Pricing
● Updated August 25, 2026
Garoa costs R$ 0.344 per time-clock punch. For a typical full-time employee — 22 workdays a month, one clock-in and one clock-out — that is ≈ R$ 15 per employee per month, about US$ 3. The price includes full CLT payroll, eSocial, DCTFWeb and FGTS Digital, electronic time & attendance, shift scheduling, implementation, training and support. There is no setup fee, no per-user licence, no per-module pricing and no lock-in. The minimum invoice is R$ 503.80 per month.
Almost nobody in this market publishes a price — not the global platforms, not the Brazilian ERPs, not the bilingual BPOs. We publish ours, and it is the same table the engine's Brazilian operators pay today to run thousands of shift workers in production. You get local pricing — not a foreign-buyer premium.
How per-punch pricing works
Garoa is billed by recorded time-clock activity, not by user seats. Every clock-in and clock-out an employee records is one punch, and punches are priced in progressive volume tiers — like tax brackets, each tier's rate applies only to the punches inside it:
| Punches per month | Price per punch |
|---|---|
| First 30,000 | R$ 0.344 |
| 30,001 to 60,000 | R$ 0.287 |
| Above 60,000 | R$ 0.229 |
Why punches? Because they track what actually drives payroll work in Brazil: worked days, shifts, overtime, the fiscal time & attendance registry itself. Headcount on leave generates fewer punches; headquarters logins, admin users and HQ dashboards generate none — you are never billed for a seat.
What that means at your headcount
Assuming the standard 44 punches per employee per month:
| CLT employees | Monthly total | Per employee | ≈ USD / employee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | R$ 1,513.60 | R$ 15.14 | ≈ US$ 2.91 |
| 500 | R$ 7,568.00 | R$ 15.14 | ≈ US$ 2.91 |
| 1,000 | R$ 14,338.00 | R$ 14.34 | ≈ US$ 2.76 |
| 2,000 | R$ 25,342.00 | R$ 12.67 | ≈ US$ 2.44 |
| 5,000 | R$ 55,570.00 | R$ 11.11 | ≈ US$ 2.14 |
Estimate your monthly price
Enter your CLT headcount. The default of 44 punches per employee assumes 22 workdays with clock-in and clock-out; raise it if your operation also records break punches.
Progressive tiers applied per punch; minimum invoice R$ 503.80/month. USD reference at R$ 5.20/US$ — billing is in BRL to your Brazilian CNPJ. Prices adjust once a year, in January, by accumulated IPCA.
Everything is included
One price, the whole platform:
- Full CLT payroll — monthly cycle, 13th salary, vacations, terminations, union/CCT rules.
- eSocial, native — events, monthly closing, DCTFWeb and FGTS Digital generated from the payroll itself.
- Electronic time & attendance under Portaria 671 — compliant registry, AFD/AEJ files, inspection-ready.
- Shift scheduling — including 12×36, night premiums, rosters.
- English interface for HQ, Portuguese for the local team — plus the built-in AI assistant.
- Implementation, parametrization, training and support — and every new feature we ship.
What we don't charge for
- No implementation or setup fee — eSocial, pay items and schedules are parametrized as part of onboarding.
- No per-user licences — billing is by punch, never by seat.
- No per-module pricing — payroll, time & attendance and scheduling are one product, not three add-ons.
- No mandatory time-clock hardware.
- No year-end surprise — the 13th-salary closing is part of the product, not a separately billed report.
- No lock-in — monthly billing, no fidelity clause.
Billed in BRL, to your CNPJ
Garoa invoices your Brazilian entity in reais. There is no FX spread, no funding fee, no exchange-rate arithmetic between what the platform quotes and what you pay — the number on this page is the number on the invoice. Prices adjust once a year, in January, by accumulated IPCA (Brazil's official consumer price index) — the same month Brazil re-issues its minimum wage and payroll tax tables.
How that compares
Typical prices reported for the routes a foreign-owned subsidiary usually considers — the full comparison lives in our payroll software guide and the Deel vs. Garoa analysis:
| Route | Reported price | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| EOR (Deel, Remote, Multiplier…) | US$ 400–700 /employee/month | For companies without an entity — you have a CNPJ |
| Global payroll platforms | US$ 20–50 /employee/month, quote-based | Administrative payroll only — no fiscal time & attendance, no shift layer |
| Bilingual BPO | monthly fee + R$ 50–100 /employee | You never operate the system — the English lives in the month-end report |
| Garoa | ≈ R$ 15 (≈ US$ 3) /employee/month — published | Software you operate, priced like Brazilian software |
Why is it this much cheaper? Because it is Brazilian software priced for the Brazilian market, sold to you directly — not an international service layer marked up between you and the engine that does the work.
Questions we get
What counts as a time-clock punch?
Each recorded clock event — one clock-in or one clock-out. A standard full-time month is 22 workdays × 2 punches = 44 punches per employee.
What about employees who are exempt from clocking in?
Employees legally exempt from time recording under CLT article 62 (senior managers, external roles) generate no punches, so they add nothing to the invoice. You pay only for recorded activity — the R$ 503.80 monthly minimum is the floor.
Is there a setup or implementation fee?
No. Implementation, eSocial and pay-item parametrization, schedule setup, training and ongoing support are included in the per-punch price.
Is there a minimum term or lock-in?
No. Billing is monthly with no fidelity clause. The minimum invoice is R$ 503.80 per month.
How do prices change over time?
Once a year, in January, by accumulated IPCA. No mid-year repricing, no surprise "platform fee" line items.
What currency is Garoa billed in?
BRL, invoiced to your Brazilian CNPJ — no FX spread, no funding fees. For headquarters budgeting, the typical price is about US$ 3 per employee per month.
Run Brazil like a local. Report like a global.
Garoa is Brazil payroll, time & attendance, and eSocial compliance software your subsidiary operates itself — full CLT depth, English interface for HQ. In production with Brazilian shift workforces since 2020 — now onboarding foreign-owned subsidiaries.
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