All Features

  • Employees Management
  • Payroll Processing
  • Payroll Administration
  • Payroll Compliance
  • Payroll reports 
  • Leave and attendance
  • ESS Portal
  • Customisations
  • Integrations

Payroll features as powerful and flexible as your business

Employees Management Streamline your employee onboarding
Chart the right course for managing your workforce from the day you hire your first employee.
Employee onboarding

Complete the entire onboarding process in four simple steps and easily rehire employees who left your organisation.

Templates for Salary

Accelerate the onboarding process with templates designed based on department and designation.

Opening balance

Keep track of outstanding employee loans granted through your previous payroll system.

Air travel allowance

Schedule air travel allowance in your employees' salary structure, covering their annual home trip expenses.

Exit management and termination

We take care of your employees' exit process, notify them, and send pay slips to their email address automatically.

Digitise employee documents management

Store and manage all employee documents—visas to work permits—in one centralised platform.

Payroll Processing Finish payroll in minutes
Running payroll shouldn't take long. That's why we've come up with intuitive features that help you prepare your payruns, validate payroll input, and complete payruns effortlessly.
Informative Dashboard

Get payroll ready at a glance with a dashboard that tracks your upcoming pay runs, pending tasks, and more.

Single click payroll process

Process pay run for your entire employee base in a single click.

Payroll review

Hit the approve button too soon? Zoho Payroll lets you revert your processed pay run and re-initiate the payroll process easily.

Selective payments

Flexibly group, select and pay employees and record them in different ledgers of your choice

Bonus payroll

Your business achieved record profit? Reward your employees with bonuses and commissions with one time payouts.

Withhold salary

Pause and resume paying your employees' salaries at a click

Salary revision

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.

New Joinee arrear

Pay your new employees on a pro-rata basis until you add them to the regular pay cycle.

Offcycle pay run

Correct missed payroll deadlines, process bonuses, and release withheld salaries without waiting for the next regular payroll run.

Automated Loan Deductions

In a few clicks, get your employee loans' EMIs auto-deducted from their pay.

Bank advice and SIF

Download SIF and bank advice files compliant with WPS to process payroll.

Final settlement pay run

Auto-calculate final settlements, including end of service gratuity and receivable and payable dues for multiple employees in one go.

Payroll Administration Make light work of hard work
Your tool-box to put basic payroll tasks on advanced automation and to stay on top of your payroll operations.
Prior-payroll

Bring your historic payroll data from other software or spreadsheets and make mid-year payroll software transitions effortless

Automated notifications

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.

Email templates

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.

Work location

Create multiple work locations to manage your distributed workforce and track payroll easily across locations.

Users and roles

Invite your qualified staff to process payroll, while maintaining control with finely-grained user roles and permissions.

Bulk import/export

Transfer your existing payroll information maintained in spreadsheets in one go.

Salary components

Choose salary components provided by default, or create customised components including earnings, deductions, and benefits.

Pay schedule

Pick your pay date according to your organisation's policy and regularise your pay schedule.

Advanced approvals

Set up customised or multi-tiered approval workflows with defined criteria for salary revisions or payroll processing to enhance payroll security.

Payroll Compliance Keep your business on a legal footing
Take your business forward without letting compliance slow you down.
Social security

Hire, manage, and pay people across the UAE. We help you contribute to pension schemes automatically.

Gratuity

Reward your long serving staff with timely end of service benefit as their tenure comes to an end.

WPS

Send salaries on-time, every time with auto generated SIF files that's compliant with WPS.

Overtime

Reward sincere efforts of employees by paying them the well-deserved overtime dues.

Payroll reports Let numbers do the talking
Generate single-click reports that tell you everything you need to know about your payroll.
Payroll expenses summary

Keep a close eye on your organization's payroll expenses with our summary report that gives the total cost in a click.

Employee salary register

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.

Social security summary

Have employees working across the UAE? Know your and your employees' contributions in a single click.

Payroll journal summary

Zoho Payroll automatically adds payroll journal entries and condenses them into a neat, organized summary.

Gratuity summary

Know your gratuity payout liability, and also your contributions for all expats.

Export reports

Whatever report you run, export the data in multiple formats for a time frame of your choice for deeper analysis and insights.

Leave and attendance Integrated leave and attendance
Simplify HR and payroll tasks by streamlining leave, attendance, and payroll processes into one unified platform.
Simplify employee leave management

Set up flexible leave policies that keep your team happy. Allow them to request leave easily and receive prompt approvals.

Effortlessly track employee attendance

Enable your employees to conveniently check in and out from anywhere using the mobile app, while Zoho Payroll automatically manages attendance records.

Celebrate traditions with holiday management

Create and manage holidays across all your work locations, ensuring compliance with regional holiday requirements.

Employee Self-Service PortalYour employees' information stays theirs

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.

Payroll features
Customisations Build for your needs
Make Zoho Payroll work the way you want, with advanced customisations built for your organisation needs.
Custom fields

Collect any additional information about your employee that could help with your payroll operations.

Custom users and roles

Present the same interface but differentiate roles played by each department and eliminate unauthorised access.

Custom functions

Create new functions and automate your calculations or rules that are specific to your business needs.

Custom alerts and reminders

Stay on top of key payroll tasks by setting up custom alerts and reminders.

Custom salary components

Create custom compensation structures by adding earnings, or deductions based on your organisation policies.

Custom workflows

Create workflows to send notifications, update fields, and automate routine tasks.

Custom schedulers

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.

Webhooks

Connect with any third-party application to transfer data from Zoho Payroll for managing your operations.

Custom views

With over 20 fields, categorise and get comprehensive visibility into your employee records based on criteria such as CTC or reporting manager.

Integrations Streamline your inter-department collaboration
Zoho Payroll connects your HR, Accounts, and Finance team with in-built integrations so you can automate payroll journals, overtime tracking, and expense reimbursements.
Payroll accounting

Post journal entries automatically as soon as every payrun is completed.

Business reimbursements

Reimburse your employees' business expenses during the time of payrun.

HRMS integration

Employee profiles, Overtime, and leave/attendance data is synced as LOP from Zoho People.