sibol

HR and payroll for Philippine SMEs

Everything an SME needs for HR and payroll, shaped to the way your business works.

Attendance, payroll, onboarding and government lists for businesses from about 15 people, one branch or many. sibol takes your pay rules, your papers and your way of clocking in as they are.

Running live payrolls today for a multi-branch logistics company and a group of restaurants, each on its own pay rules.

Your sibolModules for a restaurant group
Switched on for you
Attendance and DTROn
Payroll and payslipsOn
Service charge, paid in cashOn
Onboarding and assetsOn
Fingerprint scannersOff
Off means it leaves the menu.
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1 · Complete

Every part of HR and payroll. On when you need it.

Start with attendance and payroll. Add onboarding, assets, government lists, NTE or service charge when you need them. You see only what you need: a module you don't use is not in your menu.

Time

  • Attendance and DTR
  • Kiosk clock-in with ID and PIN
  • Face kiosk on a tablet
  • Overtime filing and approval
  • Leave, VL and SL

Payroll

  • Payroll runs and payslips
  • Holidays, premiums, night differential, allowances
  • Cash advances, SSS, Pag-IBIG and company loans
  • 13th month
  • Service charge and performance bonus
  • Government remittances, BIR 2316 and alphalist

People

  • Employee portal
  • 201 documents
  • Letters: COE, contract, NTE
  • NTE notices with the 5-day clock
  • Separation and final pay
  • Staff moves and relievers
  • Staff questions as tickets
  • Reports

Company

  • Several businesses, each with its own employer numbers
  • Supervisors who see their own branch
  • Viewer accounts
  • Audit trail
  • Org chart
  • Read-only Claude access: every answer from your own records

2 · Personal

It fits your business, not the other way round

Service charge paid in cash, a bonus by store, contributions under a sister company, your own NTE and COE wording. sibol takes your rules and your papers as they are. You don't change how you work to fit the software.

RULESYour own pay rules live in a rule set for your company alone. A company without one runs standard sibol.
POLICYEvery pay choice in one place, set when you start: 13th month basis, contributions, exit pay. HR changes them only if you allow it.
PAPERSCOE, contract, NTE, exit papers, quitclaim and payslip follow your own documents, in your wording and layout.
CLOCK-INFingerprint scanner, face tablet, ID and PIN kiosk, phone with a location check, or no clock at all for field crews. Slack too, if your team works there.
STRUCTUREOne business or several, each with its own ID prefix and SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and TIN numbers. One branch? You get a simple screen with no branch controls.

3 · Onboarding and assets

From the first day to the final pay

The day someone joins, sibol starts their checklist: documents, SSS and PhilHealth numbers, the laptop and the uniform, their login, the 30, 60 and 90-day check-ins. The day they leave, it knows what they still hold, and final pay waits until it is back.

Day 1Checklist with due dates counted from the hire date: documents, government numbers, company items, login.
Day 30–90Check-ins at 30, 60 and 90 days, each on the due-soon list until done.
Month 6Regularization date worked out per person under Art. 296, and flagged before it passes.
Any dayAsset register: tag, kind and serial, issued to one person at a time, returned with a date and its condition.
Last dayClearance shows the company items still out. Final pay reads the same list. Final payslip, quitclaim and clearance form printed.

4 · Government

Checked person by person, not by totals

Most systems check government contributions by agency totals, and a missing person hides on both sides. sibol checks every employee, every month: what was deducted and what was paid in. The lists for SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and BIR come out ready to file.

Totals check

Deductions ₱X, remitted ₱X. Looks fine.

What to pay, each month

SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and BIR, per business, from the released payslips. A released cutoff is never estimated again.

Nobody left out

Everyone on the payroll is included, even without an ID number on file. The missing number is flagged; the contribution never waits.

Lists ready to file

One workbook per agency, per business and month: member number, employee and employer share, and remarks like "no number yet" or "left on 15 May".

Year end

BIR 2316 and the alphalist, plus the monthly 1601-C pack.

Labour law in the flow

13th month under PD 851, holiday and premium pay with the legal basis shown, NTE with the 5-day clock, probation under Art. 296.

Due dates in view

What you owe each agency every month, when it is due, and whether it was filed.

See it

A payslip is people's money. sibol never guesses.

Every figure shows how it was worked out. When sibol is not sure, it says so, and it says why.

Payslip · 1–15 NovemberSample employee · Cashier · Branch 2
DRAFT
Why draft: 1 November is not confirmed as a holiday for this branch yet. Holiday pay is held until it is.
Earnings
Basic pay12 days × ₱720.00₱8,640.00
Overtime3 h × ₱112.50 (125% of ₱90.00 an hour)₱337.50
Night differential4 h × ₱9.00 (10% of ₱90.00)₱36.00
Holiday pay, 1 NovemberHeld until the holiday is confirmedHeld
Deductions
SSS₱450.00
PhilHealth₱235.00
Pag-IBIG₱100.00
Withholding tax₱0.00
Net pay₱8,228.50
Sample · made-up figures
Government remittancesChecked person by person
2agency-months still open
SSS · OctoberOpen
Pag-IBIG · OctoberOpen
PhilHealth · September✓ Filed
BIR 1601-C · September✓ Filed

It never says "All good" unless it can prove it.

Sample · made-up data
DRAFTA payslip sibol cannot stand behind prints DRAFT and states the reason on its face.
LOCKEDA released payroll is never recalculated. Corrections go forward as retro lines, so the system always equals what was paid.
SOURCEDA dashboard tile shows a sourced figure, or shows nothing and says why.

Your data stays yours

Your people's most private data, kept that way.

Payroll holds ID numbers, salaries and home addresses. Under the Data Privacy Act, you answer for them. This is how sibol keeps them locked.

Your own database

Your data is kept apart from every other company. It never shares a database with anyone.

Who sees what

Employees see only themselves. Supervisors see their own branch, never company pay totals. Government ID numbers are masked.

Locked down

Access is denied unless granted. Passwords can't be read back, not even by the administrator. Every sign-in and change is recorded.

Your brand, your address

Your company name on the sign-in page and on every payslip and document. At your own address, like hr.yourcompany.com.

Backed up

Punches and 201 documents copied off site every night.

Checked every morning

A daily health check flags anything that failed overnight. Every restart runs a full self-test first.

Switching to sibol

From your old payroll to your first sibol payday

Your current system keeps running until sibol has matched it.

1

You send the kit

Company, branches, employees, rates, loans and leave balances, in one onboarding workbook.

2

We set it up

Your modules switched on, your rules and papers set up, this year's payroll history loaded, staff enrolled and trained.

3

One cutoff, side by side

The same cutoff runs in your old system and in sibol. The two must match to the peso.

4

First payday on sibol

Payslips, contributions and the government lists come from sibol from here on.

Prices

A price per employee, then the parts you add

One core price for everyone on the payroll. Then the timekeeping that fits your sites, and the modules your business needs.

Timekeeping
Phone and portalClock-in page with a location check, filings and approvals on any phone or laptopIncluded
Face kioskA store phone or tablet checks the face at each punch. No hardware to buy₱400 / store
FingerprintYour own ZKTeco devices, connected and supported. We don't sell hardware₱300 / device
Slack, if you use itClock in, file and approve inside SlackIncluded
Modules, flat per company
Compliance deskPerson-by-person remittance check, 1601-C pack, agency deadlines₱1,500
HospitalityService charge split, performance bonus, NTE queue, cash payslips₱1,200
Accounting linkPayroll journal into Zoho Books, per branch₱1,000
PeopleProbation, evaluations, personnel actions₱800
AI connectorRead-only Claude access for the owner₱500
Example: 30 staff, 2 fingerprint devices
Core, 30 × ₱120₱3,600
Fingerprint, 2 × ₱300₱600
Compliance desk₱1,500
Accounting link₱1,000
Per month₱6,700

About ₱223 per employee, everything in.

One time
SetupThis year's payroll history loaded, one cutoff run side by side with your old system, staff enrolled and trained. +₱5,000 per extra site, maximum ₱50,000.₱25,000
Payroll compliance auditNot ready to switch? We check your payroll and contributions person by person. Credited against setup if you sign within 90 days.₱35,000

Monthly prices, VAT not included. Your whole monthly bill is at least ₱4,000. Pay a year upfront and two months are free.

Questions

Before you ask

Our pay rules are unusual. Will sibol fit?

That is what sibol is built for. Service charge paid in cash, a bonus by store, contributions filed under a sister company, your own contract and NTE wording: we set them up for your company alone, without changing sibol for anyone else. Tell us how you pay today and we show you how it runs in sibol.

Do we need Slack?

No. Staff clock in by fingerprint, face tablet, ID and PIN kiosk or a phone page, and file and approve in the portal on any phone. If your team already works in Slack, sibol can work there too.

Do we have to buy fingerprint scanners?

No. A store phone or tablet can be the clock, or staff clock in on their own phone. If you already have ZKTeco devices, sibol connects to them. We don't sell hardware.

We already have a payroll system. What happens to our history?

Setup includes this year's payroll history. Older years can come over too; ask us. Before you go live, one cutoff runs in both systems side by side.

Who can see salaries?

Employees see only their own pay. Supervisors see their own branch, never company-wide pay totals. Payslip amounts are never posted in group channels.

What doesn't sibol do yet?

Better you hear it from us. sibol has no shift scheduling. It makes no bank or e-wallet payout file, so you still pay salaries through your bank. There is no iPhone app.

Can we start without switching systems?

Yes. Start with the payroll compliance audit. It checks your contributions person by person and needs no change of system. If you then sign up within 90 days, the fee counts against setup.