A country-agnostic payroll engine with a Panama country pack live today. Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia packs in development. All packs share one engine, one database, one GL.
One engine. Every country gets its own pack implementing the same 8 interfaces. No custom forks — just plug in the locale.
The cifraHQ payroll engine is built around a country-pack architecture — one core engine, swappable country rules, one database.
ICountryPack interface with 8 sub-components: calculator, social security, tax withholding, bonus, vacation policy, termination, report exporters, and bank formatters.
Period close posts a balanced journal entry directly to the same tenant database — in the same transaction. No CSV exports, no integration middleware.
Every calculator carries source statute references. No black-box math — every result is traceable to the law that defines it.
Year-to-date accumulators per employee × concept × month feed ISR annualization, Décimo partidas, and period-reopen reversal logic.
Run payroll for multiple legal entities within one tenant. Shared employee master, consolidated reports, separate GL ledgers.
Four-decimal intermediate calculations, two-decimal final output, banker's rounding throughout — no centavos lost in conversion.
The case for payroll inside your ERP
Eliminate the sync step between your payroll software and accounting system. One database, one close, one journal entry.
Every calculation cites its source statute. Auditors and labor inspectors see the same numbers the system computed.
Run payroll for all your legal entities without migrating data. Shared employee master, consolidated HR view, separate financial ledgers.
Country-pack architecture means each locale gets native compliance — not a generic engine with tax tables bolted on.
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Common questions about cifraHQ Payroll
The Panama country pack is fully available now — planilla, Décimo Tercer Mes, vacaciones, liquidación, SIPE, Form 03, MITRADEL filings, ACH for all major Panama banks, and the employee self-service portal. Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia packs are in development.
cifraHQ Payroll is built into the same ERP database as your accounting system. Period close posts a balanced journal entry directly to the GL — no CSV export, no integration step. Every calculator cites its source statute, and the Panama pack is cross-validated against MITRADEL's official calculator.
Yes. Multi-company is native to cifraHQ. Each legal entity has its own GL ledger and payroll configuration, but they share the same employee master and HR workflows within your tenant.
All calculations use four-decimal intermediate precision and two-decimal final output with banker's rounding. The Panama pack's calculations are cross-validated against MITRADEL's official calculator across dozens of test scenarios.
Panama is live today. Your next locale is one country pack away.