StartHR is the HR and payroll system built for businesses in Bahrain with 5 to 250 employees — compliant with the Bahrain Labour Law (Law 36/2012), fluent in Arabic and English, and quietly automating the typing.
Attendance, leave, overtime at 125%, loans and SIO flow into one run. Variance warnings and WPS checks catch mistakes before your bank does.
Pick your country to see its social insurance, wage protection, end-of-service and localisation rules — and a live demo company for every industry.
Bahrainis: employee 8% (pension 7% + unemployment 1%), employer 18% (pension, work injury 3%, unemployment 1%), capped at BHD 4,000. Expatriates: employer 3% and employee 1% unemployment, plus the end-of-service fund at SIO since March 2024 (4.2% for the first 3 years, 8.4% after).
The WPS salary file for your bank, with IBAN and wage checks before you upload.
Contracts and work permits filed with the Ministry of Labour · LMRA, tracked against their expiry.
CPR, visa and residence renewals with fees calculated up front.
Sector Bahrainisation ratios; firms below the ratio pay higher LMRA work-permit fees.
Half a month per year for the first 3 years, a full month after (Law 36/2012). Service from 1 March 2024 is paid by SIO from the monthly end-of-service contributions, so the employer's lump sum covers earlier service only. Bahrainis are covered by the pension fund.
Residence permits, bank receipts, overtime sheets, CVs and leave messages become finished records. Every value shows its confidence, and nothing is saved until a person confirms it.
Change the numbers. This uses the same rules as the product — allowances, SIO contributions and the end-of-service rules of the Bahrain Labour Law (Law 36/2012).
Illustration only. SIO base capped at BHD 4,000; expatriates' end of service per the Bahrain Labour Law (Law 36/2012). Not tax or legal advice.
Devices send punches straight to StartHR's cloud — no local server, no nightly exports. Attendance, lateness and overtime update within seconds and flow into payroll.
Older LAN-only devices? The small StartHR Agent on any office PC forwards their punches. Any other device can send a webhook or a CSV export.
Attendance, leave and overtime lock automatically.
AI explains every unusual change and flags WPS mismatches.
Owner approves on the phone in one tap.
WPS file to your bank, payslips to every phone.
SIO contributions and the WPS salary file tracked to their deadlines.
Your data stays in GCC data centres in Saudi Arabia, protected under the Saudi PDPL.
Choose who can see salary, IBAN, CPR and health data.
Every change, export and sensitive view is recorded.
Approved models only, no training on your data, human review before saving.
Consent records, data-subject requests and a 72-hour breach log.
Secure sign-in with OTP and optional SSO.
Up to 10 employees
Up to 100 employees
Up to 250 employees
Prices exclude 15% VAT. Billed in SAR. Cancel anytime.
Pay by bank transfer after your 30-day free trial.
When your trial ends, transfer from your bank app to our Saudi account, upload the receipt in the app, and we activate your plan — usually within one business day. ZATCA tax invoice included.
30 days with every feature unlocked. No card needed. Your data stays when you subscribe.
By bank transfer from your banking app to our Saudi account. Upload the receipt in Billing — AI reads it and our team verifies it, usually within one business day. Your ZATCA tax invoice is issued automatically.
ZKTeco (ADMS push and BioTime), Hikvision, Suprema BioStar, Dahua and Anviz CrossChex — plus any device that can call a webhook or export CSV. Devices send punches straight to StartHR's cloud; no local server needed.
Yes. SIO: Bahrainis: employee 8% (pension 7% + unemployment 1%), employer 18% (pension, work injury 3%, unemployment 1%), capped at BHD 4,000. Expatriates: employer 3% and employee 1% unemployment, plus the end-of-service fund at SIO since March 2024 (4.2% for the first 3 years, 8.4% after). End of service: Half a month per year for the first 3 years, a full month after (Law 36/2012). Service from 1 March 2024 is paid by SIO from the monthly end-of-service contributions, so the employer's lump sum covers earlier service only. Bahrainis are covered by the pension fund. Annual leave starts at 30 days. Every rate is configurable in Settings.
Yes. Payroll exports the WPS salary file for your bank, checked for wrong IBANs and wage mismatches before you upload it.
Data is hosted in Saudi Arabia, inside the GCC, under the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law. AI only sends personal data to providers your administrator approves, never trains on your data, and nothing is saved until a person confirms it.
Upload any Excel export. AI matches the columns, converts dates and amounts, transliterates names and flags bad IBANs before anything is saved.
Start the 30-day free trial, import your team and run payroll the same day.