Garoa is payroll, time & attendance, and eSocial compliance software your Brazilian subsidiary operates itself — full CLT depth on the ground, an English interface for headquarters. No SAP project, no black-box outsourcing.
Brazil's payroll rulebook — eSocial, the CLT, the 13th salary, FGTS — exists only in Portuguese. We write the English reference your finance and HR leadership can actually use, verified against official sources and updated every January.
How Brazil's mandatory digital payroll reporting actually works: who must file, the event families, the deadlines that surprise foreign employers, and the fines.
ReferenceAll 50 active events of layout S-1.3 — S-1000 to S-8299 — in English: what each one does, when it is due, and how they depend on each other.
Guide + calculatorWhy a R$ 10,000 salary costs ~1.62× that: INSS, FGTS, 13th salary and vacation accruals — the full 2026 math, line by line, in USD too.
Pillar guideThe real monthly cycle of a Brazilian payroll — closing to payment to eSocial to FGTS to DCTFWeb — written for companies running their own entity.
Decision guideThe 30-employee math: what EOR really costs in Brazil, where the crossover sits, and the step-by-step playbook for migrating to your own CNPJ.
Guide + calculatorBrazil's mandatory extra month of pay: the Nov 30 / Dec 20 deadlines, the separate tax math, what it costs the employer — with an interactive calculator.
GuideThe 8% employer-funded deposit, FGTS Digital's day-20 deadline, and the 40% dismissal fine that equals 3.2% of every wage ever paid.
Guide + calculatorNotice, the FGTS fine, 13th and vacation balances: why a R$ 10,000 employee costs ≈R$ 68,000 to dismiss after 2.5 years — run any scenario.
Guide + calculator2026 INSS and IRRF tables with the new R$ 5,000 exemption: type a gross salary, see every bracket and the exact net pay.
ReferenceEvery payroll deadline on one page — the monthly day 5 / 15 / 20 rhythm, per-event deadlines, and the 2026 dates that shift for weekends.
Field guideWhat surprises foreign employers: employment is a matter of fact, 30-day vacations, mandatory unions, and the real cost of overtime.
Reference70+ terms your local team uses daily — from aviso prévio to vale-transporte — each explained in plain English.
GuideLtda vs. S.A., the real timeline, the bank-account bottleneck — and what happens after the CNPJ: eSocial, e-CNPJ and your first hire.
PlaybookODI approvals to CNPJ to first payroll: the complete India→Brazil playbook, including the cost differences that surprise Indian operators.
PlaybookBEA and IRS filings, the missing tax treaty, the new 10% dividend tax, and the CLT rules that replace at-will — the US→Brazil playbook.
PlaybookAWV reporting, the terminated treaty, and the three 2026 unlocks — EU data adequacy, Mercosur–EU tariffs, treaty talks — in one playbook.
PlaybookThe signed-but-unratified tax treaty, double social security, data transfers without adequacy — and how to run the gaps, step by step.
ComparisonLocal ERPs, SAP localization, global platforms, bilingual BPO — what each route really offers a foreign-owned subsidiary, compared honestly.
Original data23 million time-clock punches, 22,000 active CLT records: night work, weekends, punch volumes and tenure — original production data, first edition.
ComparisonThe two self-serve, English-interface options for your own Brazilian entity — where they overlap, where the operational CLT layer separates them.
Your team runs payroll in your own entity, with a real audit trail. HQ sees everything in English, in real time — not a PDF report at month-end.
Events, monthly closing, DCTFWeb and FGTS Digital are generated from the payroll itself — built in Brazil for Brazilian compliance, not adapted around it.
Time & attendance, shift schedules (12×36), night premiums, union rules — the operational half of CLT compliance that global platforms leave out.
About R$ 15 per employee per month — roughly US$ 3 — billed in BRL by actual time-clock activity, with payroll, eSocial, time & attendance, shift scheduling, implementation, training and support all included. No setup fee, no per-module pricing, no lock-in. Almost nobody in this market publishes a price; ours is public.