greytHR, from Greytip Software, is a rupee-priced HRMS and payroll system for Indian SMBs and mid-sized firms.
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Best Payroll Software for Distributed Workforces
Payroll for employers with staff spread across countries, entities or sites, from global payroll and EOR to regional specialists.
What this audience should prioritize
Distributed payroll means paying people under different tax systems, currencies and sometimes different legal employers. The first decision is whether you own a local entity in each country. Without one, you need an employer of record; with one, you need payroll that files locally and reports back to a single view.
Deel covers both cases: global payroll for your own entities starts at $29 per employee a month plus $1,000 setup per entity, and EOR starts at $599 per employee where you have no entity. Workday and Workday HCM run payroll across countries on one data model, but they are enterprise purchases with the full HCM suite estimated at $80 to $120 per employee per month.
Regional vendors often beat global platforms on local compliance. Sprout Solutions handles Philippine BIR, SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG filings, Bayzat pays staff in the UAE and Saudi Arabia through WPS, and Zucchetti and TeamSystem serve Italian employers with cloud or on-premise options. Companies with a few large hubs sometimes combine regional payroll with one HR system of record.
Shortlist candidates for Distributed Workforces
Rippling is the HR platform that refused to stay in its lane.
Modular pricingCloud
Workday HCM is the enterprise human capital management platform that competes head-to-head with SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM Cloud for the largest organizations in the world.
Custom quoteCloud
Keka is an HR, payroll, hiring and PSA platform from Keka Technologies used by 12,500+ companies, mostly in India.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Kakitangan.com is a Malaysian HR and payroll system operated by Coastal Hectare Sdn Bhd.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Sprout Solutions is a Philippine HR and payroll vendor with 2,000+ clients and 350,000+ users.
Custom quoteCloud
GreatDay HR is an Indonesian HRIS managed by PT People Intelligence Indonesia and used by 4,000+ companies.
Custom quoteCloud
Bayzat is a Dubai-founded platform, started in 2012, that combines HR, WPS payroll, finance tools and employee health insurance for UAE and Saudi employers.
Custom quoteCloud
Wagepoint is payroll-only software for Canadian small businesses, covering all 13 provinces and territories with CRA remittances, T4s, T4As and ROEs.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Humi, a Toronto HR, payroll and benefits platform for Canadian SMBs, was acquired by Employment Hero in January 2025 in a deal valued above C$100 million.
Custom quoteCloud
Zucchetti HR is the people-management suite of Gruppo Zucchetti, the Lodi software house founded in 1978.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
TeamSystem HR is the HR line of Pesaro-based TeamSystem, majority-owned by Hellman & Friedman.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
TOTVS is Brazil's largest ERP vendor (B3: TOTS3, 70,000+ clients).
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
Senior Sistemas, founded in 1988 in Blumenau, sells a Brazilian HCM line built around payroll and time tracking.
Custom quoteCloud/On-premise
Gusto is the payroll platform that most small businesses encounter first when they realize they need more than a spreadsheet and a quarterly trip to the accountant.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
ADP Workforce Now is the mid-market HR and payroll platform from ADP, the company that has been processing paychecks since 1949 and now serves over 920,000 clients worldwide.
Custom quoteCloud
Deel helps teams run payroll, manage compliance workflows, and reduce manual processing.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
OnPay helps teams run payroll, manage compliance workflows, and reduce manual processing.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
QuickBooks Payroll helps teams run payroll, manage compliance workflows, and reduce manual processing.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Paylocity helps teams run payroll, manage compliance workflows, and reduce manual processing.
Custom quoteCloud
Paychex helps teams run payroll, manage compliance workflows, and reduce manual processing.
Tiered pricingCloud
ADP is the payroll and HR platform that mid-market companies encounter when they need the reliability of the world's largest payroll processor behind their employee operations.
Base + per-employee pricingCloud
TriNet Zenefits helps people teams run core HR workflows with less manual coordination.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
Workday is the cloud-native enterprise HCM platform that large organizations choose when they need HR, payroll, talent management, workforce planning, and financial planning unified in a single system of record.
Custom quoteCloud
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an EOR or global payroll?
Use global payroll where you already have a legal entity, since you remain the employer. Use an employer of record where you have none; it employs the worker for you, at a higher monthly cost.