POPIA · CPA · NCC Opt-Out Registry

Outbound compliance for South African direct marketers.

NCC opt-out registry cleansing, POPIA consent records and audit trails. One platform that keeps your outreach lawful and your campaigns running.

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suppression check · list_2026-07.csv● running
+27 82 ••• 4471opt-out on file · 2026-03-12Blocked
n.mkhize@•••••.co.zaconsent recorded · form 4Clear
+27 73 ••• 9082NCC registry block · 2026-07-01Blocked
j.botha@•••••.comno objection · 1 ask remainingClear
+27 84 ••• 2210s69 objection · 2026-05-28Blocked
accounts@•••••.co.zaconsent recorded · form 4Clear
8,214 checked · 7,691 clear · 523 suppressed · audit log #4471 written
In force since

15 April 2026

CPA Amendment Regulations effective immediately. No transitional period.

Registration

Compulsory

Direct marketers must register with the National Consumer Commission.

Cleansing

Monthly

Databases must be cleansed against the national opt-out registry every month.

Penalty ceiling

R1m / 10%

Up to R1 million or 10% of annual turnover, whichever is greater.

The rules of outbound changed. Most databases haven't.

Since April 2026, contacting consumers for direct marketing without NCC registration is non-compliant. Your marketing database must be cleansed against the national opt-out registry every month, consent must be captured and proven on the prescribed basis, and historic opt-ins are no defence once a consumer registers a block.

These obligations run alongside POPIA section 69, enforced separately by the Information Regulator. Two regulators, three overlapping regimes, one dialling floor.

Most South African businesses doing outbound are handling this with spreadsheets. Or not at all.

One platform. Four jobs.

01 · Suppression engine

Every contact, one verdict.

One merged do-not-contact database: your opt-outs, POPIA objections and NCC registry blocks. Run any list through it and get a clear or blocked verdict per contact. Before the campaign sends, not after the complaint.

02 · Consent vault

Proof, not promises.

Compliant consent capture with timestamped records, plus tracking of your one permitted consent request per prospect. Produced on demand, defensible on inspection.

03 · NCC cleansing

Monthly, automatically.

Registry cleansing handled end-to-end and delta-optimised, so you pay the per-record NCC fee on as few records as the law allows. No calendar reminders, no manual uploads.

04 · Audit trail

The file you hand the regulator.

An immutable log of every cleanse, consent and opt-out, across every channel, campaign and entity. If the question ever comes, the answer is already written.

Works with the tools you already send from. CSV in, CSV out, API if you want it. Multi-entity support for groups, franchises and agencies.

Built by people who send.

ClearToContact is built by the team at Sales Cadence, a South African outbound agency. We run cold email and outbound campaigns every day, we are a registered direct marketer ourselves, and we built ClearToContact because we needed it first.

Five design partner slots. Then the doors close until launch.

  • ClearToContact free for three months
  • Weekly input into what gets built
  • Founding rate locked for life
  • In return: real lists through the system and thirty minutes of feedback a week

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