Payroll and people, done right.
Run your whole payroll in minutes — PAYE, payslips, and your BURS return, ready to submit. Built in Gaborone, priced in Pula, backed by a team you can phone. From P85 per person/month.
Free and honest — no card, no obligation.
P48,500
Payroll This Month
ITW-7 Ready
BURS return prepared
Built for how Botswana businesses work
Built in Botswana
Local team in Gaborone, building for how business works here
Priced in Pula
Every plan and invoice in BWP — no USD-first workarounds
BURS-aligned payroll
PAYE from the current BURS tables, incl. the 27.5% band
Real human support
Call or WhatsApp us — in your timezone, in your language
Built in Gaborone by Tiro Modibedi and the Noetic Labs team. No call centre — when you have a question, you talk to the people who built it. WhatsApp the founder
The five-minute question
“If a labour officer walked in tomorrow and asked for every employee's leave balance, their payslips, and a signed contract — could you pull it up in five minutes, and would it be right?”
For most businesses, the honest answer today is no — and that’s genuinely common. Find out exactly where you stand, for free.
What Metlha does
See exactly how payroll works
The part most Botswana businesses need to get right first — from a real monthly run to the records an inspection asks for.
Run payroll in minutes
Draft, calculate and approve a full monthly run — PAYE off the current BURS tables, including the new 27.5% band.
Payslips & the BURS return
Payslips as PDFs, the bank EFT file for salaries, and the ITW-7 return — prepared, ready for you to submit.
Leave with real balances
A per-employee leave ledger you can trust: requests, approvals and balances that actually add up.
Records that pass inspection
The statutory registers an officer asks for — employees, contracts, leave — exportable on demand.
Final pay, worked out for you
Severance, accrued leave and notice calculated on termination — documented, not done by hand each time.
There’s more in the same login — projects, documents and meetings. Explore Project Management
Compare
Metlha vs. the late-night spreadsheet
Most Botswana businesses run payroll by hand — Excel, a calculator, leave tracked in someone's head. It works until it doesn't. Here's what changes.
Compliant today, ready for tomorrow. Your PAYE stays current (including the 27.5% band), your registers export in a click, and Metlha is already built for the new Labour Act — so an inspection is a non-event, not a scramble.
Payroll & PAYE
BURS return (ITW-7)
Payslips & EFT
Leave & records
Project management
Monthly cost
The offer
Every reason to say no, removed.
Switching off spreadsheets is the part owners dread. So we take on the risk and the work — and you get a full payroll cycle to prove it works before you pay a thebe.
A full month free
Full access, no card. Do a real payroll run before you decide anything.
We set you up free
We move your team, salaries, and leave off your spreadsheets in week one. You barely lift a finger.
Setup error? We fix it free
If your payroll setup has an error, we correct it at no charge. (Scoped to the setup we perform.)
Simple Pricing
One plan, one price per person
Pick a plan, tell us your team size — that's your bill. Everyone gets full access to the plan's modules. All prices in BWP.
Metlha is invite-only during our private beta. Here’s what it will cost — request early accessand we’ll email you when it’s your turn.
Basic
Payroll & HR compliance, done right
billed monthly
- HR + Payroll for your whole team
- PAYE from current BURS tables (incl. the 27.5% band)
- Payslips, EFT files & the ITW-7 return, ready to submit
- Employee records, departments & leave balances
- Statutory registers — employees, contracts, leave
- WhatsApp + email support
Core
Everything a growing team runs on
billed monthly
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- Project Management — Kanban, Gantt, tasks
- Documents & Meetings (with AI action items)
- Cross-module reports & dashboards
- One login for your whole business
- Priority support + WhatsApp
Bigger team, or need e-invoicing and a sales pipeline? Talk to us.
No card needed. We send you an invoice, you pay by bank transfer. Here’s how it works:
Start free
A full month, no card. Use every feature.
We invoice you
A BURS-compliant invoice — pay by EFT, no card fees.
You're active
We activate your account and bill the same way each cycle.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about getting started with Metlha.
Take the 5-minute Compliance Check on this page — seven quick questions about your payroll and HR, and you get a straight answer on where you stand. If there are gaps, we can walk through them with you on WhatsApp. No pressure, no jargon.
Could your payroll pass an inspection tomorrow?
Find out in five minutes — or talk to a real person in Gaborone. No card, no pressure, no jargon.