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 · RatingsLeave 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 monthEvery 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.
“Expensive to start. Reactive by design. The knowledge leaves when they do.”
Set goals, track progress and run review cycles without waiting on anyone's availability.
Your team manages performance in real time. No retainer. No scheduling delays.
Continuous performance trackingHR guidance, PIP workflows and SA-law templates are built in, included in every plan.
The expertise your consultant charged you for is now embedded in the platform.
No hourly billingEvery decision your team makes builds an institutional record that stays with you.
When consultants leave, the knowledge stays. Synthro is the memory your business keeps.
Embedded capability
Synthro puts the expertise where it belongs, with you.
“Built for London. Priced for New York. Never quite right for Johannesburg.”
Synthro is purpose-built for South African businesses, not adapted from a global template.
Goal tracking, review cycles, PIPs and skills matrices designed for how SA businesses actually operate.
SA-first · purpose-builtCCMA-ready documentation and SA labour templates are core, not expensive add-ons.
Every template is drafted for SA law. No localization, no configuration sprints required.
SA compliance built inA guided rollout - your team onboarded properly, then set goals and run your first review with a specialist alongside you.
No six-month implementation sprints. A specialist configures Synthro with you.
Guided onboarding
South African performance management, built for how South Africa works.
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.
Hello!
I'm Nala, your AI assistant for goals, analytics, and HR queries. Ask me anything about your team, policies, or SA labour law.
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 changes in your payroll. Synthro connects to your existing SimplePay account and syncs leave, timesheets, and employee records automatically. Your payroll continues exactly as it does today.
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 your employees from a CSV and connect SimplePay - no data-migration service required. Most teams are fully live within their first working day.
How long does setup take?
A dedicated onboarding specialist sets you up: importing your employees and connecting SimplePay with you, step by step. Your core leave and employee records are configured first, with payroll sync and the compliance modules completed over your first working week - hands-on, and included in your plan.
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.