Pay & compliance
Statutory rates change on their own schedule and rarely together. StepUp holds each one as versioned data against the date it takes effect, so a mid-year change applies forward without rewriting the runs before it.
Scheduled pay runs, multi-currency processing, automatic salary calculations and recurring allowances or deductions — committed in a single pass.
PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy calculated at current rates, with returns generated for filing.
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Ethiopia & Burundi
Localized tax regimes, currencies and statutory rules per country, versioned against the date each one takes effect.
Payslips generated and delivered to email or the self-service portal automatically.

Time & attendance
Attendance is only worth collecting if it cannot be gamed — and it feeds payroll, which makes a soft register expensive. Presence is verified at the terminal or against the branch radius, then carried straight into the pay run.
Apply, approve and track leave end to end, with attendance feeding straight into the pay run.
Roster templates, shift-swap requests and rule-based overtime across every branch.
Fingerprint and facial terminals, plus mobile clock-in verified inside a branch radius.

People & lifecycle
Joining and leaving are where things get missed: a contract unsigned, an asset unreturned, a settlement assembled by hand. Each step is a tracked record rather than an email thread.
Job posts, applications and interview stages tracked through to offer.
Digital intake through to exit and final dues, with every step recorded.
Staff request leave, download payslips and update their own details without emailing HR.
Contracts, IDs and compliance files stored against the employee record they belong to.
Generate contracts, capture electronic signatures and store the signed copy.

Growth & insight
The value is rarely in one record; it is in the pattern across thousands. Performance, attendance, training and survey data sit together, which is what lets a survey answer explain a retention number.
KPI and OKR tracking, structured appraisal cycles and peer reviews.
Live headcount, attendance and payroll figures, exportable as PDF or CSV per branch.
Surfaces who is most likely to leave, and which departments carry the risk.
Programmes, enrolment and skills tracked against each employee profile.
Build questionnaires, collect responses and read the results back by team.
Assisted insight across attrition signals, performance trends and survey responses.

Platform
Once there is a second site, the question becomes who works where, reporting to whom, and who may see it. The hierarchy is modelled directly, and access follows it.
Branch, department and role hierarchies, with data scoped to each site.
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.

A live walkthrough tailored to your statutory requirements, branch structure and team size — not a generic recording.