MambaHR vs OnPay

OnPay runs payroll for small businesses.

MambaHR does the HR admin around it.

OnPay is straightforward payroll for small businesses, with HR tools like onboarding forms and time off tracking. The rest of HR still lands on someone's desk: leave, hiring, onboarding follow-ups and policy questions. MambaHR does that work, prepares your payroll changes, and brings you the decisions that need a person.

The difference

What changes for your team.

Payroll is one part of HR.

OnPay pays your people. Leave requests, offer letters, onboarding steps and exits still need someone. MambaHR does that work and asks you to approve anything sensitive.

Employment law answers, with the law cited.

MambaHR answers questions like whether someone qualifies for family leave (FMLA) or what a state's pay transparency rule requires in a job post. Unclear cases come to you.

Hiring and onboarding in one place.

MambaHR posts jobs with the pay range, tracks applications, schedules interviews and drafts the offer inside your pay range for your approval. Then onboarding starts.

Side by side

MambaHR vs OnPay.

Including the rows where OnPay does more.

MambaHROnPay
Does the admin work, with you approving what matters✓Not included
Federal and state employment law answers, with the law cited✓Payroll tax only
PayrollMambaHR prepares the changes and you approve each run. Payroll run through Deel (Powered by Deel) is an add-on on every plan.Change file, or Deel-managed✓
Benefits administrationMambaHR does send the health coverage (COBRA) notice when someone leaves.Not included✓
Onboarding tasks done for you✓Forms and checklists
Employee records✓✓

Keep OnPay and load the change file MambaHR prepares, or use Deel-managed payroll. MambaHR is one price per employee, per plan, from $14.

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OnPay is good small business payroll. MambaHR does the other HR admin and gets your payroll changes ready, for OnPay or for Deel-managed payroll.

Questions

MambaHR and OnPay, answered.

Is MambaHR a good OnPay alternative for a startup?

OnPay is good small business payroll. MambaHR does the other HR admin and gets your payroll changes ready, for OnPay or for Deel-managed payroll.

What does OnPay do that MambaHR does not?

OnPay covers these, and MambaHR does not: benefits administration. MambaHR does send the health coverage (COBRA) notice when someone leaves.

What does MambaHR cost compared with OnPay?

Keep OnPay and load the change file MambaHR prepares, or use Deel-managed payroll. MambaHR is one price per employee, per plan, from $14. Plans are billed annually, with no yearly minimum.

How do we move from OnPay to MambaHR?

Your people data comes into MambaHR by CSV in a day: people, history, documents and time-off balances. Requests get handled the day after the import.

Getting started

Set up in a day, not a quarter.

Day 1

Your data imports

People, history, documents and time-off balances, imported by CSV in one pass. Nothing typed in twice.

Day 2

Requests start coming in

Slack connected, your policies loaded, approvals set to go to the right people. Employees and managers start asking.

Week 1

The admin is getting done

Time off approved within your policy, questions answered with the law cited, and the first payroll changes ready for you to approve.

See it on your own requests.

A 30-minute demo, run on your own HR scenarios.