All features

  • Employees Management
  • Payroll Processing
  • Payroll Administration
  • Payroll Compliance
  • Payroll Metrics
  • ESS Portal
  • Customisations
  • Integrations

Features to help you do payroll better.

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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 so you can spend your employees' first day at work introducing them to their mentors, boss, and colleagues.

Templates for Salary

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

Exit management and termination

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

Opening balance

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

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

View upcoming pay runs, to-do tasks, and status updates in one place.

Single click payroll process

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

Pay schedule

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

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.

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.

Automated Loan Deductions

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

Withhold salary

Pause and resume paying your employees' salaries at a click

New Joinee arrear

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

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

Comparison Report

Compare your payroll data, component-wise or employee-wise, through readymade reports that gauge your monthly payroll spending.

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.

Email templates

User invite, payslip notification, or employee invitation personalise the emails without the personal effort.

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 metrics 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.

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.

Track borrowed loans and repayment summary.

Ask clarifying questions to your payroll admins in real-time.

Communicate organisation-wide announcements inside the portal

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 salary components

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

Custom users and roles

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

Custom alerts and reminders

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

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.