The problem: payroll built on manual work
In many growing companies, salaries are calculated from attendance registers and spreadsheets. Someone counts late marks, leaves and overtime by hand every month, salary structures live in separate files and statutory figures are worked out at the last minute. Mistakes are common, payday is stressful and employees lose trust when their salary is wrong.
How HR and payroll software fixes it
Employee records in one place
Personal details, documents, joining date, department, designation, reporting manager and salary structure for every employee, stored securely and easy to update.
Salary structures
Define salary components — basic, allowances, deductions — once per role or employee. Changes are recorded, so you know what applied when.
Payroll that uses real attendance
Payroll runs use the attendance data directly: present days, leaves, late marks and overtime flow into the salary calculation without anyone re-typing them. That removes the most common source of salary errors. Read attendance-synced payroll: why it reduces salary errors.
Statutory exports
Payroll produces the figures and exports your accountant needs for statutory compliance, instead of rebuilding them in a separate sheet.
Payslips
Employees receive clear payslips for every pay period.
Built on PeopleNest
HR and payroll is part of PeopleNest, our HR platform that also covers attendance, shift rosters and training. Because everything is in one system, attendance and payroll never disagree.
Who it's for
- Companies moving HR off Excel and registers — see moving HR from Excel to an HRMS
- Factories and multi-location businesses with shift-based staff
- Offices with field teams whose attendance is hard to track
- HR teams that spend the first week of every month on payroll
Getting started
- Set-up — company, departments, designations and salary components
- Import — employee records from your existing sheets
- Attendance — choose how staff check in (face-match, GPS or kiosk)
- Parallel run — run one month alongside your current method to compare
- Go live — payroll from PeopleNest from the next cycle
Need something specific to your company, such as an unusual incentive structure or an integration with your accounting software? We can extend PeopleNest as part of our custom software work.