Micara Labs · Philippine HR, attendance and payroll

The record of
what happened,
kept properly.

HR, attendance and payroll for Philippine teams. Every entry keeps its evidence, every payslip explains itself line by line, and every change knows who made it and why. Nothing here trusts a screenshot.

Open the HR console → Download the employee app (Android APK)

Accounts are issued by your HR team — there is no public sign-up, and the console publishes no credentials.

291integration tests on a real Postgres
17attendance risk signals evaluated per entry
₱0.00float arithmetic in payroll — money is exact centavos
68named permissions the server enforces
What it is

A whole HR platform,
built to be audited.

Twenty-nine modules across a web console and an employee mobile app — and one rule underneath all of them: a number you can't explain is a number you shouldn't show.

evidence-first

Attendance that holds up

Server-authoritative time, geofence and device checks, selfie evidence, offline sync with honest receipt times, and an impossible-travel detector. Suspicion is flagged for a human — an employee is never blocked from recording that they worked.

re-runnable

Payroll you can re-run

Decimal money end to end, versioned contribution and tax tables, and payslips whose printed lines sum to their printed totals — to the centavo. Two runs over identical inputs hash identically, and that claim is a test, not a promise.

immutable

An audit log people read

Every decision carries an actor, a reason and the before/after values. Refusals are recorded too — an attempt to remove the last administrator is exactly what an investigation asks about later.

Leave & overtime chains

Configurable approval chains with manager and HR steps, balance ledgers that never go negative silently, and team-conflict warnings counted when the request was filed.

Permission, not presentation

68 named permissions decided by the server, never by hiding buttons. Scopes decide whose records; permissions decide what actions. The last administrator cannot be removed — by any route.

Evidence retention that runs

Selfies and coordinates are deleted on the schedule the organisation configures — except inside an open dispute, where deleting evidence would be the system destroying an active case.

How it thinks

Honest numbers or no numbers.

A working day becomes a payslip in three steps — and every step keeps the evidence that explains it.

  1. 01 · Attendance

    Suspicion flags. People decide.

    Seventeen risk signals — geofence, GPS accuracy, mock location, device identity, impossible travel, clock skew and more — each with a weight the organisation tunes. A score that crosses the review threshold routes the record to a reviewer with the evidence beside it.

    • Fabricated "verification passed" claims from modified clients are ignored and logged
    • Unknown evidence renders as unknown — never as "not registered"
    • Corrections produce adjustments beside the original, never over it
    # every attendance entry, evaluated on arrival time_in recorded · server time 08:02:11  ├─ geofence ✓ 41 m from Makati Office  ├─ device ✓ registered to this employee  ├─ selfie ✓ captured  ├─ clock skew ✓ 2 s  └─ implied travel ⚠ 612 km/h since last entry → risk 60 ≥ review 40 — routed to a human → the employee's day is recorded either way
  2. 02 · Approvals

    Approvals that route themselves.

    Leave and overtime walk a configurable chain — manager, then HR — and every step records who decided, when, and why. Balances are debited only when the chain completes, and a team-conflict warning is counted the moment the request is filed, not when someone happens to notice.

    • Manager and HR steps, each with its own actor, timestamp and reason
    • Balance ledgers that never go negative silently
    • A rejection is a recorded decision — never a deleted request

    Leave request · LR-2026-0412

    Joel Santos · Vacation · Aug 24–25 (2 days)
    approved
    1. ✓
      FiledAug 12 · 09:14 · from the employee app
    2. ✓
      Manager · Mae LimAug 12 · 11:02 · "team cover confirmed"
    3. ✓
      HR · Andrea ReyesAug 13 · 08:40 · policy check passed
    4. !
      Team conflict check1 overlap counted at filing — shown to the approver, never a block
    Vacation balance9.0 → 7.0 days · debited on completion
  3. 03 · Payroll

    A payslip that explains itself.

    Every line carries its basis — the rate, the divisor, the table version that produced it. Statutory figures come from effective-dated configuration, never from constants in code, so March stays explainable in September after every rate has changed.

    • Employer and employee contribution shares, both shown
    • Rounded once per line; totals are exact sums of the lines
    • Every table version recorded on the run it produced

    Payslip — August 2026

    Andrea Reyes · MTC-2024-0007
    v3 tables
    Basic pay · monthly ÷ 22 days ₱30,000.00
    Overtime · 7h × 1.25 × ₱170.45 ₱1,491.44
    SSS · bracket 20k–25k, v3 −₱1,125.00
    PhilHealth · 2% of gross, v2 −₱629.83
    Withholding tax · demo table v1 −₱1,983.11
    Net pay ₱27,753.50
    DEMONSTRATION FIGURES — not statutory rates
The employee app

Attendance in their pocket.
Payslips too.

Time in with one tap. Location and selfie are captured only at that moment — MicaraHR never tracks anyone continuously unless the organisation turns it on, acknowledges the policy, and tells its people.

  • ✓ Offline attendance that syncs with an honest receipt time
  • ✓ Leave, overtime and corrections filed from the phone
  • ✓ Payslips with every line's basis, on the day they publish
  • ✓ Refresh tokens in the device keychain, never in storage a script can read
Download the APK

Direct Android install (sideload) — enable “install unknown apps” for your browser. Sign in with the account your HR team issued you. iOS runs via Expo in development.

See it running

Your organisation,
on the record.

Attendance that keeps its evidence, a payroll run you can re-open and re-run, approvals that route themselves, and an audit log that remembers every decision.

Open the HR console → Employee app APK