Network Associates

Ransomware attacks in South Africa have increased significantly in recent years. Small and medium businesses are increasingly in the crosshairs, not because they're high-profile targets, but because they're often the easiest ones to hit 🎯

Here's how a typical ransomware attack plays out:

1️⃣ An employee clicks a malicious link in a phishing email
2️⃣ Malware spreads silently across the network
3️⃣ Files are encrypted, including documents, spreadsheets, databases
4️⃣ A ransom demand appears on the screen

At this point, businesses face two options: pay the ransom (with no guarantee of getting their data back), or restore from a backup taken before the attack ever happened.

If you have a recent, offsite backup, you're back in business within hours.
If you don't...the consequences can be devastating.

We approach backup not just as a service, but as a critical component of your overall cyber resilience. It is about protecting your livelihood before the worst happens...

Does your business have a strategy to recover?

📲 0861 332 344 💻 [email protected] 📍 204 Cape Road, Mill Park, Gqeberha.

If your accountant is still asking for spreadsheets at month-end, your systems aren't working hard enough for you 📈

Spreadsheets break. They are emailed back and forth. Someone updates a figure and forgets to tell the next person. By the time a decision gets made, the data behind it is already stale. For a growing business, that's a real risk.

Sage connects your inventory, payroll, and financials so the numbers are always current, always accurate, and always in one place. Your team stops spending time gathering information and starts spending time acting on it.

We help you implement the right solution for your scale:

✅ Sage 50c Pastel: Organise stock and sales with a trusted desktop solution built for South African SMEs
✅ Sage 200 Evolution: Robust operational frameworks with advanced inventory, job costing, and multi-company support
✅ Sage Payroll: Simple, compliant monthly runs with automatic SARS updates and full IRP5 processing
✅ Sage Accounting: Real-time financial health from any device, with live bank feeds and VAT compliance built in
✅ Sage Intacct: Deep insights for scaling businesses that need multi-dimensional reporting and entity consolidation

As an accredited Sage partner, we don't just hand you the software and walk away. We configure everything around your business, handle the onboarding and training, and provide ongoing support from our certified Sage specialists.

Chat with our team at our new office to get your systems synced 📍 204 Cape Road, Mill Park, Gqeberha. 📲 0861 332 344 💻 [email protected]

Payroll is one of the most critical, and most sensitive, processes in any business. Get it wrong and you're dealing with unhappy employees, SARS penalties, and regulatory headaches that no business owner has time for.

Here's what it does for your business:

✅ Full South African tax compliance, covering PAYE, UIF, SDL, and IRP5 submissions are handled accurately and updated automatically when SARS regulations change
✅ Employee self-service, where staff can access payslips and leave information directly, reducing admin queries
✅ Flexible payroll processing, handling weekly, fortnightly, and monthly pay runs across different employee types
✅ Leave management, track and manage all leave types with ease
✅ Comprehensive reporting, with detailed payroll reports that give you full visibility and audit trails
✅ Integration with Sage accounting products, connecting your payroll data directly to your financial records

One of the biggest challenges businesses face with payroll software isn't the software itself...it's getting the setup right from the start. A misconfigured payroll can create cascading compliance issues that are painful to unwind.

That's why at Network Associates, every Sage Pastel Payroll implementation includes proper onboarding, configuration for your specific payroll structure, and ongoing support from our certified Sage specialists.

Your team gets paid correctly, on time, every time.

📲 0861 332 344 💻 [email protected] 📍 204 Cape Road, Mill Park, Gqeberha.

Most businesses are running their stock, payroll, and finances on systems that don't speak to each other. That gap costs time, money, and bad decisions 📈

When your inventory doesn't connect to your financials, you're working off guesswork. When your payroll sits separately from your accounts, reconciliation becomes a manual nightmare. Sage brings everything into one connected picture, so the numbers are accurate, current, and in one place.

We help you implement the right solution for your scale:

✅ Sage 50c Pastel: Organise stock and sales with a trusted desktop solution built for South African SMEs
✅ Sage 200 Evolution: Robust operational frameworks with advanced inventory, job costing, and multi-company support
✅ Sage Payroll: Simple, compliant monthly runs with automatic SARS updates and full IRP5 processing
✅ Sage Accounting: Real-time financial health from any device, with live bank feeds and VAT compliance built in
✅ Sage Intacct: Deep insights for scaling businesses that need multi-dimensional reporting and entity consolidation

Chat with our team at our new office to get your systems synced 📍 204 Cape Road, Mill Park, Gqeberha. 📲 0861 332 344 💻 [email protected]