Built in Ghana, for Ghanaian payroll.
Payro is payroll software for Ghanaian companies of five to a hundred and fifty staff who currently run the most important calculation in the business on a spreadsheet.
Why this exists
Most Ghanaian SMEs run payroll in a spreadsheet, with the PAYE table open in another window. It works, until someone leaves mid-month, or a bonus crosses the concession cap, or SSNIT raises the insurable earnings ceiling in January and the formula in row 34 does not know.
The failures are quiet. An employee is under-deducted for eight months and gets a bill. A schedule goes to the GRA with a figure nobody can reconstruct. A departing employee asks for a payslip from March and there is a file, but nobody can say what it was based on.
The maths is not hard. It is published. What is hard is applying it correctly to sixty people, every month, while someone is on leave and someone else was promoted on the 14th, and still being able to explain any figure a year later.
What we decided differently
Ghana’s statutory rules are not written into the code. They are versioned data with effective dates (bands, tiers, reliefs, caps, minimum wage) and every payroll run records the version it used.
That one decision changes what the software can promise. History reproduces exactly. A rate change is an administrative edit, tested against a real employee before it is published, rather than a release you wait for. And nothing is ever invented: where legislation has passed but no gazetted figures exist, it is listed as pending, publicly, instead of being guessed at.
Ghana is the launch market and the only one we claim to understand. The architecture takes other countries as a rule set plus a calculator, but we would rather be genuinely right about one country than approximately right about ten.
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Ghana is the only market we claim to understand.
The architecture takes other countries as a rule set plus a calculator. We would still rather be genuinely right about one country than approximately right about ten.
How we decide things
Five principles, applied in this order when they conflict.
- Correctness before speed
- Statutory maths, permissions and tenancy are never traded for convenience. If a shortcut would make payroll faster and slightly less certain, we do not take it.
- Show the working
- Every figure can be explained. Open any payslip line and you see the base, the rate and the rule version that produced it. Software that says 'trust me' about someone's salary has not earned it.
- Fast on the paths people walk every month
- Adding an employee and running payroll are guided, short and forgiving. The rare tasks can be a few clicks longer; the monthly ones cannot.
- Decide, don't decorate
- The dashboard opens on what needs action and what it costs. No vanity statistics, no charts that answer a question nobody asked.
- Configuration over code
- Rates, plans, pay types and policies are data. When the GRA moves a band, that is an edit and a new version, with no release and no waiting.
Where we are
Payro is early. The product is complete for monthly Ghanaian payroll, from employees and compensation through the guided run, payslips, statutory schedules, leave, attendance, loans, reports and billing. We are looking for the companies who will tell us what we got wrong.
We do not have customer logos to show you, so we are not going to invent any. What we can show you is every statutory figure the engine applies, where each one came from, and the software doing the work on your own numbers.