All Features

  • Employee Management
  • Payroll Processing
  • Payroll Administration
  • Payroll Compliance
  • Payroll reports 
  • Leave and Attendance
  • Employee Portal
  • Customisations
  • Integrations

Payroll features that works as hard as you do

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Employee Management Faster onboarding for every new hire
From your very first hire to a full team, manage your employee information in one place, so you can scale your workforce with ease.
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Get new hires ready, fast

Complete the payroll setup for new hires in a few minutes, which gives you more time to get them settled in with your team.

Payroll for every kind of employee

Build a diverse workforce, including Bahraini citizens and expatriates or even across the GCC as your business grows beyond borders and leave payroll to us.

Create salary structures instantly

Accelerate your onboarding with custom salary templates for every role and department to ensure uniformity in salary payments.

Keep your team's paperwork in one place

Collect, store, and manage all employee files digitally, from visas to work permits, and get automated reminders for expiring documents.

Smoothly manage employee departures

Handle employee departures and terminations smoothly with automated alerts, final settlement calculations, and payslip delivery, just as you would with onboarding.

Payroll Processing Make payroll the easiest task
Handle everything from salary calculation to salary payments and complete payroll like an expert with a system built to make every payday effortless.
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A dashboard for every payday

Get ready for payroll with a powerful dashboard that keeps an eye on your upcoming payments, pending items, and more.

Let the system do the tough work

Save time with automatic payroll calculations and make sure every payslip has accurate salaries.

Get pay stubs, automatically

Auto-generate and send payslips directly to every employee after each payroll cycle, making salary information available to everyone.

Run payroll when you need to

Treat your employees with timely bonuses and off-cycle payments, like commissions, without waiting for your next scheduled pay date.

Recognize effort with raises

Revise the salaries of your hard-working employees and have those revisions take effect in the month you select with pro-rata adjustments.

Salary arrears for new joinees

Pay your new team members on a pro-rata basis until they're fully integrated into your standard pay cycle.

Undo a payroll whenever you need

You can easily undo an approved payroll and start the whole process over quickly if ever you approved a payrun without any verification.

Keep payroll flowing even while holding a salary

Easily suspend and restart a staff member's salary to accommodate for unforeseen situations while ensuring the rest of your team's pay is processed on time.

Simplify loan or salary advance deductions

Support employees in tough times with loans, and automatically deduct EMIs from their pay when they regain stability.

Payroll Administration A simple way to payroll
Run payroll with confidence using a comprehensive toolkit that automates tasks and lets you maintain full control of your business.
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Migrate your old data effortlessly

Move to Zoho Payroll from other platforms by simply importing your old data and picking up right where you left off, even mid-year.

A pay schedule for every team

Design a pay schedule that works best for your business and employees, whether it's monthly or task-based.

Define team roles for faster collaboration

Bring your team on board—whether HR or accounting—and give them specific roles to assist with payroll, all while you keep full control through user roles and permissions.

Alerts that keep you informed

Stay updated on payroll tasks, expiring documents, and employee confirmations with notifications that ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

Export data in an instant

Put all your payroll details into spreadsheets at once, making financial reviews and audits simple and quick.

Payroll Compliance Engineered for compliance with Bahrain's rules
We handle the difficult parts of compliance in Bahrain like EOSB or SIO for all applicable employees, so your payroll stays in line with the rules at all times.
Payroll software compliant with Bahrain labour laws
Social security (SIO) for your whole team

We provide everything you need to manage SIO regulations for your Bahraini and GCC national employees as you build your team across the GCC

End-of-service-benefit (EOSB)

Recognize your loyal team members with gratuity, as we help you make sure final EOSB payments for your departing team members are correct.

Designed for Bahrain WPS

Zoho Payroll lets you automatically create wage files and remain compliant with WPS for each payroll run.

Overtime pay for extra hours

Reward your team members who go above and beyond with correct overtime pay, auto-calculated to guarantee that every hour they worked is counted.

Payroll reports Reports that help you make smart decisions
Get a full picture of your payroll with reports you can generate in a single click, so you can make confident, data-backed choices.
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Instant payroll expense analysis

Monitor your company's payroll costs with a summary report that shows total expenses of salaries, deductions, and contributions in a single click.

Create better pay with salary data

Know how every dinar is used on your team, including hours worked, bonuses, and allowances, to ensure fair pay for everyone.

Track your social security

See how much you and your staff have contributed to social security schemes, whether they are Bahraini or from another GCC country.

Know your gratuity obligations

Get a clear breakdown of your gratuity liabilities with a comprehensive report that covers the tenure and contributions of all your staff.

Compare salary reports for better decisions

Get clear insights into your finances with comparison reports that break down spending by employee or pay component.

Leave and Attendance Payroll and leave management, unified
Manage employee leave, attendance, and payroll on a single platform, simplifying all your HR and payroll tasks.
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Create leave types specific to your organisation

Design flexible leave policies that your team will love, along with a simple way for them to request time off and receive timely approvals.

Attendance policies for your diverse workforce

You can customise shift work times, total hours for attendance, workday duration, and attendance regularisation, all to fit how your company functions.

Leave encashment for leftover leaves

Easily turn your employees' unused leave into cash and include it in their salary payments, all with a few clicks.

Effortless attendance tracking

Allow your team to check in and out from anywhere with the mobile app, and Zoho Payroll will automatically track their attendance.

Pay accurate salaries for equivalent hours worked

Calculate employee leave, attendance, and payroll on one powerful platform, and get every hour of attendance and absence correct before payday.

Recognize traditions with time off

Give your hard working employees the gift of time off on festival days, honoring their traditions.

Employee PortalGive access to mobile apps your employees love

Put personal and salary info at their fingertips.

Get real-time alerts when salaries are processed.

Download payslips, salary certificates, and bonus letters.

Receive automated reminders for files about to expire.

Monitor time-off balances and submit leave requests.

Keep tabs on loan debt and repayment status.

Clarify employee questions with real-time messaging

Learn about company-wide news from inside the portal.

Payroll features
Customisations Customize Zoho Payroll to fit you
Create a payroll experience that feels like it was made just for your business, using our robust customization tools.
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Gather the custom data you need

Capture any additional employee details you require, from personal info to work-related data, to help you with your tasks.

Create custom roles for secure operations

Establish unique roles for every department, so your staff only sees what's relevant to their duties.

Custom functions

Build new features on top of an already powerful platform, so Zoho Payroll can do things without your intervention. The possibilities are endless to make payroll faster and simpler.

Custom workflows

Let workflows handle the details so you don't have to. Configure email and in-app alerts for payroll tasks and automatically update fields to keep employee information current.

Custom schedulers

Use Schedulers for regular updates on pending approvals to stay on top of payroll tasks. You can also ensure you never miss important employee milestones with personalized emails for birthdays and anniversaries.

Letter templates that show appreciation

Send custom letters when making salary changes or offering bonuses, so your team feels valued and appreciated.

Integrations Link payroll to dependent business operations
Connect payroll with your HR, accounting, and expense tools to leverage the power of the Zoho ecosystem.
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Complete payroll accounting

Connect Zoho Payroll to Zoho Books, our VAT-compliant accounting platform, to automatically post journal entries once each pay run is completed.

Handle salaries and reimbursement at once

Process employee business expenses along with their salaries in the same pay run, saving you time and administrative headaches.

HR and payroll, in perfect sync

Connect Zoho Payroll with Zoho People to instantly sync employee data, track leave and attendance, and easily account for LOPs.