PayPeople was the early entrant. Peoplifi is the modern rebuild — faster, cheaper, with a desktop time-tracking agent and cleaner FBR automation.
If you want proven Pakistan payroll at a legacy price, PayPeople works. If you want the same compliance plus modern time tracking, a faster UI, and lower per-seat cost, Peoplifi is the better choice in 2025.
PayPeople is one of Pakistan's oldest HRIS vendors, serving mid-market enterprises since the early 2010s. The product is comprehensive but heavy: long implementation timelines, a dated UI, and no desktop productivity agent for remote work.
Custom enterprise pricing (estimated PKR 1,500 to PKR 3,000 per employee per month based on public customer data)
Starting at PKR 840 per seat per month (Starter plan, includes payroll). $3 per seat per month for international teams.
Enterprises above 500 employees with on-premise requirements and long procurement cycles.
SMBs and mid-market (10 to 500 employees) that want modern UX, remote time tracking, and fast setup — without sacrificing Pakistan compliance.
Most teams under 200 employees migrate in 3 to 5 business days. You export employee data from PayPeople, import into Peoplifi, run one parallel payroll to verify, and go live on the next cycle.
No, Peoplifi is cloud-first. Data is hosted in Asia-region data centres with encryption at rest and in transit. For most SMBs this is a feature (zero ops overhead); if your organization mandates on-premise, PayPeople remains a reasonable choice.
Yes, typically 40 to 60 percent lower on a per-seat basis for teams under 300 employees. Our public pricing starts at PKR 840 per seat per month.
Yes. Peoplifi generates the exact Rule 44 monthly statement, Section 149 annual statement, and Form 149 certificates in FBR-accepted formats. Year-end and mid-year transitions are supported.
PayPeople has been one of the longest-established HR-payroll vendors in Pakistan, with a substantial customer base across Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities. Its strength is breadth — it covers HR, payroll, attendance, performance, recruitment and more in a single platform — and an established reputation among traditional Pakistani SMBs. Peoplifi is the modern alternative aimed at the same segment with three structural differentiators: (1) public PKR pricing without quote-gates, (2) bundled desktop time tracking on every plan with no extra module fees, and (3) a sharper UI built around mobile-first usage that resonates with younger Pakistani teams.
Both Peoplifi and PayPeople handle the core FBR compliance items required for Pakistani payroll: Section 149 income-tax withholding using current Finance Act slabs, Rule 44 monthly tax-deducted statements, Section 165 annual reconciliation, Form 149 salary tax certificates issued to employees. The differentiator is the user experience and the depth of edge-case handling — Peoplifi's tax engine handles mid-year salary changes, bonus payouts, leave encashment, full-and-final settlement tax computation, and tax-credit declarations (Section 60 for full-time researchers, Section 60D for education expenses, Section 63 for pension-fund contributions) in a more polished workflow than legacy platforms.
Pakistani payroll requires correct handling of EOBI (federal old-age and survivors' insurance) and the relevant provincial fund — PESSI for Punjab, SESSI for Sindh, KPESSI for KP, BESSI for Balochistan. Both platforms compute and file these. Peoplifi's province-detection runs automatically based on each employee's work location, applying the right fund and the right ceiling; multi-province employers see clean per-fund filings without manual reconciliation. PayPeople offers comparable functionality. Where Peoplifi differentiates is in the live employee dashboard — employees see their own EOBI/PESSI contributions and accumulated employer share at any time, eliminating the information-asymmetry that has historically caused friction.
Peoplifi generates IBFT salary files in the formats required by HBL Connect, MCB Live, UBL Omni, Meezan Business, Bank Alfalah and other major Pakistani corporate banking portals — uploaded once a month, salaries land in employees' accounts within minutes. PayPeople has similar capability with broadly the same bank coverage. The differentiator is workflow polish: Peoplifi's bank-file generation runs as part of the payroll close with one click, while older platforms often require a separate export step.
PayPeople's time-tracking module is competent but priced as an add-on for many configurations. Peoplifi includes desktop time tracking (Windows / macOS / Linux) on every plan — installed once on each employee's machine, runs in the system tray, captures activity offline, syncs when back online. App-category productivity reporting, idle detection, and configurable screenshot capture come standard. For Pakistani BPOs, agencies, and remote-first companies that need detailed time accountability for client billing or productivity management, this is often the deciding factor.
PayPeople is largely quote-based, with reported customer pricing typically in the PKR 600-1,500 per employee per month range depending on modules. Peoplifi's public PKR pricing (Starter PKR 840, Growth PKR 1,950, Business PKR 3,300 per seat per month — illustrative) is transparent and undercuts PayPeople for typical SMB configurations, with time tracking, performance reviews and onboarding workflows bundled rather than as paid add-ons. For a 100-person Pakistani team, total HR-software cost typically runs 30-50% lower at Peoplifi.
PayPeople-to-Peoplifi migrations typically run 1-2 weeks of HR effort. Standard sequence: export employee master data, leave balances, performance reviews and uploaded documents from PayPeople; bulk-import to Peoplifi via the migration wizard; recreate leave policies, salary structures, EOBI/PESSI configurations, and approval workflows; run one parallel pay cycle (Section 149 calculations + bank IBFT file) to validate net-pay totals; cutover at the next clean payroll boundary. Concierge migration on Business plan handles the heavy lifting and includes legacy-data archive as PDFs for 7-year statutory retention.
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