On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Areba Collins <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:

While we are all looking for a kenyanized way of handling this, i
think we need to take a step back, look at the realities of oss. For
one, kenya borrows heavily from our colonial masters, so international
is achievable. Secondly, i think its better to have a very high level
of customization to suit many scenarios. This will attract more users
and hence feed back and support.

On 10/5/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, bernard kioko <bernsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am wondering if there is any "kenyan" open source payroll software out
>> there.....
>>
>> I am considering working on an Open Source Payroll System for Kenyan
>> market
>> but I do not wish to do if anyone out there has a similar project - I will
>> prefer to support an existing initiative.
>>
>
> I was involved in payroll software dev for some time (note: not
> offering to be on team just changiaring kidogo;-)
>
> One finds that all *international* always need extensive localisation
> to cater for local market. They included tax brackets, taxable
> benefits, allowances, loans, cooperative(sacco), statutory
> deductions.. etc among a host of parameters a number of which changed
> at each year's budget. Used to include bank export (e.g.'sfi') files
> for banks to accept/ auto process direct into staff accounts.
>
> Payroll softwares also needed KRA certification/approval and was
> mandatory to cite the approval -P9s, P10 and P11..etc. Otherwise
> various packages 'just did their own things', for example,
> <http://www.ratio-magazine.com/20080907151/Kenya/Kenya-Revenue-Authority-and-Citibank-to-Settle-Out-of-Court-in-Tax-Dispute.html>
>
> In short, you can never go wrong, let me re-phrase that, you have a
> BIG market ahead if you develop one FOSS-based.
>
> Hope this helps.
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