17+ years building business infrastructure

Professionalizing
Businesses.

Empowering Entrepreneurs.

Everything your back office needs, Payroll, HR, Accounting, Inventory, and Tax Compliance, connected across The ABBA Initiative's YAHSHUA products.

YAHSHUA One PayrollYAHSHUA One Payroll
YAHSHUA HRISYAHSHUA HRIS
YAHSHUA Books OnlineYAHSHUA Books Online
YAHSHUA OneYAHSHUA One

Trusted by industry leaders

Running a business shouldn't mean juggling five disconnected systems.

Philippine businesses deserve better infrastructure. You deserve tools that work together, not against each other.

Manual payroll every cutoff
Spreadsheet-based accounting
Late compliance filings & penalties
Salary delays that hurt trust
Fragmented approvals across tools

Across the Philippines

Different islands.
Different industries.
One business partner.

The ABBA Initiative has served over 400 companies across the Philippines, supporting businesses in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao with payroll, HR, accounting, and compliance.

Companies served
400+
Users managed
100,000+

Built around the way you work

Hospitals & healthcare

Support clinical and administrative teams with tools for shift attendance, employee records, payroll, and accounting.

Shift-based teams / Payroll / Accounting

BPO & outsourcing

Keep attendance, employee records, and payroll organized across teams and shifts as your workforce grows.

Workforce management / Attendance / Payroll

Construction

Keep site and office teams connected through attendance, payroll, inventory, and accounting workflows.

Site teams / Inventory / Payroll

Retail & distribution

Keep people, stock, and books in step across stores and branches, from attendance and payroll to inventory and accounting.

Multi-branch teams / Inventory / Payroll

Manufacturing

Bring shift-based attendance, payroll, and inventory into clearer workflows, so the back office can keep up with production.

Shifts & attendance / Payroll / Inventory

Professional services

Spend less time on back-office work with tools for employee records, payroll, accounting, and tax compliance.

People / Accounting / Tax compliance

Our reachPhilippines

Connected across the country.

Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Select an island group to explore our reach.

The YAHSHUA Product Suite

Purpose-built software for Philippine businesses, developed and operated by The ABBA Initiative. Each product works independently or as part of the connected ecosystem.

Payroll & HRIS

YAHSHUA One Payroll

The only payroll system with an AI that has read your company's books. Every DOLE premium pay type is built in, with automatic SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and BIR computation.

  • Every DOLE Premium Pay Type
  • Automatic SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG & BIR
  • Theo: Your Payroll AI
Accounting & Inventory

YAHSHUA Books Online

A cloud-based accounting and inventory system that links real-time stock levels directly to financial reports. Track every transaction end to end, from purchase orders to sales invoices, with unlimited users under one subscription.

  • Real-Time Inventory Valuation
  • Multi-Location Barcode Tracking
  • Unlimited Customizations
HR Management

YAHSHUA HRIS

A comprehensive HR platform that manages the full employee lifecycle: recruitment, onboarding, performance, benefits, and DOLE compliance, all in one place, and fully integrated with YAHSHUA One Payroll.

  • Complete 201 File Management
  • Multi-Platform Job Posting
  • Built-In DOLE Compliance
AI-Native Platform

YAHSHUA One

Our newest platform: payroll, HR, accounting, and tax compliance in one AI-native workspace, built for businesses that want to run things themselves. Currently in early access.

  • Self-Serve Setup
  • AI Assistant Grounded in Your Own Data
  • No Implementation Team Required

The ABBA advantage

Local understanding.
Practical business tools.

Software built around Philippine operations, with people you can talk to and products you can choose for the work at hand.

02 / People behind the product

Local support.
Real conversations.

Talk to our team about your workflow, product questions, and setup needs. We’ll help clarify the next steps and the support available for your product.

Meet your support options

03 / AI with a specific job

Meet Theo.
Inside Payroll.

Ask payroll and compliance questions grounded in your company’s account data. Theo is part of YAHSHUA One Payroll; AI capabilities vary by product.

Get to know Payroll

Start with the right fit.

Choose the product for your priorities. Discuss setup responsibilities, available assistance, and timing with our team before you begin.

Talk through your needs

Operations continue, even offline.

Purpose-built apps for every role in your organization.

OFFLINE

Timekeeper App

Clock-in/out and attendance tracking, even without internet. Auto-syncs when back online.

👤

Employee Kiosk

Payslip access, leave requests, and personal records, from any device, any time.

Approver App

Approve leave, overtime, and requests on the go. No desktop required.

📊

Accounting Approval

Review and approve accounting entries directly from your phone.

Certified where it counts.

DOLE-compliant HR, GDPR-aligned data handling, and audited to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 standards. Registered with the BIR.

DOLE Ready
DOLE Ready
GDPR Compliant
GDPR Compliant
ISO 27001 Certified
ISO 27001 Certified
SOC 2 Type 2
SOC 2 Type 2
Official BIR registration seal, agency name, and QR verification codeBIR Registered

Why choose The ABBA Initiative?

Local Compliance Made Easy

Built specifically for Philippine laws: SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, BIR. Government contributions, tax updates, and full compliance without the stress.

People-First Support

A local team you can talk to about product questions, workflow needs, and available setup assistance.

Flexible Plans That Scale

Scalable pricing and features that work whether you're a small team or a large enterprise. No per-seat surprises.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Used by Del Monte Philippines. Partnered with RCBC, Globe, CyTech, and Sterling Bank of Asia.

Trusted by teams that refuse to settle.

Real results from real Philippine businesses running on our ecosystem.

We moved from five disconnected systems to one ecosystem. Payroll that used to take 3 days now runs in hours, with zero compliance errors.

DM

Operations Director

Del Monte Philippines

The AI flagged a payroll anomaly that would have cost us ₱480,000. That alone justified the entire platform. The local support team is incredible.

FC

Finance Manager

Enterprise Client

No per-seat fees changed everything. We scaled from 50 to 500 employees without a single software cost increase. That's unheard of.

HR

HR Director

Retail Chain (200+ branches)

More than software. A partnership.

Because software alone doesn't fix operations. Systems do. We walk with you from day one.

Systems Implementation

Discuss your setup needs and the assistance available for your product.

Policy Customization

Your rules, your workflows, configured precisely.

Business Process Consultation

We help you optimize, not just digitize.

Active Customer Support

A local team for product questions and support needs.

Prefer to hand it off entirely?

YAHSHUA Outsourcing Worldwide Inc., the services arm of The ABBA Initiative, runs payroll, HR, and compliance work directly for client businesses.

Three steps to professional operations.

We handle the hard part. You focus on growing your business.

01

Book a Demo

Schedule a free consultation. We'll learn your business, your challenges, and show you exactly how the platform fits.

02

Plan Your Setup

Agree on your setup priorities, responsibilities, and the assistance available for your chosen product.

03

Go Live & Scale

Put your chosen product to work. Build familiarity with its features and reach out to our team when you need product support.

We believe in a better way to life: making reliable, efficient solutions accessible to help companies thrive while caring for their employees. Our promise: More for Less.

Everything you need to know.

The ABBA Initiative is a Philippine SaaS company building payroll, HR, accounting, and tax compliance solutions for Philippine MSMEs. Our established product suite (YAHSHUA One Payroll, YAHSHUA HRIS, and YAHSHUA Books Online) offers product-specific setup and support options, and Tax Compliance is handled as an ABBA-level service alongside them. For businesses that prefer a self-serve platform, YAHSHUA One is our newer AI-native workspace, currently in early access. For businesses that prefer to hand operations off entirely, YAHSHUA Outsourcing Worldwide Inc., our services arm, runs it for you.

YAHSHUA is the brand name for The ABBA Initiative's software, YAHSHUA One Payroll, YAHSHUA Books Online, and YAHSHUA HRIS, which ABBA builds and operates directly. YAHSHUA Outsourcing Worldwide, Inc. is a separate part of the ABBA family, its services arm, for businesses that would rather have a team run payroll, HR, and compliance work for them directly instead of self-serving with software. Tax Compliance is a related ABBA service that runs alongside the software products. It's all one company family, one ecosystem.

Yes. Every module is built around Philippine labor laws, BIR requirements, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG regulations. We handle local compliance so you don't have to.

Theo in YAHSHUA One Payroll answers payroll and compliance questions using your company’s account data. AI features vary by product; ask our team which capabilities are available in the product you are considering.

There are no per-seat fees. Whether you have 10 employees or 10,000, you pay the same. Unlimited web users and unlimited mobile app users are included in every plan.

Yes. Our Timekeeper app works fully offline. Employees can clock in and out without internet. Data syncs automatically when connectivity is restored.

Timing and assistance depend on your chosen product, data readiness, and setup needs. Discuss the scope, responsibilities, and available support with our team before agreeing on an onboarding plan.

Absolutely. The platform supports multi-branch, multi-location operations with centralized reporting and branch-level controls for inventory, attendance, and payroll.

We are trusted by Del Monte Philippines and have official partnerships with RCBC, Globe, CyTech, and Sterling Bank of Asia.

Professionalize your operations.

Scale with confidence.