HR & Payroll Compliance Software for SEA (2026)
Find the best localized HRIS and payroll software to automate CPF, SSS, and BPJS compliance across Southeast Asia.
Global HR tools struggle with SEA's fragmented labor laws. For Singapore, **Talenox** simplifies CPF calculations. For the Philippines, **Sprout Solutions** is the standard for managing complex shift differentials and SSS reporting. If you need regional coverage across multiple SEA countries, **Employment Hero** and **Omni HR** provide strong multi-country payroll compliance.
The Tools in Detail
Talenox
HR · From SGD 5/employee/month · SEA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong · EN / ZH
Talenox is a Singapore-headquartered cloud HR, payroll, and leave management SaaS used heavily by Singaporean, Malaysian, and Hong Kong SMEs under 50 staff. Strong Singapore CPF, IRAS auto-inclusion scheme, and Malaysian EPF/SOCSO compliance built in, with cleaner UX than most local payroll tools.
Talenox owns the SGP-MY-HK SME payroll niche at the bottom of the price stack. Pricing starts at SGD 5 per employee per month and tops out around SGD 10 per employee on the premium tier. For a 15-person Singapore startup, Talenox runs SGD 75-150 per month, far below Omni HR or BambooHR equivalents. Where it falls down: thin Indonesian and Vietnamese coverage. For multi-country SEA teams crossing into Indonesia or Vietnam, Omni HR is the better pick. For pure Singapore-Malaysia-Hong Kong SME operations, Talenox is the default.
Best for: Singapore SMEs under 30 staff replacing manual payroll spreadsheets; Malaysian Sdn Bhd companies needing EPF/SOCSO compliance; Hong Kong-headquartered companies with Singapore subsidiaries; Bootstrapped SEA startups wanting cheap HR plumbing
Sprout Solutions
HR & Payroll · Paid · SEA only · en / tl
Sprout Solutions is the leading HR and payroll software in the Philippines, used by 1,000+ companies to run payroll for hundreds of thousands of Filipino workers. It automates SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and BIR computations, and generates Form 2316, 1601-C, and alphalists out of the box. Recent product expansion adds AI-driven workforce intelligence and managed payroll services for SMEs that don't want to run payroll in-house.
Sprout is the most credible HR and payroll system built for the Philippines, including all the messy bits of BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG that global tools like Workday or BambooHR don't handle natively. For Filipino BPOs and SMEs running shift premiums and 13th-month, it removes a category of compliance risk that hand-rolled spreadsheets eventually trigger.
Best for: Philippine SMEs and BPOs of 20-2,000 employees; BPO and contact center operators with shift differentials and night premiums; Multi-entity Philippine groups consolidating payroll across business units; Foreign-owned companies running Philippine subsidiaries needing local compliance
Employment Hero
saas-tools · From USD 8/month · Global · en / ms / th / vi
Employment Hero is an Australian-founded HR and payroll platform with strong traction across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It combines employee records, payroll processing, leave management, onboarding, and an employee benefits marketplace in one system. Unlike single-country payroll tools, Employment Hero supports multi-country payroll from a single dashboard, which is valuable for SEA startups with teams distributed across borders.
Employment Hero handles local payroll compliance for Malaysia (PCB tax, EPF, SOCSO), Singapore (CPF, IR8A filing), and Vietnam (PIT, SHUI) from a single dashboard without needing a separate local payroll bureau. This makes it attractive for SEA startups growing across borders who want to consolidate HR costs. At around $8 per employee per month, it is more accessible than enterprise HRIS tools but more capable than single-country payroll apps.
Best for: Australian companies expanding into Malaysia, Singapore, or Vietnam needing a familiar HR system; SEA startups with 20-200 employees needing automated payroll across multiple countries; Retail and F&B brands managing shift workers and hourly payroll across SEA outlets; HR teams replacing spreadsheet-based payroll with a compliant automated system
Omni HR
saas-tools · From USD 3/month · SEA · en / id / vi / th
Omni HR is a Singapore-headquartered HR platform that consolidates hiring, onboarding, time off, performance, and payroll into a single product. It is one of the few SEA-built HR tools that handles multi-country payroll across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines without forcing you to bolt on a separate provider for each country.
Omni HR was built for the actual reality of hiring in SEA, which usually means a Singapore parent entity and operating teams spread across two or three other countries. Local payroll compliance is handled in-product rather than outsourced, and pricing in USD per employee is reasonable for SEA wages.
Best for: SEA startups scaling from 20 to 200 employees across multiple countries; Singapore HQ with engineering or ops teams in Vietnam and Indonesia; Companies tired of running three different payroll providers per region; HR teams that want one source of truth for SEA workforce data
Gadjian
HR · Paid · Indonesia, SEA · ID / EN
Gadjian is a Jakarta-headquartered cloud HRIS and payroll platform, part of the Fast8 Group ecosystem alongside sister product Hadirr. It automates Indonesian payroll calculation, income tax (PPh 21/26), and BPJS Ketenagakerjaan and BPJS Kesehatan social-security contributions from a single dashboard, and adds HR modules for attendance, leave, KPI/performance, recruitment, and office inventory. It is built for Indonesian PT and CV companies that need statutory payroll compliance handled natively rather than bolted on.
Gadjian is headquartered in Jakarta and built specifically around Indonesian statutory payroll requirements: PPh 21/26 income tax, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan and BPJS Kesehatan social-security contributions, and THR (the mandatory religious-holiday bonus). Indonesian accountants and PT/CV compliance workflows generally require this level of local depth, which is why Gadjian and its direct competitor Talenta are positioned around Indonesian regulation rather than generic multi-country HR.
Best for: Indonesian PT and CV companies handling BPJS and PPh 21 payroll compliance; Indonesian SMEs needing an all-in-one HRIS beyond payroll (attendance, KPI, recruitment); Jakarta-based finance teams calculating THR ahead of religious holidays; Businesses already using sister product Hadirr under the Fast8 Group ecosystem
Swingvy
HR · From SGD 5/month · SEA, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan · EN
Swingvy is a cloud HR and payroll platform built for SMEs in Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan, supporting around 10,000 companies and 200,000 employees. Its payroll engine handles full Malaysian statutory contributions (EPF, SOCSO, EIS, PCB, HRDF, LHDN) and Singapore workflows (CPF, SDL, IR8A), and it is PDPA compliant. Swingvy is a PSG-approved vendor in Singapore (up to 70% grant funding) and integrates with Xero for accounting.
Swingvy's payroll is purpose-built for Malaysian and Singaporean statutory rules: it computes EPF, SOCSO, EIS, PCB, HRDF, and LHDN for Malaysia and CPF, SDL, and IR8A for Singapore, and it is PDPA compliant and PSG-approved in Singapore (eligible for up to 70% grant funding). That local compliance, plus localized country sites for MY, SG, and TW, makes it a direct fit for SEA SMEs over generic global HR tools.
Best for: Malaysian SMEs needing automated EPF, SOCSO, EIS, and PCB payroll; Singapore SMEs running CPF and IR8A payroll and claiming PSG grant funding; Cross-border MY/SG businesses wanting one HR platform with local statutory compliance; Growing SEA startups (under 100 staff) moving HR off spreadsheets
SEA Operational Reasoning
Payroll in Southeast Asia is notoriously complex and highly localized. Every country has distinct statutory contributions (CPF in Singapore, BPJS in Indonesia, SSS/PhilHealth in the Philippines) and strict taxation reporting formats (like IR8A in Singapore or e-Filing in Malaysia). Using spreadsheets or generic global HR software often leads to costly compliance breaches and administrative nightmares. Localized HRIS platforms automate these calculations, generate government-compliant files, and often handle complex attendance rules (like Philippine night shift differentials or Indonesian religious holiday allowances/THR).
The questions operators actually ask.
Can I use Deel or Remote for local employees?
Yes, Employer of Record (EOR) services are great for hiring across borders without a local entity. However, if you already have a registered company in the country, using an EOR is unnecessarily expensive. A localized HRIS is much cheaper for domestic payroll.
What is THR in Indonesia?
Tunjangan Hari Raya (THR) is a mandatory religious holiday allowance in Indonesia, typically equal to one month's salary. Local payroll software automates the calculation and disbursement of THR based on employee tenure.
Does payroll software handle time tracking?
Yes, most modern SEA HR platforms include time and attendance modules with mobile punch-in (often with geo-fencing) to automatically calculate overtime and tardiness deductions before running payroll.