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Everything payroll needs across Africa
📁 Batch CSV upload
Upload your payroll sheet in our standard CSV format or map your own columns. Validate, preview, and approve before a single cent moves.
🌐 Multi-currency
Pay each employee in their local currency. GHS, KES, NGN, ZAR, UGX, TZS, XOF and 30+ more — all from a single funding account.
📱 Mobile money + bank + wallet
Route to M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, bank accounts, or AfriLink wallets. Each employee picks their preferred rail at onboarding.
⚖️ Compliance built in
AfriLink handles AML screening, FX controls, and local labour payment regulations. Compliant payroll without a compliance team in every country.
🗓️ Scheduled payments
Set monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly payroll runs. AfriLink executes automatically — with preflight balance checks so you're never caught short.
📡 Real-time status
Track every disbursement in the merchant portal or via webhook. Know exactly which payments succeeded, failed, or are pending — in real time.
How payroll runs
Upload payroll
Upload CSV with employee @handles, amounts, and currencies. Or push via API from your HR system.
Validate & preview
AfriLink validates every row — duplicate detection, AML, FX availability. See the final total before committing.
Approve & fund
Approve the run with a multi-sig authorisation. AfriLink debits your funding wallet in a single transaction.
Employees receive
Each employee receives their pay in local currency to their preferred rail — with an SMS confirmation.
Designed for Africa's workforce
Distributed contractors
Pay freelancers, gig workers, and contractors in any country — each to their preferred method.
Multinational payroll
Consolidate all African entity payrolls into one dashboard and one funding account.
Humanitarian disbursements
Pay field workers and beneficiaries in remote areas via mobile money with offline fallback.
Your team is pan-African. Your payroll should be too.
Get started with a merchant account and run your first payroll batch today. No integration required — the portal handles everything.