Stop managing HR.
Start running your business.
Performance, leave and timesheets in one system, ready for payroll. One record per person, kept current by the work itself. Powered by Nala, Africa's first HR AI.
BCEA · LRA · EEA · POPIA built in
The reality of South African labour law
Most employers who lose at the CCMA
had the right answer.
They just could not prove it. No dates, no signatures, no record of the conversation that would have won the case.
0
CCMA referrals filed in 2024/25
Roughly one every three minutes of the working year.
R0+
Maximum unfair dismissal award
A single case costs more than two years of Synthro.
0hrs
Admin hours saved per year
Time HR teams on Synthro stop losing to manual process.
0%
Increase in team productivity
Reported by managers after switching to Synthro.
Built for South African industries
Direct payroll integrationHow it works
One system. Follow one record through it.
01One record
Everything about a person.
One record. One place.
Contract, ID, banking, documents, leave, goals and warnings, opened the day they're hired and held on one file until the day they leave. No folder on someone's desktop. No spreadsheet only one person can read.
- Contract, ID and banking captured once
- Documents versioned and searchable
- Onboarding and offboarding on one file
Thabo Mokoena
Operations Supervisor · started 04 Feb
02Performance
Performance that runs all year.
Not one week in November.
Goals, OKRs, 360° reviews, PIPs and 1-on-1s on the same record, updating as the work happens. Review season stops being a hunt for evidence and becomes a summary of a year you already have.
- Goals and OKRs tracked continuously
- 360° reviews and 1-on-1s built in
- PIPs that follow a defensible process
Goals · this quarter
Review cycle
03The admin
Stop approving the obvious.
Take the week back.
All 16 BCEA leave types auto-calculated. GPS clock-in auto-approves 85 to 90% of staff instantly. Payroll pulls from the same record, so nobody retypes a number twice. Managers review the exceptions, not the queue.
- All 16 BCEA leave types calculated
- GPS clock-in, 85 to 90% auto-approved
- SimplePay sync included, two-way over the API
Annual leave · 3 days
Thabo Mokoena · 14 to 16 April
Clocked in · Cape Town HQ
08:03 · within 300m · auto approved
04Nala
Ask it anything.
It already knows your people.
BCEA, LRA and EEA answered in seconds. Warning letters and PIPs drafted in 2 minutes. Burnout detected 30 days before it costs you a resignation. Nala reasons over the actual record, not a generic legal FAQ.
- Burnout risk flagged 30 days ahead
- BCEA, LRA and EEA answered instantly
- Warnings and PIPs drafted in minutes
Two people are showing burnout indicators from leave, overtime and review data.
Sarah · High risk
14 sick days this cycle, review scores falling
John · Medium risk
No leave in 8 months, 18 days accrued
05It holds up
Undocumented means it never happened.
So Synthro documents it.
Every warning, review and approval timestamped the moment it happens, not reconstructed the night before a hearing. Full CCMA evidence export in one click. Last chapter on purpose: this is what Synthro handles so you can stop thinking about it.
- Every action timestamped as it happens
- Evidence pack exports in one click
- POPIA compliant retention throughout
Audit trail · timestamped as it happened
Recorded by A. Hamozi
Recorded by A. Hamozi
Recorded by HR
Recorded by A. Hamozi
One system, four jobs
Everyone opens the same system. Nobody uses the same one.
A platform only works if the people inside it will actually touch it. So here is the same Synthro, on the same Monday morning, from four different desks.
Thabo Mokoena · Operations Supervisor
Opens it twice a month. That is the whole relationship.
The person you most need to adopt an HR system is the person least interested in one. So Thabo is never asked to learn it. He clocks in, he can see his own leave balance before he asks anyone for anything, and the rest happens without him.
- Clocks in from the phone he already owns. No app to install.
- Sees his leave balance himself, so he stops asking who to ask.
- Signs contracts and policies where he is, not at a printer.
What Thabo is using
Good morning, Thabo
Monday, 23 February
One tap, from the phone he already owns.
Your leave
14.5
days availableLerato recognised you
“Covered the Friday shift at no notice. Thank you.”
Documentation is your only defence.
Timesheets and attendance
Stop approving every clock-in. Approve the exceptions.
Staff clock in from their phone. Synthro checks the coordinates against your geofence and approves the ordinary ones instantly, so the only thing that reaches a manager is the one that needs a person to look at it.
- GPS clock-in from any browser, no app to install
- Coordinates checked, then discarded. POPIA compliant by design
- Overtime and Sunday work calculated at the BCEA rate
- Approved hours flow straight into payroll
Clock-in demo
Thabo Mokoena · Monday, 23 Feb 2026
Clocking in from Cape Town HQ, 1 Adderley Street
85-90%
Auto-approved
Managers only see the 10 to 15% that genuinely needs a decision.
<200ms
GPS processed
Coordinates checked against the geofence, then discarded. Never written to a database column.
Zero
Employee setup
The browser asks for location once and remembers. There is no app to install.
Meet Nala
Africa's first HR AI. On call, at R0 an hour.
An HR consultant costs around R1,200 an hour and answers when they are free. Nala answers in three seconds, at two in the morning, having already read the file of the person you are asking about.
- BCEA, LRA and EEA questions answered in plain language
- Warning letters, PIPs and policies drafted in about two minutes
- Burnout risk surfaced early, while there is still time to act on it
- Reasons over your actual records, not a generic legal FAQ
Ask Nala anything
Goals, analytics and HR queries - your team, your policies, or SA labour law.
Nala reads attendance patterns, leave frequency, goal completion and manager interaction data, and flags the people whose signals are moving the wrong way while a conversation can still change the outcome.
Payroll integration
Already on SimplePay? Then you are already half set up.
Employees, approved timesheets and leave push straight into your existing SimplePay account over the API. Your payroll run does not change. It just stops starting with someone retyping a month of hours.
- Direct SimplePay integration over the API
- Any other payroll via Excel export or a custom integration
- Overtime and Sunday work already costed at the BCEA rate
- No double entry and no migration project
Live sync demo
Synthro → SimplePay API
Profile fields pushed to the SimplePay API
Put a number on it
Find out what the admin is costing you. Then decide if it is worth fixing.
Bring your headcount and your leave policy. In thirty minutes you will have a rand figure for the hours your managers are losing to approvals and chasing, and what is left once it runs itself.
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 watched managers and employees argue over leave balances tracked in Excel. Lateness disputes. Sick leave nobody could confirm. Records that went missing exactly when they mattered. Not because anyone was dishonest, but because the paper trail was never there in the first place.
We built Synthro so a business has one place where all of that already exists. Compliance handled as a by-product of normal work, performance managed all year instead of in one panicked week, and enough of the admin gone that a small team can get back to the thing they are actually good at.
South African businesses are not losing money because they are bad at business. They are losing it because their HR tools were never built for South Africa.
Naphtali Tsikada
Founder, Synthro (Pty) Ltd
Before you ask
The questions every South African employer asks us.
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 run continues exactly as it does today, minus the retyping.
We manage everything in Excel. How hard is the switch?
Import your employees from a CSV and connect SimplePay. There is no data-migration service to buy and no implementation fee. Most teams are fully live within their first working day.
How long does setup actually take?
A dedicated onboarding specialist does it with you. Core leave and employee records are configured first, with payroll sync and the compliance modules completed across your first working week. Hands-on, and included in the plan rather than quoted separately.
What if we try it and it does not work for us?
Cancel any time. No penalty, no lock-in, and your data exports in full. We would rather lose you cleanly than keep you unhappily.
Your team deserves better than
spreadsheets and WhatsApp.
One record per person, kept current by the work itself. Everything else on this page follows from that.
- Live in a working day
- Onboarding included
- Cancel any time