Ireland

HR software for Ireland

Capstan is all-in-one HR software for Ireland and for the EMEA teams that an Irish company builds around it. It is a complete core HRIS, free for up to twenty active people, with all fourteen modules on every plan, written in English with its data resident in the EU, while your Irish payroll stays with the bureau or accountant who already runs it.

Prices are adjusted by country and live on the pricing page alone. Outside India you are billed in US dollars; the figure is one link away and appears nowhere else on the site.

Is Capstan HR software for Ireland? Yes.

Capstan works for a Dublin or Cork company from the first hire. It is an HRMS and HRIS in one: a single directory for your people and contractors, records and documents, employee self-service, onboarding, leave, attendance and reporting, with an Irish public-holiday set an administrator can import for the year in one click and then edit.

Free for teams of up to twenty active people, with no time limit, so a first Irish hire and the next nineteen cost nothing.
An all-in-one HR platform rather than a core with paid add-ons: the full product from day one, on the free plan included.
The statutory side stays with your Irish payroll bureau or accountant. Capstan holds no Irish tax tables, computes nothing and files nothing with any authority, and it is not an employer of record.

The structure of an Irish hire, PAYE, PRSI and USC, real-time reporting to Revenue and the rest, is set out in the guide to hiring employees in Ireland.

An English-speaking base inside the EU

Ireland is the English-speaking member of the EU that many global and United States companies make their EMEA base, and Capstan is one English HR system of record whose data stays in the EU, so it fits an Irish entity and the EMEA team around it. Since Brexit it is also a cleaner EU-residency answer than a United Kingdom base.

An English-only product and an English-only record, so an Irish team and the people it hires across EMEA work from the same system in the same language.
Data resident in the EU, in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, so an EMEA hub's employee records sit inside the EU rather than in a region you have to go and check.
One directory for the Irish entity and the rest of the team, effective-dated, so a move or a cross-border transfer is a recorded change rather than a new record.

The EU-hosting detail, the isolation and what is and is not held, is on the EU data residency page.

Payroll stays with your bureau or accountant

Your Irish payroll runs through your payroll bureau or your accountant, which is how most Irish companies arrange it, and Capstan is built for that handoff. It prepares the inputs and hands them over, then takes the computed results back onto the record.

Capstan compiles joiners, leavers, pay structure, leave, attendance and adjustments into a documented export for your provider, then files the computed results back onto the employee record.
It holds no PAYE, PRSI or USC tables, makes no ROS submission, and files nothing with Revenue or any authority. The computation and the filing are your provider's, by design.
Because Irish payroll is reported to Revenue on or before payday, a clean single record of starters, leavers and pay changes is worth having before the run, not after.

Why payroll belongs with a partner and not inside the HR software is set out in this piece.

Where does your data live? In the EU.

Capstan runs from one self-contained region today, and that region is in the EU, with data resident in Frankfurt and compute in Amsterdam. For an Irish company that means your employee data stays inside the EU, which is the honest answer to a residency question in a security review.

One region, one boundary: your workspace and its data sit inside the EU deployment, with no runtime path out of it.
The Data Protection Act 2018 and the Data Protection Commission govern how you handle employee data in Ireland; keeping it in one controlled place with proper access limits is the practice that travels.
We do not hand you a compliance badge. We tell you where the data is and what we hold, and leave the compliance judgement to you and your advisers.

How the region is built, and why a residency commitment is only real if it cannot be quietly changed, is on the security page, and the plain-terms view of employee data under the GDPR is in the GDPR and employee data guide.

What do you get on every plan?

Every plan, the free one included, carries the whole platform. There is no core-only tier and no module held back for a paid plan, so an all-in-one HR platform here means the full product for an Irish team, not a stripped sample of it.

The complete core HRIS: one directory for every employee and contractor, with records, documents, self-service and reporting.
All fourteen modules, from onboarding and leave to attendance, workflows and alumni access, with nothing sold module by module.
The same feature set on the free plan and on a paid plan. A paid plan lifts one thing, the twenty-active-employee cap, and changes nothing about the software.
An Irish public-holiday set an administrator can import for the year in one click and then edit, on a calendar that carries its own working week.

What the platform covers is on the product page, and how it is built rather than priced against the tools you are probably weighing is on the comparison pages.

Where is the price, and how is it billed?

The price lives on the pricing page, and only there, because it is adjusted by country and belongs in one honest place. It is billed monthly, in arrears, per chargeable seat above the first twenty free, with no annual contract, no prepaid term and no lock-in.

One per-seat figure above the first twenty active people, billed monthly for the seats you actually use.
Outside India the currency is US dollars; the one you are billed in follows your billing country.
No minimum term, no renewal to sign, and downgrading to Free keeps all fourteen modules intact.

Capstan in other markets

Capstan is a global product, region-served from the EU, and it is written for the same shape of team wherever they hire. If your people sit outside Ireland as well, the other market pages follow the same structure. Browse every market from the HR software by country hub.