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HR and Payroll Software UAE • Built for UAE Labour Law

Your HR team is drowning in spreadsheets. Connect HR fixes that.

Connect HR is the UAE-built HR and Payroll management software that handles payroll, WPS compliance, attendance, leave, and employee records in one place. Less admin. Fewer errors. 0 MOHRE surprises.

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WPS & SIF Compliant

Mainland & Free Zone Ready

Employee Self-Service Portal

Mobile App Included

NAFIS & Emiratisation

This is what bad HR and Payroll management looks like in the UAE

Every one of these problems is avoidable. Most businesses only realise that after they have already paid for it.

WPS Rejections at 11pm

A single wrong field in your SIF file bounces the whole payroll run. Your employees do not get paid. You spend Friday night on the phone to a bank that does not answer.

Gratuity Disputes

Calculating end-of-service gratuity on total salary instead of basic salary is the most common HR error in the UAE. It leads to MOHRE disputes and payments you were not expecting.

Leave Tracking in Spreadsheets

When leave is tracked in Excel, balances go wrong. Employees carry forward entitlements that were already cashed out. The mistake surfaces when someone resigns.

No Employee Self-Service

Your HR team gets 20 messages a day asking for payslips, leave balances, and NOC letters. Every one of them is manual. None of them is revenue-generating work.

Attendance Fraud

Without a biometric or GPS-verified attendance system, buddy punching is common. In a 50-person company, 10 minutes of ghost attendance per person per day adds up to real money.

NAFIS Gaps

Emirati employees require NAFIS contributions as part of Emiratisation. If your system does not flag and process these automatically, you are building a compliance debt every single month.

BY THE NUMBERS

500+ UAE businesses run their HR on Connect HR. Here is what that looks like.

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5000+

UAE businesses using Connect HR

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WPS rejections across all clients

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saved per payroll run on average

70%

fewer routine HR queries

10 yrs

of UAE HR expertise behind it

30 days

from sign-up to fully live

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What is Connect HR?

The only HR & Payroll Software UAE businesses actually need

Most HR and payroll software was built for Western payroll and localised for the UAE as an afterthought. WPS gets bolted on. Gratuity becomes a custom field someone configures wrong. The result is a system that kind of works, until it does not.

Connect HR is a cloud HR system built from day one around UAE Labour Law, the Wages Protection System, MOHRE requirements, and the reality of managing a multicultural workforce across mainland and free zone entities. Nothing is an add-on. Everything is already there.

Platform Modules

Everything your HR team needs. One login.

Connect HR is a full HRMS, not a collection of half-finished tools. Every module talks to every other module.

Full payroll processing with WPS SIF file generation, multi-entity support, and automatic gratuity accrual. Payslips in Arabic and English.

Annual leave, sick leave, emergency leave, and maternity or paternity leave tracked under UAE Labour Law. Managers approve via mobile in one tap.

Biometric device integration, GPS check-in, and shift management. Late arrivals, overtime, and early departures captured automatically.

Payslips, leave requests, NOC letters, salary certificates, and profile updates. Employees manage their own records without involving HR.

Visa expiry alerts, passport copy storage, labour contract management, and automated renewal reminders. Never miss a document deadline again.

Headcount, turnover, leave liability, payroll cost per department, and Emiratisation ratio reports. All exportable for your finance team.

NAFIS contributions calculated and flagged per pay run. Emiratisation quota tracking and reporting built in, not bolted on.

Org chart builder, job requisitions, and onboarding workflows. New hires move from offer letter to payroll in one connected flow.

Your First Payroll Run Should Take 2 hours. Not 2 days.

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payroll cycle, SIF file and all, in a single session.

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No credit card. No contract. Live within 30 days.

UAE Compliance Built In

Every UAE Regulation. Already handled.

Connect HR does not ask you to configure compliance rules. They are baked in from day one.

Wage Protection System (WPS)

SIF files generated in CBUAE-approved format and validated before submission. Zero WPS rejections across all Connect HR clients since 2019.

End-of-Service Gratuity

Basic salary ring-fenced from allowances from day one. UAE Labour Law 2022 formula applied: 21 days for years 1-5, 30 days beyond. Calculated automatically at separation.

Free Zone vs. Mainland Rules

DIFC DEWS contributions, ADGM framework, and all major free zone-specific requirements handled per entity. Multi-entity companies run on one dashboard.

Emiratisation & NAFIS

NAFIS contributions flagged and processed each payroll run. Emiratisation ratio tracked in real time so you always know your quota status before MOHRE asks.

Leave Entitlements

Annual leave, sick leave, maternity, paternity, and Hajj leave all calculated per UAE Labour Law. Accrual is automatic. Encashment at separation is computed in seconds.

Visa & Document Expiry Tracking

Passport, visa, Emirates ID, and labour contract expiry alerts sent 90, 60, and 30 days before the deadline. No more emergency renewals.

What Connect HR Gives You

One HRMS. Every HR Problem solved.

From payroll software and WPS compliance to attendance, leave, and employee self-service. All of it in one login.

WPS-Compliant Payroll Software UAE

Run payroll, auto-generate your SIF file, validate against CBUAE specs, and submit. The entire cycle that used to take 2 days now closes in under 2 hours. Payslips in English and Arabic, delivered automatically.

End-of-Service Gratuity, Always Right

Basic salary is separated from allowances from day one. UAE Labour Law 2022 gratuity formula runs automatically at separation. No manual calculation. No disputes with MOHRE.

Employee Self-Service Portal UAE

Payslips, leave requests, NOC letters, and salary certificates. Employees handle it themselves from their phone in Arabic or English. HR teams report 70% fewer routine queries from week one.

Attendance Management Software

Biometric device integration or GPS mobile check-in. Every hour tracked, every absence flagged, overtime counted automatically. Data flows into payroll with zero manual entry.

Leave Management System Dubai

Annual, sick, maternity, paternity, and Hajj leave tracked per UAE Labour Law. Balances accrue automatically. No more spreadsheet errors surfacing when someone resigns.

Visa & Document Expiry Tracking

Passport, visa, Emirates ID, and labour contract deadlines flagged at 90, 60, and 30 days. Renewal reminders sent automatically. No more emergency calls to PRO at the last minute.

MOHRE-Integrated HRMS & NAFIS

NAFIS contributions calculated and processed every pay run. Emiratisation quota tracked in real time. Know your status before MOHRE asks, not after the notice arrives.

HRMS for Free Zone & Mainland

Mainland, free zone, DIFC DEWS, and ADGM rules applied per entity automatically. Multi-entity companies run one dashboard, one payroll run, one report.

50,000+ employees across the UAE get paid on time every month because of Connect HR.

From a 12-person startup in Business Bay to a 2000-person contruction Group in Abu Dhabi. Same system. Same compliance. Zero errors.

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Industries We Serve

Built for SMEs.
Trusted by Enterprises.
Ready for your Sector.

Connect HR for SMEs in UAE runs the same compliant system as our enterprise clients. Your sector, your headcount, same zero-error payroll.

  • Construction
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • Technology
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Logistics
  • Financial Services
  • Real Estate
  • Manufacturing
  • Free Zone Businesses
  • Professional Services
Getting Started with Connect HR

From your first call to a running HRMS in Dubai. In 15 days.

Most HR software implementations drag on for months. Ours does not. Here is the exact path from sign-up to your first WPS-compliant payroll run on Connect HR.

We Review Your Setup

Entity type, HeadCount, current payroll, compliance gaps. Mapped before we touch anything.

We Build it for You

Payroll rules, WPS settings, leave policies, NAFIS, Configuredand loaded by our team.

You Run a Test Payroll

Side by side with your old system. Numbers match, SIF validates. You sign off.

Go Live. We Stay

Your team runs it. A named account manager handles every question that comes after

From the People Using It

They Switched. Here Is What Changed.

Not marketing quotes. Specific things that stopped going wrong.

WPS Rejections: 3 → 0

We had 3 WPS rejections in one quarter before switching. Since Connect HR, not one. The SIF file validation alone paid for the first month’s subscription.”

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R. Al Hamdan
Finance Director, Logistics Group, Dubai

HR Queries Down 70%

My team now does actual HR work. Before Connect HR, half our day was sending payslips and writing NOC letters that employees could have pulled themselves.”

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N. Krishnan
HR Manager, Healthcare Clinic Group, Abu Dhabi

3 Entities, 1 Dashboard

Dubai Mainland, JAFZA, and DIFC. All three run in one place now. Every other system we tried required a separate setup per entity, which made payroll a full-week job.”

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Sara Al-Mansouri
Founder
Why Connect HR

We Built This Because We Ran HR in the UAE Too.

Connect Group has been managing HR, payroll, and workforce compliance for UAE businesses since 2016. We have seen every version of this problem. Late WPS submissions. Gratuity disputes. Leave records that fell apart when someone quit. Spreadsheets emailed on a Friday night.

Connect HR is what we built so our own clients did not have to keep living with it. It is not a product we sell and walk away from. It is the same system our HR teams use to manage 500+ businesses across the UAE every single month.

Since 2016

Serving UAE businesses

5000+

Active Connect HR clients

50,000+

Employees paid on time monthly

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MOHRE penalties under our watch

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Connect HR generates CBUAE-approved SIF files and validates them before submission. The system has maintained a zero WPS rejection rate across all active clients since 2019. Payroll cannot be finalised until the SIF file passes the validation check.

Yes. Connect HR supports multi-entity payroll across Dubai Mainland, all major UAE free zones, DIFC, and ADGM. Jurisdiction-specific rules (including DIFC DEWS contributions) are applied automatically per employee based on their registered entity.

Yes. End-of-service gratuity is calculated automatically at separation, using basic salary only and applying the correct UAE Labour Law 2022 formula: 21 calendar days per year for the first 5 years, 30 calendar days per year beyond that. The system also calculates any outstanding leave encashment and salary owed.

Most businesses are live on Connect HR within 2 to 4 weeks. This includes data migration, payroll configuration, WPS setup, and a parallel payroll run to verify accuracy before going live. Our implementation team manages the process end-to-end

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