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Gain the oversight to grow your firm. 

DataGrows isn't a pile of features. It's one connected system for South African practices. Below, every module is paired with the practice problem it solves: from SARS & CIPC deadlines and audits to beneficial ownership, share registers, timekeeping and billing. To give you a full view of the health of your firm. 

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  • Task & Workflow Management
  • Audit Management
  • Overviews & Reports
  • Collaboration & Training
  • CIPC Compliance
  • Streamlined Timekeeping & Billing
  • SARS Compliance
  • Beneficial Ownership & Share Registers
  • Other Featurs
Why-DataGrows

Set up a client once. Stay on top of them forever. 

"How do I stop manually rebuilding the same VAT, PAYE and provisional-tax checklist for every client, every cycle?" 

Most SA practices manage recurring work in a shared spreadsheet that someone has to remember to update. The moment a client is added, or a deadline shifts, the whole thing drifts out of date. 

With DataGrows you configure each client's recurring obligations once, and every task auto-schedules off the relevant SARS and CIPC dates.  VAT201, EMP201, provisional tax, annual returns and beyond. The result: a living workflow that rebuilds itself every period, assigns the right person, and never lets a recurring job quietly disappear. 

  • Recurring task templates that regenerate automatically each cycle.

  • Auto-assignment to the responsible team member, with workload visible at a glance. 

  • Status tracking from not-started to reviewed to filed. No chasing required. 
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Run an audit file the way
SA firms actually work. 

Planning, lead sheets, and review notes all in one system. Easily plan your audit and see when staff are double booked.

Section-by-section progress

Track every part of the process from planning to partner sign-off, with a clear review trail.

Clerk assignment

Every task has an owner and a reviewer, trainees, managers and partners on one file. 

Paperless from planning to close

Reviews happen on the engagement, not on someone's desk. Clearly see progress on each audit. 

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See your whole practice without chasing a soul. 

As a practice grows, visibility is the first thing to break. Partners then end up reconstructing the state of the firm from WhatsApp, inboxes and a Friday catch-up. DataGrows turns the live state of every client, task and deadline into one source of truth. 

Real-time dashboards 

Clients, deadlines, revenue and completion rates, live. No spreadsheet to refresh. 

Automated weekly digest 

Emailed to each team member so priorities are clear before Monday.  

Balanced workload 

Per-person and per-partner views show who's overloaded and who has room.  

Nothing slips

Overdue and at-risk work surfaces  automatically, before it becomes a client call.  

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Keep the conversation on the work — not in WhatsApp. 

When discussion lives outside the work, knowledge walks out with whoever leaves. DataGrows keeps context, training and decisions attached to the job. 
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In-task messaging

Every question, decision and sign-off stays attached to the client and the job.

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Onboarding & training

New team members learn your firm's way of working by doing it.

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Shared workflows

Capture how your firm does things, consistently — for everyone.

Beneficial ownership, handled inside one workflow. 

Since BO became a CIPC requirement, firms juggle portals, spreadsheets, and reminders to keep every entity compliant. It's easy to lose track between systems. Here's how DataGrows keeps it in one place. 

An integrated BO workflow — not a separate spreadsheet

DataGrows generates all of the documents that you need for the submission based on the information we already store.

Status at a glance across every entity you act for

Easily see which clients are still outstanding and which returns have already been submitted.

Tied to deadlines so renewals and changes never slip

Deadlines schedule automatically each year so that you can forcus on the submission instead of focusing on remmebering the deadline.

CIPC obligation streamlined

Easily pull in annula return history, director and shareholder information directly from CIPC.

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Spend less time chasing.
More time advising.

Every deadline, audit, timesheet and invoice in one system — built for South African practices.

  • Compliant — SARS & CIPC deadlines tracked automatically
  • Fast — your first clients set up in minutes
  • Local — built and supported in South Africa

Capture every billable hour. Get paid on time.

When timekeeping is a separate chore, it doesn't happen — and worked hours never reach an invoice. In DataGrows, the work, the time and the invoice are all linked. 

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Time tracked per task, automatically

Hours are captured against the task as the work happens — no separate timesheet to forget, no month-end reconstruction of who did what. 

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Never miss a SARS or CIPC deadline again.

"How do I make sure a VAT or provisional-tax deadline never sneaks up on us across hundreds of clients?" 

Deadlines are where practice risk concentrates. A single missed VAT201 or annual return can mean penalties, interest and an awkward call with a client. A spreadsheet can't warn you before it's too late. 

DataGrows maps every task to the South African regulatory calendar, with built-in day counters and escalation windows on each obligation. You always know exactly what's due, when, and what's close to escalating. 

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SARS & CIPC dates pre-loaded

Every key obligation sits on the local regulatory calendar from day one — no manual setup per client. 

Day counters & escalation windows

Each task shows exactly how long is left and flags when it's close to escalating. 

Automated reminders

Nothing depends on someone remembering — the system nudges before anything is at risk. 

Built by SA accountants, for SA practices. 

Most practice software is adapted from another market and bolted onto SA requirements after the fact. DataGrows is the opposite — built here, around SARS, CIPC and POPIA, by people who've sat in the SARS queue themselves. 

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SARS, CIPC & POPIA-aware

The regulatory calendar, beneficial ownership and share registers are part of the product, not bolted on for the SA market afterwards. 

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Local, SA-based support

A Johannesburg team who speak your compliance language and work alongside you from migration to full adoption. 

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Tailored beyond our borders

Serving cross-border clients? DataGrows is tailored for each region's tax framework, so local compliance travels with you. 

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