Wherever your HR sits, payroll still has to be right.
Keep the HR system of record you already run, or use Popay Core, one record across every entity and country. We plug into your payroll system or provider of choice, in the format they expect. Across 40+ African countries we run the gross-to-net ourselves. Either way, the data has to be right before it leaves.
Start from what already works
Payroll takes a different shape depending on what works for you today. Four starting points, one answer each.
Your provider is fine. The data reaching them is not.
A hire entered twice, a contract change that never arrived, an absence still sitting in a spreadsheet. Popay Core collects and validates it, so the errors surface before the file goes out instead of after the run.
Both work. They just do not talk to each other.
One country, an HR system you like and a provider you trust, and someone in the middle retyping the same change into both. Payroll Hub sends it once, in the format your provider expects, and brings the result back.
One instance at the top, a provider in every country
Keep it. Payroll Hub delivers every change to every local provider in the format they expect and brings the results back. A connector to run, not a migration to survive.
You want one system, not a stack to glue together
Starting fresh, or replacing a patchwork nobody wants to defend. Then a connector is not the answer: Popay Core and Popay Payroll on one record is. Tell us what you run and where, and we map it honestly.
A correct run is decided before the run.
Gross-to-net is arithmetic, and arithmetic rarely goes wrong on its own. What goes wrong is what reaches it. So we fix it upstream, whether the employee record sits with us or with you, and you hear about it before the payment leaves instead of after.
Three ways to do payroll with Popay
Keep what works, run it yourself, or hand it over. Same platform underneath.
Payroll Hub
Best when your provider works fine and the pain is the manual glue between HR and payroll.
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Best when you want one engine across >40 countries and control in-house. Native where payroll is hardest.
Algeria 
Angola 
Benin 
Botswana 
Burkina Faso 
Burundi 
Cameroon 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
Congo-Brazzaville 
Congo-Kinshasa 
Djibouti 
Egypt 
Equatorial Guinea 
Ethiopia 
Gabon 
Gambia 
Ghana 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Ivory Coast 
Kenya 
Liberia 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Mali 
Mauritania 
Mauritius 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Namibia 
Niger 
Nigeria 
Rwanda 
Senegal 
Seychelles 
South Africa 
Tanzania 
Togo 
Tunisia 
Uganda 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe Managed payroll
Best when you'd rather hand payroll over and just approve. Take all of it, or just the pieces.
The way changes. The platform doesn't.
Whichever way you run payroll, the same foundation sits on top, so you never re-buy it when your setup changes.
One employee record
A single source of truth feeding every payroll path and downstream vendor.
Core HR & Talent
Self-service, onboarding, org and talent, beyond what payroll alone delivers.
No lock-in
Switch provider, add a country, or move a market between models, without starting over.
Compliance by design
GDPR, EU-hosted, audit-ready, governed centrally, whichever way runs the pay.
Not sure which is you?
Tell us where you operate and what you run today. We'll map it honestly, starting with your landscape, not our product.