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Orbit HR

Kakitangan.com alternative

A pay-once alternative to Kakitangan.com, with no per-employee fee

Kakitangan.com is a well-established Malaysian HR platform and a fair choice for many SMEs. If you would rather pay once for unlimited staff and keep employee records on your own machine, Orbit HR is built for that.

Kakitangan.com runs payroll, leave and claims in the browser on a subscription that generally scales with headcount. That is convenient, and it is also a bill that never stops. Orbit HR is a desktop app you buy once for RM249, covering unlimited employees, with statutory calculations, payslips, EA forms and bank files, and every record stored on your own device.

What people like about Kakitangan.com

  • +Malaysian-built, so statutory rules are the vendor's day job
  • +HR, payroll, leave and claims in one place
  • +Staff can use it from a phone browser or app
  • +The vendor pushes compliance updates for you
  • +A low or free entry tier for very small teams

Where Orbit HR differs

  • RM249 once for unlimited employees, no per-head charge
  • Employee records stay on your device, NRIC and bank details encrypted
  • Runs fully offline, so a bad connection never stops a payroll run
  • Native macOS and Windows, not a browser tab
  • Stop paying us anything and the app still opens next year
Orbit HR
Kakitangan.com
Pricing model
RM249 one-time, unlimited staff
Per employee, per month subscription
Cost at 20 employees
RM249 once, then nothing
Typically RM2,400 to RM3,600 a year, every year
Per-employee fee
Where your staff data lives
Your device, NRIC and bank details encrypted
The vendor's cloud servers
Works fully offline
Needs a browser and a connection
Runs on macOS
Native macOS and Windows app
Any OS, through a browser
EPF / SOCSO / EIS / PCB calculated
From dated rate tables, tested each release
EA form + statutory files
EA, Borang A, Borang 8A, CP39, CP58, bank file
Leave under Employment Act 1955
Annual tiers, sick, maternity, per-state holidays
Employee self-service
Bilingual EN / BM
Varies
If you stop paying
App keeps working, forever
Access to payroll history can be locked
Best fit
SMEs who want to pay once and hold their own data
SMEs who want everything hosted and updated for them

Honest, high-level comparison; Kakitangan.com evolves over time, so confirm its current details directly. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

When to stay with Kakitangan.com

Stay with your current tool if:

  • Your HR team works from different offices and needs the browser
  • You want the vendor to own compliance updates under a support agreement
  • A large or distributed workforce relies on a mobile app day to day
  • You depend on its integrations with other systems you already run

FAQ

Questions, answered

Still unsure? Message us on WhatsApp (+60 11-2600 6427).

How much does Orbit HR cost compared with a per-employee HR subscription?+

Orbit HR is RM249 one-time at the early-bird price, RM349 normally, for unlimited employees. A per-head cloud plan at a typical RM10 to RM15 per employee per month is roughly RM2,400 to RM3,600 a year for 20 staff, and that repeats every year. Check Kakitangan.com's current plan for your own headcount before deciding.

Where is my employee data kept?+

On your own computer. Orbit HR is local-first, and identifiers such as NRIC, bank account and statutory numbers are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. There is no mandatory cloud account and nothing is harvested. A cloud HR platform, by design, holds those records on the vendor's servers.

Can my staff still apply for leave and see payslips?+

Yes. Orbit HR has employee self-service: each person logs in scoped strictly to their own record, applies for leave, submits claims with receipts and downloads their payslips and EA form. Leave balances follow the Employment Act 1955 tiers, including per-state public holidays.

Try Orbit HR · RM 249.00 once

Free to download for macOS or Windows. Activate when you're ready, no subscription.

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