Payroll features as powerful and flexible as your business

Complete the entire onboarding process in four simple steps and easily rehire employees who left your organisation.
Accelerate the onboarding process with templates designed based on department and designation.
Keep track of outstanding employee loans granted through your previous payroll system.
Schedule air travel allowance in your employees' salary structure, covering their annual home trip expenses.
We take care of your employees' exit process, notify them, and send pay slips to their email address automatically.
Store and manage all employee documents—visas to work permits—in one centralised platform.

Get payroll ready at a glance with a dashboard that tracks your upcoming pay runs, pending tasks, and more.
Process pay run for your entire employee base in a single click.
Hit the approve button too soon? Zoho Payroll lets you revert your processed pay run and re-initiate the payroll process easily.
Flexibly group, select and pay employees and record them in different ledgers of your choice
Your business achieved record profit? Reward your employees with bonuses and commissions with one time payouts.
Pause and resume paying your employees' salaries at a click
Have the revised salary come into effect based on the month automatically without you having to calculate the pro-rata amounts for each employee manually.
Pay your new employees on a pro-rata basis until you add them to the regular pay cycle.
Correct missed payroll deadlines, process bonuses, and release withheld salaries without waiting for the next regular payroll run.
In a few clicks, get your employee loans' EMIs auto-deducted from their pay.
Download SIF and bank advice files compliant with WPS to process payroll.
Auto-calculate final settlements, including end of service gratuity and receivable and payable dues for multiple employees in one go.

Bring your historic payroll data from other software or spreadsheets and make mid-year payroll software transitions effortless
With personalized notifications on upcoming pay runs, employee document expiry, or confirmation, Zoho Payroll informs you at the right time to take the right actions.
Personalize email templates by adding a human touch to your automated messages when you pay employees or invite them to access their self-service portal.
Create multiple work locations to manage your distributed workforce and track payroll easily across locations.
Invite your qualified staff to process payroll, while maintaining control with finely-grained user roles and permissions.
Transfer your existing payroll information maintained in spreadsheets in one go.
Choose salary components provided by default, or create customised components including earnings, deductions, and benefits.
Pick your pay date according to your organisation's policy and regularise your pay schedule.
Set up customised or multi-tiered approval workflows with defined criteria for salary revisions or payroll processing to enhance payroll security.

Hire, manage, and pay people across the UAE. We help you contribute to pension schemes automatically.
Reward your long serving staff with timely end of service benefit as their tenure comes to an end.
Send salaries on-time, every time with auto generated SIF files that's compliant with WPS.
Reward sincere efforts of employees by paying them the well-deserved overtime dues.

Keep a close eye on your organization's payroll expenses with our summary report that gives the total cost in a click.
Know how much you've paid to every employee including hours worked, bonuses, overtime allowances, social security and insurance for a time frame of your choice.
Have employees working across the UAE? Know your and your employees' contributions in a single click.
Zoho Payroll automatically adds payroll journal entries and condenses them into a neat, organized summary.
Know your gratuity payout liability, and also your contributions for all expats.
Whatever report you run, export the data in multiple formats for a time frame of your choice for deeper analysis and insights.

Set up flexible leave policies that keep your team happy. Allow them to request leave easily and receive prompt approvals.
Enable your employees to conveniently check in and out from anywhere using the mobile app, while Zoho Payroll automatically manages attendance records.
Create and manage holidays across all your work locations, ensuring compliance with regional holiday requirements.
View their personal, salary, annual, and payment details in one place.
Download payslips, and access their payroll information on the go with mobile app.
Get automated alerts on documents that have an expiration date on them.
Receive notifications as soon as you process employee salaries.
Ask clarifying questions to your payroll admins in real-time.
Communicate organisation-wide announcements inside the portal
View their personal, salary, loan, leave, and attendance details in one place.
Mark attendance and apply for leave.
Review and approve employee leave requests.


Collect any additional information about your employee that could help with your payroll operations.
Present the same interface but differentiate roles played by each department and eliminate unauthorised access.
Create new functions and automate your calculations or rules that are specific to your business needs.
Stay on top of key payroll tasks by setting up custom alerts and reminders.
Create custom compensation structures by adding earnings, or deductions based on your organisation policies.
Create workflows to send notifications, update fields, and automate routine tasks.
Customise schedules by setting specific dates, times, and recurrence patterns to automate regular tasks, track pending approvals, and send personalised emails for employee milestones like birthdays and anniversaries.
Connect with any third-party application to transfer data from Zoho Payroll for managing your operations.
With over 20 fields, categorise and get comprehensive visibility into your employee records based on criteria such as CTC or reporting manager.

Post journal entries automatically as soon as every payrun is completed.
Reimburse your employees' business expenses during the time of payrun.
Employee profiles, Overtime, and leave/attendance data is synced as LOP from Zoho People.