PopayBuilt to grow with you

Your HR and your payroll on one foundation. That is HR software that holds.

HR software that puts your data, processes and payroll on solid ground, so you are ready for whatever comes next: AI, growth, new countries and all.

Payroll in Africa Native payroll in 40+ countries.
Nobody trusts our numbers
Bits of the truth in every system, none of them complete. Popay PeopleRecord →
The same change entered in system after system. Popay Connect →
“Headcount” means three different things in three reports. Popay Insight →
You can’t see what was mapped, changed or dropped. Popay Connect →
Export, VLOOKUP, reconcile, hope, every time leadership asks. Popay PeopleRecord →
Our processes are collapsing
A hire is confirmed and HR becomes a switchboard. Popay Core · Lifecycle →
A request sits while the approver’s on leave. Popay Core · Requests →
Nobody can say how many laptops are out there. Popay Core · Assets →
Every internal move is a guessing game. Popay Core · Org →
The auditor asks for proof, and you’re digging through email. Popay Core →
Payroll dictates, we adapt
You only trust payroll after three people have re-checked it. Popay Payroll →
The rules change and you find out after the run. Popay Payroll →
The same starters, leavers and changes typed into HR and again into payroll. Popay Payroll Hub →
HR says one thing, payroll another. Nobody’s sure which is right. Popay Payroll Hub →
One person knows how payroll really works, and one day they’re on leave. Popay Managed payroll →
Every country its own island
A different tool for every country. Popay Payroll →
A different provider, rulebook and contact in every market. Popay Managed payroll →
Payroll spread across entities means different formats, calendars and deadlines to reconcile. Popay Payroll →
Rules differ by jurisdiction, and all of them have to be right, every run. Popay Payroll →
Every entity and country reports its own way. Popay PeopleRecord →
We hire them, then lose them
People get in the door, then development just stops. Popay Perform →
No growth path, so your best people leave. Popay Perform →
Reviews are a Word doc once a year, if at all. Popay Perform →
Training is just a spreadsheet of who showed up. Popay Learn →
Onboarding is ticked off, but nobody is really up to speed. Popay Learn →

The stakes

What a shaky foundation really costs you.

It does not stay a nuisance. It becomes risk you cannot see, work that never connects, and insight you cannot reach.

Control you cannot prove

Who saw what, under which rule, at what moment. When the auditor asks, you have to be able to show it.

Nothing carries across your domains

HR, payroll and your org structure each keep their own version. Anything that touches all three is never quite right anywhere.

AI & insight stay out of reach

Reporting and AI can only be as good as the data beneath them. On a broken foundation, they can't help.

One foundation. HR software and payroll, finally together.

Keep the systems that work. Popay manages the data across them.

Step 1 Centralise your data

One source of truth for every person, position and org, the record your other systems finally agree on.

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Step 2 Harmonise & process

Let onboarding, requests and org changes run their course, and deliver what comes out of them straight to your payroll.

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Step 3 Keep your compliance provable

GDPR, NIS2 and the AI Act run through the whole platform, control you can actually prove.

A whole foundation sounds big. You start small.

We begin with your landscape, not our product. Nothing goes out the door on day one.

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Start where it hurts most

Your loudest pain, first: a fast, visible win.

2

Connect what already works

Your existing systems keep running, fed from the same record.

3

Phase the rest, on solid ground

Each phase builds on a foundation that holds.

20+ years in HR
70+ professionals
250+ customer organisations
70k+ active users
40+ active countries

Two roles, one foundation

Two ways in. One foundation underneath.

Pick the pain that's loudest. Popay meets you there.

Let's solve your problem