Run HR and payroll across Africa, with local tax rules built in.
Meridian works out each country's taxes, contributions and levies from one record per employee. Every rate is a setting you can see and change.
- We import your spreadsheets
- Pay only for the modules you use
- Export your data any time
Replace the five tools you use to run HR.
Leave in one app, payroll in another, headcount in a spreadsheet. Meridian keeps one record per employee, so every team works from the same numbers.
Taxes and contributions worked out for you in four countries.
Each country's taxes and contributions are computed in the product, with the rates you see in settings.
When a tax rate changes, you can update it the same day.
Tax bands, contribution rates and reliefs are settings you can see and edit, not code a vendor has to ship. Changes go through review before they touch anyone's pay.
Every rate, in the open
Kenya's PAYE bands, NSSF tiers, SHIF and the Housing Levy, each with its employer share and effective date. When a rate changes, open the row and type the new one.
Nothing runs without sign-off
Each run moves from draft through review and approval to locked, with a timestamp at every step and a record of who approved.
Rather we ran it for you?
Our team offers payroll outsourcing, payroll tax compliance and advisory, and HR consulting on top of the software. One contract, and you can cancel either part on its own.
Your own rules for leave, approvals and reviews.
Every policy is yours to configure. Meridian doesn't make you bend your process to fit the software.
Approval flows
Choose who can request what and who signs off, in the order your team already uses. Change a flow whenever your team changes.
An org chart that draws itself
Reporting lines come straight from employee records. Change someone's manager and the chart moves with them, with the change logged.
Leave
Your own leave types, accrual rules and public holidays per country. Balances update the moment a request is approved.
Attendance
Clock-ins, shifts, overtime and off-days, feeding straight into payroll so nobody re-keys hours.
Performance
OKRs, review cycles, 360 feedback and calibration, set up the way your organisation runs reviews.
Pay for what you switch on
CoreHR comes standard. Turn other modules on or off as you need them, and billing follows at the next cycle.
Your people data stays yours.
Payroll and employee records are the most sensitive data a company holds. We treat them that way.
Read our data processing agreementCommon questions
Straight answers to what teams ask before they move their HR and payroll.
Ask the people who'd set you up.
Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire are live, each with a native statutory engine (PAYE, social security, levies, filings) computed in-product, not described in a doc. Ghana is in early access and South Africa has a waitlist.
Kenya
Uganda
Nigeria
Côte d'Ivoire
GhanaEarly access
South AfricaWaitlistBring your current spreadsheets and we'll import them. Start on your own, or plan the move with our implementation team.
Tax bands, contribution rates and reliefs are settings you can see and edit, not code a vendor has to ship. Changes go through review before they touch anyone's pay.
Yes. An open REST API and an MCP server let your own systems or AI agents work with employees, payroll, leave and approvals.
CoreHR comes standard. Turn other modules on or off as you need them, and billing follows at the next cycle. You pay only for the modules you use.
Run your next payroll on Meridian.
Bring your current spreadsheets and we'll import them. Start on your own, or plan the move with our implementation team.