HR Forte - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

HR Forte is an all-in-one HR and payroll platform built for businesses operating across Asia. It runs statutory-compliant payroll in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia and Ecuador from a single system, with country rules maintained in-product: CPF in Singapore, EPF, SOCSO and EIS in Malaysia, MPF in Hong Kong, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and 13th month pay in the Philippines, personal income tax finalisation and social insurance in Vietnam, social security and withholding tax in Thailand, seniority indemnity in Cambodia, [BPJS and THR] in Indonesia, and statutory vacation in Ecuador.

Every pay run produces a detailed computation report that cites the source statute behind each calculation, so payroll is auditable rather than simply asserted. Country rules are updated in-product when legislation changes, at no additional cost.

The platform covers the employee lifecycle in one system: multi-country payroll, statutory calculators, year-end tax, eLeave, eClaims, eSmartTime attendance with GPS clock-in and shift scheduling, onboarding and offboarding, eSign digital workflows, contracts, compensation and benefits, document management, employee self-service with a mobile app, SmartAnalytics workforce dashboards and configurable approval workflows.

AskGenie, HR Forte's AI compliance assistant, answers country-specific questions on labour law, personal income tax, statutory contributions, termination and severance, and HR policy. It is built on HR Forte's own compliance knowledge base rather than general-purpose AI, and every answer cites the regulation it draws on. Employees and administrators can ask in their own language.

HR Forte can run as a complete HRMS, or alongside an existing global HRMS as the local payroll compliance layer for markets the global system cannot handle. HR Forte's outsourcing and EOR partners operate on the platform themselves, so an organisation can insource some processes and outsource others while all payroll data aggregates into one dashboard it controls. OctoPro consolidates multi-entity, multi-country payroll into a single regional view.

HR Forte is a software platform rather than a payroll outsourcing or employer-of-record service. Companies run payroll directly on the system. HR Forte is certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II and operates in line with GDPR and Singapore PDPA.