WatuHRM runs payroll, leave, attendance and every statutory return for Tanzanian employers. Use it fully online, or have it delivered pre-installed on a WatuBox in your office and pay for a working system, not for licences.
The same HR and payroll system, the same Tanzania compliance and the same data-protection controls. You decide where it lives and how you pay.
Software as a Service. Fully online, hosted and run by us.
On-premise under Result as a Service. WatuOS HR Edition, pre-installed on a WatuBox in your office.
There are no licences to buy upfront. You pay a modest one-time setup fee, and we deliver WatuHRM pre-installed, configured and ready to use in your office. You run live HR and payroll on your own data for two months before any annual service fee begins.
Think of it like car financing.You get the keys and drive from day one. The WatuBox remains our property under the service agreement, so there is no hardware to buy and no large capital outlay before you see results.
Covers installation, configuration, standard customisations, clocking-device and accounting integration, training and go-live.
WatuOS HR Edition comes pre-installed on a WatuBox sized to your workforce, at no hardware cost.
You run live HR and payroll on your own data, from attendance to payslips and the bank file, before any annual fee.
The fee is based on active headcount, paid in four quarterly instalments and reviewed once a year. There are no variable charges.
Your setup fee and annual fee depend on your number of active employees and sites. Tell us your headcount and we'll send a quote with no obligation.
A simple service agreement, signed before delivery, sets out the setup scope, the two-month period and the annual fee that follows.
Get your quoteWatuOS is our hardened Linux distro. The HR Edition brings four WatuFlex apps together on a WatuBox in your office, with tamper-proof signed licences and your data kept local.
Staff records, payroll, leave, recruitment, performance, assets and Employee Self-Service.
Biometric attendance from fingerprint and face devices, feeding overtime and payroll directly.
Front-desk visitor registration, badges and a record of who is on site.
Management of your local area network, so the office runs smoothly.
If the internet goes down, work continues. Payroll, HR processing and ESS on your LAN carry on without interruption. Only the cloud extras pause until the connection returns.
WatuOS also comes in School and Business Editions as part of the WatuFlex platform.
Explore WatuFlex and WatuOS at watuflex.com →WatuHRM is fully integrated with WatuAccounts (WatuERP), the accounting app on the WatuFlex platform. Once payroll is approved, the journals flow straight into your books, mapped to your general ledger accounts and cost centres, with no exports and no re-keying.
Already on SAP? WatuHRM posts the same approved payroll journals to SAP automatically, so your finance team keeps working where it does today.
Payroll and HR records are some of the most sensitive personal data an organisation holds. WatuHRM puts you in charge of where that data lives, who can see it and when it leaves, so you can meet the personal data protection laws that apply to you.
Keep it on a WatuBox in your own office with WatuOS, or in our managed cloud. The system and the controls are the same either way.
On WatuOS, employee and payroll records stay on your premises. You don't need to share salary information with us.
WatuCloud is optional. Remote access, SMS and off-site backup are switched on only if you choose them, and backups are encrypted.
Role-based permissions scoped to your organisation, least-privilege defaults and re-authentication for sensitive actions.
A full audit trail shows who viewed, changed, approved or exported personal data, and when. It's ready for your data protection officer and regulators.
Through Employee Self-Service, staff can view their records and request corrections, supporting their rights of access and rectification.
Built to support personal data protection laws across Africa
WatuHRM gives you the controls these laws expect: lawful and limited access, security safeguards, accountability records and respect for data-subject rights.
WatuHRM provides the technical controls. Full compliance also depends on your own policies, notices and processes, and we're happy to walk your team through how the system supports them.
Every WatuHRM client gets the WatuFlex Repository: documents, templates, calculators and reference material for running HR in Tanzania. It's kept online and updated when regulations change, so you never work from an out-of-date template.
HR documents, templates and tools, with Word files your team can adapt.
Tanzania's employment statutes and East African Community instruments, linked to the official text.
Ready-to-send message templates in English and Kiswahili.
Attendance, shift and time-keeping documents to go with WatuTime.
Front-desk and visitor-management material for your reception team.
General business documents and templates for everyday operations.
Also included: packs for schools (WatuSchool), NGO programmes (WatuMEAL) and churches and faith organisations.
See summaries of every document and calculator in the repository.
Register free to open 14 sample documents in full, with their Word files.
Full access to all documents, Word files, calculators and offline resources.
Every feature works the same whether you run WatuHRM in the cloud or on WatuOS.
Complete profiles, dependants, employment history, change reviews and bulk CSV import with approval.
PAYE, NSSF/PSSSF, SDL, NHIF, WCF and HESLB. Bonus runs, beneficiary schedules and fiscal-year close.
All Tanzania leave types, a leave planner, blackout dates, balances and year-on-year usage reports.
Biometric integration, shift definitions, roster calendars, shift swaps, corrections and overtime.
Vacancies, applicant tracking, screening, interviews, offer letters and onboarding.
Objectives, KPIs, self-assessment, supervisor reviews, weighted scorecards and calibration.
Training plans, budgets, evaluations, provider scorecards and certificate expiry alerts.
Configurable hierarchy, visual org chart, position-based reporting lines and multi-branch cost centres.
Approval workflows per module with conditional routing, SLA tracking, delegation and escalation.
More than 50 report types with PDF and CSV export, and an analytics dashboard with over 30 charts.
Loans, claims, imprests and accounting journals for your finance system.
Case timelines, hearings and evidence, with ELRA-aligned grievance handling from filing to resolution.
Resignations, terminations and retirements with clearance checklists, final pay and exit interviews.
Appointment, promotion, warning and service letters, plus contracts and job descriptions from templates.
One-click workflow setup for government, banking, NGOs, hospitals, schools, mining, hospitality and more.
Also available: Talent & Succession, Cash & Reimbursements, Inventory, Fixed Assets, Accounting Export, Employee Relations, Multi-Biometric Device Registration, document compliance, insurance register, company calendar, SMS centre and year-end close.
Every employee gets their own mobile-friendly portal, installable as an app on phone or desktop.
ESS works anywhere with an internet connection: at the office, at home or in the field.
ESS always works on your office LAN, even without internet. Add WatuCloud for remote access from anywhere.
Statutory rates are held in the database with effective dates, so every payroll uses the rules in force.
Progressive tax bands calculated automatically, with versioned rates and TRA-ready schedules.
Employee and employer contributions for both schemes at current rates.
Skills Development Levy on gross pay, with TRA-ready SDL reports.
National Health Insurance Fund deductions per contribution bracket.
Workers' Compensation Fund employer contribution at the statutory rate.
28-day annual leave, 84-day maternity leave, the 45-hour week, the one-third deduction cap and fair termination.
P9 tax certificates for every employee, individually or in bulk, and the P10 annual employer return.
Student-loan repayments deducted and reported in the board's format.
NSSF, PSSSF, NHIF, WCF, SDL, HESLB and PAYE returns in each authority's format.
Cloud is priced in USD per user. On-premise on WatuOS is priced in TSh by headcount under Result as a Service.
The full HR and payroll foundation, with every essential module from day one.
$350 each, one-time. Add only what you need.
One-time, where your organisation needs more.
WatuOS HR Edition on a WatuBox in your office. Priced in TSh by headcount, with no licences to buy.
Prefer a conventional licence? We can prepare a Technical & Financial Proposal on request.
Your fees depend on your active headcount. Choose your band and we'll prepare your quote.
Both options protect payroll and employee records. The difference is where the data lives and who runs the infrastructure.
Tanzanian and international organisations rely on WatuHRM for HR and payroll every day.
The Rawlings Foundation's Christian youth camp in Morogoro is a 62-acre facility that hosts up to 600 campers and partners with more than 20 local churches. It runs its full HR, payroll and Tanzania statutory compliance on WatuHRM.
therawlingsfoundation.com/tanzania →A logistics provider offering freight management, customs clearance, transport, warehousing and project logistics to the mining, oil and gas, construction and humanitarian sectors. It uses WatuHRM for HR administration, statutory compliance and payroll across its Tanzanian operations.
dowelef.co.tz/services →Industries we serve
Our partner network delivers demos, implementation and local support across Tanzania.
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