Payroll

Payroll lives in a fragile calculator no one dares touch.

Running staff in more than one country means more than one set of statutory rules. The deductions sit in a hand-built spreadsheet calculator, disconnected from the budget, and updating a rate risks breaking a formula three tabs away.

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The spreadsheet reality

  • A bespoke calculator per country, maintained by one person.
  • Statutory rates updated by hand, and easy to get wrong.
  • Payroll numbers re-keyed into the budget every month.
  • No clean audit trail when a rate or band changes.

The Luma reality

  • Kenya and US payroll models built in, kept statutory-accurate.
  • PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, Social Security, Medicare and more, computed for you.
  • Personnel costs flow straight into programme budgets.
  • Reusable payroll templates for repeatable, reviewable runs.

How Luma solves it

The features that turn the problem into a workflow you can run.

F4 · Payroll

Jurisdiction-aware by design

Pick a payroll jurisdiction per company and Luma applies the right statutory model — Kenya (PAYE, NSSF, SHIF) or the United States (federal/state withholding, Social Security, Medicare).

F4 · Budget integration

Personnel cost, straight to the budget

Computed gross, deductions and employer costs feed directly into programme personnel lines — no re-keying, and the budget reflects real payroll the moment it runs.

F4 · Templates

Repeatable, reviewable runs

Save payroll templates for recurring structures so each cycle is fast to produce and easy for a reviewer to check.

Budget health · FY2026

Rolling vs. annual

On track
Annual ceiling Rolling actuals
Programme delivery
62%
Personnel & payroll
78%
Operations
91%

Payroll computed per jurisdiction, flowing into programme personnel costs.

Explore the rest of the platform

Every problem above connects to the next — that is the point of one integrated platform.

Rolling & annual budgets

Annual ceiling and live rolling forecast in one model — variance the moment it appears.

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Multi-entity architecture

Each company keeps its own currency and rules; you see them as one organisation.

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Income pipeline

Track grants and donors from prospect to received, weighted into the forecast.

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Trips, expenses & requests

Plan field trips, capture expenses against them, and route approvals cleanly.

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Financial reporting

Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow generated from live actuals.

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