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walnutsHR
Proudly Canadian

The HR platform
built for Canadian teams.

Built in Canada for Canadian HR — primary database in a Canadian region, English and French, $10 CAD/employee. Predictable per-seat pricing, no add-on tier games.

30-day free trialSetup in minutesNo credit card

Encrypted in transit and at rest

TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest via our cloud providers. Tenant data is isolated at the database level with row-level security.

PIPEDA-aligned

Privacy practices designed around Canadian and US privacy laws. Subprocessors disclosed in our privacy policy.

Primary database in Canada

Your primary HR database is hosted in a regional database. Operational services (auth, email, analytics) are listed in our privacy policy.

Feature tour

Six things your HR tool should just do.

Pick a feature on the left or use to tour the product.

employees.index — 48 of 48

Find anyone in two seconds.

Rich profiles, role history, manager chains. Salary data is hidden by default — admins opt it in per role.

employees.index48
JD

Jane Doe

Engineering

Active
TB

Tom Banks

Product

On leave
AP

Aisha Patel

People ops

Active
CW

Chris Wright

Sales

Active
Everything included

Your full HR stack,minus the complexity.

Stop stitching together five tools. WalnutsHR has everything your team needs, built to work beautifully together.

Bilingual English + French

Quebec-ready

Full interface in English and French. Essential for Quebec teams under Bill 96. Switch anytime, and each employee can pick their own preferred language.

Canadian-region database

Canadian

Your primary HR database is hosted in a Canadian region of our cloud provider. PIPEDA-aligned, with subprocessors disclosed in our privacy policy.

Provincial Compliance

Canadian

Statutory holidays by province, region-specific leave entitlements, and employment standards that update when the law does. No manual tracking.

Employee Directory

Find anyone in 2 seconds. Rich profiles with contact info, role history, manager chains, and department hierarchy. Salary data visible only to those who should see it.

Time Off in One Click

Employees request, managers approve — in one click, not three emails. Auto-calculated balances, team calendar, and provincial statutory holidays built in.

Onboarding That Works

New hire fills out their own profile, completes a checklist, uploads documents. You stop chasing people for their SIN and emergency contact.

Up and running in minutes.

Three steps to modern HR.

1

Create your workspace

Sign up, name your company, and you're in.

2

Invite your team

Send invite links. Employees join with their own access level.

3

Manage everything

Time off, documents, org charts, reports — in one place.

Why Canadian HR needs a rethink

The numbers Canadian SMBs actually face

We're pre-launch, so this isn't a testimonial wall. Here are three numbers we keep coming back to when we talk to Canadian founders and HR managers.

82%

of small businesses still manage HR tasks with spreadsheets or paper

Referenced in our growing-teams HR guide

72%

of Canadian SMBs use US-based SaaS tools for HR — often without evaluating data residency

CIRA, 2025

$25M

maximum penal sanction under Quebec Law 25 (s. 91; or 4% of worldwide turnover)

Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec

Try Pro free for 30 days — no credit card required

Set up your team, run a time-off cycle, store documents, and decide once you've actually used it. Add a card before day 30 to keep going.

Built by Canadians, for Canadian SMBs. Primary database hosted in a Canadian region.

How much will you save?

Drag the slider to your team size

525 employees100
$250
CAD/month
~6hrs
saved per month
$50
net savings/month

Savings estimated at ~15 min/employee/month of HR admin time valued at $50/hr

Ready to modernize your HR?

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