What Cadre is
Cadre keeps your people’s records, leave, time and performance, and runs your monthly payroll with Nigerian statutory deductions. This page explains the ideas you will meet on every other page.
Who can use Cadre: every member, for themselves.
What Cadre does
Section titled “What Cadre does”- People: employee records, logins, documents and e-signature, onboarding and offboarding workflows, and an org chart.
- Leave and time: leave requests and balances, clocking in and out, timesheets and rosters.
- Performance: goals and KPIs, scores and grades for individuals and teams, reviews, check-ins and kudos.
- Payroll: a monthly payroll run that is prepared, checked by a second person, approved and locked. Payslips, bank payments and statutory schedules come from the locked run.
- Statutory compliance: PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF and ITF. Cadre calculates them from the law and produces the remittance schedules. You never type a deduction in by hand.
- Reports: headcount, joiners and leavers, leave liability, payroll cost and statutory liability, and an audit report of who changed what.
Organisations
Section titled “Organisations”Everything in Cadre belongs to an organisation: a company that uses Cadre. Its people, payroll, settings and reports are its own, and nobody outside it can see them. Even Cadre support can only look in through a read-only session that your owner controls. See Support access.
You can belong to more than one organisation with the same login. For example, you might look after payroll for your agency and also be an employee there. You choose which organisation you are working in, and its name is shown on every screen. See Signing in.
Employers and agencies
Section titled “Employers and agencies”An organisation is an employer, an agency, or both.
- An employer employs its own staff and pays them.
- An agency is a recruitment or outsourcing business. It places workers with its clients and may pay them, and runs payroll once for each client. Cadre keeps the legal employer, the payroll operator and the worksite apart, because statutory obligations always follow the legal employer. See How agencies work.
Agencies see an extra Agency group in their menu. Everything else works the same for both.
What you can do in an organisation depends on your roles there. There are five roles an organisation can give you, and one that comes from your reporting line:
- Owner
- HR admin
- Payroll admin
- Payroll approver
- Employee
- Manager. Nobody is given this role. If at least one person currently reports to you, you are their manager, whatever other roles you hold.
A member can hold several roles, and what each role allows adds up. See Roles for what each one can do.
Why Cadre works this way
Section titled “Why Cadre works this way”- Payroll figures come from Cadre, not from the screen you type into. PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF, ITF and net pay are calculated by Cadre and shown to you, so every figure can be traced to the rule that produced it.
- A second person checks payroll. The person who submits a run cannot approve it.
- A locked run is never edited. It is the record of what was paid. A mistake is corrected with an adjustment in a later run.