Singapore and South-East Asia
HR software for Singapore and South-East Asia
Capstan is all-in-one HR software for Singapore and the teams built around it across South-East Asia. It is a complete core HRIS, free for up to twenty active people, with all fourteen modules on every plan, and it is made for a team that sits in more than one country at once rather than in a single office.
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 Singapore? Yes.
Capstan works for a Singapore 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 a Singapore 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 Singapore 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 Singapore payroll provider. Capstan holds no CPF or tax tables and files nothing with any authority.
The structure of a Singapore hire, entity or EOR, CPF eligibility, the absence of a general minimum wage and the PDPA, is set out in the guide to hiring employees in Singapore.
HR software for distributed teams across South-East Asia
Capstan is built for the team that is spread across the region rather than gathered in one place. A single workspace holds people in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines together, each in their own entity, on their own holiday calendar, with the history that survives a move from one country to the next.
- One directory across entities and countries, effective-dated, so a transfer or a promotion is a recorded change rather than a lost record.
- Leave policies and a holiday calendar per work location, because a Manila calendar and a Singapore one are not the same list, and a shared list is the version that breaks.
- Each country keeps its own payroll partner and its own statutory vocabulary, from Singapore's CPF to Malaysia's EPF, SOCSO and EIS. Capstan is the one record they all feed from.
The regional country notes follow the same shape: hiring in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, each with its own schemes and its own local provider.
Contractors and cross-border hiring in one place
Contractors live in the same workspace as your employees, which matters in a region where a first hire is often a contractor before it is an employee. The contractor module adds a portal, invoices and a payout register on top of the core, and like every module it is already included on every plan, the free one included.
- Contractor and global-employment management in one directory, so a person who converts from contractor to employee keeps a continuous record rather than starting a new one.
- Contractor tax content is a country pack your workspace configures per jurisdiction, which you update yourself instead of waiting on a software release. It covers contractor invoicing, not employee payroll.
- The classification line still matters everywhere in the region. The guide to hiring global contractors and the note on contractor versus employee cover the tests.
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. Singapore and the rest of South-East Asia are served from there rather than from a separate local deployment, so the residency line is GDPR-grade European, not Singapore-local.
- One region, one boundary: your workspace and its data sit inside the EU deployment, which is the honest answer to a residency question in a security review.
- If your organisation is required to keep employee data inside Singapore or another South-East Asian jurisdiction, you should know it is EU-resident today before you commit, not after.
- The PDPA and the region's other data laws govern how you handle the data; keeping it in one controlled place with proper access limits is the practice that travels across regimes.
How the region is built, and why a residency commitment is only real if it cannot be quietly changed, is on the security page.
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 a Singapore team, not a stripped sample of it.
- The complete core HRIS: one directory for every employee and contractor across your Singapore and regional entities, 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.
- A holiday calendar per work location, so a Singapore calendar and a Kuala Lumpur one sit side by side rather than one list stretched across the region.
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 South-East Asia as well, the other market pages follow the same structure.
Start free for up to twenty people, across Singapore and the region.