For households employing a domestic worker, nanny, gardener or caregiver
Employ someone at home with confidence.
Make the employment relationship proper and easy to keep up: a household-ready contract, weekly, fortnightly or monthly payroll and payslips, leave, records, and UIF calculated and checked every pay run.
No credit card required · Set up at your own pace
Employing someone at home comes with real obligations.
Most South African households want to do it properly. The admin is what gets in the way.
No written contract
You agreed the job in a conversation. There is nothing on paper saying hours, duties, pay or notice — and if anything goes wrong, neither of you can point to what was agreed.
Payslips that do not exist
You pay cash or EFT every month and there is no record. The person who works for you cannot prove their income to a bank, a landlord or anyone else.
UIF you are unsure about
Anyone working more than 24 hours a month in your home must be registered for UIF. You are not certain whether they are, what is owed each month, or how it is worked out.
Leave nobody is counting
Annual leave, sick leave, family responsibility leave — all of it is being tracked in somebody's head, and the two of you do not always remember it the same way.
Everything a household employer needs, in one place.
A household-ready contract
Create a written contract for a domestic worker, nanny, gardener or caregiver, built around the Sectoral Determination for Domestic Workers, and keep it on their record. It is written for household employment only.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly payroll and payslips
Work through a guided pay run each week, fortnight or month and issue a proper PDF payslip, with earnings and deductions set out, and UIF, PAYE and SDL worked out on each payslip.
UIF, calculated and checked
UIF contributions are calculated in every pay run, and they must reconcile before a payslip can be locked — so a wrong figure is caught before anyone receives it.
Leave and records
Track annual, sick and family responsibility leave, alongside documents, the work schedule and employment history.
They see their own records
The person you employ gets their own secure portal for their payslips, leave and documents — so you are not the filing cabinet.
Khaya AI does the drafting
Ask Khaya inside the app to draft a contract, a warning or a reference letter, add an employee or prepare a pay run. Anything with consequences is shown to you and only happens when you confirm it.
Up and running in three steps.
Start your free trial
Your name, your email, a password. No credit card, no sales call, no waiting list.
Add the person you employ
Their details, pay and working days. Khaya can draft the household contract for you to check and sign.
Run payroll every pay cycle
Work through the pay run each week, fortnight or month, issue the payslip, and keep leave and UIF up to date as you go.
No credit card required · Set up at your own pace
Built for South African households
Not a generic HR tool with South Africa bolted on. Leave and payroll are shaped around the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and UIF, and the household contract around the rules for domestic workers.
Your records are private
Your account and the records of the person you employ are yours. They only ever see their own payslips, leave and documents.
Live today — no demo, no waiting list
KhayaHR is a working production system. You create an account and use it; there is nothing to book and nobody to wait for.
KhayaHR is built around South African labour law requirements, including the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. It is a software platform, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice — for your specific situation, consult a qualified legal or HR professional.
Free to start. No credit card.
Set up your account, add the person you employ and look around the whole platform on a 14-day free trial, without entering any card details.
After the trial: from R69 per employee per month, VAT included.
Pay for a year upfront and save 10%.
UIF registration support is available separately where applicable: R400 once-off, charged only if you ask KhayaHR to do your UIF registration.
If you ask KhayaHR to pay a UIF contribution on your behalf, a separate administration fee of 20% of that payment applies.
Full detail is on the pricing page.
Questions household employers ask
Employ someone at home, properly.
A contract, payslips, leave and UIF — from one account, starting today.
Start your 14-day free trialNo credit card required · Set up at your own pace