The case for AltraHR — and why teams don't go back.
Foreign tools treat Nigeria as one checkbox in a list of 180 countries. AltraHR was designed around how Nigerian organisations actually operate.
Good HR software exists. HR software that actually works in Nigeria does not.
The established names have broad feature sets and professional branding. But their entire product runs on manual triggers — nothing acts without a human pushing a button. Their products doHR. They don’t think about it. That gap is the whole point of AltraHR.
How the global tools fail Nigeria — every one, in the same ways
No Nigerian compliance engine
None calculates PAYE on the correct state tables, generates PENCOM schedules, or computes NSITF, ITF and NHF. Your compliance officer still does it all by hand.
No Nigerian payroll anatomy
They start from a generic base-salary model with no concept of Basic-plus-allowances. You burn hours building custom fields that still miscalculate.
No Nigerian banking integration
After payroll, you still export, reformat to your bank's template, and submit separately — by hand.
No Labour Act workflows
You can't generate a compliant appointment letter, query or disciplinary process. You're back to Word documents and lawyer fees.
No Naira pricing
Every one prices in USD or EUR. After conversion, even the cheapest runs into hundreds of thousands of Naira a year — millions for a mid-sized company.
No Nigerian employment categories
None handles NYSC corps members, or the real mix of permanent, contract, casual and probationary staff as the Labour Act defines them.
No local support or context
Call their support line and you reach someone who has never heard of PENCOM or NSITF and can't help with a single Nigerian-specific question.
- An HR platform built for Nigeria from day one — not adapted, not localised, but built.
- AI agents do the work themselves — running payroll, filing compliance, drafting documents.
- Compliance is a live intelligence system that knows the rules and acts on your behalf.
- AI-first from day one — a head start that compounds with every cycle.
The world is full of good HR software. Nigeria needs HR software that actually works here — and run by AI agents that do the work instead of waiting for you to do it.
If you run payroll in Nigeria, AltraHR was built for you.
Nigeria has over 40 million registered businesses, and the overwhelming majority still run HR on Excel, WhatsApp, paper and manual bank transfers — because every existing solution either doesn’t understand Nigeria, costs too much in dollars, or is too complex to set up. AltraHR exists to change that.
SMEs with 10–100 staff
Regular payroll and real compliance exposure, but can't justify enterprise pricing.
Professional services firms
Law firms, consultancies, accounting practices that care about getting HR and compliance right.
Tech startups
Modern, automated, fintech-friendly payroll and onboarding.
FMCG & retail chains
Mixed permanent, contract and casual staff across multiple locations.
Micro-businesses under 10 staff
Start free and grow into the platform.
HR consultants & accountants
Manage HR for multiple client companies from one intelligent system.
If your company runs payroll manually, files compliance reports late, or is one FIRS audit away from a penalty, you are exactly who AltraHR was built to protect. The financial risk of not solving this is real, recurring, and entirely avoidable.
Not adapted. Not localised. Built.
Foreign HR software treats Nigeria as one checkbox in a list of 180 countries. AltraHR was designed around how Nigerian organisations actually operate — the realities every other tool ignores.
Compliance infrastructure
PAYE, PENCOM, NSITF, ITF, NHIA, NHF, FIRS and the Labour Act — handled together, not left to a side spreadsheet.
The anatomy of a Nigerian salary
Basic plus Housing, Transport, Medical, Utility and Leave — with 13th-month pay, staff loans, advances, grade-and-step tables and expatriate packages.
Nigerian banking
From GTBank, Access and Zenith files to NIBSS bulk payments, and OPay and Moniepoint for fintech-friendly staff.
Nigerian Labour Law
Every appointment, query, warning, termination and redundancy document generated in compliant form.
Nigerian culture
NYSC corps members, mixed staff categories, WhatsApp-first communication, hierarchical approvals — and software that still works on a 3G connection in any state.
This is the difference between software that can be made to work in Nigeria with enough effort, and software that simply works in Nigeria the moment you open it.
Trusted by Nigerian businesses tired of doing it the hard way.
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businesses onboarded
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compliance filings automated
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Give your HR team the shift it was never able to work.
AltraHR runs payroll, files compliance, drafts your documents and watches for risk — automatically, in Naira, built for exactly how Nigerian businesses operate. This is the day your HR stops being manual.