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Hospitality payroll review

Payroll hides money.We find it.

Missed claims. Overpaid payroll taxes. Wrong employee treatment. Trace & Tally reconstructs the trail employee by employee, month by month — then proves what is there and helps you take it back.

Start sliding.

How many people work in your restaurant?

How many of them work the floor?

R 3 750a month

R 22 500across the six-month look-back

A conservative rule of thumb — your free look prices it properly.

3 days left in the current look-back window

See what may be sitting in yours
Before we offered it

We tested it on ourselves first.

Before offering Trace & Tally to anyone else, we ran it across our own restaurants. We found money sitting in our own payroll.

One look back found R20,600 — and about R4,000 a month still on the table.

How it works

The money sits between documents nobody reads together. We read them as one.

Missed claims. Overpaid payroll taxes. Wrong employee treatment. Trace & Tally reconstructs the trail employee by employee, month by month — then proves what is there and helps you take it back.

Start with the free first look

Tell us a few facts about your team, pay and payroll setup, with no name, file or engagement.

Send the exports you already have

If you continue, your payroll reports and returns go into your secure room, never by email. We reconstruct the history employee by employee, month by month.

Receive the evidence

You get the register, the law and evidence behind each finding, and what to correct or claim. When the evidence supports nothing material, the result is stated clean.

What we check

Your payroll, checked as a whole.

  • Missed claims
  • Overpaid payroll taxes
  • Payroll settings that quietly cost money

We show where the trail breaks — or confirm a clean result.

  • Free first look
  • No name or file required
  • A figure or a clean result

Reviewed and signed by a CA(SA), registered tax practitioner. Fixed fees are shown before payment.

Start the free first look
The pack

What you receive.

Every rand traced. Every finding supported.

You receive the affected employees, months, amounts and workings — showing what was missed and what to do next.

  • Employee-month register — what was paid against what should have been paid.
  • Supported findings — the law, source evidence and workings behind each one.
  • Correction-ready schedule — per employee, per month, for your accountant.
Illustrative excerpt — synthesized data, in the register's actual layout.
EmployeeMonthItemTreated asSupportedVariance
N. M.2026-03Incentive claimR 0.00R 1 407.50R 1 407.50 unclaimed
T. K.2026-04Contribution baseR 212.16R 148.72R 63.44 overpaid
R. P.2026-04Incentive claimR 748.50R 748.50No variance
S. D.2026-05Levy baseR 96.40R 96.40No variance

Most restaurants need one thing: the findings pack. From R 1 950, banded by how many employees are affected — you know your band before you pay.

The first look
Free
About ninety seconds, no upload, nothing to sign. Create a login and the read of your actual exports is free too — you see the total, the split, and how much of it is still open.
The findings
from R 1 950
The register behind the figure: every employee-month, what was paid against what should have been paid, and the workings. System-produced, fixed fee, banded by affected employees. Your accountant can file from this. If you’d rather we put our name on it and take it to SARS, that’s a separate quoted job.

If the free screen does not support a pack, we do not offer one and you pay nothing. We only offer the pack where the screen conservatively supports at least 3 times the fee.

Affected employeesFixed fee
1–5R 1 950
6–10R 3 950
11–30R 6 500

Larger teams, groups and multiple entities — quoted before anything starts.

The pack is a fixed fee. What it finds is not capped.

See what yours would be worth first

Fixed fee. Never a percentage. The first look is free and obligation-free.

Security

Built like the evidence depends on it.

SECURE UPLOAD

Your documents move through the Secure Drop, not email threads.

ENCRYPTED STORAGE

Held encrypted, access-logged — returned or destroyed under the engagement terms.

EVIDENCE REVIEW

Each finding carries the evidence and workings that prove it.

CONFIDENTIAL OUTCOME

Findings go to you. What happens next is your call.

“Independent of your payroll provider. Working from your records.”

Trace&TallyIndependent hospitality payroll review
Documents you share are used solely for the purpose of your review

— independent, documented, defensible.

Legal
  • Privacy notice
  • Consent recordRecorded with your screen
  • Unlock termsShown at checkout
  • Engagement letterIssues with the engagement
Contact

Trace & Tally is the trading name of Trace and Tally (Pty) Ltd · Registration No. 2026/653594/07 · SARS Registered Tax Practitioner PR-0028995 · info@traceandtally.co.za

Trace & Tally is an independent payroll review service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official representative of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) or any government department.

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