ClockTap vs Sprout Solutions
Sprout Solutions is one of the biggest HR platforms in the Philippines — payroll, 201 files, benefits, performance, and recruitment in one suite, with time and attendance as one module. It sells packages from a 10-person Starter upward and quotes the rest. ClockTap is built for the person who runs the team on the ground — a store owner, a branch manager, or an agency deploying staff to client sites.
Sprout publishes flat rates for its entry-level Starter packages and quotes everything above them. The figures below come from a public HR-software review of those packages, not from Sprout, so your own quote will differ.
ClockTap figures use standard list prices — launch promos on the pricing page may be lower.
What Sprout Solutions costs
- Payroll Starter (Outsourced) — Sprout runs the payroll for you; reported at ₱7,900 per month for up to 10 employees.
- Payroll Starter (Software Kit) — reported at ₱10,000 per month for up to 10 employees. Our source does not say whether either Starter package includes time and attendance.
- Standard Sprout Payroll is per employee per month, by quote — no public rate.
- Attendance is typically deployed with biometric devices or the Sprout mobile apps.
Pricing model
Outsourced payroll from ₱7,900/month for up to 10 staff, then by quote
Their Starter package is a payroll service and ours is attendance software, so the two prices do not buy the same thing. Sprout sets every figure above Starter by quote, so we give no 20-person total.
What ClockTap costs
- Flat per plan: Pro is ₱2,990 per year for up to 50 employees and 5 locations.
- Max is ₱6,990 per year for up to 250 employees and 25 locations.
- Starter is free for 5 employees at 1 location — kiosk included.
20-person team, per year
₱2,990 (Pro)
Side by side.
| ClockTap | Sprout Solutions | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat per plan: ₱2,990/year (Pro, 50 employees) or ₱6,990/year (Max, 250 employees) | Flat monthly Starter packages for up to 10 employees; standard plans per employee per month, by quote |
| What the price buys | Attendance only — clock-ins, approvals, and the export | Payroll and HR, with time and attendance as one module |
| Free tier | Starter — free for 5 employees and 1 location | No free plan published — Starter packages start at a monthly rate |
| Hardware | None — browser kiosk on any spare device, or staff phones | Commonly paired with biometric devices; mobile apps available |
| Setup | Self-serve — sign up and clock in the same day | Sales demo, onboarding, and implementation |
| Statutory payroll (SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, BIR) | No — exports payroll-ready hours into the payroll process you already run | Yes — full payroll module |
| Overtime, leave, and correction approvals | Included in every plan | Included |
| Philippine holiday categories | Regular, special non-working, and special working — per location, on Pro and Max | Supported |
| Best for | Stores, cafés, clinics, and small multi-branch teams | Companies that want HR and payroll in one suite, from a 10-person Starter package upward |
| Works when the internet drops | No — ClockTap runs in a browser and needs a connection. A missed clock-in goes through the correction-request queue. | Mobile apps and biometric devices; offline behaviour is not stated on their public pages |
Choose Sprout Solutions if
- You want payroll computed for you, with SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and BIR handled in one system
- You need a full HRIS: 201 files, benefits, performance reviews, recruitment
- You have an HR team that will own a sales-led implementation
Choose ClockTap if
- You need attendance solved this week, not after a sales cycle
- Your payroll already works — you just need clean, approved hours feeding it
- A flat ₱2,990 a year is easier to budget than a per-employee monthly rate
- You do not want to buy or maintain biometric hardware
Common questions.
No, by design. ClockTap stops at payroll-ready hours: approved attendance, overtime, and leave exported to Excel or CSV. That keeps it simple and affordable, and it feeds whatever payroll process you already run — a spreadsheet, an accountant, or payroll software.
Partly published. A public HR-software review, last updated May 2026 and checked by us in August 2026, reports Sprout's entry-level packages at ₱7,900 per month (outsourced payroll) and ₱10,000 per month (software kit) for up to 10 employees. Both are payroll packages; the review does not say whether either includes time and attendance. Everything above those Starter packages is priced per employee per month by quote, so only Sprout can tell you what a 20-person team pays. ClockTap Pro is ₱2,990 per year flat for up to 50 employees, published on our pricing page.
For recording attendance, yes. Employees clock in with a PIN at a shared browser kiosk, and clock-ins can be locked to the site's network or a radius around its location, so an entry only counts from the workplace itself. A fingerprint reader still does one thing a PIN cannot: tie the entry to a specific person's body rather than to a code they could share.
Keep comparing.
Most owners weigh two or three of these before deciding. The Philippine attendance guide explains the day types and the night-differential window that every table above refers to, and the free holiday pay calculator works the rates out for a single shift.
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Sources
Peso equivalents of USD prices use roughly ₱57 per US dollar as of August 2026. Each Sprout Solutions figure here is either quoted from a source above or worked out from one, with the assumptions written next to it, as at August 2026. Vendors change prices and features without notice, so confirm on their own site before you decide. Where a vendor publishes no rate, we publish none rather than estimate one. Sprout Solutions is a trademark of its owner; ClockTap is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sprout Solutions.
Try the flat-priced option first.
Free for 5 employees — no hardware, no card, no sales call.