01Ten countries · Three with native payroll

Ten countries. One employee record. Local payroll where we run it.

Workzoom is multi-country HR and payroll software covering ten countries on one employee record. Localized compliance, statutory contributions, government filings, multi-currency reporting, and employee self-service built in. The global HR software for Caribbean and Canadian mid-market employers.

25+ years in business  ·  10 countries  ·  Full payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas

Workzoom multi-country HR and payroll software dashboard: Canadian employee profile with CPP, EI, and provincial deductions configured natively

02The category

What is multi-country HR and payroll software?

Multi-country HR and payroll software is a unified platform that manages employees, payroll, and statutory compliance across multiple countries from one database. Instead of running a separate HR system in every region, organizations consolidate onto one platform with built-in support for each country's tax codes, statutory bodies, labour laws, and government filings. Workzoom is multi-country HR and payroll software covering ten countries on one employee record. Full local payroll runs in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. HR, Workforce, and Talent run worldwide.

04Why one platform

What multi-country HR runs on one employee record.

Workzoom HR dashboard showing organizational movement, payroll runs across countries, and employee training history on one screen.

Unified employee database

One record per person across all countries. No duplicate data entry or manual syncing between disconnected systems.

Automatic tax compliance

Tax rates, statutory deductions, and government filings update automatically when regulations change in each country.

Local currency payroll

Process payroll in CAD, USD, or BSD. Generate consolidated reports in any base currency for executive review.

Consistent employee experience

Everyone uses the same web and mobile apps with localized pay stubs, leave balances, and holiday calendars.

05Authorities we prepare filings for

Which tax authorities does Workzoom prepare filings for?

CRA Canada Revenue Agency
IRS Internal Revenue Service
NIB National Insurance Board
TAJ Tax Administration Jamaica
IRD Inland Revenue Division
IRD Inland Revenue Department
SSB Social Security Board
NIS National Insurance Scheme

06What it covers

What does multi-country payroll software actually cover?

The multi-country HR and payroll software category covers nine working concepts. Workzoom carries each one across every supported country on the same employee record.

Compliance automation
Compliance automation keeps statutory rates, contribution ceilings, and filing deadlines current per country. When the Canada Revenue Agency or the National Insurance Board publishes new rates, Workzoom applies them before the next pay run with no manual rate-table maintenance.
Payroll automation
Payroll automation calculates gross-to-net, statutory deductions, employer contributions, and net-pay banking transactions automatically on every scheduled pay run. The multi-country payroll software runs the same engine in CAD, USD, and BSD.
Multi-currency support
Multi-currency support processes payroll in each employee's local currency, with the platform converting between currencies for consolidated executive reporting. CAD, USD, and BSD pay runs flow into the same general ledger without manual currency conversion.
Currency conversion
Currency conversion applies the appropriate FX rate for consolidated reporting while the underlying payroll runs in local currency. Country-specific statutory bodies receive their filings in their statutory currency.
Payroll consolidation
Payroll consolidation rolls payroll data from every country into one executive view. Group costs, tax burden, headcount, and turnover read across all ten supported countries without re-keying.
Tax deductions
Tax deductions for federal, provincial, state, and local jurisdictions are calculated automatically per country. Workzoom applies the right rate for each employee based on their home country, jurisdiction, and effective-dated employment terms.
Employment laws
Employment laws for each supported country govern leave entitlements, overtime, notice periods, and termination rules. Workzoom applies these per country: Canada Labour Code, US FLSA, Bahamas Employment Act, Jamaica Employment Termination and Redundancy Payments Act, and others.
Mandatory benefits
Mandatory benefits are the statutory contribution and benefit programmes each country requires. Examples include CPP and EI in Canada, FICA in the United States, NIB in the Bahamas, NIS/NHT/HEART in Jamaica, NIBTT/Health Surcharge in Trinidad and Tobago, and the National Pensions Plan in the Cayman Islands.
Employee self-service portal
The employee self-service portal gives every employee, in every supported country, one place to view pay stubs, request leave, update personal details, download statutory slips (T4, W-2, NIB statement, NIS statement), and check work-permit status. The portal is fully localized to each country's terminology and statutory documents.
Global reporting
Global reporting aggregates the employee record, payroll, time, and talent data across every supported country into one executive view. The international HR and payroll consolidation feeds the same dashboards finance, HR, and operations leadership already use.

07Local compliance

How does multi-country payroll handle each country's rules?

Every supported country has its own statutory bodies, tax slips, and filing rules. Workzoom keeps the rule book current so your payroll team doesn't have to.

Canada - full payroll

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) collects federal and provincial income tax, CPP, CPP2, and EI on every pay run. Workzoom generates T4 slips by February 28 and Records of Employment for Service Canada at termination, ready to submit. Provincial workers' compensation, Ontario EHT, Quebec FSS, and bilingual Releve-1 reporting are all included.

United States - full payroll

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) handle federal payroll. Workzoom calculates multi-state withholding, FICA, FUTA, SUTA, and ACA compliance. W-2s, 1099-NECs, and 1095-Cs file electronically. Garnishments, child support orders, and IRS levies process automatically against the affected paycheck.

Bahamas - full payroll

The National Insurance Board (NIB) collects statutory contributions from employer and employee on every payroll. Workzoom prepares NIB contribution schedules and applies the Business Licence Fee where relevant. Net pay flows to Bahamian banks through one pay run. Workzoom is the named Bahamian payroll engine for clients including Cable Bahamas.

Jamaica - HR, Workforce, Talent

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), the National Housing Trust (NHT), and HEART/NSTA Trust collect statutory deductions. Workzoom holds the Jamaican employee record and tracks Education Tax, S01 returns, and PAYE for organizations running payroll on a separate Jamaican payroll engine.

Trinidad and Tobago - HR, Workforce, Talent

The Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) and the National Insurance Board of Trinidad and Tobago (NIBTT) administer PAYE and NIS. Health Surcharge and the Green Fund Levy apply per pay run. Workzoom holds the T&T employee record for HR, Workforce, and Talent across the platform.

Antigua and Barbuda - HR, Workforce, Talent

The Antigua and Barbuda Social Security (ABSS), the Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS), and the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) collect statutory deductions. Workzoom holds the employee record and tracks Education Levy obligations through self-service and reporting.

Barbados - HR, Workforce, Talent

The Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) collects PAYE income tax. The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) collects statutory contributions. The Employment Rights Act 2012 and the Severance Payments Act govern leave, notice, and termination. Workzoom holds the Barbadian employee record and tracks each obligation.

Anguilla - HR, Workforce, Talent

The Anguilla Social Security Board (SSB) collects statutory contributions, with the Interim Stabilisation Levy applied on top. Workzoom holds the Anguillan employee record and tracks leave entitlements per the Fair Labour Standards Act and overtime rules per pay group.

Cayman Islands - HR, Workforce, Talent

The Cayman Islands has no corporate or personal income tax. The National Pensions Plan (NPP) requires employer and employee contributions for ordinarily resident employees. The Standard Health Insurance Contract and the Department of Workforce Opportunities and Pensions Enforcement (WORC) work permit regime apply. Workzoom holds the Caymanian employee record.

United Kingdom - HR, Workforce, Talent

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) administers UK payroll through PAYE Real Time Information (RTI). Workzoom serves existing UK customers in the HR, Workforce, and Talent modules. Current Workzoom commercial focus is the Caribbean and Canadian mid-market.

08Side by side

Which countries get full payroll, and which get the HR record?

Every supported country runs HR, Workforce, and Talent on one employee record. Full native payroll runs in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. The matrix below summarizes coverage and the statutory bodies named in the product for each country.

Country Modules live Native payroll Key statutory bodies
Canada HR · Workforce · Talent · Payroll Yes · CAD CRA, CPP/EI, Service Canada
United States HR · Workforce · Talent · Payroll Yes · USD IRS, SSA, FICA
Bahamas HR · Workforce · Talent · Payroll Yes · BSD NIB
Jamaica HR · Workforce · Talent Not live TAJ, NIS, NHT, HEART/NSTA
Trinidad and Tobago HR · Workforce · Talent Not live BIR, NIBTT
Barbados HR · Workforce · Talent Not live BRA, NIS
Antigua and Barbuda HR · Workforce · Talent Not live ABSS, MBS, IRD
Anguilla HR · Workforce · Talent Not live Social Security Board
Cayman Islands HR · Workforce · Talent Not live NPP, WORC
United Kingdom HR · Workforce · Talent Not live HMRC (PAYE RTI)

Native payroll runs in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. In every other country, Workzoom holds the employee record and runs HR, Workforce, and Talent on one platform.

Questions on multi-country HR and payroll software.

How Workzoom handles payroll, compliance, currency, and the employee record across every supported country on one platform.

Multi-country HR and payroll software is a unified platform that manages employees, payroll, and statutory compliance across multiple countries from a single database. Instead of running a separate HR system in every region, organizations consolidate onto one platform with built-in support for each country's tax codes, statutory bodies, labour laws, and government filings. Workzoom is multi-country HR and payroll software covering ten countries on one employee record.
Workzoom runs full local payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas, including local tax calculations, statutory contributions, direct deposits, and government remittances filed automatically. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom run on Workzoom's HR, Workforce, and Talent modules. Caribbean and Canadian mid-market are the focus markets for Workzoom payroll development.
Yes. Workzoom processes payroll in CAD for Canada, USD for the United States, and BSD for the Bahamas, with the local statutory bodies filing in each currency. Consolidated executive reporting can be produced in any base currency, and the employee record carries each person's home currency, country, and employment terms automatically. Multi-currency reporting feeds directly into the same general ledger.
Tax rates, statutory deductions, contribution ceilings, and government filing requirements are maintained by Workzoom's compliance team on a country-by-country basis. When the Canada Revenue Agency, the IRS, the National Insurance Board, or any other statutory body publishes new rates, the platform updates automatically before the next pay run. No manual rate-table maintenance is required from the customer's payroll team.
Yes. Workzoom uses one employee record per person across every supported country. The same record holds employment history, compensation, leave balances, performance reviews, and country-specific statutory IDs (SIN, SSN, NIB number, NIS number, NHT number, NHS number). When an employee moves between countries, their history follows them. There is no duplicate data entry between disconnected regional systems.
Workzoom prepares the statutory returns for each supported country, ready to submit to the relevant body: the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Service Canada in Canada, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Social Security Administration in the United States, the National Insurance Board (NIB) in the Bahamas, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) and the National Insurance Scheme in Jamaica, the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) in Trinidad and Tobago, the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA), and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK.
Workzoom's HR, Workforce, and Talent modules work globally for employee records, scheduling, time tracking, performance management, succession, and learning. For payroll in regions outside the ten supported countries, the practical approach is to run Workzoom for the employee record and feed pay events into a local payroll engine. Contact us to discuss your specific country mix and we will walk you through the architecture.

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09Choosing a platform

How to evaluate a multi-country HR platform

When you shortlist a multi-country HR platform for Caribbean and Canadian employers, the questions worth answering up front are not feature counts. They are how the platform handles the rule book of each country you operate in. The four below cut every long shortlist down quickly.

  1. Does it run native local payroll, or does it integrate? Workzoom runs full native payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. For the other supported countries, payroll feeds out to a partner engine, with the HR, Workforce, and Talent suites running on the Workzoom employee record.
  2. Does it name your country's statutory bodies in the product? The honest test for caribbean HR software is whether the platform names NIB, NIS, NHT, BIR, BRA, NPP, and the country's revenue authority directly in the product, not just in marketing copy. Each one carries different filing cadence, deadlines, and forms.
  3. Does it carry the employee record across countries? Multi-country HR software lives and dies on one employee record per person. If a relocation requires re-keying personnel data into a second tenant, the integration cost compounds with every move.
  4. Does the international HR and payroll software match your scale? Workzoom is a multi-country HR platform built for 50 to 5,000 employees, mid-market sweet spot 250. Pricing is $4 USD per employee per month per suite, $16 USD all-in, with no setup fees and no annual contracts.

Pick the country you're hiring in to see its statutory bodies, banks, and case studies. Or book a walkthrough of Workzoom's multi-country HR and payroll software and we'll show you the platform end to end.

Your region not listed? Workzoom's multi-country HR and payroll software supports HR, Workforce, and Talent globally. Get in touch and we'll walk you through the setup for your region.

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