GadaHQ exists to give every African business — from 10-person startups to 10,000-person enterprises — access to world-class HR tooling that works the way they do.
We built a modular, multi-tenant platform that companies can onboard themselves in minutes, customise to their brand, and extend with only the features they actually need. No bloated enterprise contracts. No per-seat pricing designed to penalise growth. Just clean, modern HR software that scales with you.
HR software in Africa is either too expensive, too foreign, or too basic. We're building the middle ground — powerful and local.
Most HR software sold in Africa was built for Western businesses and sold at Western prices. The result: small and mid-size African companies either overpay for tools they barely use, cobble together spreadsheets and WhatsApp messages, or simply go without a system at all. None of those are good options.
GadaHQ was designed from the ground up for African business realities. Multi-currency payroll that handles NGN, GHS, KES and ZAR. Leave policies that understand local public holidays and labour laws. A pricing model that doesn't punish you for having 200 employees instead of 20.
The platform is modular by design. We don't believe in forcing companies to buy a monolithic suite and pay for features they'll never touch. Instead, every company starts with the core HR tools and installs only what they actually need — exactly when they need it.
When a client pays us to build a custom feature, we package it as a marketplace module. That means every subsequent client who needs the same thing can install it for a fraction of the original cost. The platform gets smarter with every client we serve.
A feature that confuses the people using it is not a feature — it's a liability. We obsess over clarity at every level of the product.
Every client's data lives in its own database. No shared tables, no leakage risks. Privacy is architectural, not just a policy.
We don't hide features behind paywalls or lock them with flags. If a module isn't installed, it simply doesn't exist in your environment.
We design for Naira, Cedis and Shillings before Dollars. For PAYE and pension before 401k. For Eid and Christmas before public holiday defaults.
Pricing per seat turns growth into a punishment. Our model prices per company so scaling your team never means a surprise invoice.
Every client portal carries their logo and colours, not ours. Your employees should feel they're using your software, not a third-party tool.
GadaHQ is not a monolith. It's a hub-and-spoke architecture where a central control plane serves dozens of fully isolated client environments simultaneously.
The gadahq_central database manages company routing, billing, module catalogue and admin accounts. It never touches client HR data.
Each company gets its own MySQL database provisioned on signup. Full data isolation — no shared tables, no risk of cross-client leakage.
Each addon ships with its own install.sql, routes, controllers and views. Install runs the SQL. Uninstall drops it. Clean in both directions.
A wildcard DNS record routes all subdomains to the same server. Laravel reads the host header, queries central, and connects to the right database automatically.
The full multi-tenant platform is live. Core HR (employees, leave, departments), Payroll, Attendance, Recruitment, Appraisal, Training and Multi-Branch modules are available in the marketplace.
A branded iOS and Android app for staff self-service — leave requests, payslips, GPS clock-in, training and push notifications. Available as a marketplace addon.
Fully automated recurring billing. Companies self-serve their subscription upgrades, module purchases and invoice management without manual intervention.
End-to-end automated onboarding. A company signs up, picks a subdomain, and their fully provisioned HR portal is ready in under 60 seconds — no human required.
Country-specific payroll and compliance modules for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and beyond — handling local tax authorities, pension schemes and labour law requirements natively.