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Talenox alternative
Talenox serves Singapore and Malaysia from the browser, with accounting integrations that suit firms working across several clients. Its billing generally follows headcount, and the employee record lives in the cloud. Orbit HR is a desktop app you own after one RM249 payment, with unlimited employees, full offline operation, and NRIC, bank and statutory numbers encrypted on your own disk.
Compare Talenox with Orbit HR's one-time licence, unlimited employees, full offline operation and encrypted local payroll records.
What people like about Talenox
Where Orbit HR differs
| Criteria | Orbit HR | Talenox |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | RM249 one-time, unlimited staff | Per employee, per month subscription |
| Cost at 20 employees | RM249 once, then nothing | Typically RM2,400 to RM3,600 a year, every year |
| Per-employee fee | No | Yes |
| Where your staff data lives | Your device, NRIC and bank details encrypted | The vendor's cloud servers |
| Works fully offline | Yes | Needs a browser and a connection |
| Runs on macOS | Native macOS and Windows app | Any OS, through a browser |
| EPF / SOCSO / EIS / PCB calculated | From dated rate tables, tested each release | Yes |
| EA form + statutory files | EA, Borang A, Borang 8A, CP39, CP58, bank file | Yes |
| Leave under Employment Act 1955 | Annual tiers, sick, maternity, per-state holidays | Yes |
| Employee self-service | Yes | Yes |
| Bilingual EN / BM | Yes | Varies |
| If you stop paying | App keeps working, forever | Access to payroll history can be locked |
| Best fit | SMEs who want to pay once and hold their own data | Firms working in the browser across SG and MY clients |
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When to stay with Talenox
Yes. Multi-company and payroll bureau workflows are included, along with an outsourcing module for client placements, client billing and margin. One RM249 licence covers it, with no per-employee charge in any company.
The rates are not hardcoded. They sit in dated rate tables, so a past month recalculates on the rates that applied then, and an automated test suite checks the output against the published schedules on every release. That covers EPF, SOCSO including the 2026 SKBBK rates with 10-sen rounding, EIS, PCB and the HRD Corp levy.
Orbit HR exports salary payment and bank files, plus the statutory files, so you post the payroll journal into whatever accounting system you use. It does not have live API integrations with cloud accounting tools. If a two-way sync with Xero or QuickBooks matters to you, that is a genuine point for Talenox.
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