The easiest way to manage Beneficial Ownership in South Africa.
Eliminate Ownership Blindspots
You don’t just stay compliant, you set the standard. With Intersect, your firm handles Beneficial Ownership reporting faster, cleaner, and with total confidence.
Cut through complexity
Stop wasting hours trying to untangle ownership layers. With Intersect, you get an instant, transparent view of who really owns or controls the business, no guesswork, no gaps.
Never miss a submission
Our dashboard flags when beneficial ownership disclosures are required, alerts you ahead of any upcoming updates, and helps ensure you avoid missed obligations or legal penalties.
Automate your submission
Not only do you submit your return from within the tool, your COR30.1 is auto-saved to your client's Document Hub. Automation taken to a new level!
Regardless of your expertise, we help you streamline secretarial services at scale
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Automatically gather every piece of ownership data
Intersect connects directly to CIPC and other verified sources to pull shareholder and company data into one place. No more back-and-forth emails or spreadsheets — just clean, structured information that’s ready for validation.
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Let automation do the heavy lifting.
Intersect cross-checks data against verified company and individual records, flags inconsistencies, and helps you confidently complete Beneficial Ownership declarations. -
File, share, and store
Generate professional, compliant reports with visual ownership diagrams and full audit trails. Your reports are automatically saved to the Intersect Document Hub and instantly accessible by both your firm and your clients.
Forget Excel. Forget chasing people.
Collaboration that replaces the client chase.
Work with your clients, not around them.
Intersect turns Beneficial Ownership compliance into a shared process, not a painful back-and-forth. Instead of chasing documents over email, you can invite clients to view, confirm, or upload shareholder information directly within the platform. They get full visibility, you get structured data, and everyone saves time. It’s transparency that builds trust and transforms compliance from a tick-box task into a professional experience.
Scale your compliance practice without adding staff.
When your workflow scales, your business grows.
Intersect automates the heavy admin that slows firms down, freeing your team to focus on value-driven work instead of data wrangling. As your client base expands, your processes stay consistent, compliant, and easy to manage. Handle more Beneficial Ownership filings in less time, with fewer errors, and build a service line that scales profitably without adding overhead. Efficiency isn’t just time saved; it’s capacity gained.
Flawless reports. Every time.
With Intersect, every report looks and feels professional, complete with shareholding diagrams, verification timestamps, and an automatically generated audit trail. Everything is stored securely in your Document Hub, ready for any review, any time. What once felt like a tedious task now delivers a quiet sense of achievement, because your firm’s work looks as good as it performs. It’s not just compliant; it’s confidently done right.
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From inbox chaos to instant order
And here’s the cherry on top: the moment your COR30.1 certificate comes back, Intersect files it neatly in your Document Hub and lets both you and your client know it’s ready. No more digging through emails or chasing missing documents. It’s already where it belongs: safe, accessible, and organised.
Own your process. Own your growth.
Own your compliance.
Intersect gives your firm everything it needs to manage Beneficial Ownership effortlessly, so you can focus on building lasting client relationships and scalable compliance services.
Frequently Asked Questions
A beneficial owner is the natural person who ultimately owns or controls a company, either directly or through layers such as trusts, holding companies or nominee arrangements. The law focuses on the real human being behind the structure. Intersect makes it easy to identify and track those individuals, even when ownership paths are complex.
Companies and close corporations registered with CIPC are required to keep a register of their beneficial owners and submit beneficial ownership information. This applies whether ownership is held directly by individuals or indirectly through trusts and other companies.
BO info should be reviewed at regular intervals (e.g. annually) and within 10 days when there’s a structural change (share transfer, ownership restructuring, director changes, etc.).
Yes. CIPC has tied beneficial ownership to the annual return process, so an entity generally needs an up-to-date beneficial ownership filing in order to lodge its annual return. Intersect tracks both, so the two stay in step.
Inaccurate or late submissions can lead to compliance notices, penalties and audit findings. Beyond regulatory risk, incomplete records create governance gaps inside the business. Intersect reduces this risk by automating updates, maintaining a clean audit trail and surfacing changes that require reporting.
Intersect digitises every part of the process.
You can capture ownership details, upload supporting documents, generate the register, link it to your share register and submit updates digitally. The system flags threshold changes, ownership movements and required actions. Everything sits in one place with full history, so your team stays organised and audit-ready.
Your data is stored on Microsoft Azure with strict security controls, role-based access and full audit visibility. Only authorised users can access or update information. Intersect’s security framework is designed specifically for sensitive corporate data such as ownership, governance and compliance records.
Yes. Intersect maps multi-layer structures — companies owning companies, trusts, and foreign holding entities — and applies look-through to calculate each person’s effective interest, flagging the ultimate beneficial owners at the 5% threshold.
The beneficial ownership module connects directly to your share register, annual returns and wider compliance workflows. This means your ownership data flows through the rest of the platform, reducing duplication and improving accuracy across your entire governance process.
That’s exactly who it’s built for. Every client entity sits in one register with its own status, deadlines and ownership diagram, so a practice can manage beneficial ownership compliance across its entire book from a single workspace.