Built for this category
Not a generic HR tool with a checkbox for your industry. The workflows, terminology, and reports match how your operation actually runs — because the platform was designed for it from the start.
For organisations operating in 2+ African countries
HR & Payroll Across Multiple African Countries — One Platform
One platform for every country you operate in — consolidated HQ visibility with strict country-level data isolation, multi-currency payroll, and statutory compliance for 40+ African markets.
6
capabilities
12+
African markets
USD
pricing · local currency view
Mobile · USSD · WhatsApp
every device
One platform, every country
Strict country-level data isolation
Multi-currency payroll engine
Statutory compliance per market
Cross-country transfers without service-date loss
Consolidated HQ dashboards
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Connected to payroll
Every event in this module — attendance, leave, timesheet, equipment, incident, performance — flows automatically into the next payroll cycle. No spreadsheet reconciliation, no double entry.
African by design
Statutory rules maintained for 40+ countries, mobile-money payouts, USSD self-service, WhatsApp delivery, multiple languages, offline-capable mobile app for field workers.
The problems we hear most
If any of this sounds familiar,
If any of this sounds familiar,
you're in the right place.
These are the recurring conversations with buyers in this category. We built the platform to retire each of them.
You run a separate payroll system in each country, or worse — a different spreadsheet per finance manager. Headquarters has no real-time view of group headcount or cost.
Salary disbursement happens in 6 different currencies, with FX revaluation handled manually at month-end. Errors slip through almost every cycle.
A senior staff member transfers from Kenya to Tanzania. Their service date breaks. Their leave balance resets. Their pension contributions restart. Nobody notices for 5 months.
Each country office shares one Google Sheet with the global HR director. Kenya can see Nigeria's salaries. Nobody likes it, but it's how reporting works.
A regulatory change in one country (new SHIF in Kenya, new pension rates in Ghana, new minimum wage in South Africa) takes weeks to roll out across your other markets — because nothing is centralised.
What's built in
Features your team will actually use.
Specific tools for this category — not generic HR repackaged. Each card describes what the feature does and how it fits the way you work.
01
One platform, every country
Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt, South Africa — and 40 more — all run from one login. Country HR controls their own market; HQ sees the consolidated view.
02
Strict country-level data isolation
Kenya HR cannot query Uganda payroll data. Permissions are enforced at the database query level, not the UI. Audit-proof by design.
03
Multi-currency payroll engine
Pay each country in local currency. Report consolidated in USD, EUR, GBP — whichever HQ uses. Live or month-end FX rates, configurable per organisation.
04
Statutory compliance per market
Each country's tax tables, social security rates, and statutory deductions are maintained centrally. Rate changes roll out the moment the gazette is published.
05
Cross-country transfers without service-date loss
A staff member moves from Lagos to Johannesburg. Service date preserved. Leave history continues. Pension restarts under new rules. Gratuity entitlement bridges correctly.
06
Consolidated HQ dashboards
Group headcount, payroll cost in any currency, leave liability, attrition, salary band benchmarking across markets. Real-time, no quarterly delay.
Why modules aren't enough
Every event is wired to the next.
Most HR systems sell modules as separate products — and then your team spends every month reconciling between them. SmartHR Africa is one system. Each event in this category flows automatically into the right downstream process.
Country payroll cycle
HQ dashboard
Each country office runs its own payroll. The consolidated headcount and cost view appears in HQ's dashboard the moment it completes — no quarterly reporting delay.
Local-currency salary
USD consolidation
Each country is paid in local currency. Consolidation rolls up to USD (or EUR / GBP) at your chosen FX policy — spot rate, locked monthly, or custom.
Gazette change in one market
Country-specific update
A new SHIF rate in Kenya, a Lagos PAYE band adjustment, a Ghana pension change — applied to that country's engine only, leaving every other country untouched.
Cross-country transfer
Continuous service
A senior officer moves Lagos → Johannesburg. Service date preserved, leave history continues, pension restarts cleanly under new rules, gratuity bridges correctly.
Country HR login
Country-scoped data only
A Kenya HR user — even via the API — cannot retrieve a single Nigeria payroll record. Row-level isolation enforced at the database, not the screen.
Auditor access window
Time-boxed read-only role
Issue an auditor a login scoped to one country and one date range. Access expires automatically at the end of the audit. No firewall changes, no full-system exposure.
Where this matters most
Live across 12 African markets.
Statutory compliance, local-currency payroll, and salary disbursement options in every market we support. Click through to your country page for in-region pricing, statutory rates, and a calculator.
Country-level isolation is enforced at the database query layer. A Kenya HR user account, even logged into the API, cannot retrieve a single Nigeria payroll record. The same applies to regional and country roles. The permissions model is row-level, not screen-level.
Yes — Global Admin roles have full cross-country read access. Write access can be configured per role (e.g. global admin can read all but only country HR can initiate payroll). Every cross-country access is logged.
We support 40+ African countries today including the unusual ones — São Tomé Dobras, Mauritanian Ouguiya, Eritrean Nakfa, South Sudanese Pound. If you operate somewhere we don't support, we add it during onboarding.
You choose: spot rate at run-time, locked rate at start of month, or a custom rate you set. Most multi-country organisations use the start-of-month locked rate — predictable for budgeting, customer-friendly for staff. FX revaluation reports are generated automatically for finance.
The change is applied centrally in the system. Every payroll run after the effective date uses the new rates for that country. Other countries are unaffected. You don't coordinate updates across country HR teams.
For a country we already support: 2–5 business days (entity setup, statutory configuration, user provisioning, data migration). For a country we don't yet support: 4–6 weeks to research and encode the statutory framework, then onboard normally.
Yes. Read-only auditor roles can be scoped to a single country and a date range. Their access ends automatically at the end of the audit window.
Pricing
Simple USD pricing.
Pay per employee, monthly. Local-currency price on every country page — converted at our locked monthly rate.
Starter
Core HR for growing teams
$10.00
/month base
+ $0.50 /employee/month
- Employee records & profiles
- Leave management
- Web attendance with GPS
- Document management
- Employee self-service portal
- Mobile app access
- Email support
Most Popular
Professional
Full HR + payroll, statutory compliance built in
$50.00
/month base
+ $1.50 /employee/month
- Everything in Starter
- Full local-currency payroll
- Statutory compliance (PAYE / NSSF / NHIF / etc.)
- Performance management
- Recruitment & onboarding
- Expense claims & loans
- Training & certifications
- WhatsApp & SMS notifications
- Priority support
Business
Multi-country operations, full automation
$100.00
/month base
+ $3.00 /employee/month
- Everything in Professional
- Multi-country dashboard
- Projects & timesheets (NGO/donor reporting)
- Biometric device integration
- API access
- White-label option
- Dedicated account manager
- SLA-backed support
See pricing in your local currency on any country page →
See it work on your data.
30 minutes with our team. Bring your countries, your headcount, and the questions your finance and HR leads keep asking — we'll walk you through every module relevant to your operation.