History
Touchstone (Pvt) Ltd was registered on 1st November 1989, and moved into the newly built No. 1 Raleigh Street, in the fast-developing Kopje area of Harare. Its neighbours, the tall white Fidelity Life Tower, and the ship-like Net One building were built several years later. The Managing Director and owner is Zimbabwean-born, Simon Pitt. From 1984, prior to establishing Touchstone, he was a director in Micropac, which produced a simple payroll system that had versions which operated on Apple and IBM-compatible computers such as NCR DMV! From an initial 6 staff and 50 Payplus users Touchstone now has 17 staff and agents, and over 750 databases in stalled with clients in the Southern African region. Touchstone welcomes enquiries form potential agents in Southern Africa, and will provide training and backup for successful consultants. Touchstone staff training focuses on customer service, payroll knowledge and technical problem-solving, providing each member with skills which enables them to understand and advise our clients on a wide variety of needs and problems. Senior staff have an average of over 10 year's service with the company. Touchstone has a business partnership agreement with Renegate, a software development company, that ensures that the payroll systems are maintained and upgraded to meet the requirements of changing technology, local payroll practices and statutory requirements.
Touchstone offers numerous training options at its Training Centre in Harare for companies' Payroll, HR and Finance staff. Basic courses on Labour Legislation are offered for those new to payroll, and also for Workers' Committees. Touchstone also runs evening-classes for the IPTA diploma in Payroll and Tax Administration.(These are temporarily on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic) Seminars are regularly run for Top Executives and Auditors on various ways tomanage the company payroll and reduce the likelihood of payroll fraud. Touchstone, and its agents also offer Payroll Bureau Facilities. and are currently processing the pay for more than 100 companies. Their confidential services are especially appreciated by companies for whom they process the Executive payrolls.
Secure, compliant
and easy
17
Staff and Agents
750
Databases Installed
Partners
30 +
years of being a provider of computerized payroll software and support services in Southern Africa
+263 712 416 574
