Encrypted, always
Data encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based permissions so people see only the records their job requires.
Organised the way you'd use it, not the way it was built. Pick a stage.
From public job posting to signed offer, with AI-assisted grading.
A branded careers page feeding a Kanban hiring pipeline, no more CVs scattered across three inboxes.
Automatic scoring on CV, skills, experience, education and culture fit, so screening starts from a ranked list.
Structured narrowing with a record of who was cut and why, defensible if anyone asks.
Structured scorecards against defined criteria at every stage.
Consolidated sign-off across HR, department head and CEO or MD in one view.
Dynamic placeholders, digital signing and response tracking, no printing, no chasing.
Contracts, documents and Day 1 checklists that run themselves.
Status dashboard for Active, Draft, Expired and Terminated, with a nightly job that auto-expires lapsed contracts.
Warnings at 90, 30 and 7 days to both HR and the employee, plus a guided renewal flow with digital signing.
Legally binding signing with timestamp and IP audit trail, version history and one-click restore.
ID, KRA PIN, NSSF and SHIF numbers, certificates and bank details, requested and chased automatically.
Reusable templates with due-dated tasks, mentor assignment and overdue-task alerts.
Every new hire gets their own account from day one, with orientation materials in the portal.
GPS-verified hours, effortless time off, handled by the people it affects.
Location captured on every clock-in and clock-out, with approval flows for late, early or unusual-location events.
Fingerprint, face and iris devices push clock events straight into attendance. Only timestamps are stored, never images.
Forgotten shifts close automatically, so nobody bills fourteen hours because they left without clocking out.
Define your own leave types and carry-forward policies, with business-day calculation that excludes weekends automatically.
Requests route to the right manager wherever they are, with handover selection and supporting-document upload.
Captured, approved and passed into payroll at the correct multiplier, with ISO-8601 weekly statistics.
Staff update profiles, download payslips and tax forms, apply for leave and accept or decline assets themselves.
Reporting lines that update as people join, move and leave, exportable as PNG or PDF.
Overtime, status and weekly statistics, exportable to Excel and PDF.
Compliant payroll across 36+ markets, on autopilot.
Kenya's PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, Housing Levy and NITA. Tanzania's PSSSF, SDL and WCF. Rwanda's RSSB and CBHI. Nigeria's PenCom and NHF. Ghana's SSNIT tiers. South Africa's UIF and SDL. And equivalents beyond.
The formats each authority actually accepts, KRA P9A and P10 CSV, NSSF and SHIF Excel templates, TRA PAYE returns, SARS EMP201 and IRP5, GRA and SSNIT schedules, PenCom remittance files.
Retrospective runs use the rates in force for that pay period, not today's. Back-pay and corrections compute correctly.
Personal, insurance, housing and market-specific equivalents applied without anyone remembering to.
Casual and low-income staff aren't over-deducted anywhere. Kenya's NSSF floor at 9,000 and housing levy floor at 24,000, Uganda's NSSF floor at 235,000, Tanzania's 270,000 threshold and Ghana's minimum SSNIT base are all applied automatically.
Official government-approved layouts with employer and employee detail, generated individually or as a batch ZIP.
Service pay, gratuity, accrued leave payout and notice-in-lieu, with exit-type logic for resignation, redundancy, retirement or dismissal.
Tiered plans with employer and employee splits, GL codes, eligibility by country and service length, and currency conversion.
Student loans including HELB, company loans and salary advances, amortised and tracked throughout.
Process the whole payroll at once with per-employee customisation where you need it.
Every export logged, and prior periods re-generatable for amendments.
Grow, measure and reward your people.
SMART goal setting, configurable review cycles and 360° feedback from manager, self, peer and subordinate.
A five-tab appraisal with auto-save, a clear 5-point scale, and self-versus-manager scoring side by side in one branded PDF.
The four-perspective framework, Financial, Customer, Internal Process, Learning & Growth, with goal cascading and radar charts.
30 to 90-day improvement plans with SMART goals, coaching actions, progress notes and defined mid-point and final reviews.
Course builder with videos, PDFs and quizzes; automatic branded certificates; completion, training-hours and ROI reporting.
Let your own experts teach, validated through four-stage sign-off, trainer, trainee, manager, HR, before it counts.
Model named scenarios like growth or cost reduction, with attrition events and side-by-side headcount and cost comparison.
Readiness tiers and bench-strength metrics, so you know where the single points of failure are.
Auto-generated clearance checklists, configurable exit interviews, asset return and IT deactivation, linked to final pay.
Safer workplaces, fairer processes and documented follow-through.
Record hazards, incidents, inspections and corrective actions, with owners and due dates that keep safety work moving.
Manage grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations and other concerns in secure, structured case files.
Guide workplace disputes through conversations, mediation, investigation and escalation with a fair documented process.
Publish policies, collect employee acknowledgements and keep review dates visible.
Monitor safety training, inspections, actions and mandatory requirements by team, location or role.
Protect sensitive case and occupational health information with role-based access and a complete history of changes.
Insight, control and enterprise administration for better decisions.

Dashboards and scheduled reports across employees, attendance, leave and payroll.
Model headcount, cost, attrition and hiring scenarios side by side.
Pre-configured local rules across 36+ countries with flexible employee assignments.
Automated priority alerts and broadcasts across in-app, email and mobile push.
Central administration for country rules, company information, roles and templates.
Statutory engine
Rates are effective-dated in the system, so a retrospective payroll run uses the rates in force for that pay period, which is what makes back-pay and corrections computable rather than manual.
Filed with KRA by the 9th. Every month, without a reminder.
URA returns prepared in the format they actually accept.
Four separate statutory obligations. One payroll run.
When GRA changes the return format, we change with it.
Security & controls
We treat it that way. Croma Interactive is registered with Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner under the Data Protection Act, 2019.
Data encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based permissions so people see only the records their job requires.
Every change to every record, who, what, when, and the value before and after. Exportable for your auditors.
Maker-checker on payroll runs and salary changes. Nobody moves money on their own signature.
The honest comparison
Questions
Most businesses run their first payroll within a week. We import your existing employee data and payroll history at no charge, then run a parallel payroll so you can check our numbers against yours before committing to anything.
We update the platform, usually within days of gazettement. Rates are effective-dated, so retrospective runs still use the rates in force for that period. You do nothing, your next payroll is simply correct.
Croma Interactive is registered with Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner under the Data Protection Act 2019. Two-factor authentication is mandatory for administrators, with a five-level role hierarchy and row-level data isolation.
Yes, 36+ countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe, with pre-configured tax brackets, deductions, reliefs and labour laws. Country can be set company-wide or per employee.
Yes, casuals, contractors, part-timers and fixed-term staff, each with the statutory treatment it attracts. Lower earnings limits mean low-income staff are never over-deducted: Kenya's NSSF floor at 9,000 and housing levy floor at 24,000, Uganda's NSSF floor at 235,000, Tanzania's 270,000 threshold and Ghana's minimum SSNIT base of GHS 539.19 are all applied without anyone remembering to.
Payroll journals export by cost centre, department or project in a format your accountant can post directly. If you're on CromaLedger, it posts automatically.
Then the useful question is when it last updated for a statutory change, and who did it. Book a free compliance check and we'll tell you honestly whether switching is worth it. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say so.
CromaHR is HR and payroll software built for African businesses. It covers hiring, onboarding, time and attendance, leave, payroll, statutory compliance, performance and analytics, all in one platform. You run it yourself, or we can run payroll for you.
No, CromaHR is software. Your team uses it to manage HR and payroll. If you would rather not run payroll yourself, we offer a separate managed payroll service on the same platform, but the software itself is not outsourcing.
Workflows, approval chains, role-based access levels, email alerts, document templates and company branding are all configurable. Start from a default template and adjust, or build from scratch. Changes take effect immediately and are logged in the audit trail.
Yes. Contracts, offer letters, policies and statutory forms are all digital with e-signatures. New starters complete their details online, upload documents themselves, and sign what needs signing before day one. No printing, no filing cabinets.
Payroll runs in KES, UGX, TZS, GHS, NGN, RWF, ZAR and USD. The interface is in English, and payslips can be generated in the local language of each market where one is commonly used in employment documents.
You are billed monthly on the same date each month, by the employee count processed in that period. Pay by bank transfer, card or mobile money (M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money). Annual plans are billed upfront with a two-month discount.
Yes. Employee records, payroll history, leave balances and audit trails export to Excel or CSV at any time. If you decide CromaHR is not for you, we hand back your data in a structured format with no argument and no exit fee.
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