All Features

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

Payroll features designed to work hard for you

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Employee Management

Simplify onboarding for every new hire

Manage all employee information in a single system, making it easy to scale your workforce as your business grows.
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Settle new hires in quickly

Set up payroll for new hires in just a few minutes, so that you can focus on helping them feel at home with the team.

Payroll for every kind of employee.

Manage a diverse workforce with Kuwaiti citizens, expatriates, or even teams spread across GCC. As business expands, Zoho Payroll will take care of payroll so you can focus on growth.

Design salary structures in minutes

Onboard faster by applying predefined salary templates that bring consistency to salary payments.

Organize all employee documents digitally

Store and track all your team’s documents online, from visas to permits, while staying ahead of expiries with automated alerts.

Navigate employee departures smoothly

Process resignations and terminations smoothly with automated alerts, precise final settlement calculations, and timely payslip delivery, giving departures the same care as onboarding.

Payroll Processing

Turn payroll stress-free

Take care of calculations, payments, and employee records effortlessly with a system designed for simplicity.
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All your payroll insights in one place

Stay on top of payroll with a smart dashboard that highlights upcoming salaries, pending approvals, and essential tasks at a glance.

Automate the heavy lifting

Let Zoho Payroll calculate salaries and deductions automatically, saving you hours of manual work while ensuring accuracy.

Payslips delivered instantly

Send detailed payslips to your employees automatically after each payroll run, keeping them well-informed and up to date.

Run payroll on-demand

Process bonuses, commissions, or off-cycle payments anytime, so employees are rewarded on time without waiting for the next payday.

Process raises with ease

Update salaries of high-performing employees, applying revisions immediately with pro-rata adjustments when needed.

Arrear payments for new joinees

Align new employees with your payroll cycle and pay them fairly from day one, using pro-rata calculations.

Revert a payroll if required

When a payroll is processed incorrectly, restore it instantly and re-run it without any impact on your team’s pay.

Hold a salary without stopping payroll

Easily pause and restart a staff member’s salary when needed, with no impact on other team's payments.

Streamline loan and salary advance deductions

Help employees with loans and automatically deduct repayments once they are back on track.

Payroll Administration

A smarter way to payroll

Automate routine payroll tasks, stay fully in control of your business, and ensure every payday is accurate, on time, and compliant.
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Effortless data migration

Switch to Zoho Payroll from any platform by importing your existing data and continue seamlessly, even mid-year.

Flexible pay schedules

Set up payroll cycles that suits your organisation policies, whether its monthly, weekly, or task-based.

Role-based collaboration

Add HR or accounting team members with defined roles and permissions to collaborate on payroll while you maintain privacy and security.

Automated alerts and notifications

Get notified about payroll tasks, expiring documents, and employee confirmations so nothing gets missed.

Instant data exports

Move all payroll details into spreadsheets in a single step, making audits, financial reviews, and reporting fast and effortless.

Payroll Compliance

Designed to stay compliant with Kuwaiti laws

Easily manage PIFSS contributions for all employees who are Kuwaiti and GCC nationals, keeping compliance smooth as your team grows.
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Social security (PIFSS) for eligible employees

We provide everything you need to manage PIFSS regulations for your Kuwaiti and GCC national employees as you build your team across the GCC.

End-of-service-benefit (EOSB)

Reward loyal employees with accurate gratuity payments, ensuring departing team members receive their EOSB accurately.

Fully WPS-compliant payroll

Automatically generate wage files for every payroll cycle, staying compliant with Kuwait WPS regulations without manual effort.

Accurate overtime pay

Recognize employees who go the extra mile with overtime calculations that ensure every additional hour is properly compensated.

Payroll reports

Insightful reports for informed decision making

Access detailed payroll reports within clicks and use the analysis to direct you the right way.
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See payroll costs instantly

View your company’s total payroll costs in one summary, including salaries, deductions, and contributions with a single click.

Optimize pay fairly with salary data

Understand how every dinar is spent on hours, bonuses, and allowances to ensure pay transparency across your workforce.

Review social security contributions

Track employer and employee contributions to social security schemes for both Kuwaiti and eligible GCC employees.

Analyse gratuity payouts

Review detailed reports on gratuity liabilities with breakdowns by tenure and contribution for every employee.

Track salary reports for better planning

Use comparison reports to analyze payroll spending by employee or pay component and make data-driven financial decisions.

Leave and Attendance

Payroll and leave management, unified

Simplify employee management by combining payroll, attendance, and leave into one powerful solution.
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Custom leave types that fit your business

Build flexible leave policies tailored to your organization, with an easy process for employees to request time off and get quick approvals.

Flexible attendance policies

Define work hours, shifts, and attendance policies that reflect how your business operates, with built-in tools for regularization.

Leave balance encashment

Let Zoho Payroll handle the math as unused leave is encashed and paid out seamlessly with monthly salaries.

Effortless check-in and check-out

Empower employees to check in and out from anywhere even on the mobile app, while Zoho Payroll automatically records their hours.

Accurate pay for actual hours

Link attendance, leave, and payroll to calculate salaries precisely, making sure every hour is counted before payday.

Honor special days with time off

Offer festival leave and recognize important occasions, giving your employees meaningful time away from work.

Employee PortalProvide your team with tools they’ll actually use

Personal and salary details always at their fingertips.

Instant alerts when salaries are processed.

Downloadable payslips, salary certificates, and bonus letters.

Automated reminders for expiring documents.

Time-off balances and requesting leaves from within the portal.

Tracking loan balances and repayment.

Quick answers to payroll questions with built-in messaging.

Company-wide updates delivered directly inside the portal.

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Customisations

Tailor Zoho Payroll your way

Create a payroll experience that fits your organization perfectly with powerful customizations, turning Zoho Payroll into a system built just for you.
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Capture additional employee data

Define fields of your own and gather necessary employee intel right from personal info to work-related data, to help you with your tasks.

Configure unique roles for secure access

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

Build more with custom functions

Extend Zoho Payroll further with new capabilities, automating tasks and creating features to make payroll faster, simpler, and tailored to your needs.

Streamline processes with custom workflows

Let workflows handle all the repetitive payroll tasks through automated emails, in-app alerts and auto-updated employee fields.

Stay organized with custom schedulers

Set up scheduled reminders for approvals and important milestones, including personalized emails for birthdays, anniversaries, and other key events.

Send letters that recognize your team

Use customizable templates for salary changes, bonuses, or other communications, making your employees feel appreciated for the impact they make.

Build wage structures your way

Customize salary structures to reflect your company’s requirements while maintaining accuracy and compliance.

Integrations

Connect payroll with the tools your business relies on

Integrate Zoho Payroll to your HR, accounting, and expense platforms to streamline operations and harness the full power of the Zoho ecosystem.
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Get your payroll accounting right

By using Zoho Books, our VAT-compliant accounting platform, you can automate posting journal entries after every single each pay run.

Combine salaries and reimbursements

Handle salaries and expense reimbursements in one go, streamlining payroll and cutting down on admin work.

HR and payroll, working as one

Sync Zoho Payroll with Zoho People to keep employee records updated, track leave and attendance, and process LOPs effectively.