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16 Apr 2025
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openHR free payroll and HR
Why openHR Can Afford to Be Free

And why the payroll industry’s pricing looks a lot like the Eskom mop scandal South Africans still joke about the infamous R238,000 Eskom mop - a symbol of outrageous markups and broken procurement systems. The public was rightly furious. How could something that costs under R150 be sold for hundreds of thousands of rand? But here’s the uncomfortable part: If you think that markup is bad, wait until you see the payroll industry. Let’s talk about direct costs - not marketing, not salaries, not office plants. Just the raw computational cost of generating a payslip. read more

December 31, 2025

openHR free payroll and HR
Introducing Third Parties in openHR

A New Era of Compliance Freedom For years, payroll systems have treated third‑party submissions as an afterthought - a tangle of hard‑coded councils, rigid report formats, and expensive “customisations” that somehow never survive the next update. With openHR’s new Third Party Module, that era is over. We’ve built a flexible, transparent, and fully auditable way for South African businesses to manage any third‑party organisation they work with - from bargaining councils to unions, medical aid schemes, IT88s, garnishee orders, and more. This isn’t just a feature. It’s a shift in power. read more

January 1, 2026