Payroll · HR · EOR — Built for Africa
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OctaHr automates payroll, statutory compliance, and payouts to banks and mobile money — so you can pay your team on time, in any country, in local currency.
No card required · 100% statutory compliance
July pay run
3 countries · 4 currencies
- AOAmina OdhiamboKES 84,500 → M-Pesa 🇰🇪pending…
- COChidi Okafor₦ 412,000 → GTBank 🇳🇬pending…
- EMEfua MensahGH₵ 6,240 → MTN MoMo 🇬🇭pending…
- BKBrian KiptooKES 126,300 → Equity Bank 🇰🇪pending…
- ZBZainab Bello₦ 275,500 → OPay 🇳🇬pending…
- NWNjeri WachiraKES 68,750 → M-Pesa 🇰🇪pending…
0 employees paid · 3 countries · 0 seconds
Trusted by 1,000+ businesses across 14 countries
Manual payroll errors
Zero-error automated runs
Missed statutory deadlines
PAYE, NSSF & SHIF filed on time, every time
Bank-only disbursement
Instant payouts to M-Pesa, MoMo & banks
The Platform
Everything between hired and paid.
Payroll
Payroll that runs itself.
OctaHr calculates gross-to-net for every employee automatically — PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, NITA, the housing levy, loans, advances and benefits, all applied against the latest rates. Review, approve, done.
- PAYE, NSSF, SHIF & NITA calculated on every run
- Loans, advances and benefits handled automatically
- iTax-ready P10 and statutory files generated for you
Pay run · Kenya · July
Gross → Net| Employee | Gross | PAYE | NSSF | SHIF | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Odhiambo | 120,000 | −22,483 | −2,160 | −3,300 | 84,500 |
| B. Kiptoo | 180,000 | −40,183 | −2,160 | −4,950 | 126,300 |
| N. Wachira | 95,000 | −15,229 | −2,160 | −2,613 | 68,750 |
HR Core
Every employee record, one source of truth.
From offer letter to exit interview, everything lives in one profile — contracts, IDs, leave, documents and reviews. Employees serve themselves through the app; HR stops being a filing cabinet.
- Onboarding to offboarding in one flow
- Leave policies that follow each country's labor law
- Self-service app for payslips, leave and documents
Efua Mensah
Product Designer · Accra 🇬🇭 · Full-time
Leave balance
14.5 days
Tenure
2y 4m
Next review
Sep 12
- Contract — signed
- Ghana Card — verified
- SSNIT enrolment — complete
Time & Attendance
Know who's in, from office to field.
Biometric terminals at HQ, geofenced mobile clock-in for field teams and sites. Hours, overtime and absences flow straight into payroll — no reconciliation spreadsheet, no arguments.
- Biometric and geofenced mobile clock-in
- Overtime and absence feed directly into payroll
- Field and shift teams tracked without spreadsheets
Attendance · last 2 weeks
GeofencedPayouts
Pay to any wallet or bank, instantly.
One approval disburses the whole run — M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, OPay and 100+ banks, across currencies. Every employee gets a payslip the moment the money lands.
- Bulk disbursement to mobile money and 100+ banks
- Multi-currency: KES, NGN, GHS, RWF, USD and more
- Payslips by app, email or SMS as pay lands
Disbursement summary
Settled in 40s- M-Pesa84 payoutsKES 4,218,300
- GTBank31 payouts₦ 9,540,000
- MTN MoMo12 payoutsGH₵ 86,400
- Airtel Money6 payoutsKES 402,100
Employer of Record
Hire in 40+ African countries. No local entity needed.
OctaHr acts as your Employer of Record — we sign compliant local contracts, sponsor work permits, and run payroll in local currency while you manage the work. Open a team in Lagos, Accra or Kigali in days, not months.
- Compliant contracts under local labor law
- Work permits and immigration handled
- Payroll, benefits and taxes in local currency
40+
countries
$200M+
payroll processed
99.98%
on-time
100% statutory compliance, guaranteed.
We track every tax law and deadline in every country you operate in — so you never have to.
We closed payroll in Nairobi, Lagos and Accra before lunch. OctaHr even caught a SHIF rate change we would have missed — that alone paid for the year.
Wanjiru Kamau
Head of People, Twiga Logistics
12 hrs
saved per pay run
0
compliance penalties
40 sec
average disbursement
Pricing
Priced per employee. No surprises.
Start free with your next pay run. Upgrade when you add countries.
Starter
For small teams paying in one country.
KES 150/employee/mo
- Payroll for one country
- PAYE, NSSF, SHIF & NITA auto-filed
- Payouts to M-Pesa and banks
- Payslips by app and email
- Email support
Growth
For scale-ups running payroll in 2+ countries.
KES 300/employee/mo
- Everything in Starter
- Multi-country payroll, multi-currency
- Time & attendance with geofencing
- Leave, expenses & document workflows
- Priority support & guided onboarding
EOR / Enterprise
For hiring across borders without entities.
Custom
- Hire in 40+ countries, no local entity
- Contracts, permits & local benefits
- Dedicated compliance manager
- API access & ERP integrations
- SLA, audit and security review support
Payday, perfected.
Join 1,000+ African businesses running payroll on OctaHr.
No card required · First pay run free