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People and payroll, exact to the shilling.

A modern HRMS with statutory payroll exact to each country we serve — the Kenyan flagship pack computes PAYE bands, NSSF, SHA and Housing Levy precisely every cycle — plus payslips, leave, recruiting, performance and staff micro-learning in one clean system.

PAYE · NSSF · SHA · Housing LevyPayslips & P9-readyLeave & attendanceRecruiting & goals
An HR manager running payroll in Vortex HR & Payroll, with a payslip and PAYE/NSSF/SHA breakdown on screen
Capabilities

The full employee lifecycle

Statutory payroll, exact

Progressive PAYE bands with personal relief, NSSF tiers, SHA (2.75%) and Housing Levy (1.5%) — recomputed correctly when commissions or overtime land, every single period.

Employee records & org

Complete profiles with KRA PIN, NSSF and SHA numbers, branches and payroll groups. Bulk onboarding and clean audit trails.

Leave, attendance & overtime

Requests and approvals, balances, overtime capture that flows straight into gross pay.

Recruiting & interviews

Track applicants, schedule interviews and move candidates through your pipeline to hire.

Goals & performance

Set goals, review progress and tie performance to compensation conversations.

Micro-learning & quizzes

Bite-size staff training and knowledge checks inside the same system people check their payslips in.

Why it matters

Payroll errors are expensive twice

Once in penalties, and again in trust. Vortex HR & Payroll treats statutory computation as sacred code — reviewed against KRA tables, tested against real payslips and consistent whether pay is basic-only or loaded with commissions and allowances.

  • Commission-aware — commissions route through the payslip so PAYE, NSSF, SHA and Housing Levy recompute on the true gross.
  • Branch-aware — multi-branch headcount, costs and statutory summaries at a glance.
  • Integrates with VortexERP — sales commissions computed in the ERP push straight into payroll periods.
Payslip — July 2026
Basic salaryKSh 75,000.00
Allowances (18%)KSh 13,500.00
NSSF− KSh 2,160.00
SHA (2.75%)− KSh 2,433.75
Housing Levy (1.5%)− KSh 1,327.50
PAYE (after relief)− KSh 17,887.10
Net payKSh 64,691.65
FAQ

Questions people ask

Does it compute Kenyan statutory payroll exactly?

Yes — PAYE bands and relief, NSSF, SHA at 2.75% and the Housing Levy at 1.5% are computed exactly, every month.

What does it cover besides payroll?

Leave, attendance, recruiting, performance and one-click payslips — HR and payroll in one system.

Can it handle a large payroll?

Yes. It is built for large Kenyan payrolls and generates payslips at volume, posting straight to the ledger when used with VortexERP.

Cloud or on-premise?

Either — Vortex HR and Payroll deploys in the cloud or on your own servers.

Run one payroll with us.

Bring last month's payroll file — we'll run it in parallel and match it line by line before you switch.

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