Introducing Salary Advances: Empower Your Team

Cash flow is a real challenge for employees at every level. When an unexpected expense hits mid-month — school fees, a medical bill, a broken appliance — the options are usually limited and often costly. We built salary advances into StackHR to give your team a better option: fair, transparent, and handled entirely inside the platform.

Here’s how it works. An employee submits an advance request through their StackHR profile, selecting an amount up to a configured percentage of their earned salary. The request goes to their manager or HR admin for a one-click approval. Once approved, StackHR automatically calculates the deduction for the next payroll run — no manual adjustments, no formula errors, no awkward conversations.

For finance teams, this is a net positive. Advances are tracked as payroll line items, appear in your audit trail, and are reflected automatically in the next salary run. You get the visibility you need without any extra admin burden. No off-platform loans to track, no informal arrangements to manage.

Salary advances are available on Growth and above plans. HR admins can configure the maximum advance percentage and the number of advances allowed per employee per quarter — giving you meaningful control while keeping the benefit real for your team. Look for it in the Payroll section of your dashboard today.