Platform · HR & payroll
The crew, the timesheets, the payroll — on the same record as the project.
On a solar job, people are the cost line that moves. Generic HR tools keep the roster in one system, the timesheets in another and payroll in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts — while the project ledger sees none of it. Voltara runs the whole employment lifecycle inside the platform, applies the labour rules of the jurisdiction the crew works in, and lands every payroll run in finance as an AP bill.
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HR sections, roster to training
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jurisdictions’ labour rules built in
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AP bill per payroll run, straight into finance
§01 · NINE SECTIONS
The employment lifecycle, in order
HR is nine sections that follow the lifecycle of a hire: the roster as the spine, recruitment and onboarding at the front, leave and timesheets in the middle, payroll where it counts, performance and training over the long run — and dashboard cards on top, so the module opens on what needs attention, not on a menu.
RosterRecruitmentOnboardingLeaveTimesheetsPayrollPerformanceTrainingDashboard cards
- One roster is the source of truth — every other section reads and writes the same employee record, so there is no “HR copy” and “site copy” of the same person.
- Recruitment and onboarding run as workflows, not folders: candidates move through a funnel, and a hire arrives on the roster with the paperwork already collected.
- Leave and timesheets carry the time discipline; performance and training carry the development record — all on the record payroll reads.
- Dashboard cards sit above the sections and surface the live questions — who is on leave, what is pending, what payroll needs next.
§02 · LABOUR RULES
Payroll that knows which country it is in
A payroll run in Cairo is not a payroll run in Riyadh. The platform carries jurisdiction labour rules for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan — income tax, social insurance, end-of-service and leave quotas — so the same payroll engine produces the right answer in each market.
- Income tax and social insurance apply per the jurisdiction’s rules — not as a percentage someone keys into a spreadsheet and forgets to update.
- End-of-service obligations are part of the model, so the liability accrues on the record instead of surfacing as a surprise when someone resigns.
- Leave quotas follow the jurisdiction too — the leave section enforces the entitlement of the market the employee actually works in.
- The rules come from the same jurisdiction setup that drives tax, compliance and permits across the platform — picked once, applied everywhere.
Honesty on coverage: Egypt is the validated jurisdiction. Saudi Arabia and Jordan are in validation; the UAE profiles (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) are preliminary.
§03 · THE FINANCE BRIDGE
A payroll run lands as an AP bill
Payroll is money, so it should end in the ledger — not in a parallel system finance re-keys at month end. Close a payroll run and it lands in finance as an AP bill: the same AP discipline that pays suppliers and subcontractors pays the crew.
- One bridge, no exports: the payroll run becomes an AP bill in finance automatically.
- Payroll then settles through the same AP flow as every other bill — visible, payable, auditable in one place.
- Who can run payroll is a rule, not a habit — a 17-role permission model gates actions on the server.
Where the bill lands: Finance & billing.
§04 · ASSIGNMENTS → PROJECT COST
Crew assignments become project cost
Labour is a project cost before it is an HR statistic. Assignments put named people on named projects, timesheets record where the hours actually went, and the labour shows up where a contractor needs to see it — in the cost of the project it built.
- Assignments put named people on named projects — the org chart and the site plan stop disagreeing.
- Timesheets capture the hours against real work, so “what did this project cost us in people?” has an answer.
- The per-project P&L carries the result — margin conversations include the crew, not just the kit.
§05 · WORKS WITH
Where HR plugs in
The crew record touches the ledger and the build — by design.
Finance & billing
Where the payroll run lands: AP bills alongside four billing methods, retainage, multi-currency lines, jurisdiction VAT and WHT, and per-project P&L.
Projects & delivery
The projects the crew is assigned to — an 8-state machine with audit-logged transitions, milestone billing and the 20-point pre-commissioning checklist.
The platform
All eleven modules on one record, from first call to handover — run daily by our own NREA-licensed EPC arm.
Run a payroll that ends in the ledger.
Demos are founder-led. We’ll put a hire on the roster, fill a timesheet, run payroll under your jurisdiction’s labour rules and watch it land in finance as an AP bill.
Book a demo Included in the EPC Platform — $899/mo
HR & payroll ships with the EPC Platform at $899/mo (10 seats). Annual pricing is monthly × 10 — two months free. Paddle.com is the merchant of record.