For CA(SA), AGA(SA) and AT(SA)
Plan against the competency framework, log learning as it happens, reflect at year end, then export your declaration.
SAICA sets no hour or point target for most of its members. CPD is output based.
How many hours you needEvery reflective learning plan guides you through plan, act, reflect. Keeping each for three calendar years.
What your plan must includeSARS registered tax practitioners need 18 hours a year: 10 tax technical, 2 ethics, 6 service related.
The tax practitioner rulesHow it works
CPDTracks is an online CPD tracker for South African accountants. It follows SAICA's output based policy step by step, so the record SAICA asks for is ready whenever you need it.
Choose your designation and career path, then pick development areas from SAICA's competency framework and note what prompted each one.In the app: plan your route
Record courses, reading, webinars and on the job learning as they happen, with hours, providers, outcomes and links to your evidence.In the app: log activities
Write reflections through the year and at year end. The annual ethics reflection SAICA made compulsory in 2021 is prompted, not left to memory.In the app: campfire reflections
Finish the year with a clean PDF: a SAICA ready reflection plan.In the app: reflect, then export
Built around SAICA's CPD policy rather than a generic hours counter, with the extra checks that apply if you are registered with SARS or IRBA.
Plan against the framework for your career path and stage instead of copying competency codes out of a PDF. Every activity you log links back to the development area it addresses, which is exactly how the reflective plan is structured.
SAICA Circular 02/2021 made an annual ethics reflection compulsory for every member. CPDTracks prompts it and records it on your plan.
Registered tax practitioners see progress against 18 hours, split 10 tax technical, 2 ethics and 6 service related. Registered auditors see the 3 hour ethics minimum. Members and Associates following SAICA's ordinary output-based policy are never given an invented hour target.
Link evidence held in your own cloud storage, or upload certificates, images and PDFs straight onto an activity. When SAICA selects you for monitoring, the plan, the activities, the reflections and the evidence are already together.
Record a break with its dates, type and reason, attach supporting documents such as a medical certificate, and carry it into your year end report.
Automatic clean up of old years is optional, and the retention period can never drop below three years, or five if you are a tax practitioner.
Download a complete archive of readable files and hosted evidence at any time, and restore it into CPDTracks.
CPDTracks runs in any modern browser. There is nothing to install and nothing to sync.
Example output
A completed CPD year turns into a clear, printable reflection report. This example uses a fictional member and sample learning records created only in the local screenshot environment.
View the sample PDF
Fictional sample · 2025
SAICA prescribes what your reflective plan contains, not the tool you keep it in. Here is the honest difference.
| Doing it yourself | Spreadsheet or SAICA template | CPDTracks |
|---|---|---|
| Competency framework | Look up and copy the codes yourself | Built in for your career path |
| Activities linked to development areas | Cross reference by hand | Linked as you log |
| Compulsory ethics reflection | Remember it yourself | Prompted every year |
| SARS and IRBA hour checks | Formulas you maintain | Checked and counted for you |
| Year end output | Format it yourself | Reflective learning plan PDF, generated |
| Cost | Free | $14.99 a year, in your local currency |
Read the full comparison, including when a spreadsheet is the better choice
Pricing
No free tier, no trial and no add ons. Every feature below is part of the same annual membership, whichever currency you pay in.
Charged in your local currency, with VAT or sales tax included where your country requires it.
Get CPDTracksBilled once a year. Cancel renewal at any time from your account.
Payments are handled by Paddle, which acts as the merchant of record and takes care of VAT and invoicing.
Use the full SAICA journey, or shape CPDTracks around another professional body's requirements in General CPD mode.
SAICA CPD guides
Written from SAICA's published policy, its May 2023 explainer and its circulars, with the paragraph references so you can check them.
None for most members. Where the old hour figures came from, and who does have fixed hours.
Guide 02 Quick answer: plan, act, reflectThe three phases, the compulsory ethics reflection, and how long to keep it.
Guide 03 What SAICA reviewsWhy members are selected, what SAICA reviews, and what to do if your plan is behind.
Guide 04 The nine month ruleThe nine month definition, what you still have to do, and how it differs from not being professionally active.
Guide 05 18 hours a yearTwo sets of obligations, the 18 hour split, and the five year record rule.
Guide 06 Three or five yearsThree years, five for tax practitioners, and what counts as evidence worth keeping.
Guide 07 Three-month notice and next stepsThe three-month notice, possible disciplinary procedures, and SAICA-directed remediation.
CPDTracks is a web app for planning, logging and reflecting on continuing professional development. It is built around SAICA's output based CPD policy for CA(SA), AGA(SA) and AT(SA) members, and has a General CPD mode for professionals with other requirements.
One membership covers every feature: $14.99 a year, charged in your own local currency, with VAT or sales tax included where your country requires it. There is no free tier and no trial. Payments are handled by Paddle, which acts as the merchant of record.
No. CPDTracks is a web app that runs in any modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone, with nothing to install. An earlier iPhone app is no longer maintained.
Not for its designations. SAICA's guidance states there is no requirement to achieve a certain number of hours or points for CA(SA), AGA(SA) or AT(SA). Fixed hours apply only through other registrations, such as SARS tax practitioners.
Yes. Tell CPDTracks you are a SARS registered tax practitioner or an IRBA registered auditor and it tracks those fixed minimums as you log activities, showing how many hours are still outstanding in each category.
No. CPDTracks is an independent product of DAD The Accountant and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SAICA, SARS or IRBA. It follows SAICA's published CPD policy, and your compliance remains your own responsibility.
Your account and CPD records are stored using Supabase and served through Cloudflare. Connections use HTTPS, access is controlled by your account, and each user's records are isolated. Use a unique password and never share your sign in details.
Yes. Save the completed reflection PDF for any year you have recorded, and download a complete readable archive, including hosted evidence, that restores back into CPDTracks.
One membership, $14.99 a year, charged in your local currency. In your browser, with nothing to install.
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