SECURITY AGENCIES · PHILIPPINES
Payroll, deployment, and compliance for Philippine security agencies.
Night-shift differential across thousands of guards, per-post billing reconciled against actual deployment, and SOSIA license tracking — one system that closes payroll the same day instead of two weeks late.
TrackTik is priced in dollars per guard for patrol features built around North American routes, and Timora handles guard tours but not the BIR payroll seam. Meanwhile your payroll team rebuilds night differential and holiday premiums in Excel for three thousand guards every cutoff.
What this costs you today
Payroll for thousands of guards is rebuilt in Excel every cutoff.
Night-shift differential, rest-day and holiday premiums, 13th-month, and SSS/PhilHealth/Pag-IBIG per guard arrive as DTR from dozens of client posts. The seam between timekeeping and a separate BIR tool is where the overpayments and the deficiency notices live.
Guard licensing and SOSIA compliance live in spreadsheets.
PNP-SOSIA license validity, RA 11917 training certificates, neuro and drug-test expiry, and firearm permits all lapse silently in a tracker nobody owns. A lapsed credential at a client post is a contract-ending liability.
Per-post billing never reconciles against actual deployment.
Agencies bill clients per post and per guard-hour, then pay guards from a separate roster. Reliever swaps, absences, and overtime break the link, and the margin leaks in the gap between what was billed and what was paid.
WHO YOU’RE QUOTING TODAY
The incumbents — and what they quote.
- TrackTik₱400K–1.2M/year SaaS at agency scale (indicative range)
- Timora₱150K–500K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Miratag₱120K–400K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Guard Pro₱100K–350K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Sprout HR₱300K–700K/year SaaS (indicative range)
A mid-size Philippine security agency (3,000 deployed guards, 120 client posts) running a global guard-management SaaS plus Sprout HR plus a separate BIR tool paid roughly ₱2.4M/year across three subscriptions — and still closed payroll two weeks late. A comparable Orkids build is a one-time fee, owned outright, with night-differential and 13th-month computed at the time-record level and per-post billing reconciled against actual deployment. (Composite illustration based on PH market patterns.)
BY THE NUMBERS
Sources: Orkids internal pricing data, public vendor PH licensing benchmarks. Figures reflect one-time build cost ranges; ongoing support is optional and separately priced.
THE RECEIPT
What Security Agencies operators are quoted today — and what we build for.
- TrackTik₱400K–1.2M/year SaaS at agency scale (indicative range)
- Timora₱150K–500K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Miratag₱120K–400K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Guard Pro₱100K–350K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- Sprout HR₱300K–700K/year SaaS (indicative range)
- OrkidsOne fixed build fee · ₱50K–250K/mo optional, no lock-in
Typically 30–50% of what the vendors above quote you. You own the code at cutover.
A mid-size Philippine security agency (3,000 deployed guards, 120 client posts) running a global guard-management SaaS plus Sprout HR plus a separate BIR tool paid roughly ₱2.4M/year across three subscriptions — and still closed payroll two weeks late. A comparable Orkids build is a one-time fee, owned outright, with night-differential and 13th-month computed at the time-record level and per-post billing reconciled against actual deployment. (Composite illustration based on PH market patterns.)
Competitor figures are indicative ranges from published list prices and Philippine tender data, shown for comparison only.
BUILD MODULES · 6 OF 16
The modules a Security Agencies operation runs on.
- PayrollSee module
- HRSee module
- Field OpsSee module
- BIR ComplianceSee module
- ReportingSee module
- Ops CopilotSee module
All 16 modules are available. Talk to a founder about the full scope.
We replace. We build. We optimize.
Every line of code we write is yours at cutover. No license. No annual increase. No lock-in.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Your operations team talks to us directly in their language. No translator. No 2-day email chain.
Your account manager sits in Cebu and joins your standups — English, Cebuano, or Tagalog. Senior architecture, AI-assisted build, human review. Custom-built for your business, not shrink-wrapped.
Questions buyers ask.
Night-shift differential, rest-day and holiday premiums, and overtime are computed at the time-record level from each post's DTR, not approximated as flat allowances.
Every payslip line traces to the shift it came from, so a DOLE audit or a guard's complaint resolves against the record instead of a recomputation in Excel.
Yes. SOSIA license validity, RA 11917 training certificates, neuro and drug-test dates, and firearm permits are tracked per guard with expiry alerts before deployment.
A guard whose credential has lapsed is flagged off the deployable roster automatically, so an expired license never reaches a client post and ends a contract.
Yes. Per-post billing and guard payroll are reconciled against the same deployment record, so reliever swaps, absences, and overtime do not leak margin.
The gap between billed guard-hours and paid guard-hours is the most common place a low-margin agency loses money. The system closes that seam on every cutoff.
Yes. 13th-month accrual, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG are computed per guard and filed at agency headcount without a separate payroll subscription.
Contribution records are reconciled against remittance registers, not just the payroll run, because the two drift apart at scale and the deficiency notices follow.
A free data audit in week zero, guard master and deployment-history export, two parallel payroll cycles, then cutover — typically four to six weeks.
We have not missed a stated payroll date during a migration. Guard licensing history and per-post assignments are migrated first because that is what protects the client contracts.
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Orkids is a Philippine AI engineering firm that builds custom, agent-native operations software for Philippine enterprises — owned outright, with source code on day one — replacing SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, and Odoo in two to three weeks at ten to thirty percent of leading-ERP cost.
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