One place for everything
Manage the day to day
A cloud-based Human Resource Management System
Headcount, planned absences, onboarding and compliance gaps — surfaced the moment you sign in, across every branch.
Key modules
Manage your workforce with powerful tools.
A comprehensive suite of HRMS modules, from employee management to payroll processing, built to streamline your HR operations.
Payroll Automation
Scheduled pay runs, multi-currency processing, automatic salary calculations and recurring allowances or deductions — committed in a single pass.
Leave & Attendance
Apply, approve and track leave end to end, with attendance feeding straight into the pay run.
Workshift Management
Roster templates, shift-swap requests and rule-based overtime across every branch.
Employee Self-Service
Staff request leave, download payslips and update their own details without emailing HR.
Document Management
Contracts, IDs and compliance files stored against the employee record they belong to.
Recruitment Management
Job posts, applications and interview stages tracked through to offer.
Performance Tracking
KPI and OKR tracking, structured appraisal cycles and peer reviews.
Real-Time Analytics & Reporting
Live headcount, attendance and payroll figures, exportable as PDF or CSV per branch.
KRA, NSSF & SHIF Compliance
PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy calculated at current rates, with returns generated for filing.
Multi-Country Payroll
Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda & more
Localized tax regimes, currencies and statutory rules per country, versioned against the date each one takes effect.
Biometric, GPS Clock-In & Geofencing
Fingerprint and facial terminals, plus mobile clock-in verified inside a branch radius.
Attrition Risk Modeling
Surfaces who is most likely to leave, and which departments carry the risk.
Enterprise Multi-Branch Support
Branch, department and role hierarchies, with data scoped to each site.
Digital E-Onboarding & Offboarding
Digital intake through to exit and final dues, with every step recorded.
Training & Skills Management
Programmes, enrolment and skills tracked against each employee profile.
Questionnaires & Employee Surveys
Build questionnaires, collect responses and read the results back by team.
Automated Payslip Delivery
Payslips generated and delivered to email or the self-service portal automatically.
E-Contract Signing
Generate contracts, capture electronic signatures and store the signed copy.
Integrations with Oracle, QuickBooks & Microsoft 365
plus API customizations
Push payroll journals to your accounting ERP, sync identities from Microsoft 365, and wire anything bespoke through webhooks and a documented API.
Artificial Intelligence HR Features
Assisted insight across attrition signals, performance trends and survey responses.
Testimonials
“To be honest, running payroll for a retail business with constant mid-month changes was a nightmare. StepUp sorted that out. No more endless spreadsheets and manual tax calculations.”
“Our staff love that they can just download their payslips and P9 forms directly from their phones instead of calling finance every month. It cuts out a huge amount of back-and-forth.”
“Our agents are out at viewings far more than they are at a desk, so attendance and commission were always reconciled after the fact. Having clock-ins tied to the branch and commissions feeding straight into the pay run turned month-end from a week of chasing into an afternoon.”
“Tracking NSSF and SHIF changes by hand across branches was a risk we did not need to carry. StepUp applies each statutory update from the date it takes effect, so our returns reconcile without anyone re-checking payslips line by line.”
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Keep your people connected, productive and engaged with intuitive workplace software that makes life easier for everyone.
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Where we operate
Built for the markets you operate in.
One payroll engine, four statutory regimes. Rates and bands are versioned per country, so adding a market is a configuration change — not a rebuild.
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Rwanda
Plus more countries. Rates, bands and statutory rules are versioned data rather than code, so a new market goes live without a rebuild.
Running payroll across East Africa means four tax authorities, four sets of contribution ceilings and four filing calendars, and they rarely move together. Kenya’s NSSF tiers change on a different schedule to Uganda’s, Tanzania layers on employer-side levies that never touch an employee’s net pay, and Rwanda splits pension from maternity contributions before community health insurance is even considered. Most finance teams absorb all of this with a spreadsheet per country and one person who quietly remembers every exception, which holds together right up until that person is on leave in the week a rate changes or a filing deadline lands on a public holiday in only one of the four markets.
StepUp treats that variation as data rather than as special cases buried in code. Every rate, band, ceiling and relief is versioned against the date it takes effect, so a mid-year statutory change applies from that day forward without retroactively rewriting the runs that came before it, and last year’s payslips still reconcile against last year’s rules. Payslips, statutory returns and bank files are produced in local currency, per legal entity, from a single pay run — and because adding a market means adding its rules rather than rebuilding the engine, the four countries above are a starting point rather than a ceiling.
Why StepUp
Why teams choose StepUp.
We are the people-management platform for growing African companies — payroll, HR and employee benefits handled in one place, so your team can focus on growth.
Built for African employers
Localized payroll, statutory deductions and P9 forms — configured for the markets you actually operate in, not retrofitted from elsewhere.
Fully compliant
Stay aligned with local labor law and statutory filing requirements, with the paperwork generated for you every cycle.
Pay employees on time, every time
Run payroll across branches in a single pass, with bank and mobile-wallet payouts that land the same day.
One system, every branch
Headcount, attendance, leave and performance in one place — so HR stops reconciling spreadsheets and starts making decisions.
Transform your HR operations with StepUp’s modern HRMS platform.
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Most teams still run people data by hand.
Spreadsheets emailed between branches, attendance books, and a folder someone hopes is the current one. It works until headcount doubles or an auditor asks for last March.
StepUp runs on a cloud-based architecture with distributed processing, so a pay run for twenty people and one for twenty thousand follow the same path — nothing to provision, no overnight batch window, and no rebuild when you outgrow the shape you started in.
