Running a creative agency in the Philippines means juggling things that most HR software was never designed to handle — employees on different rate structures, attendance tracked through Slack, payroll split between peso and dollar payments, client projects that need to connect to team costs, and a level of operational complexity that spreadsheets stopped being able to manage a long time ago. We know this because we lived it at Huna Creatives. Sentro OS is the system we built to solve it.
What Sentro OS Actually Is
Sentro OS is a custom-built internal operations hub for creative agencies, design firms, and marketing studios. It brings together the functions that agency owners spend the most time managing manually — attendance, payroll, time-off, overtime, contracts, client projects, and team HR — into a single, branded system built specifically for how agencies in the Philippines operate. It is not a generic HR tool with a local skin. It is built from the ground up for this context.
The Features That Actually Matter for Philippine Agencies
What Sentro OS manages out of the box:
- Attendance via Slack — team members punch in and out from a Slack channel, timestamps captured automatically
- Payroll automation — calculates pay per period for hourly, fixed-rate, and project-based employees, including USD-to-PHP conversion
- Time-off and overtime management — requests, approvals, and balance tracking in one place
- Client project tracking — contract value, collections, costs, and team payouts per project
- Digital contracts — generate, send, and track employment agreements without leaving the system
- Team dashboard — see who is online, who is on leave, and where every project stands at a glance
“We built Sentro OS because every HR tool we tried was designed for a company with 500 employees in an office building. We needed something that worked for a lean, remote creative team — and nothing like it existed.”
Who Sentro OS Is For
Sentro OS is built for creative agencies, design studios, marketing firms, and any service-based team that manages a mix of remote and in-office employees. It is particularly suited to Philippine-based agencies operating on a combination of local and international clients — where payroll involves multiple currencies, payment types, and rate structures that generic HR tools simply cannot handle cleanly.
The Problem With Generic HR Software for Agencies
Tools like BambooHR, Workday, and even local payroll apps are built for traditional employment structures — fixed salaries, office-based attendance, standard benefit calculations. Creative agencies rarely look like this. You have employees on project rates, others on hourly arrangements, team members in different time zones, and clients whose project budgets are directly tied to team costs. Sentro OS is built around this reality, not the corporate HR template.
Pricing and Setup
Sentro OS starts at ₱2,500 per month with a one-time ₱15,000 setup fee for small teams on the Starter plan. The Growth plan — designed for larger agencies with more complex payroll and project tracking needs — runs ₱5,999 per month with a ₱25,000 setup. Enterprise pricing is available for custom builds and agencies that need white-labeled versions for their own clients. Every plan includes onboarding support — we set the system up with you, not just for you.
Why We Built It and Why We Are Offering It to Other Agencies
Huna Creatives built Sentro OS to run our own agency operations. After using it internally and seeing how dramatically it reduced the time we spent on HR administration and payroll, we realized it could do the same for other agencies dealing with the same problems. If you are managing a creative team in the Philippines and spending hours each week on attendance tracking, payroll calculations, and contract administration — Sentro OS was built for exactly your situation.
Why agencies outgrow spreadsheets faster than most
A creative agency hits operational complexity earlier than headcount suggests. Project-based work, mixed employment arrangements, variable hours and client-billable time all interact — so by fifteen people you are reconciling several systems that disagree with each other, usually at month end, usually manually.
The cost is not the hours spent reconciling. It is that nobody trusts the numbers, so decisions get made on instinct while the data sits in a spreadsheet nobody quite believes.
Built for Philippine payroll specifically
Most international HR platforms treat Philippine requirements as an edge case. Thirteenth-month pay, holiday pay rules, the distinction between worked and unworked regular holidays, government contributions — these are not configuration options, they are the substance of running payroll here.
Sentro encodes them rather than approximating them, which is the difference between software that produces payroll and software that produces a starting point someone corrects by hand.
One instance per client, not one platform for everyone
We deploy Sentro as a dedicated instance rather than a shared subscription. Each client’s policies, approval chains and pay rules differ enough that configuration alone does not cover it — and their data sits in their own database rather than a shared one.
The clearest example is FS Architects, where the hub runs attendance, leave, payroll and appraisals, and installs onto staff phones as their own app.
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