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Employee records in Dari/Pashto, org structure, contract management, recruitment, and appraisal on Odoo. Certified partner since 2012.
HR & payroll software in Afghanistan, we run the largest payroll system in the country.
We delivered a 500,000-employee national-government Odoo HR and payroll rollout: 1,000+ users, multi-cycle payroll, grade-based pay computation, and integration with national tax and banking infrastructure. The same engine runs for NGOs, banks, and enterprises, in AFN, in Dari and Pashto, with donor-grade audit trails.
500K+
Employees · national-government Odoo HR rollout
20 yrs
Delivering ERP in Afghanistan
50+
ERP implementations across the region
In short
HR and payroll software for Afghan organizations handles attendance, recruitment, contracts, appraisal, and multi-cycle payroll in AFN with Dari/Pashto support. NETLINKS runs the largest payroll system in Afghanistan, a 500,000-employee national-government Odoo rollout with 1,000+ users, grade-based pay, and national tax and banking integration.
Delivered from Kabul
we run the largest payroll system in the country, delivered by senior teams based in Kabul, governed under ISO 12207 and ISO 27001. Twenty years of enterprise delivery in Afghanistan, including the 500,000-employee national-government Odoo HR rollout and Jobs.af. Engagements run from our Kabul office with regional support in Dubai and India.
- 500,000-employee Odoo HR engagement for a national government
- Jobs.af, Afghanistan's largest job-hunting platform, built by NETLINKS
- Clients include Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Payments System, AKDN, World Bank, UNDP
Payroll in Afghanistan is mostly about scale, grade structures, and surviving an audit.
Run payroll for a large Afghan organization and the hard parts are not the arithmetic. They are processing tens of thousands of records across multiple cycles without a missed or duplicated payment, computing pay against grade and step structures that differ between civil service, NGO scales, and bank pay bands, applying Afghan tax correctly, disbursing through Afghan banks, and being able to show a clean audit trail to a donor, a regulator, or the Ministry of Finance. Most off-the-shelf payroll tools break at one of those points.
Our moat here is unambiguous. We built and run a 500,000-employee national-government HR and payroll rollout, 1,000+ system users, multi-cycle payroll, grade-based pay computation matching civil-service ranks, and integration with national tax and banking infrastructure. It is the largest payroll system in the country, and no other Afghan firm has matched it. The discipline that engagement forced, reconciliation, segregation of duties, audit-ready logging at national scale, is baked into every smaller HR and payroll system we deliver.
Disbursement and engagement: we integrate with Afghan banks so salaries move from a finalized payroll run to bank files without manual re-entry, the step where errors and fraud usually creep in. Engagement model: 30-min discovery → paid 2-4 week structured discovery → written design + firm fixed-fee proposal, refundable against the build. Entry-level HR/payroll deployments run $25-60K; large NGO, bank, and government programs sit in the $60-200K band or are scoped separately.
What we run
What we run for Afghan HR & payroll.
Attendance
Shift and roster-aware attendance feeding payroll directly. Multi-site and multi-province, as deployed for International Medical Corps across five provinces.
Multi-cycle AFN payroll
Grade-based pay computation, allowances, deductions, and multiple payroll cycles in AFN. Proven at 500K-employee scale.
Tax & bank disbursement
Afghan tax computation and salary disbursement integrated with Afghan banks and Da Afghanistan Bank infrastructure.
Donor-grade audit trails
Every change logged, retained, and queryable for USAID, World Bank, GIZ, and AKDN reporting. ISO 27001 aligned.
Contracts & appraisal
Contract lifecycle, renewals and expiries, and structured appraisal cycles tied to grade and pay progression.
, Questions
HR & payroll software in Afghanistan, questions we hear.
What is the largest payroll you have actually run?
A 500,000-employee national-government Odoo HR and payroll rollout, 1,000+ system users, multi-cycle payroll, grade-based pay computation, and integration with national tax and banking infrastructure. It is the largest payroll system in Afghanistan, and no other Afghan firm has delivered at that scale.
Can you handle NGO payroll and donor reporting?
Yes. We run HR and payroll for International Medical Corps (1,600+ employees across five provinces), the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (thousands of staff records), Aga Khan Health Services, Afghan Aid, Action Aid, and others. Audit trails are built to satisfy USAID, World Bank, GIZ, and AKDN donor-reporting requirements.
Does payroll run in afghanis and pay through Afghan banks?
Yes. Payroll runs natively in AFN with Afghan tax computation, and we integrate with Afghan banks so a finalized payroll run produces bank disbursement files without manual re-entry, the step where payroll errors and fraud usually occur.
Is the interface available in Dari and Pashto?
Employee data fields, payslips, and self-service support Dari and Pashto so staff and HR teams work in their own language. Delivery documentation and configuration are in English; local-language support is available for in-country teams.
Where is your team based?
NETLINKS Plaza, Street 6, Lane 3, Shar-e-naw, Kabul. Phone: 077-302-0101. Senior architects and engineers based in Kabul; regional backup from Dubai, India, US.
How do I get started?
30-min discovery → paid 2-4 week structured discovery → written solution design + firm fixed-fee proposal. Refundable against the implementation.
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