The MyBenefitz platform is the most effective way of delivering accessible, appropriate and appreciated benefitz to employees or fund members.

“The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers.”
Sybil F. Stershic (marketing and organizational advisor and author of Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most: A Guide to Employee-Customer Care)

MyBenefitz is a simple-to-use, effective and efficient internet based platform for presenting benefitz to employees or fund members, allowing them to know what benefitz they have, to make their choices where choices are available and to take up additional voluntary benefitz at their own expense where any such benefitz are available. The platform also provides employees access to a range of useful calculators, including salary simulations, and other added value benefitz.

MyBenefitz is unique in that it has been developed in South African specifically to accommodate our unique benefit structures and terms and conditions as opposed to taking an overseas system and trying to adapt it to the South African market.

Some of the features of the MyBenefitz platform include:

• Suitable for companies of any size.
• The platform is not limited to any specific insurer or financial services provider. The platform can display any cover from any insurer and allows for cover with multiple insurers e.g. group life with one insurer, income disability with another insurer, funeral cover with a third insurer, etc.
• All benefit structures can be accommodated, including the tapering of disability benefitz
• The platform has in built controls e.g. one time pin functionality.
• The platform does away with the need for paper based option forms.
• Employees readily know the cost of any voluntary benefitz.
• The platform is a modular platform enabling the platform to be customised for each employer with any employer being able to select what functionality or modules they wish to make use of.
• The platform can display things like cover shortfalls and budget affordability thereby assisting employees with decision making.
• Employees can add their own private policies thus having a complete picture of their cover.
• Copies of any relevant documents or policies are made available to the employees.
• The platform has in-built newsletter functionality.
• The platform caters for multiple risk benefit cost structures e.g. % of payroll, age based, rate per 1x cover, rate per mille, flat rate per member per month etc.
• The platform has flexible reporting functionality.
• Employees have access to the history and breakdown of any payroll deductions linked to any benefit loaded onto the platform.
• To the extent that any cover reflected on the platform requires a payroll deduction we supply a schedule of deductions in the format required by an employer's payroll system.
• An employer continues to pay the benefit providers directly. No premiums are paid via The Benefitz Software Company.
• Beneficiary information is captured and maintained online.
• The platform allows an employee to compare different options where applicable.
• ‘I Need Advice’ button functionality which sends a request to the financial advisor/broker/consultant on the scheme.
• There are various Calculators available on the platform.

Regarding any voluntary group risk products that are being offered to employees:

• The platform can cater for any type of voluntary cover that can be offered to an employee.
• The process for taking up voluntary covers is fully automated with no need to complete paper based forms.
• Where medical related question are required for voluntary cover the system caters for this.

Finally security and privacy are a top priority. We endeavor use the latest and best available security practices throughout the platform. Amongst other things MyBenefitz has an SSL Certificate to ensure that all data passed to and from the platform is fully encrypted and secured.

For information on Trustee Gail le Grellier and on Trustee David Lepar and on Trustee John Rollason and on Trustee Francisco Khoza  and on Actuary Tony Kamionsky to find out more details