadsheet hours.
Managers approve from their phone. Employees see balances in real time. Zero formula errors.
~5 hours recovered per manager per month
Every warning and disciplinary record is timestamped, so when things escalate, you're covered.
Synthro documents it automatically. Undocumented means it never happened.
LRA · substantive & procedural fairness
Synthro is the structure your spreadsheet never gave you.
Features
Five things that pay for Synthro before your next CCMA risk materialises.
Each one eliminates a bottleneck, a compliance risk, or a manual process. The maths gets easy fast.
Save time through automation.
Timesheets & Attendance
85–90% auto-approved.
GPS clock-in auto-approves in-office staff instantly. Managers only review the exceptions. POPIA compliant.
Clock-In Demo
Thabo Mokoena · Monday, 23 Feb 2026
Clocking in from Cape Town HQ, 1 Adderley Street
Auto-Approval Rate
Managers only review the 10–15% that genuinely needs their judgement.
GPS Processed
Coordinates discarded instantly. Never written to any database column.
Employee Setup Required
Browser asks for location once. Remembers forever. No app to install.
Meet NALA
NALA delivers R180,000/year worth of HR expertise, on demand. Instant answers to SA labour law. Draft warning letters in 2 minutes. BCEA, CCMA, terminations, and leave policies, answered in 3 seconds.
- Instant answers to SA labour law questions
- Auto-draft warning letters & PIPs
- Burnout detection 30 days in advance (82% accuracy)
- Avoid CCMA mistakes before they happen
On the 82% accuracy: NALA analyses attendance patterns, leave frequency, goal completion rates, and manager interaction data. Measured in internal testing across varied SA SME profiles with a 30-day advance detection window.
Live Sync Demo
Synthro → SimplePay API
Profile fields pushed to SimplePay API
Payroll Integration
Your HR is now connected.
Employees, timesheets, and leave sync directly into SimplePay via API. No double entry. No migration.
See Synthro in action.
Book a personalised demo. We'll walk you through every feature, live.
From the Founder
"I watched a company fight its own employees over a spreadsheet. So I built something better."
At a company I worked at, I saw managers and employees argue over leave balances tracked in Excel. Lateness disputes, sick leave confusion, missing records, all because the paper trail wasn't there. That's when I knew this had to change.
We created Synthro to help companies have full transparency: to automate compliance, eliminate performance management headaches, and give businesses one system that handles everything so they can focus on growing, not drowning in admin.
"South African businesses aren't losing money because they're bad at business. They're losing money because their HR tools were never built for South Africa."
Naphtali Tsikada
Founder of Synthro (Pty) Ltd
FAQ
Questions we get from South African employers.
We already use SimplePay. What changes?
Nothing. Synthro connects to your existing SimplePay account. Your payroll continues exactly as today. Synthro just syncs leave, timesheets, and employee records automatically. Setup takes under 15 minutes.
Sage HR is R28/employee. Why is Synthro more expensive?
Sage HR handles leave. That is roughly all it does for SA businesses. Synthro adds performance reviews, goals, payroll sync, CCMA evidence export, B-BBEE tracking, and an AI trained on SA labour law. The correct comparison is not Sage HR. It is what you currently pay your labour lawyer, B-BBEE auditor, and HR consultant combined.
We manage everything in Excel. How hard is it to switch?
Import employees from CSV. Connect SimplePay in minutes. Most teams are fully operational within an hour of signing up. No data migration service required. Most teams are fully live within the first working day.
How long does setup take?
The average time from sign-up to first leave request approved through Synthro is 15 minutes. Full payroll sync and compliance modules are typically configured in the first working day.
What if we try it and it does not work for us?
Cancel anytime. No penalty. No lock-in. Your data exports in full. We would rather lose you cleanly than keep you unhappily.