Payroll for Consulting & Accounting Firms — One Engine Per Client, Correct to the Kobo

Your job: precise payroll for many clients at once

If your firm runs payroll for clients, your real product is trust in numbers that aren't yours to get wrong. KoboHR gives each client an isolated payroll engine — separate employees, separate settings, separate audit trail — while statutory rules like the NTA 2026 bands are maintained once and applied everywhere. Onboarding is a parallel run: one month computed beside the client's current process, compared line by line, to the kobo, before anything switches.

The failure modes of the usual setup are familiar: one spreadsheet per client, each a version behind the next; a law change like the NTA 2026 that must be applied identically across every client, by hand; and the firm's name on every filing when one copy drifts.

Per-client payroll engines

• Each client runs in its own isolated space — its own employees, its own settings (NHF policy, pension details, NHIA scheme), its own audit trail.
• No cross-client visibility: a staff member working in one client's payroll sees nothing of another's.
• Statutory rules are applied consistently from one versioned configuration, so a law change lands on every client at once — correctly, and provably.

The engine underneath is the same one described on payroll software for Nigeria — one rulebook, many isolated tenants.

Onboard a client with a parallel run

Import the client's current payroll, run a month on KoboHR beside their existing process, and hand the client a line-by-line comparison — every payslip, every statutory line, every kobo. Switch on agreement. The comparison report itself is a deliverable your firm can bill around: it's the audit of their old payroll they never commissioned.

What your staff see

• Role-isolated access per client — assignments, not habits, decide who can touch what.
• Finalize discipline: one finalized run per client per period, stamped by whom and when.
• Schedules and remittance evidence generated per client per scheme — PAYE, pension, NSITF, ITF, NHIA — ready to file under your letterhead. The rates behind them are in statutory deductions in Nigeria payroll.

Where this is going

Today the disbursement story is bank-schedule export. On the roadmap: name-enquiry validation and partner-based disbursement with maker-checker release. API and white-label options are under consideration — if your firm would use them, we want to hear how, and early firms get to shape the shortlist. For client budgeting conversations in the meantime, the employer cost calculator for client budgeting gives you the true-cost number in seconds.