crewmate hr
HR your team runs from WhatsApp. Payroll you can defend.
CrewMate HR runs attendance from biometric devices, leave through real approval chains, and Sri Lankan statutory payroll through a tested engine — while your employees request leave, check balances and read payslips straight from WhatsApp. Built for how SMEs here actually work.
Why isn't record-keeping enough?
Most HR software stores records but leaves the hard parts manual: statutory payroll still lives in a spreadsheet, attendance disputes have no referee, and HR spends the day relaying requests. CrewMate HR takes over those jobs — a tested payroll engine, immutable attendance records, self-routing approvals — and lets employees serve themselves from the app they already use all day.
What is CrewMate HR strongest at?
The unglamorous things that decide whether HR software survives contact with a real company: EPF/ETF/APIT computed correctly every month, attendance records that hold up in a dispute, leave approvals that follow your real chain of command, and a WhatsApp assistant that means employees actually use the system.
Payroll you can defend
EPF 8% + 12%, ETF 3% and APIT calculated per component by a tested engine. Runs move through review and approval; bank files are approved before money moves.
Attendance you can trust
Biometric punches are never edited — corrections are separate, approved and audited. Payroll reads the corrected value; audit sees both.
HR from WhatsApp
Leave, balances and payslips handled in chat, Sinhala understood. HR stops being a message queue because the messages answer themselves.
Progress people can see
Routine streaks, certificates with real expiry, goal check-ins and peer recognition — visible momentum, built into the daily flow.
Who is CrewMate HR for?
CrewMate HR is built for Sri Lankan SMEs where payroll month-end is stressful, leave runs on messages and memory, and HR admin eats days that should go to people. It suits HR and people leads, and owner-managers, who want the statutory side handled properly and the routine side to run itself.
Employee engagement
How recognition, streaks and visible progress keep routine work moving — without the gimmicks.
Employee engagementHR operations
Attendance, leave, payroll and performance — the operations spine in detail.
HR operationsSmall enough to know your name — proven at scale
The team behind CrewMate HR is trusted to digitise government institutions across Sri Lanka — the delivery track record behind every Nanobotz product.
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Read the story18,000+ users · 70+ organisations
Across food, finance, government, retail and support — building since 2014, with JICA-supported initiatives along the way.
Read the storyFrequently asked questions
What HR software is available for a Sri Lankan SME?
Sri Lankan SMEs need HR software that gets the statutory side right — EPF, ETF, APIT, Poya and mercantile holidays — and doesn't create a second job administering it. Nanobotz's CrewMate HR runs attendance from biometric devices, leave through real approval chains and payroll through a tested calculation engine, with employees serving themselves from web or WhatsApp.
What makes CrewMate HR different from a standard HR system?
Three things. The payroll engine computes EPF/ETF/APIT per component and is tested against known-good payrolls. Attendance punches are immutable, with corrections kept as separate audited records. And employees can run most of their HR — leave requests, balances, payslips — from WhatsApp, in Sinhala or English, so adoption doesn't depend on people opening yet another system.
Can employees really use it from WhatsApp?
Yes. The assistant files leave requests, answers balance questions and explains published payslips directly in chat, and it answers policy questions only from your published handbook. For a workforce that lives on WhatsApp rather than desktop software, that's the difference between a system that gets used and one that gets ignored.
Does CrewMate HR help with engagement too?
Yes, honestly and without theatre: recurring routines carry visible streaks, training ends in certificates that mean something, goals get check-ins and peers give recognition. It supports engagement — but it earns its keep on payroll, attendance and approvals first.
Last reviewed August 2026.
See CrewMate HR on your team
Bring your payroll worksheet and your leave process. In 30 minutes we'll show both running themselves — including what your employees would see on WhatsApp.
30 minutes, on your own team.