About Pay Me Bro

Origin

A personal workflow became a shared platform.

Pay Me Bro began with a workflow I developed for my own timesheets.

I had already experienced the uncertainty from the student side. Where must the sheet go? Who needs to approve the claim? Has anyone reviewed the sheet?

Later, I experienced the administrative burden from the staff side. Paper forms, email attachments, downloads, signatures, corrections and repeated follow-ups consumed time that could have been used for teaching, research and supporting students.

I developed a clearer workflow for myself. Colleagues saw the process and asked if they could use the workflow. Word of mouth turned a personal process into a shared platform.

The software came after I understood the problem.

Workflow

One clear chain, with responsibility intact.

A paper form or email process may work for one lecturer and a small group of students. Larger schools need consistent records, clear responsibility and shared visibility across repeated monthly cycles.

1

Student submits

Students prepare lecturer-specific sheets and submit each claim to the lecturer responsible for the work.

2

Lecturer decides

Lecturers inspect the supporting information and approve or reject each claim. Formally authorised delegates can assist where required.

3

Admin processes

Approved sheets move to the school administrator, who can follow the processing work from one dashboard.

4

Record remains

Students can follow the status while Pay Me Bro retains the generated document and decision history.

People remain responsible for every decision. Pay Me Bro gives each person a clear place to perform that responsibility. Automated notifications help reduce manual follow-up and show who needs to act next.

Value

Clearer work for everyone involved.

Students

Students can prepare their timesheets, submit them to the correct lecturer and follow their progress.

Clear records reduce uncertainty and help students develop professional habits around deadlines, working-hour limits, document management and accountability.

Lecturers

Lecturers receive their students' sheets in an organised review queue.

The review process keeps responsibility with the lecturer while removing the need to manage scattered forms and email attachments.

Administrators

School administrators receive approved sheets in one place.

A shared dashboard makes progress easier to follow and reduces the need to reconstruct the workflow from paper, spreadsheets and email conversations.

Schools

Schools gain clearer oversight of completed actions and outstanding work.

Shared controls create consistency without forcing every school to follow an identical workflow.

Controls

Digital workflow with clear accountability.

Moving a workflow online should strengthen accountability.

Identity and access

Pay Me Bro uses Wits accounts and institutional identifiers to help establish who is using the platform.

Role-based access separates what students, lecturers and administrators may see and do. Protected document viewers keep confidential records inside the platform workflow.

Configured rules

Pay Me Bro applies configured controls during submission, including combined monthly working-hour limits across participating schools.

Students may work for more than one school, while the relevant monthly limit continues to apply across all claims.

Payment responsibility

Pay Me Bro supports submission, review, approval, rejection, administrative processing, tracking and record keeping.

University payroll remains separate. Pay Me Bro does not run payroll, move money or guarantee payment.

Built at Wits

Innovation developed from a real institutional need.

Pay Me Bro grew from a problem experienced inside Wits.

The platform supports Wits 2033 priorities around stronger digital processes, operational efficiency and innovation developed from real institutional needs.

A lecturer's paper process may work well locally. A connected digital workflow gives a school clearer records, consistent controls and shared operational visibility.

Pay Me Bro respects the differences between schools. Each school can retain the rules and responsibilities required by its workflow while benefiting from a common platform.

More to build

Timesheets are the first workflow.

Universities contain many recurring administrative processes that create unnecessary frustration for students and staff.

Better digital tools can reduce repetitive work, clarify responsibility and allow people to spend more time on work that needs human judgment.

Every future workflow should begin with the people doing the work. Pay Me Bro will continue to improve through real use, honest criticism and close collaboration with students, lecturers and administrators.

Founder's note

Building useful technology for Wits.

I am Dr Raees Dangor, and I started Pay Me Bro because I had lived the timesheet problem from both sides.

Wits has played an important role in getting me to where I am. Building useful technology for the institution is one of the ways I can give back.

I want students to have clearer processes. I want lecturers to spend less time chasing paperwork. I want administrators to have tools designed around the work they perform every month.

My goal is simple: understand the frustration, build something useful and improve people's working lives.

More work remains. Every school teaches us something new, and every criticism gives us another opportunity to improve.

Build what lives inside you.

Company details

Public operator information.

Operator

Company: TEC LABS (Pty) Ltd
Registration / enterprise number: 2026/193764/07
Product: Pay Me Bro
Contact: hello@teclabs.co.za

Operating focus

TEC LABS builds practical workflow software for school-level administration, with onboarding support agreed with participating schools.

Pay Me Bro remains in beta while the platform grows through field use and feedback.

A better way to handle student timesheets.