Zaffre HRM is an all-in-one HR and operations software platform by Zaffre Tech. It unifies HR, payroll, attendance, leave, remote-work monitoring, procurement, petty cash, project management, helpdesk and secure client communication in one connected system. Its standout feature is a dual payroll engine that runs local (PKR) and remittance (foreign currency) salaries in a single payroll run.

Who is Zaffre HRM for?

Small businesses, startups and growing companies of 5 to a few hundred employees — particularly those that have outgrown spreadsheets and disconnected SaaS tools. Strong fit for Pakistan-based companies and any team paying employees in multiple currencies.

What makes Zaffre HRM different from other HR and HCM platforms?

Most HR platforms cover HR and payroll well but leave operations (procurement, petty cash, projects, helpdesk, remote monitoring, client communication) to other tools. Zaffre HRM includes those natively and links every module together — a leave approval updates attendance and payroll, an employee exit triggers asset recovery and final settlement, and a client onboarding flows into billing. It also has a market-unique dual payroll engine.

Does Zaffre HRM support payroll in multiple currencies?

Yes. The dual payroll engine runs local-currency (PKR) salaries and remittance-currency (foreign) salaries together in a single payroll cycle — this is the platform's signature feature and is rare in the market.

Does Zaffre HRM include remote employee monitoring?

Yes, natively. A Tauri-based desktop agent captures login/logout, active hours, application and website usage, and periodic screenshots, and powers productivity-based attendance. It is not a third-party add-on.

Does Zaffre HRM have a mobile app?

Yes — a companion mobile app (Expo / React Native) for attendance, leave, payslips, chat and approvals, with real-time push notifications via FCM.

How is Zaffre HRM priced?

Transparent per-employee, per-module monthly pricing. Modules can be turned on or off per company. Designed to be cheaper in aggregate than the 6+ tools it replaces.

Where is Zaffre HRM based?

Zaffre Tech, the company behind Zaffre HRM, is headquartered in Pakistan and serves customers globally — with strong adoption in Pakistan, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

How to Switch from Excel to HR Software — Migration Guide

Almost every Pakistani SMB starts with HR on Excel. Employee list in one sheet, payroll in another, attendance in a third, leave on a fourth, the operations stuff in someone's WhatsApp. It works at 5 employees. It survives at 20. It cracks at 50. If you are reading this, you are probably somewhere between 30 and 100 employees and have decided that the Excel chaos costs more than software would.

Here is the 4-week playbook to make the switch without losing data or trust.

Week 1 — Audit + Decide

Before you import anything, list every HR-related file in use:

Employee master sheet (names, joining dates, salaries, designations)
Attendance log (daily / monthly)
Leave register
Payroll sheets (last 12 months minimum)
Loan and advance register
Asset register
Resignation / exit list

For each, write down: who maintains it, who consumes it, and what would break if it disappeared tomorrow. This audit will save you from the most common mistake: migrating data that nobody actually uses while missing data that's load-bearing.

Week 2 — Clean

Spreadsheet data is always dirty. Same employee in 3 sheets with 3 different name spellings. Salaries from 4 months ago that no longer match current. Attendance for resigned employees still being recorded.

Spend a week cleaning:

One canonical employee ID per employee (assign new ones; the old "EMP-1" / "001" / "Employee 12" mess will not survive)
One spelling per name
Current salaries verified against actual disbursement
Resigned employees flagged with exit date
Asset register reconciled — what is physically with each employee right now

Tedious. Unavoidable. Do it before import, not after.

Week 3 — Import + parallel run

Import the cleaned data into your new HR software. Zaffre HRM accepts CSV imports for employees, leave balances and asset allocations — most platforms do.

Then do a parallel run for one full month: continue your Excel process exactly as before, AND run the same data through the new system. At month-end, compare. Differences will be one of three things:

Bug in import → fix it
Bug in your Excel process → you just found a problem that's probably been costing you money
Different but both valid (rounding, etc.) → align

Week 4 — Cutover + retire

If month 1 reconciled cleanly, retire the Excel master files officially. Archive them, do not delete — you will need them for audit reference. Communicate clearly to staff: "From the 1st of next month, all attendance / leave / payslips / requests go through the new system. Excel is read-only history."

The cutover itself is the easy part. The hard part is the next 30 days of habit change.

The three migration mistakes to avoid

1. Migrating dirty data

Cleaning Excel data in Excel is 10x easier than cleaning it after it is inside the new system. Do it before import.

2. Skipping the parallel run

"We will just go live on the 1st" — and then payroll disputes happen because the new system calculated differently and nobody caught it in time. Always run one month in parallel.

3. Picking software that requires re-entry instead of import

If a vendor's onboarding plan involves your HR team typing in 80 employees manually, walk away. Any modern HR software accepts CSV/Excel import. If theirs does not, they are not modern HR software.

How long does it really take?

For a 50-employee company: 4 weeks following the playbook above. For 100-200: 6 weeks. Larger: usually broken into modules (HR + payroll first, then operations later).

If you are ready to switch, book a Zaffre HRM demo — we will walk you through exactly how the import works on your sheet structure, and quote a realistic timeline based on your size and complexity.

How to Switch from Excel to HR Software — Migration Playbook