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How to use SignalLedger, our step-by-step guides and videos, and useful official guides: everything to get your business registered and compliant.

Start here: how SignalLedger works

Who we are, how to find what your business needs, and how to use the checklist, tools, calendar, documents and your account.

SignalLedger is an independent South African website (not a government site) that shows which registrations, licences, permits and returns your type of business needs, what they cost and where to apply. It is run from Cape Town. How we check our information.

  1. Find your business type on the home page: search or browse 1 003 types.
  2. Read your free gap report and checklist: each item says if it is required, what it costs, how long it takes and links to the official form. Tick what you have done.
  3. Use the free tools (VAT, PAYE, UIF, COIDA, company tax, CIDB grade, invoice and payslip makers and more) and the deadline calendar.
  4. Need paperwork? Templates and guides are R50 each, or the Compliance Pack for your business type. Government forms are always free links.
  5. Save it: a free account keeps your checklist on any device (20% off documents); SignalLedger Pro adds reminders, clients and free documents.
  6. Stuck? Look for "Get help with this" on a checklist item to ask a registered professional, or contact us.

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Our guides

Step-by-step videos and written guides by SignalLedger for each registration, return and licence.

Free written guides: How to file beneficial ownership with CIPC, step by step · How to choose a compliance tool

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Official and other guides

Useful guides and videos from SARS, CIPC, the Department of Employment and Labour and others. They are not ours: each links to the original.

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