The New Architecture of Global Payroll
Mercans disrupts conventional payroll architecture with a stateless, event-driven platform built for high-frequency change, seamless global coverage, and automated compliance - without custom builds or middleware.
Fails To Keep Up With Today's Global Speed.
Legacy payroll platforms were built for a different world - coded country by country, heavily manual, and slow to adapt. These payroll platforms rely on a vertical architecture - building isolated, country systems that require custom development, manual validations, and long deployment cycles that often take 6 to 12 months. As global operations expand, these rigid structures create friction, delays, and growing compliance risks.
Mercans takes a fundamentally different approach with horizontal architecture. Modular, reusable components span all countries. Validations, configuration, regulations, and calculations are shared globally and instantly scalable. New countries can be configured in weeks without starting from scratch. The result is global consistency, real-time adaptability, faster deployments, lower costs, and a payroll platform built for continuous change.
Legacy Problems vs Mercans Solutions
Custom-coded for each country. Slow, costly, and complex to scale
Manual data transfers and reconciliations
Country-by-country stacks that require custom builds for each expansion
Stateless, reusable architecture. New countries configured in weeks
Real-time, event-driven processing with no manual touchpoints
Modular horizontal architecture that spans all countries, deploys instantly, and maintains unified security and compliance
Real-Time. Event-Driven. Always In Sync.
Traditional payroll engines that store employee data per country create fragmented systems and compliance risks. Our stateless global payroll engine performs calculations without persisting employee data, minimizing infrastructure footprint. Every payroll-triggering event — salary changes, new hires, tax adjustments, etc. is detected instantly, enabling immediate recalculations. This way, batch processing is eliminated, along with manual cutoffs and hold periods, ensuring payroll is accurate and up to date.
Why It Matters:
- Gain real-time payroll visibility with no processing delays
- Prevent downstream payroll errors before they happen
- Reduce infrastructure and operational overhead
- Ensure global compliance while your workforce scales
Modular. Scalable. Instantly Deployable.
Mercans’ Microservices-Based Modular Architecture allows each payroll function to operate as an independent service, powered by shared logic libraries that eliminate redundant country-specific builds. With Isolated component deployment and rollback capability, updates happen seamlessly without disrupting global operations. Our No-Code Country Configuration Engine enables you to deploy payroll in any country using prebuilt editable logic packs, applying regulatory logic through templates and setting up compliance parameters — all without writing a single line of code.
Why It Matters:
- Accelerates go-live timelines in new countries
- Updates individual components without global disruption
- Scales processing volumes instantly with elastic scaling
- Removes IT development cycles from payroll compliance
Operational Gains You Can Measure.
Global expansion no longer requires long timelines, heavy IT involvement, or endless manual effort. Mercans makes global payroll deployment faster, lighter, and fully controlled.
New Country Configuration
6–12 months → 3–6 weeks
Accelerate global expansion with streamlined setup.
Time-to-Go-Live
90% faster deployment
Launch payroll operations in new countries quicker than ever.
Payroll Administration Cost
70% cost reduction
Significantly lower operational expenses through automation.
Global Coverage
100+ countries on a single unified engine
Truly borderless payroll – centralized, compliant, scalable.
Compliance Patching Effort
85% decrease
Stay globally compliant with less manual effort.
Manual Interventions in Payroll Cycle
Reduced by 90%
Ensure accurate, hands-free payroll processing.
Dev Resources Per Country
80% fewer development hours
Seamless country setup, minimal tech effort.
New Country Configuration
6–12 months → 3–6 weeks
Accelerate global expansion with streamlined setup.
Time-to-Go-Live
90% faster deployment
Launch payroll operations in new countries quicker than ever.
Payroll Administration Cost
70% cost reduction
Significantly lower operational expenses through automation.
Global Coverage
100+ countries on a single unified engine
Truly borderless payroll – centralized, compliant, scalable.
Compliance Patching Effort
85% decrease
Stay globally compliant with less manual effort.
Manual Interventions in Payroll Cycle
Reduced by 90%
Ensure accurate, hands-free payroll processing.
Dev Resources Per Country
80% fewer development hours
Seamless country setup, minimal tech effort.
Control Every Payroll Run with Built-In Compliance, Full Orchestration, & Visibility.
Managing compliance across countries shouldn’t depend on manual patching or scattered audits. Our Built-In Global Compliance Layer keeps every regulation continuously up to date. The Unified Orchestration and Audit Layer gives you end-to-end job control with full sequencing and role-based access to trigger or approve events. Every action is tracked with real-time traceability, while exception handling with rollback and revalidation ensures payroll stays clean and compliant.
What It Means:
- Stay audit-ready with Unified Reporting and Analytics - including audit trails, custom KPI dashboards, and cost variance reports
- Resolve issues instantly with full exception visibility - including handling, rollback, and revalidation
- Control every jurisdiction with end-to-end job control, sequencing, and role-based access
- Gain CFO-level insight with real-time global payroll analytics
API-First. Middleware-Free. Fully Connected.
Mercans’ API-First Architecture makes every module fully API-enabled with stateless, token-based authentication and fully auditable transactions. Plug-and-play integration connects payroll with HRIS, finance, treasury, and T&A systems. Through an Integration-First Approach, Mercans natively integrates with leading HCM and ERP platforms — including pre-built integration flows. With no middleware and no custom connectors, you avoid vendor lock-in, accelerate onboarding, and gain full end-to-end data synchronization without third-party dependencies. As your business evolves, you retain full flexibility to switch HCM vendors without disruption.
Want payroll that moves at the speed of your business?
- Onboard new integrations quickly with minimal IT involvement
- Avoid costly middleware and long development cycles
- Ensure end-to-end data synchronization across all platforms
- Retain vendor flexibility as your organization grows
The Future of Payroll; A Present Reality at Mercans
Mercans empowers HR and finance teams to scale globally without outdated payroll barriers. With a stateless, event-driven backbone, payroll adapts in real time, reacting in milliseconds, not cycles.
Want payroll that moves at the speed of your business?
Book a Demo Today
The Future of Payroll; A Present Reality at Mercans
Mercans empowers HR and finance teams to scale globally without outdated payroll barriers. With a stateless, event-driven backbone, payroll adapts in real time, reacting in milliseconds, not cycles.
Want payroll that moves at the speed of your business?
Book a Demo Today