PaidHR, a leading payroll and HR management platform in Africa, along with Zitra, a financing solutions provider for modern businesses, have teamed up to launch a Payroll Financing solution for businesses. This collaboration bridges the gap between waiting for payments and meeting payroll, making sure employees get paid even if the business is still waiting for its own customers to pay.
For businesses in industries with long billing cycles, payroll dates often arrive before customer payments are collected. This partnership addresses that specific timing gap. By integrating Zitra’s liquidity into the PaidHR platform, companies can bridge the interval between invoicing and collection. This ensures that a healthy business can always meet its salary obligations on time while waiting for its revenue to settle.
Olakunle Awosanmi, Head of Business for PaidHR’s Embedded finance products, said, “Employees should stay protected from the natural delays of business collection cycles. Through our partnership with Zitra, we are helping employers maintain payroll consistency and preserve stability for their teams.”
Babatunde Obadero, CEO of Zitra, added, “Timing is one of the most common hurdles for growing companies. This collaboration delivers liquidity exactly where it is needed most, ensuring that a business’s success isn’t slowed down by the wait for incoming revenue.”
The process is designed for speed and simplicity within the PaidHR ecosystem. Already serving over 400 businesses processing over 47 billion naira in payroll annually, as highlighted in the PaidHR Year-in-Review Report 2025, PaidHR is extending this solution to help these businesses operate without interruption.
Eligible businesses can request payroll support through a streamlined review, with approved funds disbursed in time for scheduled salary payments. This removes the friction of cash flow gaps, enabling continuous operations and ensuring that a company’s most important commitments are met, even while it waits for its own revenue to settle.
Beyond the numbers, reliable salary payments strengthen employee trust and workplace morale. This joint initiative marks a significant step toward helping African businesses operate with greater confidence and flexibility. For more information about this and how to get started, contact paidlife@paidhr.com.
PaidHR is a payroll and HR technology platform helping businesses manage payroll, employee benefits, compliance, and workforce operations. Zitra provides accessible business financing solutions that help companies manage liquidity, unlock working capital, and grow sustainably.
