SYNC

HR & Payroll

HR and payroll software for small businesses

Payroll, attendance, leave, loans and recruitment — under one login instead of a spreadsheet per process and a WhatsApp group for approvals.

$18/month
HR Only, + $1.50 per employee
Biometric
Works with your office device
NTN & STRN
Pakistan tax fields built in
Employee app
Payslips and leave on their phone
PayrollENAll wingsBWBruce Wayne
August 2026
14 people
Processing
Gross pay$38,400
Tax & loan deductions− $4,150
Net pay$34,250
Split by wing
Design Studio$15,800
Product Wing$12,100
Consulting$6,350
Horizon BankCurrent — Main
$172,150
Queued for disbursement
Recent payslips
  • Ayesha RazaProduct Designer$3,100Paid
  • Daniyal KhanBackend Engineer$3,450Paid
  • Meher FatimaOps Coordinator$2,200Paid
Payroll runs
MonthPeopleGrossDeductionsNet payStatus
August 202614$38,400− $4,150$34,250Paid
July 202614$38,100− $4,120$33,980Paid
June 202613$35,900− $3,880$32,020Paid
May 202613$35,700− $3,860$31,840Paid
April 202612$33,400− $3,610$29,790Paid
Loans & advances
EmployeeTypeAmountRepaidRemainingStatus
Ayesha RazaSalary advance$500$250$250$125/mo
Daniyal KhanLoan$2,400$800$1,600$200/mo
Meher FatimaSalary advance$300$300$0Cleared

Most small teams don’t outgrow their HR process on purpose — it just accumulates. Payroll lives in one spreadsheet, leave requests come in over chat, attendance is a sign-in sheet nobody checks, and loan repayments get tracked in someone’s memory.

It works, until the person holding it together is out sick, or a new hire needs answers nobody has time to give. Sync replaces that pile of ad-hoc processes with one system every team member (and manager) actually uses.

It gets harder still once staff aren't all in one place — a retail chain with people on payroll at five branches, a franchise operator hiring per location, a distributor with staff split across regional offices. Sync ties every employee to the business unit they belong to, so attendance, leave and payroll roll up per branch or company-wide without anyone reassembling it by hand.

Built from a Pakistani business first, not adapted for one later — NTN and STRN are real fields on every resource, and every payslip and tax deduction speaks the same income-tax-withholding language your accountant already uses with FBR, not a generic "tax" line translated from somewhere else.

Sound familiar?

The hurdles, and what replaces them

  • Payslips emailed out one by oneEvery payslip lands in the employee's own portal
  • Leave asked for and approved over chatLeave requested and approved in the app, balance updates itself
  • Overtime and expense requests lost in messagesRequests raised and approved in the app, with a record
  • Salary advances remembered by whoever gave themLoan and advance deductions happen in the payroll run
  • Offer letters rewritten from last time's fileLetters and contracts drafted from your template, filed against the person

What's included

Payroll

Generate a full payroll run in minutes, with tax, loan deductions and allowances calculated automatically — not re-typed by hand every month.

Attendance

Plug in the biometric device already sitting in your office — real hardware integration, not a paper sign-in sheet — or let staff check in from their phone with geolocation. Install Sync straight from the browser and check in with one tap from the home screen — no app store, nothing to approve. One live view of who’s in, on leave, or unaccounted for, across every branch.

Shifts

Define named shifts with their own hours, assign one per employee, and a late check-in shows up automatically — no separate scheduling spreadsheet. A team lead can request a shift change or swap two people's shifts right from their own portal, routed through approval before it takes effect.

Leave

Employees request leave, managers approve it, and balances update themselves — no separate tracker to reconcile at month-end.

Loans & advances

Track staff loans and salary advances against payroll automatically, so repayments never get forgotten in the next run.

Perks

Recurring resource perks — fuel, medical, communication allowances — batch-paid from a bank account each month, instead of a manual reimbursement request every time.

Recruitment

Move candidates through a real pipeline and generate offer letters, instead of a hiring process that lives entirely in email threads.

Employee portal

Every team member sees their own payslips, tax certificate, attendance and travel claims, applies for leave, and can raise a request — overtime, an expense, a laptop, anything else — with comments going back and forth right on it, instead of messaging HR for basic answers.

Appraisals

Run performance reviews on a real cycle, with a record that outlasts whoever’s memory it used to live in.

Resource legal & documents

Offer letters, NDAs, contracts and amendments draft themselves from your own templates, then file against the right person automatically — instead of a blank document and a shared drive.

Attendance reports

A monthly attendance report is generated and emailed to every employee automatically — no one has to compile or chase it by hand.

Business wings

Every employee is tied to the branch or department they belong to, so payroll, attendance and leave roll up per business unit or company-wide without anyone reassembling it by hand.

Employee app

Everything your team needs, on their phone

Every employee gets their own login. They can add it to their phone’s home screen from the browser — no App Store needed — and team leads approve requests from the same app.

Check in & outOne tap from their phone
PayslipsDownload any month
LeaveSee balance, apply, track approval
RequestsOvertime, expenses, resignation
Travel claimsSubmit a trip, get paid back
Loan balanceSee what’s left to repay
My equipmentLaptop, phone and anything assigned
DocumentsContracts and letters in one place
Org chartSearch anyone, see who reports to whom
NotificationsKnow the moment something is approved

Attendance devices

Plug in the device already on your office wall

Sync connects to ZKTeco biometric machines, so check-ins land in attendance without anyone typing them in.

Recommended

Over the internet

A machine with a Cloud Server / ADMS option pushes every punch to Sync in real time — no extra software needed.

On your local network

No cloud option? A small program on any Windows PC on the same network relays its punches to Sync every few minutes.

Registered by serial number

Add each machine once with its serial number, and its punches are matched to the right employee.

Nothing gets lost

A punch that can't be matched to anyone waits in a review list instead of disappearing.

How it flows

From first hire to every payday

Four steps every employee moves through, all in the same system.

  1. 01

    Hire and onboard

    Add the resource, generate their offer letter from your own template, and their portal login is ready before day one.

  2. 02

    Track the everyday

    Attendance clocks in, leave requests route to the right approver, and balances update themselves — no sign-in sheet, no separate tracker.

  3. 03

    Run payroll

    Tax, loan deductions and allowances calculate automatically. Review the run, approve it, and every payslip lands in the employee's own portal.

  4. 04

    Review and grow

    Appraisals run on a real cycle, and every record — payslip, review, document — outlasts whoever used to remember it.

Built for more than one company

Your books stay yours

The business next door could be on Sync too. That's not something you have to take our word on — separation isn't a setting someone can misconfigure, it's how every query is written. Inside your own organization, segregation of duties works the same way: who can act, who can reverse it, and a logged trail of both.

  • Your data is filtered by organization at the query itself — not hidden in the interface
  • That scope is read from a signed token, so a request can never ask for another org
  • Segregation of duties down to the action: raising an invoice, receiving payment on it, and reversing it can each need a different permission
  • Every reversal or deletion is logged — who did it, when, and what the record said before
  • An automated suite tries to read across organizations on every release
  • Uploaded files are stored under your own organization’s path
Org-scopedEvery query filtered by your organization
Token-derivedScope comes from a signed token, never the request
SegregatedAround 50 permissions decide who can act, reverse, or only look
LoggedEvery reversal or deletion recorded with who, when, before and after
Rate-limitedLogin throttled, passwords hashed
Per-wing grantsAccess scoped to a business unit, not just a person

Getting started

Start in three steps

  1. 1

    Sign up with HR Only

    Your 15-day free trial starts straight away — no card needed.

  2. 2

    Guided setup

    Add your company profile, first location and bank account, step by step.

  3. 3

    Add your team and run payroll

    Import employees from CSV or Excel, connect your attendance device and run your first payroll.

Pricing

HR and payroll, one simple price.

Upgrade to Combined any time and nothing you've already set up is lost.

15-day free trial · no card required

HR Only
$18/mo base

Plus $1.5/mo per employee. 15-day free trial, no card required.

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  • Attendance, payroll, leave, loans & perks
  • Recruitment & announcements
  • Employee self-service portal
  • Equipment & asset assignment tracking
  • Travel claims
  • Owner dashboard & Sync AI Advisor

Need Finance too? Combined is $25/mo + $2 per employee

From the blog

Questions, answered

Do I need an HR person to run this?
No. Sync is built for teams that don’t have a dedicated HR department — a founder, office manager, or finance lead can run the whole thing. Turn on payroll and attendance first, add recruitment or appraisals later, at no extra cost.
How does payroll actually work?
Each employee’s salary, allowances and deductions are set up once. Every month, generate a run, review it, and it’s done — loan repayments and tax are calculated automatically instead of re-entered by hand.
Does Sync handle Pakistan-specific payroll details?
Yes — NTN and STRN are real fields on every resource and organization, not an afterthought, and payslips use the same income-tax-withholding terminology your accountant already works with for FBR. Income tax brackets are maintained centrally as rates change, so you're never the one keeping a tax table up to date by hand.
What about payroll for a business in the UAE or the wider Gulf?
Automatic tax mode already knows most of the Gulf has no personal income tax by law — UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman all calculate a correct 0 instead of applying a tax table that doesn't apply there. TRN and VAT Number are real tax-ID fields, and payroll runs in AED or SAR like any other currency Sync supports. One thing to be upfront about: Sync doesn't generate WPS/SIF files or calculate end-of-service gratuity today — if those are must-haves for your payroll, Sync isn't the right fit yet for that specific piece.
Does Sync work for a business in the US or UK?
For the HR side — attendance, leave, loans, recruitment, the employee portal — yes, fully. For payroll specifically, be aware that Automatic tax mode isn't pre-loaded with US or UK tax brackets yet, so it isn't the right mode to rely on there today. Percentage or Manual tax mode lets you withhold the correct amount yourself in the meantime, with everything else — EIN, VAT Number, running payroll in USD or GBP — working the same as anywhere else.
Can employees see their own information?
Yes — every employee gets their own portal login to view payslips and their tax certificate, apply for leave, check their attendance record, submit a travel claim, and raise any other request (overtime, equipment, an expense) with comments right on it — so they’re not messaging a manager for basic answers.
Can Sync help draft offer letters or NDAs?
Yes — offer letters, NDAs and contract amendments draft themselves from your own templates, with candidate and role details filled in automatically, so recruitment isn’t starting from a blank document every time.
What happens when someone leaves the company?
Mark them as a leaver with a reason and date — they’re excluded from future payroll runs automatically, their history is preserved for records, and their portal access is disabled in the same step.
Can I stop one person from both processing payroll and reversing it?
Yes — running a payroll and reversing one that's already been paid are two separate, individually-grantable permissions, so someone can process payroll every month without ever being able to unwind one. Resetting a portal login password is a separate, admin-only permission too, so an HR lead can offboard someone without ever touching login credentials.

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