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Built by operators. Not just engineers.

We ran payroll before we built this.

We know what it costs to get it wrong. CromaHR exists because the people who built it spent years on the other side of the audit, finding the payroll errors, writing them up, and watching businesses discover them far too late.

Who we are

Croma Interactive Limited.

A Nairobi-based technology company that designs and builds business software for African enterprises. Incorporated in April 2025, we develop a growing suite of software-as-a-service products spanning human resources, payroll, procurement, accounting, enterprise resource planning and internal audit, the core systems that run the work behind any organisation.

Every product we build shares one conviction: software created with a genuine understanding of the local regulatory and operational environment will always outperform software merely adapted to it. We don't localise global tools. We build for the realities our clients work in, from statutory deductions and filing deadlines to the way businesses on this continent actually operate.

CromaHR is led by a Certified Internal Auditor with over twelve years in risk, controls and governance, which is why the platform runs on audit-grade controls rather than guesswork.

We built this because we lived the problem. We think you'll feel the difference.
Croma Interactive Limited
CromaHR sign-in screen
CromaHR sign-inWorkFlow & Payroll Management System

Our purpose

Why we exist, and where we are going.

Our mission

To empower African and global enterprises with HR tools that eliminate operational anxiety, protect payroll integrity, and unlock the full potential of their people.

Our vision

A future where the complexity of managing people is never a barrier to building a great organisation.

Our values

The principles behind every decision we make.

Transparency

Every figure should be explainable. If an employee asks how their payslip was calculated, the system should answer, not the HR manager from memory.

Simplicity

Payroll is complicated enough. The software shouldn't add to it. If a feature needs a training session to understand, we designed it badly.

Trust

We hold the most sensitive data a business has. That comes with obligations we take seriously, documented rather than asserted.

Empathy

Behind every line in a payroll register is someone waiting to be paid correctly and on time. That's the actual job.

Proof

A 60-person services firm, before and after.

They were running payroll across three spreadsheets, manually calculating PAYE and NSSF every month. Then they switched.

FASTER PAYROLL CLOSE
65%LESS HR ADMIN TIME
3 daysSAVED EVERY MONTH
$0COMPLIANCE PENALTIES

Zero statutory filing errors in the first quarter, and a full audit trail available instantly. MD, Flooring & Interiors Ltd

The Flooring & Interiors team at work
Flooring & Interiors Ltd60 people, Nairobi

What clients say

In their words.

Everything we used to track in multiple systems is now in one place. Simple and reliable.
Mo Iqbal
Mo IqbalFounder, ARYU Advertising
PTO applications and approvals automation have lessened the hustle of employees filling in manual forms.
Derrick South
Derrick SouthOps Director, ITS
CromaHR replaced spreadsheets, cut down errors, and handed us full control of HR management and payroll.
Solomon Wambua
Solomon WambuaCEO, Brand Delight / PlayDen

The wider platform

CromaHR is one part of a bigger system.

Croma Interactive builds the core systems that run the work behind any organisation. Start with payroll and add the rest as you need it, same login, same data, same standards.

Croma Interactive Portfolio
Croma Interactive product suite
CromaHR

HR and payroll across the full employee lifecycle, with statutory compliance for 36+ countries.

CromaRFx

Procurement and sourcing, requisitions, tenders, supplier evaluation and award, with the trail intact.

Cromatica

Accounting and ERP with industry modes for general business, construction and manufacturing.

Probetas

Internal audit management, planning, fieldwork, findings and follow-up, built by auditors for auditors.

Where we work

36+ countries. Four regions. Deep roots in East and West Africa.

Purpose-built around Kenyan statutory requirements, then extended across Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe with pre-configured tax brackets, deductions, reliefs and labour laws for each country.

Kenya

PAYE, NSSF Tier I and II, SHIF, Affordable Housing Levy, NITA, HELB. KRA P9A and P10 CSV exports.

Tanzania

PAYE, NSSF and PSSSF, Workers Compensation Fund, Skills Development Levy. TRA returns and schedules.

Ghana

PAYE, SSNIT Tiers 1, 2 and 3. GRA and SSNIT schedules, including Form DT-0107a.

Uganda

PAYE under URA bands, NSSF employer and employee contributions, Local Service Tax.

Rwanda

PAYE, RSSB pension, maternity contributions and CBHI.

Nigeria

PAYE, PenCom pension remittance files and the National Housing Fund.

South Africa

PAYE, UIF and SDL, with SARS EMP201 and IRP5 generation.

And 29 more

Pre-configured tax, statutory and labour-law settings, with public-holiday notifications three days ahead.

Get in touch

Piano House, Westlands.

Croma Interactive Limited
Piano House, 8th Floor
Brookside Drive, Westlands
Nairobi, Kenya

Email
sales@cromainteractive.com

Phone
+254 713 991 166  |  +254 713 991 166

Registered with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner under the Data Protection Act, 2019.

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