Payroll, HR and time.
Turkish law included.
Employee records, leave, timesheets, payroll and social security filings in one place. Calculations follow Labour Law 4857, Social Insurance 5510, Safety 6331 and Data Protection 6698.
Payroll in a spreadsheet, leave in email, timesheets on paper.
The cost of a scattered HR setup usually surfaces late: a wrong missing-day code, a leave balance nobody follows, a document that cannot be found during an inspection. When the same information sits in one place, most of that is prevented.
Scattered
Today- The payroll sheet is rebuilt every month; when a formula breaks nobody notices
- Leave requests stay in email while the balance lives in another file
- Timesheets are typed in by hand and overtime becomes an argument
- The document an inspector asks for is hunted through folders
One screen
Folkena- Rates are defined in the program and every month runs on the same rule
- The request, its approval and the balance live in one record
- Clock-in flows into the timesheet and the timesheet into payroll
- Documents warn before they expire and every action is logged
Six core modules, one employee record.
All 18 modules work on the same employee record. Information entered once is never asked for again.
Payroll and SGK
- Two-way gross and net calculation
- Cumulative tax base, disability relief
- APHB file, entry and exit declarations
- Garnishment ceiling under Enforcement Law art.83
People and Org
- Employee record with more than fifty fields
- Identity check and document tracking
- Org chart and reporting lines
- Expiring document alerts
Leave and Time
- Thirteen ready leave types with tenure accrual
- Location verified mobile clock-in
- Shift split: regular, overtime, night
- Annual 270 hour overtime cap, Labour Law art.41
Hiring
- One flow from posting to employee record
- Public careers page
- Interview plan and scoring form
- Probation tracking, Labour Law art.15
Performance
- Goal and measure tracking
- 360 degree review with a three person threshold
- Talent grid
- Competency gap analysis
Compliance and OHS
- Seven separate consent texts and registry filing
- Thirty day response tracking for data subject requests
- Three working day accident reporting window
- Five by five risk matrix and OHS committee
The rates live in the program, not on this page.
The values below are defined in the program for 2026. When the law changes one place is updated, and past payrolls keep the rules of their own period.
From the clock-in to the bank file, one chain.
Attendance vendors do not mention payroll and payroll vendors do not mention attendance. At Folkena all six links run in the same program, with no files carried between them.
The same chain also produces a journal entry for accounting.
Four points of difference.
These are not marketing lines; each one has a counterpart inside the product.
We show the article
Everyone writes "compliant with legislation" and nobody shows the article. At Folkena the rule sits above the screen with its article number.
Software and service together
Run the program yourself, or let the Folkena team run payroll, or combine the two. No other vendor here offers that choice this plainly.
It speaks your accountant's language
Payroll output becomes a journal entry and the detail needed for reconciliation arrives ready. Your accountant does not retype the data.
Data protection and safety as real modules
Two areas that most products bury under a "compliance" heading run on their own screens here: consent management, registry filing, risk matrix, accident reporting.
Let us run payroll while you watch the same screen.
When payroll is outsourced you usually receive a single PDF at month end. Under Folkena's payroll service the calculation runs on your own screen: what was done on which day, and where each deduction comes from, step by step. Not a black box, a glass one.
Every sector has its own hard part.
Shift cycles, daily paid workers, seasonal headcount, on-call rosters. Folkena gathers all of it into the same payroll.
It makes your accountant's job easier.
In Turkey the choice of payroll program is usually approved by the accountant. Folkena is built to answer their questions in advance. When a reconciliation fails the cause is normally a file format, so we deliver output in the shape their program expects.
- Journal entryPayroll becomes a double-entry journal under the uniform chart of accounts, reversals included
- Accounting exportsOutput in the formats commonly used programs expect, with a generic CSV option
- Hundred column cost reportThe breakdown needed for withholding and social security reconciliation in one file
- Deduction limits respectedThe garnishment quarter under Enforcement Law art.83 and the cumulative cap under Code of Obligations art.407
We do not overstate a single feature.
If you describe a feature that does not exist, it surfaces within the first month. So we also write down what is missing today:
- Filing submission. The declaration file is produced correctly, but the upload to the official portal is still done by hand.
- Paper destruction. Digital retention and erasure run on their own; destroying paper documents depends on human approval.
- The AI assistant. It follows defined rules. It is not a learning model and employee data does not leave the system.
No packages. You pay per person.
Modules are not split into tiers. You pay for the people on your payroll, and the per person rate falls as headcount grows.
What we are asked most in demos.
Is Folkena a payroll program or a payroll service?
Both. You can run the program yourself, hand payroll over to us entirely, or combine the two. Under the service our team performs the calculation while you watch every step on the same screen.
Are the 2026 rates current?
Yes. The 2026 gross minimum wage is TRY 33,030.00 and the net is TRY 28,075.50. Employee social security is 14 percent plus 1 percent unemployment. Employer social security is 21.75 percent plus 2 percent unemployment, so the total employer burden is 23.75 percent. Rates are defined inside the program, not typed onto a page.
Does Folkena file declarations with the authority?
The monthly premium and service declaration is prepared with the correct codes and archived. Today the upload to the official portal is still manual; direct submission is not live yet. We state this openly.
Can our accountant work with Folkena?
Yes. Payroll output becomes a journal entry under the Turkish uniform chart of accounts and is exported in the formats commonly used accounting programs expect. A hundred column cost report supports reconciliation.
We already have attendance hardware. Will it work?
The export of commonly used fingerprint and card readers is imported. If you would rather avoid hardware, location verified mobile clock-in or QR is enough. No IP address is stored.
Is employee data sent to an AI service?
No. The assistant inside Folkena follows defined rules. It answers using your own data and does not send that data to an external AI service.
How long does migration from spreadsheets take?
The employee list, the income tax base accumulated during the year and leave balances are transferred. Because the accumulated base carries over, a mid-year switch does not shift tax brackets. The duration depends on headcount and is planned together in the demo.
How much does it cost?
Pricing follows headcount and the modules you select. Setup and training appear as separate lines in the quote, with no surprises later.
Fifteen minutes for a demo and a quote.
We open the program together and close one month of payroll with your own headcount. Not a sales deck, the product itself.
- 01Leave the form and we come back the same day
- 02We agree a time together
- 03We work through your own example