Payroll

Whatever your payroll setup, we speak it.

Keep the provider you have, run our native engine, or hand payroll over entirely. Three ways to do payroll with Popay, and one platform underneath all of them.

Sound familiar?

Payroll goes wrong in a handful of ways

Wherever your pain sits, there's a Popay answer for it.

Coverage

A different tool for every country

A separate system per market, none of them a real fit, and no single view across the group.

→ Popay Payroll
The glue

HR and payroll never line up

The same changes rekeyed twice, month-end reconciliation, and nobody sure which side is right.

→ Payroll Hub
Capacity

Every run is a fire drill

Not enough time or people to run payroll calmly, so it's stressful and never quite on top of things.

→ Managed payroll
Trust

You find out after the run

A rule changed or an error slipped through, and by the time you notice, it's already been paid.

→ Any of the three

Regardless of your setup, you're covered.

Our solutions speak payroll, built by payroll people, for the way payroll actually works. Pick the model that fits where you are today; move between them when you're ready.

Choose your payroll way

Three ways to do payroll with Popay

Keep what works, run it yourself, or hand it over. Same platform underneath.

Keep · connect

Payroll Hub

Keep your provider. We connect it.

Best when your provider works fine and the pain is the manual glue between HR and payroll.

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Switch · self-run

Popay Payroll

Our native engine. You run it.

Best when you want one engine across >40 countries and control in-house. Native where payroll is hardest.

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Switch · we run it

Managed payroll

Our engine. We run it for you.

Best when you'd rather hand payroll over and just approve. Take all of it, or just the pieces.

One platform underneath

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.