Night-time satellite view of Africa, Europe and the Middle East, traced in city lights

NewPraxipay Classic, Spinnaker and ESS are now one system, here. Same data, one login.

Pay the world accurately and on time.

Industrial payroll software for organisations that span continents: many countries, many companies, every kind of pay, in one system.

Earth at night, 2016. NASA Earth Observatory

Countries configured: 70+
Of payroll, since 1995: 31 years
Proven with Fortune 500 clients: Fortune 500
Regional Payroll Supplier of the Year, Global Payroll Awards 2026: Supplier of the year

“We operate in 34 countries, many without established payroll platforms. Praxipay is so easy.”
Group Payroll Manager, oil and gas

Payroll Innovation, WinnerGlobal Payroll Awards 2025
Payroll Innovation, Highly CommendedGlobal Payroll Awards 2026
Full memberPAGSA
Top VendorRapidRatings

“Many have tried to build a global build-to-gross system, but it never works. I came to Praxima because I knew you could get it done.”
Global Payroll Consultant

“I’ve worked on many payroll systems, and I can’t believe the thought that has gone into the layout and positioning of the data.”
Payroll Manager

“There is simply no other system that could handle the complex remuneration structure of a large professional services firm like ours.”
Financial Manager, professional services firm

A merchant ship driving into heavy seas, water breaking over its bow

Sometimes payroll
is just hard.

Most payroll software is built for one country, one currency, one salary. Praxipay is built for everything else.

Thirty-four countries closing in the same week.

An engineer seconded to Riyadh, paid in two currencies.

A contracted net, grossed up through every deduction.

Partner pay tied to billings and units.

Merchantman Winter Water in tropical storm Georgette, 1980. Krister Brzezinski, NOAA Photo Library

Built for the difficult ones

So Praxipay fits your payroll, instead of cutting your payroll to fit the software.

A long row of complex industrial machinery in a modern facility — Industrial machinery in a modern plant. Daniel Miksha, Unsplash

Multinational groups

Every country in one system, each with its own rules, currency and filings, consolidated for group finance.

Groups with many legal entities

Each entity its own company, with its own registrations and filings, all in one view.

Payroll outsourcing providers

One team runs many client companies, each kept fully separate.

Legal & Professional Services

Partner pay, fee-earner bonuses and structures no template can hold.

Agriculture

Seasonal and casual workers, piece rates and harvest peaks, paid accurately and on time.

Every kind of workforce

Payroll is where an organisation meets the real world. These are the people Praxipay pays, in one system, on one profile each.

Rotational crews, 28 days on, 28 offEnergy and mining
Seasonal pickers, paid by the crateAgriculture
Bankers on deferred bonusesFinancial services
Night shifts, call-outs and overtime premiumsManufacturing and healthcare
Field staff paid locally, funded from abroadNGOs and development
Weekly casuals and monthly salaries in one companyConstruction and hospitality
Commission on every sale, clawed back on returnsRetail and sales
Directors’ fees across forty entitiesHolding groups

Est. 1995

Founded in Johannesburg. Strongest across Africa and the Middle East, growing into Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Not in your country yet? Adding one is the easy part: it slots into the right module and is deployed live. The real work is local compliance, and when we move into a new territory with a client, we often get that right together.

One system, from person to payslip

יָדֹעַ תֵּדַע פְּנֵי צֹאנֶךָ

“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks.” Literally: know well the faces.

Proverbs 27:23

People
One profile per employee: records, documents, leave and self-service. Nothing to sync.
Calculate
Build-to-gross and gross-to-net on your own pay rules, in any currency.
Check
Exception and variance reports, before anyone is paid.
Pay
Controlled payment batches, with release tracking and alerts.
Report and file
Journals in your ledger’s format, reports to Excel in one click, filings in every country.
Deliver
Payslips in layouts you design, through self-service, in each employee’s language.

Already on another HR or time system? Connect it by API or file. Also inside: audit trails, custom reports, configurable documents and multi-company group reporting.

How Praxipay thinks

Every client sets Praxipay up around its own payroll. What stays the same for every client is how it thinks.

Exceptions first

Variance and exception reports come before anyone is paid.

Every number has a source

Every figure traces back to the rule, rate or record that produced it.

Every record has its dates

Start and end dates on everything. Pick a date and see the system as it stood, or as it will.

Payslips designed your way

Fully customisable layouts. Almost any data in the system can appear on the payslip.

Finance checks it in Excel

Every data screen and custom report out to clean Excel in one click.

Journals in your format

In your own ledger’s format, ready to post, never reshaped by hand.

Bulk changes from Excel

Prepare hundreds of changes in a spreadsheet and import them in one go.

Multi-country at the core

Built for many countries from the ground up. A new one slots in beside the rest and is deployed live.

Every record has its dates. Pick a date, and Praxipay shows the system as it stood, or as it will stand.

Salary

42,00045,50048,200

Cost centre

OPS-01OPS-04

Pension rate

5%6%

Tax year

2025/262026/272027/28

As at: 1 Oct 2026
Salary: 45,500
Cost centre: OPS-04
Pension rate: 5%
Tax year: 2026/27

Illustrative records. Future values, like next year’s salary, are entered now and take effect on their date.

Locked down by design

Trusted by banks and large enterprise firms with some of the most demanding security requirements in the world.

Payroll holds your most sensitive data and moves your money. Two principles guide how we build Praxipay: radical simplicity and layered security. The new release takes both further.

Lockdown mode New

Reachable only from your own IP addresses or VPN. Invisible to everyone else.

Single sign-on

Controlled payments

Batches are created, checked and released as separate steps.

Complete audit trail

Every change recorded: who, what and when.

The nine-pointed star fortress of Palmanova seen from the air, ringed by walls, moats and outer works — Palmanova, founded by Venice in 1593. Its defences grew outward, ring by ring, for two centuries. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A line crew at work on poles and wires among ice-broken trees

Built for tough conditions

Payroll doesn’t stop when the connection does. Praxipay is engineered to stay steady where many systems struggle: slow lines, dropped connections and power cuts.

Your work lives on the server

Everything you are working on is held server-side, and only saved changes travel over the line. A dropped connection never leaves records half-updated.

Start it and step away

Big reports and file exports run on the server. No connection to keep alive: come back later and the result is waiting.

Load it once, work through it

Pages carry very little besides your data. A big page may take a moment to arrive, but once it has, it stays on your screen to work through, even if the line drops.

A line crew restores service after the ice storm. Grand Rivers, Kentucky, February 2009. Liz Roll, FEMA

A mechanic, wrench in hand, bent over the machinery of a steam pump — Power house mechanic, 1920. Lewis Hine, US National Archives

Every payslip is someone’s bread and butter. Paying it right is ours.

Rent, school fees, groceries, the month ahead.

Praxipay is built by Praxima, in Johannesburg, since 1995. Our own payroll specialists run payroll on it every month for clients in more than 70 countries, so the company behind the software lives with its deadlines too. Some of our client relationships are older than many of our competitors.

Legislation changes somewhere every week. Our payroll and compliance teams track it country by country, and new rules go in with their effective dates, ready before the day they apply.

Two ways to start

See it for yourself

Our payroll specialists walk you through Praxipay, focused on the countries, companies and kinds of pay you run.

Talk to us

Or let us run it for you

Praxima’s own specialists run Praxipay as a managed service. It is the same system either way, so you can move between the two, or mix them: we run some countries or companies, your team runs the rest.

Managed payroll at praxima.com

No entity in a country? Praxiwork, our employer of record service, employs your people there, paid through Praxipay.

eall gedælan geongum ond ealdum

“To deal out everything, to young and old.” Beowulf, line 71. Paying people well is the oldest job in the hall.

Industrial payroll software.

pay the world accurately and on time.