Capture once. Sign electronically. Submit with confidence.
CIPC integrated company secretarial software for South African accounting firms and company secretaries. Share registers, beneficial ownership, annual returns and public officer appointments all start from the same company record, so the information you capture once carries through to every document, signature and submission.
Your clients’ records shouldn’t need rebuilding for every filing.
Company details in one spreadsheet, share registers in another, resolutions in an email thread and ownership information somewhere else. Each filing becomes a reconstruction exercise.
Intersect keeps it in one place, connected to the company it belongs to, so every process starts from information your team already trusts.
Start with company information you can work from.
Accurate company information underpins every secretarial process that follows. Intersect retrieves data from CIPC and brings it into a shared company record, giving your team a consistent starting point for the registers, documents and submissions it prepares for each client.
CIPC data retrievalShared company recordLess duplicate capture
Keep the share register and its documents together.
Manage company shares with the resolutions, certificates and signatures that support each transaction. Intersect generates the supporting documents and updates the share register, while electronic signatures and the Document Hub help your team keep the complete record organised and accessible.
Beneficial ownership needs more than a document prepared at filing time. Collect and validate ownership information, maintain the underlying records and prepare disclosures through a structured CIPC-connected workflow, so the information behind a submission remains available when it needs to be reviewed or updated.
Prepare annual returns using company information retrieved from CIPC alongside the financial data maintained for the client. A repeatable workflow reduces duplicate capture and helps your team keep the return aligned with the underlying records as it moves through preparation, review and submission.
CIPC company informationFinancial dataAnnual return workflow
Intersect’s Public Interest Score calculator draws on ownership information and data from connected accounting and payroll systems, including Xero and SimplePay. Bring those inputs together to reduce manual calculation and support your assessment of the client’s financial reporting and audit requirements.
Ownership dataAccounting & payroll dataAutomated PIS calculation
Give public officer appointments a connected workflow.
Bring company details, officer information and appointment documentation into one process. Intersect’s SARS integration supports the public officer appointment workflow, helping your team reduce manual paperwork and repeated back-and-forth while keeping the supporting information with the company record.
Company & officer detailsAppointment documentsSARS integration
ADAppointment documentsCheck the supporting recordsIn review
SASARS appointmentContinue through the workflowNext step
Illustrative appointment workflow · sample information
Designed for connected company secretarial workIllustrative product view
From a share issue to signed records.
A share transaction should not send your team back to blank templates. Intersect generates the share certificate and supporting resolution, supports electronic signatures and updates the share register, with documents kept in the Document Hub. Your team can work from the same information throughout the process.
Still waiting on a signature? Automated reminders can follow up with directors on your schedule, so your team isn’t the one chasing.
Reviewed, signed and kept with the record.Electronic signatures · Updated share register · Document Hub
Company details flow into both sample documents. Review, signature and filing follow within the secretarial workflow.
In the words of practices using Intersect
The startup that punches above its weight.
“It’s solid, clean, and clearly built by people who understand the real-world chaos of running a business.”
Glenys DempersModerni
Thank you for developing such a practical and forward-thinking compliance platform.
“Intersect has brought a refreshing level of structure and clarity to our processes.”
Callum CollingsAustral Accounting
Glad I waited for Intersect.
“From my first interaction with the team to implementation, my experience has been nothing but awesome.”
Jermaine BullSial Consulting Inc.
Leading at the forefront of the compliance automation wave.
“Intersect is a groundbreaker of this new front.”
Ricardo GhanemWingman Accounting
It feels amazing to not have to trigger so many tasks in my emails.
“Awesome software, just what the accounting industry needed! Time saver, and great for practice management.”
Zoë du PlessisThriveCFO
The data behind your secretarial workflows
Connect the information behind your submissions.
Bring CIPC company information together with the financial and payroll data your practice already keeps. Intersect gathers it into the company record, calculates the Public Interest Score, prepares the annual return and sends it on to CIPC once your team has reviewed it.
Illustration: company details from CIPC, turnover and liabilities from Xero, and employee numbers from SimplePay flow into the Intersect company record. Intersect adds beneficial interest holders from your ownership records, calculates the Public Interest Score, prepares the annual return for review and submits it to CIPC. Figures are illustrative.
Coming soon
SimplePay
✓ Annual return submitted
Company detailsTurnover · LiabilitiesAverage employeesBeneficial interest holdersAnnual returnInformation inSubmission out
1
GatherCIPC, accounting and payroll data flow into the company record.
2
Calculate & reviewIntersect calculates the PIS and prepares the annual return for review.
3
SubmitThe reviewed annual return goes to CIPC.
Company recordExample Company (Pty) Ltd
FY 2026
Company detailsCIPCActive
Annual turnoverXeroR61 million
Third-party liabilitiesXeroR18 million
Average employeesSimplePay42
Beneficial interest holdersOwnership records4
Public Interest Score0
Annual returnWaiting for information
What is secretarial admin costing your firm?
Chasing signed resolutions, copying company details and piecing together submission information all take time. Enter your client numbers and hourly rate to estimate the annual opportunity cost of that administration across your portfolio, using the same benchmark as our savings calculator.
Your estimated opportunity cost
R289 800
per year, in time spent on compliance admin
414hours per year across your client portfolio
Based on a survey of 132 professional service providers, which found an average of 8.28 hours of compliance admin per client each year. This is an estimate of the value of that time, not a promise of savings.
See the calculation
50 clients × 8.28 hours = 414 hours. At R700 per hour, that time is valued at R289 800.
Imagine opening any client file and knowing exactly where it stands.
Instead of piecing together a company’s position from registers, inboxes and portal screenshots, your team works from one record that reflects what has been done and what still needs attention.
Which annual returns are due.
Which ownership disclosures need attention.
Which resolutions are waiting for signature.
Which share registers have changed, and when.
Before you get started
A few things you might be wondering.
Which company secretarial processes can I manage?
The workflows covered here include company information, share registers and resolutions, beneficial ownership disclosures, CIPC annual returns, Public Interest Score calculations and public officer appointments. Documents and electronic signatures support the work around those processes.
How does the CIPC integration help my firm?
Intersect retrieves company information from CIPC and brings it into your secretarial workflows. Your team can use that information alongside the records it maintains when preparing submissions, reducing repeated capture across the client portfolio.
Can directors sign the documents electronically?
Yes. Electronic signatures form part of the document workflows described on this page, including the resolutions and certificates associated with share register management. The Document Hub keeps the supporting records accessible.
Can I explore the software before subscribing?
Yes. You can start a free 14-day trial without a credit card, or book a demo to walk through the company secretarial processes your firm manages.
"Intersect is not the App where you log in once a year to file an annual return, or issue a share certificate; it becomes an integral part of your tech stack...so interweaved into your operational processes, that it helps shape the digital identity of your practice."
Company secretarial software built for professional firms
Make company secretarial easier to deliver.
Whether your team is maintaining share registers, preparing beneficial ownership disclosures or managing annual returns, give them a more consistent way to work. Explore Intersect yourself, or book a walkthrough focused on your company secretarial processes.
Practice management
Submissions to CIPC
Appointments to SARS
5 · Annual return
4 · Beneficial ownership
3 · Public officer
2 · Share registers
1 · Company information
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SimplePay
