Partner programme
Become a PayrollMaster partner
The PayrollMaster partner programme rewards people and firms who introduce organisations to us. Apply on the partner portal, submit referrals from your dashboard, and earn when an organisation you introduced becomes a paying customer. It is open to accountants, consultants, IT firms, agencies and existing customers alike.
The programme
What is the PayrollMaster Partner Programme?
It is a referral programme. You introduce an organisation that needs payroll software, we take it from there, and you are rewarded when that organisation becomes a paying customer. You are not reselling, implementing or supporting anything — the relationship, the contract and the support stay with us.
That is the whole shape of it, and the limits matter as much as the offer. There is no certification to earn before you can refer anyone, no volume you have to commit to, and no obligation to deliver the implementation yourself. If you would rather stay involved and run payroll for your clients directly, that is a different arrangement — running payroll for multiple organisations covers it.
How it works
How do referrals work?
Three steps, and you can see the state of every one of them from your dashboard rather than wondering what happened to an introduction you made a month ago.
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Apply to the programme
Register on the partner portal with your name and email. We review applications and set you up with an account — there is no long form and no contract negotiation to get started.
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Introduce an organisation
Submit a referral from your portal dashboard when you meet a business that runs payroll badly. You can see the status of every lead you have submitted, so you are never guessing where an introduction went.
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Earn when they become a customer
A referral is rewarded once the organisation you introduced becomes a paying customer. The reward structure and payment terms are set out in the Partner Agreement you accept when you join.
Who it is for
Who should join the partner programme?
Anyone who meets organisations that run payroll badly. In practice that is a short list of professions — and one group that outperforms all of them, which is customers who already use the product.
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Accountants and bookkeepers
You already see which clients are running payroll on a spreadsheet, and you are the one who finds the error at year end. Referring them is a fix to a problem you are otherwise asked to clean up.
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HR and payroll consultants
You advise on payroll process, statutory compliance and HR operations. A referral gives your client the system your advice assumes they have, and gives you a stake in it working.
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ERP and implementation partners
You implement finance and business systems and keep meeting payroll as the gap in the stack. PayrollMaster posts payroll journals to the ledger and exposes a documented REST API for the rest.
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IT firms and digital agencies
You are the trusted technology voice for businesses that do not have a CIO. When a client asks what to do about payroll, a referral is a straightforward answer that does not become your support burden.
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Outsourcing and business services firms
You run finance, HR or administration for other companies. If you already process payroll for clients, PayrollMaster runs every client from one account, each on its own country rules.
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Customers and professional networks
The strongest referrals come from people who already run their payroll on PayrollMaster. If you use it and would recommend it, the programme is open to you on the same terms as anyone else.
What you get
How are partners rewarded?
On outcomes, not on activity. A referral earns when the organisation you introduced becomes a paying customer — the reward structure and payment terms are set out in the Partner Agreement you accept when you join, so the commercial terms are written down rather than negotiated case by case.
You can see where every lead stands
Referrals are submitted and tracked in the partner portal, with a visible status on each one. An introduction does not disappear into somebody’s inbox.
Rewarded on real outcomes
A referral earns when the organisation becomes a paying customer — not on a click, a form fill or a meeting that never converts.
Nothing to install or maintain
You are introducing a cloud product. There is no deployment for you to run, no environment to keep alive, and no version to support.
A product you can put your name to
The reason to care about this: your reputation travels with the referral. Statutory rules are maintained centrally and applied on every run, so what you recommend keeps working after the introduction.
Terms written down
The commercial terms are in the Partner Agreement you accept at signup, rather than in a conversation you have to remember.
Apply in about a minute
Registration asks for your name and an email address. There is no tender, no minimum commitment to sign and no pipeline target to hit before you start.
Why PayrollMaster
Why refer organisations to PayrollMaster?
Because a referral spends your credibility, not ours. PayrollMaster runs payroll in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Zambia, maintaining each market's statutory rules centrally and applying the current version on every run.
Statutory compliance is the product
PAYE, social security and local levies are maintained per country and applied on every run, with the statutory returns produced from the run itself.
Built for African markets specifically
Six markets, each with its own deductions, collecting authority and filing calendar — not a global product with a currency field.
Payroll runs in minutes, not days
A run covering twenty thousand employees completes in under a minute, so month-end stops being a two-day event that blocks the finance team.
Employees answer their own questions
Self-service gives staff their payslips, leave balances and loan positions, which is most of what lands on HR every payday.
Access control your client’s auditor will ask about
Seven server-enforced roles and a full audit trail — every change with a before-and-after diff, the actor and their IP, searchable and exportable.
It fits the systems they already run
Payroll journals post to Zoho today, and any other ERP connects through the same documented REST API that connector is built on.
More detail on what the product does, the markets it covers and the systems it connects to.
Questions
Partner programme questions
Who can become a PayrollMaster partner?
The programme is open to individuals and organisations who can introduce businesses to PayrollMaster. That includes accountants, bookkeepers, HR and payroll consultants, ERP and software implementation partners, IT firms, digital agencies, outsourcing providers and existing customers. You do not need to be a reseller or hold a certification.
How do I refer a customer?
Submit the referral from your partner portal dashboard rather than sending an email. Each lead you submit carries a visible status, so you can see what has happened to an introduction without having to chase anyone for an update.
When do I receive rewards?
A referral becomes rewardable once the organisation you introduced becomes a paying customer, rather than when they sign up for a trial or take a demo. The reward structure and the payment terms are set out in the Partner Agreement you accept when you join the programme.
Is there a cost to join?
Registration asks only for your name and email address, and no payment is requested to apply. There is no minimum volume to commit to and no tender process. The Partner Agreement presented at signup is the full statement of the terms between us.
Can companies become partners, or only individuals?
Both. A firm can join as an organisation — which is the usual route for accounting practices, consultancies and IT companies referring across a client base — and individual professionals can join in their own name. The application is the same either way.
Can existing PayrollMaster customers join?
Yes, and customer referrals tend to be the strongest ones, because they come from someone who has actually run payroll on the product. Being a customer does not change your terms as a partner; you join through the same application as everyone else.
Start referring organisations
Apply with your name and an email address. We review applications and set you up with a portal account, and you can submit your first referral as soon as you are in.