Hey Product Hunt!! I'm Stephen, founder of Hibiscus HR. We just went live, and I wanted to bring it to this community first because I'm looking for the kind of feedback that makes products sharper: what's missing, what's wrong, what would make you (or a Canadian friend running a company) actually pull out a credit card. What are we? An HR and payroll platform built from scratch for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses. Every feature (payroll, onboarding, offboarding, benefits, performance, compliance) is written against Canadian rules. It's not a US tool with a Canadian province dropdown bolted on. Why we do what we do? Every Canadian SMB I talked to before I started this was running payroll in a spreadsheet and compliance in their head, because the alternatives were too expensive, too enterprise, or too American. CPP2 withheld at 5.95% instead of 4%. Quebec employees on CPP instead of QPP. Vacation pay at 4% in Saskatchewan when the right answer is 3/52 (≈5.77%). ROEs filed the week after Service Canada's five-day window closed. Every one of those has a back-pay order waiting at the end of it. Under the hood - **Payroll** — CPP + CPP2, EI, federal + provincial tax, QPP + QPIP + reduced EI for Quebec. T4 e-filing to CRA. CPA-005 direct deposit files. - **Compliance library** — every tenant ships with pre-built reminders for ROE deadlines, T4 filing, CRA remittances, WHMIS expiry, and more. Automation, but specifically for Canadian HR. - **Offboarding** with Service Canada-compatible ROE XML, not a PDF you re-key at 4 pm on day five. - **Employees / onboarding / benefits / performance / time & attendance** — the full stack, with org charts and self-service. - Integrations with Slack, Teams, QuickBooks Online, and Xero. Free tools, 5 of them to be specific! Province-aware calculators for overtime, severance, CPP + EI, statutory holiday pay, and vacation pay — live on the site. Use them even if you never buy the product: hibiscushr.ca/tools **Who it's for** Canadian SMBs with 5–100 employees hiring within Canada. Especially multi-province companies where the compliance surface gets brutal fast. If you've ever Googled "vacation pay Saskatchewan" at 9 pm on a Thursday, you're the target. **Who it's NOT for** If you're a 500-person enterprise, you need Ceridian. If you only hire in the US, there are better tools built for you. **The ask** I want to hear what's broken. If you're a Canadian founder, HR lead, or bookkeeper: - What's missing that's a deal-breaker for you? - Where does the copy on the site feel off? - What would you need to see before you'd trial it? And if you know someone running a Canadian company who's stuck in spreadsheet hell — sending them the link would mean the world. Thanks, SH

Hibiscus HR

HR software built from the ground up for Canadian SMBs

HR software built from the ground up for Canadian SMBs