HR, payroll and attendance software for logistics companies in Pakistan
A logistics company does not have one workplace. It has a head office, warehouses that load at night, courier branches, and drivers who start the day on the road. StreamHCM keeps attendance, shifts, leave and payroll for those people in one cloud account, with EOBI and the provincial social security scheme of each branch on the payslip.
What a logistics HR team switches on first
You do not have to turn on every module on the first day. Most operators start with the gate, the phone and the payslip.
Fingerprint or face attendance at the warehouse gate, and mobile GPS check-in for drivers and riders who never see that gate.
Shifts for loading nights and delivery days, including a shift that crosses midnight, with overtime held until a supervisor approves it.
Branches for each depot or city, so devices, holidays and statutory rules stay with the site while payroll is one run.
EOBI on the federal wage base, and provincial social security attached to the branch, then an itemised payslip in the employee app.
Leave requests from the same app, so a rider is not marked absent for a day a supervisor already approved on WhatsApp.
Reports of headcount, attendance and payroll cost by branch, which is the view a head office needs when the depots are different sizes.
The register breaks when the staff are not in one building
Courier and transport companies often close the month from three sources. The warehouse has a fingerprint device or a paper register. Riders send a WhatsApp message when they start. The accounts team keeps an Excel file that one person understands. That holds while everyone works the same hours in one city. It fails when a second depot opens, a night shift is added, or a driver works a long day that nobody approved before the wage was paid.
The same split shows up in warehousing. A shed in Karachi and a shed in Lahore do not share a gate. If each site emails a workbook, the overtime hours and the new joiners drift before the files are merged. StreamHCM replaces that merge. Punches from a device at the gate, and mobile check-ins from the road, land in one attendance record. Payroll reads that record. The HR software Pakistan page is the product overview. This page is the logistics version.
Security companies have a similar problem, because the workplace is the client site rather than the office. Their page is HR software for security companies. Construction crews who check in away from a desk are covered on construction HR software. A logistics operator uses the same attendance and branch tools, with depots instead of posts or job sites.
Drivers, riders and warehouse crews are different check-ins
A warehouse clerk and a line-haul driver should not be forced through the same punch. StreamHCM's attendance module supports face and fingerprint devices, mobile check-in, GPS, geofencing, a selfie on the punch, and web check-in for the accounts desk. You assign the method to the role. The warehouse gate keeps a device. Drivers and riders use the phone. Office staff can punch from the browser. All three write to the same attendance sheet, which is the sheet payroll uses.
Geofencing and a radius check are there so a punch can be limited to the depot or the area you define. Fake-GPS detection is part of the same module. This is not a fleet-tracking product and it does not replace the system that plans routes. It records whether the person was at the place you required when the shift started and ended, and it keeps that record for the wage.
The employee app is also where the payslip, leave balance and a shift-change request sit. Riders rarely visit HR. Putting the slip on the phone cuts the queue at the branch. Employee self-service describes the app. Attendance management describes the rules behind the punch, including grace minutes, late marks and a missed punch.
Night loading, delivery shifts and overtime
Logistics timetables are not a single 9-to-6. A warehouse may load from evening until after midnight. A courier branch may run a morning dispatch and an evening return. A night shift that ends the next morning has to count as one shift, not as a missing punch after midnight. StreamHCM's shift module includes fixed, rotational, split and night shifts, plus templates and bulk assignment by branch. The shift scheduling page and the shift module list those types. A practical setup note, including the blank shift form, is how to set up a shift.
Overtime should come from the approved punches, not from a number typed into the payroll sheet on the 28th. StreamHCM calculates overtime from attendance and holds it for approval before it is paid. The multiplier is a setting you choose. Pakistan does not use one national overtime formula: a factory and a commercial establishment can follow different hour limits, and the provinces have amended the shops laws differently. Read overtime rules in Pakistan before you lock a rule, and compare a month in the overtime calculator. The calculator's default is double time. That default is a model, not a figure this page is taking from a statute for every logistics workplace.
A depot and a head office can also observe different holidays. Branch holiday calendars keep a closure on the site that actually stops work. The payroll run can still be one run.
EOBI and social security on a multi-city payroll
EOBI is federal. The contribution page on eobi.gov.pk states that the employer pays 5% of the minimum wage and the employee pays 1% of the minimum wage, per insured person, not a percentage of each person's actual salary. EOBI Circular No. 01/2026-27, dated 20 August 2026, applied the Islamabad Capital Territory minimum wage of Rs 40,700 from 1 July 2026. Five percent of that base is Rs 2,035 and one percent is Rs 407, due by the 15th of the following month. The EOBI contribution guide is the longer note, and the EOBI calculator checks one person. Only the employee share is deducted from wages. The employer share is your cost.
Provincial social security is not federal, and a logistics group feels that immediately. A depot in Punjab configures PESSI. A depot in Sindh configures SESSI. A depot in Balochistan configures BESSI. PESSI's own overview states an employer contribution of 6% of wages, and the employer may not recover that share from the worker. The wage ceiling is a payroll setting. The PESSI contribution guide records the February 2026 ceiling. The SESSI contribution guide is the Sindh note. Do not copy one province's scheme onto every branch because the head office sits in that city.
FBR salary tax under Section 149 is withheld from the annualised salary. This page does not reprint the slabs. Use the salary tax guide and keep the result as a setting with an effective date. The minimum wage to check is the wage of the province where the person works, not a single national number. The minimum wage by province guide says where a 2026-27 notification was found and where it was not. StreamHCM stores the figure you enter.
Several depots, one payroll
Organisation management holds companies, branches and departments. A courier with a branch in each large city, or a transporter with a yard and a separate warehouse company, can keep those as branches under one login. Each branch has its own devices, shifts, holiday calendar and statutory rules. Finance still sees one payroll draft. Multi-branch HR software is the note on running that account. Organisation management is the module.
New riders and loaders join in batches. The employee record holds the CNIC, the appointment letter and the branch. Final settlement, when someone leaves, uses the same attendance the wages were paid from, instead of a second workbook. Payroll software covers salary structures, allowances, loans, advances and the statutory lines.
Smaller transport companies do not want a long implementation. They want the register to stop being the system of record. HR software for SMEs is that starting point: records, attendance and one payroll, priced in PKR, with nothing to install on your own server.
Getting started
StreamHCM's team is in Lahore, at 68 MB, Zainab Tower, Model Town, Link Road. There is no requirement to visit. Setup for a logistics company is remote: import the employee list, connect the device at one depot, turn on mobile check-in for a group of drivers, map the shifts, and run a parallel payroll beside the current sheet.
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial. No card is taken on this site. Start with one depot. Compare attendance, overtime, EOBI and the provincial social security line before you add the next city. Request the trial from the contact page, or read pricing for the PKR plans and features for the full module list.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Mobile check-in supports GPS, a geofence and a selfie. Warehouse staff can keep using a fingerprint or face device at the gate, and office staff can use the browser. All three write to the same attendance record.
No. Night shift is a shift type, and a shift that crosses midnight stays one attendance day. You define the start, the end and the grace minutes.
Yes. EOBI is federal and applies across the company. PESSI, SESSI and BESSI attach to the branch, so a Punjab depot and a Sindh depot are not forced onto one provincial rule in the same payroll run.
EOBI's contribution page states 5% from the employer and 1% from the employee, both on the minimum wage, not on actual gross pay. The on-site EOBI guide sets out Circular No. 01/2026-27: Rs 2,035 and Rs 407 on the Rs 40,700 base from 1 July 2026, due by the 15th of the next month.
No. The rate depends on whether the workplace is covered by a factories law or a shops law, and on the province. StreamHCM calculates overtime from approved attendance using the multiplier you set. The overtime guide explains what the cited statutes actually say.
No. The team is based in Lahore and supports logistics customers remotely. The software is cloud-based. The 14-day trial does not take a card on this site.
Sources
- EOBI: contribution rates (eobi.gov.pk)eobi.gov.pk
- Employers' Federation of Pakistan: ICT minimum wage notification 2026-27efp.org.pk
- FBR Withholding Tax Rate Card, Tax Year 2027 (Section 149)download1.fbr.gov.pk
- PESSI overview: 6% employer contribution (pessi.punjab.gov.pk)
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