Payroll & HR software for Kenyan businesses
Run payroll, manage employees, and stay compliant with KRA, SHIF, NSSF, and AHL — without spreadsheets.
From your first employee to your hundredth, PawaHR helps you run payroll, manage people, and stay ahead of statutory changes.
Statutory rules change. Your payroll shouldn't fall behind.
Automatically calculate PAYE, SHIF, NSSF, and the Affordable Housing Levy for all staff. Generate P9A cards and SHIF and NSSF remittance files. Stay ready for KRA — without manual updates.
Last updated: September 2026
Everything your business needs
One place to run payroll and manage your team.
Payroll engine
Run monthly payroll with overtime, allowances, and deductions such as loan repayments calculated for you.
Bank payments
Export a bank payment file to pay your whole team at once. M-Pesa payouts are coming soon.
Employee records
Employment contracts, ID and statutory documents, role changes, and personal details, kept in one place.
Leave & attendance
Track leave balances, approvals, and attendance without chasing emails.
Employee self-service
Staff view payslips, request leave, and update details from their phone or computer.
Reports & insights
Payroll summaries, statutory reports, and each employee's total cost to the company.
Made for Kenyan businesses that are growing
- SMEs and growing teams
- Startups hiring their first employees
- Multi-branch businesses — branch support coming soon
- Finance and HR teams
- Businesses moving off Excel and manual payroll
- Founders and operations leads
Get compliant payroll running in three steps
Add your employees
Set each employee's salary, allowances, and deductions.
Run payroll
Review automatically calculated statutory deductions before approving.
Pay and file
Pay through your bank with an exported payment file, then export your statutory reports for KRA.
Switching from spreadsheets or a legacy system?
We'll help you move your employee records, pay scales, and deductions across — and you can run PawaHR alongside your current payroll until you're confident.
- Guided setup We help you import your records and check your first payroll run with you.
- Parallel run Run PawaHR alongside your current system before switching.
- Your data stays yours Your records belong to your business, and payroll and statutory reports can be exported whenever you need them.
Control who sees your payroll data
Role-based access, encryption, and audit trails. Give the right people the right level of access — without exposing sensitive salary information.
Encrypted in transit
Every connection to PawaHR uses HTTPS.
Role-based access
Admin, HR, Manager, and Employee roles see only what they need. Sensitive actions are limited by role and logged.
Audit logs
Every sensitive action is tracked and immutable. You can see who changed what, when.
Works with the tools you already use
PawaHR prepares payment files for Kenyan banks and exports your data in standard formats. M-Pesa payouts are coming soon.
M-Pesa — coming soon
Pay staff straight to their phones. Until then, bank payment files work today.
Kenyan banks
A payment file export for paying salaries through your bank.
Exports
Download payroll, statutory and employee data as files your accountant or accounting software can use.
Business questions, answered
The things Kenyan business owners and HR managers ask us about getting started with PawaHR.
Monthly. Weekly and daily pay aren't supported yet.
Not yet. Today PawaHR prepares a payment file for your bank; M-Pesa payouts are coming soon.
Yes. PAYE, SHIF, NSSF, and the Affordable Housing Levy are calculated automatically for every staff member on every monthly payroll run, and P9A cards and SHIF and NSSF remittance files come from the same run. Statutory rates are reviewed whenever KRA, SHA, or NSSF publish changes.
Every connection to PawaHR is encrypted, access is controlled through role-based permissions — Admin, HR, Manager, and Employee each see only what they should — and every sensitive action is audit-logged.
Yes. Request early access, or book a demo to see it first.
It depends on how your records are kept today. You can import employee data from a CSV file or add people one by one, then set up leave policies and payroll settings. We'll help you import your records and check your first payroll run with you.
Be among the first
Join the waitlist and get early access to PawaHR before public launch.
- Early access before public launch
- Dedicated onboarding support
- Direct input on features