HR for small teams with big plans, up to 250 people.
MiHCM Lite is a cloud HRIS for start-ups and small businesses. It covers the HR work a small team cannot afford to get wrong (employee records, payroll, time and attendance) with analytics on top, on web and mobile, and tailored to your country's labour laws.
MiHCM launched Lite in 2019 as its SaaS product for small businesses. MiA ONE, its AI assistant, works with Lite too.
MiHCM Lite · HomeMTThe HR basics, done properly.
MiHCM sums Lite up in six lines. It is for start-ups and small businesses with straightforward HR operations, up to 250 employees.
- 01Up to 250 employees
- Sized for start-ups and small businesses with straightforward HR operations.
- 02Three complete modules
- Core HRIS, Payroll, and Time & Attendance, with HR analytics and reports across all three.
- 03Web and mobile
- Employees clock in, submit timesheets and handle leave from any device.
- 04Your country's rules
- Tailored to country labour laws and regulations; MiHCM says payroll is localised to Sri Lankan statutory requirements, with changes applied as they happen.
- 05Analytics included
- Standard reports, a workforce snapshot, dashboards for headcount, turnover and diversity, and an advanced search.
- 06An AI assistant
- MiA ONE handles leave requests, payslips and everyday HR questions in a conversation, and clocks people in by GPS.
Four parts of MiHCM Lite, up close.
Pick one to see what it covers, as MiHCM describes it.
Employee records and the lifecycle around them
Simplified HR administration for a small company.
- Employee profiles hold each person's information, important documents and letters, and users and roles are assigned per module.
- Organisation charts with clear reporting lines, for as many companies as you run.
- Organisation planning defines job descriptions, qualifications and experience, with automated approval workflows at each level.
- Employee dynamics covers transfers, promotions, resignations, terminations and reactivations.
- Self-service lets employees oversee their attendance, submit timesheets and handle their leave.
Small, but not simplistic
Lite keeps the same idea as the enterprise suite: one profile per person, with every movement recorded against it.
Core HRIS · ProfileMTTwo editions, sized differently.
MiHCM sizes the two editions by organisation: Lite for start-ups and small businesses, Enterprise for medium and large ones.
Growing out of Lite? The same company makes both, so moving up to Enterprise is a conversation about scope, not a change of vendor.
A month in a small company, start to finish.
One month followed through MiHCM Lite, from what MiHCM's pages say each part does. It is an illustration, not a promise of any particular set-up.
- Clock inStaff check in on their phones, inside the geofence.
- Ask MiAAn employee asks MiA ONE for leave and confirms the form.
- ApproveThe manager approves leave and overtime.
- CheckThe payroll checklist confirms attendance and loans.
- PayThe bank file goes out and payslips are sent.
Illustrative. A real project sets the leave policies, shift patterns and approval rules.
© 2026 Mawkish Technologies. This guide, its diagrams and illustrations are protected by copyright. You’re welcome to learn from it and to quote it with credit and a link. Reproducing it, by hand or through AI, and publishing it as your own is not allowed. Read our copyright notice
Straight answers.
How many employees can MiHCM Lite handle?
MiHCM positions Lite for start-ups and small businesses of up to 250 employees. Larger organisations are served by MiHCM Enterprise.
Does it handle Sri Lankan payroll?
Yes. MiHCM's Sri Lanka site says Lite's payroll is localised to Sri Lankan statutory requirements, with changes applied as they happen. Our MiHCM overview explains what Sri Lankan payroll involves: EPF, ETF, gratuity and APIT.
Does it work on mobile?
Yes. MiHCM describes a web and mobile experience: employees clock in and out with GPS, submit timesheets and handle leave from any device, and MiA ONE works on web, iOS and Android.
Which attendance devices does it support?
MiHCM says Lite connects to any biometric device, including facial, fingerprint and iris recognition.
Is there AI in Lite?
MiA ONE, MiHCM's personal AI assistant, appears on the Lite page: it handles leave requests, payslips and everyday HR questions in a conversation, shares announcements and tracks attendance by GPS.
Can we move up to Enterprise later?
Both editions come from MiHCM. Moving up is a question of adding the modules and entities you need, which we would scope with you.
Checked against MiHCM's own pages in November 2026.
You are on MiHCM Lite. Where next?
Each edition, and each part of MiHCM Enterprise, has its own page. Visit them in any order. Choose one to go there.
You are currently viewing MiHCM Lite
- 01250 to 20,000+ peopleMiHCM EnterpriseAll-in-one HR for complex, multi-country organisations.The configurable HCM suite for organisations of 250 to 20,000+ people, from hire to retire across every entity, with native statutory payroll in 13 countries across South and South East Asia.13-country payroll17 modulesThree AI productsYour own Azure tenantGo to MiHCM Enterprise →
- You are here02Up to 250 peopleMiHCM LiteHR, payroll and attendance for small businesses.A cloud HRIS for start-ups and small businesses of up to 250 employees: employee records, payroll, time and attendance and analytics, on web and mobile.Core HRISPayrollTime and attendanceMiA ONEYou are viewing this page
- 03The foundationWorkforce ManagementOne employee record, paid correctly, on every shift.MiHCM Core, Payroll, Time & Attendance and Organisation Planning: the single employee record everything else depends on, and the payroll and attendance rules that run on it.Employee profileStatutory payrollShifts and overtimeHeadcount plansGo to Workforce Management →
- 04Hire to successionTalent ManagementHire to succession, on one connected journey.Ten connected modules, from the job requisition and the offer letter to appraisals, learning, reward and the successor for each role, all working from the same employee record.RecruitmentPerformanceLearningSuccessionGo to Talent Management →
- 05Self-serviceEmployee ExperienceEvery request in one place, for whoever is asking.Web self-service, the mobile app, MiA ONE by chat or voice, and a shared kiosk for staff without a workstation, so employees and managers raise and approve requests in one place.MiA ONEMobile appManager approvalsShop-floor kioskGo to Employee Experience →
- 06InsightData & AIReports before the question, and three AI products for three jobs.Standard reports, live dashboards, built-in Power BI and a visual query builder, plus Syntra for leadership foresight, SmartAssist for documents and screening, and MiHCM's Data & AI services.Power BISyntraSmartAssistCustom analyticsGo to Data & AI →
Talk it through with us.
Tell us how HR and payroll run today, and we will help you work out which edition fits and where to start.
- Your headcount, entities and countries
- Which MiHCM modules fit, and which can wait
- A sensible first step
MiHCM, MiHCM Enterprise, MiHCM Lite, MiA ONE, Syntra, MiHCM SmartAssist, their logos and their module icons belong to M I H C M Solutions (Private) Limited. They are shown unaltered, as MiHCM publishes them on mihcm.com. Other names are the property of their owners. Screens shown are our own illustrations with sample data, not MiHCM screenshots. Product descriptions follow MiHCM's own published material and may change; check mihcm.com for current details.
At Mawkish, the Wynhaven Method is how we keep MiHCM Lite work checked, owned and answered for, whoever does the build.