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Configure each country
Pre-built templates for every African country we support. PAYE bands, statutory rates, public holidays, leave rules — already there. Just tick what applies.
Payroll for the entire continent — in one cycle
Multi-Country Payroll
Done in One Run.
Compliant in Every Country.
Stop running 7 separate payrolls in 7 spreadsheets. SmartHR Africa runs every country's payroll together — Kenya PAYE, Nigerian pension, South African UIF, Ugandan NSSF — each in local currency, each correct, all in one cycle.
40+ African countries
Auto rate updates
Local-language payslips
May 2026 · 5 countries · 1 cycle
Approved
🇰🇪
Kenya
87 employees
12.4M
KES
🇳🇬
Nigeria
104 employees
85.6M
NGN
🇺🇬
Uganda
42 employees
320M
UGX
🇿🇦
South Africa
56 employees
1.8M
ZAR
🇬🇭
Ghana
31 employees
940K
GHS
Consolidated total
$1.84M USD
Sound familiar?
Multi-country payroll, the way it usually goes.
Seven payrolls in seven systems
Kenya runs on one tool, Nigeria on another, Ghana in spreadsheets. Reconciling them at month-end takes the finance team three full days.
You learned about the rate change from the news
KRA announced new SHIF rates on Monday. Your accountant told you on Friday — after the payroll already went out at the old rate.
Your Senegalese employee can't read their payslip
Their payslip is in English. They've asked three times. Nobody in HQ has time to translate 60 payslips into French each month.
The CFO wants USD; the accountants only speak local
Every month the finance team manually converts each country to USD for the board pack — using last month's FX rate, which is wrong by the time the meeting happens.
The end-to-end flow
From config to payment — across every country.
No country left behind. No spreadsheets. No copy-paste between tools.
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Run multi-country payroll
One dashboard. One click. Each country runs in its own currency with its own statutory rules — but in the same cycle.
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Approve, country or all
Country payroll managers approve theirs. Group CFO sees consolidated USD view and approves the lot. Audit log captures every step.
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Pay via local rails
M-PESA, mobile money, bank transfer, cheque. The right format for the right country, generated automatically.
Statutory rules, built in
Every country's rules, already configured.
PAYE, pension, health, training levies — every contribution every African tax authority asks for. We maintain the rates so your team never has to.
🇰🇪
Kenya
KRA · KES
- PAYE
- NSSF
- SHIF
- NITA
- Affordable Housing
Auto-updated
🇳🇬
Nigeria
FIRS · NGN
- PAYE
- Pension
- NHF
- NSITF
- ITF
- EDT
Auto-updated
🇿🇦
South Africa
SARS · ZAR
- PAYE
- UIF
- SDL
- PIT
Auto-updated
🇺🇬
Uganda
URA · UGX
- PAYE
- NSSF
- LST
Auto-updated
🇹🇿
Tanzania
TRA · TZS
- PAYE
- NSSF
- WCF
- SDL
Auto-updated
🇬🇭
Ghana
GRA · GHS
- PAYE
- SSNIT
- NHIL
- GETFL
- COVID Levy
Auto-updated
🇪🇬
Egypt
ETA · EGP
- Income Tax
- Social Insurance
Auto-updated
🇲🇦
Morocco
DGI · MAD
- IGR
- CNSS
- AMO
Auto-updated
Don't see your country? See all 40+ countries we support →
Multi-currency, two-way
Local for compliance. USD for the boardroom.
Statutory authorities want their data in their currency. Your CFO wants the consolidated total in USD or EUR. Both views, same source of truth, real-time.
- Local-currency payslips and statutory filings — the format the tax authority expects.
- Live or month-end FX (configurable) for consolidated reporting.
- Consolidated dashboards in USD, EUR, GBP, or any reporting currency.
- Per-country variance reports flag if a country's spend deviates from budget.
Consolidated Payroll
$1.84M USD · May 2026
🇰🇪
Kenya
53%
$96K
🇳🇬
Nigeria
30%
$54K
🇿🇦
South Africa
8%
$97K
🇺🇬
Uganda
5%
$85K
🇬🇭
Ghana
4%
$63K
Employees
320
Statutory
$340K
Net pay
$1.50M
Statutory rate management
When KRA changes the rules, your payroll already knows.
Every African tax authority changes rates on their own schedule. Most payroll systems make you wait for a vendor update, install a plugin, or call your accountant. Ours pushes new rates to every customer the same week.
🇰🇪 Kenya · NHIF → SHIF
Oct 2024
Kenya replaced NHIF with the Social Health Insurance Fund. Customer payroll runs the next pay cycle used SHIF rates automatically. No plugin update.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · PAYE bands
Recurring
New tax bands take effect each fiscal year. Pushed before the first January payroll cycle, every year, without action from customer admins.
🇿🇦 South Africa · UIF cap
Annual
UIF earnings ceiling adjusts each year. Caps refresh automatically; customers see the change in the next month's payslips with audit trail.
No plugin updates. No redeployment. Customers using SmartHR Africa never need to think about statutory rates. We do it for them.
Africa-first detail
Payslips in the language your employee actually reads.
A payslip your employee can't read isn't a payslip — it's a complaint waiting to happen. SmartHR generates payslips in each employee's preferred language, automatically.
English
Français
Português
العربية
Kiswahili
አማርኛ
Other languages available in 1-2 weeks on request.
Bulletin de Paie
Mai 2026 · Mariama D.
Salaire brut450,000 XOF
IRPP−42,300
CSS / Retraite−24,750
IPM (santé)−13,500
Salaire net
369,450 XOF
Pays out where your employees actually bank.
Mobile money in East Africa. Bank transfer everywhere. Payment files in the format every African bank expects — no copy-paste between systems.
🇰🇪
M-PESA
🇺🇬
MTN MoMo
🇹🇿
Airtel Money
🇸🇳
Orange Money
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Bank Transfer
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Cheque
Accounting: QuickBooks · Xero · Sage · NetSuite
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Banking: Standard Chartered · Equity · Stanbic · Ecobank
Common questions about multi-country payroll
Don't see yours? Ask the team →
Yes. Every country we support has its full PAYE band structure pre-configured, including all reliefs and exemptions. When tax authorities update rates (e.g. KRA in Kenya, SARS in South Africa, FIRS in Nigeria), updates push automatically — your next payroll uses the new rates.
Yes. One payroll cycle, multiple countries, each country running on its own currency and statutory rules. CFOs see a consolidated view in USD or EUR; country HR teams see local-currency reports.
Payslips are generated in the employee's preferred language. We support English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili, and Amharic out of the box; other languages can be added in 1-2 weeks.
Within days of an official change. When Kenya replaced NHIF with SHIF in October 2024, our Kenyan customers' next payroll used the new SHIF rates automatically. Same for Nigerian PAYE band changes, South African UIF caps, and similar. No plugin updates, no redeployment.
Yes. Each payroll run produces a journal export grouped by country, cost centre, and (for NGOs) grant. Mappings supported for QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, NetSuite, and most local accounting packages.
Pro-rata is calculated automatically by working day, applying the country's legal rules for partial periods. Mid-cycle salary changes generate the right pro-rata amount on the next payroll without manual intervention.
Every payroll run is locked once approved. An auditor (KRA, FIRS, SARS, URA, etc.) gets a dedicated read-only login or a signed PDF pack covering any period — employees, gross, deductions, net, employer contributions, with the rules used at the time.
Yes. Direct M-PESA disbursement in Kenya, MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money in Uganda and Tanzania. For other countries we generate the country's standard bulk-payment file — no copy-paste between systems.
Ready to consolidate your payroll?
Tell us your countries. We'll show you a real demo run with your actual statutory mix — Kenya PAYE, Nigerian pension, South African UIF — in one cycle.