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HR software your
organization owns

Ace HR installs on your own infrastructure and handles employees, attendance, leave, payroll, recruitment and performance. Buy the licence once, for however many people you employ — then keep the software, the source code, and your data.

  • One-time licence, unlimited employees
  • Runs on your servers, not ours
  • Full source code included
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The Ace HR admin dashboard, showing headcount, attendance rate, pending leave requests and performance for the current day, alongside a today’s-attendance panel and a leave approval queue.
The trade-off nobody wants to make

Manual chaos, or a subscription
that owns your data

Organizations shopping for HR software are usually choosing between two bad options. There is a third.

HR still lives in spreadsheets

Attendance in one sheet, leave requests over chat, payroll recalculated by hand every month. It works until someone leaves, an audit arrives, or the file gets overwritten.

Per-seat pricing punishes growth

Most HR platforms bill monthly, per employee. The bill you signed up for at 20 people looks very different at 200 — and it never stops arriving.

Your workforce data sits on someone else's server

Salaries, bank details, and identity documents held by a vendor, under their retention policy, in their jurisdiction. For many organizations that is not an acceptable answer.

Ace HR is the third option: buy it once, run it yourself.

Why owning beats renting

Software you buy,
not software you rent

Ace HR is sold the way business software used to be sold, because for a system holding your payroll and personnel records it is still the better arrangement.

It runs on your infrastructure

Employee records, salaries, and bank details sit in a database you control, behind your firewall, backed up on your schedule. There is no vendor copy of your workforce data because there is no vendor server.

You pay once, not per person per month

Per-seat HR subscriptions punish you for growing. A perpetual licence costs the same whether you have 20 employees or 2,000, and the cost stops after you have paid it.

You get the source code

The licence includes full source. If we disappeared tomorrow your HR system would keep running, and your own developers could keep changing it. That is the difference between renting software and owning it.

It can be built around how you work

Local payroll rules, an approval chain that matches your org chart, an integration with the accounting system you already run — custom work is quoted up front and merged into your copy.

One system, not five

Everything an HR team
actually runs on

A complete HR platform out of the box — no modules to buy separately, no upsells once you have the licence.

Employee Management

One authoritative record per employee — profile, department, designation, employment details, and documents.

Attendance Tracking

Employees clock themselves in and out. Admins get a live picture of who is present, late, or absent.

Leave Management

Requests, approvals, and history in one place, with everyone notified as things move.

Payroll & Payslips

Configurable salary structures, a monthly run, and PDF payslips your employees download themselves.

Recruitment & Careers Portal

Publish openings to a public careers page and manage applicants through to hire.

Role-Based Access Control

Super admins, admins, and employees each see exactly what they should — enforced on the API, not just hidden in the UI.

Why one system

The modules are not
separate products

Buying five tools means reconciling five tools. Here is the same week, moving through two of them on its own.

First

Someone requests time off

The employee applies with a type, dates and a reason. It lands in an approval queue rather than a chat thread, an admin approves or rejects it in one click, and both sides keep the full history.

No export, no re-keying, no second system

Leave
The leave approval queue, showing each request with its type, duration, reason and status, and approve or reject controls.
Then

Payroll already knows about it

The monthly run reads real attendance, subtracts the days covered by approved leave, and prorates what is genuinely unpaid against gross earnings. Nobody reconciles a spreadsheet against a leave calendar.

Payroll
Run payroll
A payroll run for the period, showing gross pay, deductions, attendance-based deductions, tax and net pay for each employee, with downloadable payslips.
From purchase to live

Running your own HR platform
in four steps

No procurement cycle, no seat count to negotiate, no annual renewal to budget for.

  1. 01

    Buy the licence

    One payment. You receive your licence key, the full source, and access to the release channel.

  2. 02

    Install it

    Deploy to your own server with your own PostgreSQL database — or have us do it for you as a paid add-on.

  3. 03

    Configure your organization

    Departments, salary components, leave types, and tax brackets, set to how your organization already works.

  4. 04

    Invite your team

    Employees are invited by email and set their own passwords. From day one they clock in, request leave, and pull their own payslips.

Pricing

One price, paid once,
for your whole organization

No tiers to compare, no seats to count, no renewal you are obliged to pay.

Ace HR Perpetual Licence

$699one-time, per organization

Everything in the platform, for unlimited employees, installed on infrastructure you control. Yours permanently — there is no expiry and no kill switch.

  • Perpetual licence for one organization — unlimited employees, unlimited admins
  • Full application: employees, attendance, leave, payroll, recruitment, performance, rewards
  • Complete source code, so you are never dependent on us to keep running
  • Deploy to your own server, VPS, or private cloud — production plus staging
  • 12 months of version updates and email support included
  • Free installation and setup on your infrastructure, plus an onboarding call

Optional add-ons

  • Updates & Support Renewal$199

    per year, after year one

  • Installation & SetupFree

    included with every licence

  • Data Migration$399

    one-time

  • Priority Support$399

    per year

  • Custom Feature DevelopmentQuoted

    per engagement

Full pricing detail
Before you ask

Frequently asked
questions

Something not covered here? Ask us directly.

See it running before you decide

Book a walkthrough of Ace HR against how your organization actually runs HR today. If it fits, the licence is a single payment and the software is yours.

No sales call required to see a price. No per-employee billing, ever.