Bill captures your billing as it happens, keeps your books up to date, and files your tax returns on time. One service for South African attorneys and advocates. One monthly fee, agreed up front.
We start a step earlier and finish a step later.
A step earlier
Drafted by AI
Time and expenses drafted from your WhatsApp messages, voice notes, email inbox and calendar, for you to approve.
How we protect your dataMost practice management software
Managed by you
Clients and matters, invoices, payments, client statements and your business ledger, with trust accounting built in.
Compare plansA step later
Filed by our team
Bank accounts reconciled monthly, management accounts prepared, and your returns filed on SARS eFiling by a registered tax practitioner.
Meet our teamHow Bill works for your practice.
- Time logged by chat or voice note on WhatsApp
- Expenses read from your receipts and invoices
- Invoices to your instructing attorneys
- Client statements and work in progress by matter
- Payments matched as they arrive
- VAT, provisional and income tax filed for you
“I now spend a fraction of the time I once did sorting out my books.”
- Time drafted from your inbox and calendar
- Supplier invoices become draft expenses
- Business and trust accounting in one place
- Trust reconciliation, ready for your audit
- Deceased and insolvent estates on their own books
- VAT, provisional and income tax filed for you
“The WhatsApp function is nothing short of genius.”
- Each fee earner captures time their own way
- A rate for each fee earner on every matter
- Business and trust ledgers kept up to date
- Bank statements reconciled for you
- Monthly PAYE, UIF and SDL filed for you
- CIPC returns and your trust audit handled
“Since moving our team’s billing to Bill, time capturing has become far more efficient.”
How is Bill different from Xero, QuickBooks or GhostPractice?
Xero, QuickBooks and Sage are generic accounting software, while GhostPractice and AJS are specialist South African legal software. Regardless of what you use, somebody still has to type in all the work, gather the paperwork, and reconcile the bank statements. Bill starts a step earlier and ends a step later; it captures your work and data at source – in your calendar, email, or WhatsApp – and we reconcile your books, ready for you to review.
Can you move my existing records across?
Yes, and we do the moving. Send us whatever you have – a spreadsheet, an export from another practice management system, a folder of PDF invoices, or your bank statements – we’ll load your clients, matters, rates and unpaid invoices before you start.
Does anything go to a client without my say-so?
No. Bill drafts your time entries and expenses from your email, calendar and WhatsApp, and you approve them. Nothing is billed or sent to a client until you say so.
Who actually does the work?
We do. Our own team does your accounting and files your returns, led by our CEO, an attorney and Tax Accounting Officer with the South African Institute of Taxation. The software does the capture so that the human time goes on the parts that need judgement.
Am I tied in?
No. Subscriptions run month to month. You can cancel at any time from the Subscription tab in your settings or by emailing us, and your access continues to the end of the billing period you have paid for. If you cancel within one calendar month of your first payment, you can ask for a full refund of everything you have paid. You can export your data at any time. The terms are in our refund policy.
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Stored in South Africa
Your records are stored in Google Cloud's Johannesburg region.
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Independently assessed
A Google CASA Tier 2 security assessment by TAC Security, and a POPIA impact assessment by external attorneys.
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Encrypted
In transit and at rest, with a second layer on the most sensitive fields.
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Not used to train AI
We do not permit our AI providers to use your data to train their models.
Try Bill free for 14 days.
Create your account, connect your apps and start drafting time and expenses in minutes.
- No card required
- Up to two users during the trial
- After 14 days, from R919 per fee earner per month, incl. VAT