Payroll & salary

Salary structure

An employee's pay is built from salary components — earnings and deductions, each a fixed amount or a formula — assembled into that employee's salary detail. Changes are not destructive: every revision is written to a salary-revision history so "what were they paid in March" always has an answer.

Salary setup at the Global Admin level defines the component catalog and defaults a new company starts from.

Payroll runs

A payroll run is created for a period, populated with a line item per employee, and moved through a lifecycle:

Stage	Permission	Meaning
Create / edit	FINANCE_PAYROLL_MANAGE	Build the run, adjust line items
Run	FINANCE_PAYROLL_RUN	Compute gross, deductions, net for every employee
Approve / pay / cancel	FINANCE_PAYROLL_APPROVE	Sign off, mark paid, or cancel
Lock	FINANCE_PAYROLL_MANAGE	Freeze the run so nothing downstream shifts

FINANCE_PAYROLL_VIEW_ALL grants read access to every run without the ability to change one.

Completed runs are kept as payroll history with their items, so a past period can be reopened for inspection but not silently edited.

Auto payroll

Auto Payroll generates the run for the period from each active employee's current salary detail and attendance, so a standard month is one review-and-approve rather than a manual build. Manual Entry covers the exceptions — a one-off bonus, an off-cycle correction, a new joiner mid-period.

Payslips

Payslips are generated as PDFs from a run. Salary-slip settings control the layout, the employer identity block, which components appear, and the notes — set per company so the payslip carries the tenant's branding, not the platform's.

Tax

Employee tax declarations (80C, 80D, HRA, other exemptions) feed the deduction side of a run once approved.