Construction Payroll in Thika

Thika sites tend to be run by contractors who are working two or three jobs at once — a warehouse in the industrial area, a boundary wall in Juja, an apartment block off the highway. Roadside labour moves between them freely, and word travels fast when a site pays casually. When attendance lives in a paper book and wages move as cash, the contractor has no defence against inflated rolls, duplicate names or a gang leader collecting for people who never turned up.

• Workers rotating between industrial-area and estate sites in the same week.
• Factories adding night and weekend shifts that never reach the muster roll.
• Gang payments with no per-worker breakdown.
• Cash collections spread across several sites on one Friday.

Every site — a factory extension, a gated estate in Juja, an apartment block off Kenyatta Highway — gets its own 50-metre geofence. Fundis check in from any phone by OTP at the gate, the foreman locks the day's muster roll, and the contractor approves payroll from one place. Wages then go out as direct M-Pesa B2C payments, each with a digital payslip. M-Pesa works countrywide, so a fundi who travels from Ruiru or Gatundu is paid on their own phone without a detour into town.

Thika sits at the edge of the Nairobi metropolitan area, and many contractors here also run sites in Ruiru, Juja or along the Eastern Bypass. FundiPay keeps all of them on one account: each site with its own geofence and foreman, all of them feeding a single payroll run.

A verified worker record — ID, phone number, trade and M-Pesa payment history — travels with a fundi between those sites, so a mason who moves from a Juja estate to a Thika warehouse keeps their history and their access to emergency advances.

Cash payroll in the industrial belt means a morning spent withdrawing money, a drive between sites and a count that never quite matches. With FundiPay, approved wages are disbursed automatically to each worker's M-Pesa line, and the 14-day payroll float covers verified wages when a client payment is late. PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and the Affordable Housing Levy are calculated in the same run.