Payroll software

Payroll software that gets Indian salaries right

Your salary structure, PF and Professional Tax, pay that follows attendance, and payslips emailed as PDF in one click — without spreadsheets or re-typing.

Salary structure

Built on your own salary heads

Define Basic, HRA, allowances and deductions the way your company already pays — then set each employee's amounts, or bring them all in from Excel at once.

  • Your heads, your rules — earnings, deductions and employer contributions, each marked as reducing with unpaid leave or not.
  • Import from Excel — one row per employee, one column per head; amounts like 1,20,000 read as written.
  • CTC templates Add-on — enter a CTC and let Basic, HRA and the balancing allowance work themselves out.
  • No-code formulas Add-on — "HRA = 40% of Basic" built by picking fields, with dates so a change never rewrites past payslips.

Salary structure — Priya S.

Basic
₹25,000
HRA
₹10,000
Special allowance
₹5,000
PF (employee)
− ₹1,800
Net pay
₹38,000
Statutory

PF and Professional Tax, calculated for you

No hand-written formulas for statutory rules: PF and PT have calculators that know how they work.

  • Provident Fund Add-on — employee and employer shares, with the ₹15,000 wage ceiling; the employer share counts towards CTC, not take-home.
  • Professional Tax Add-on — your state's slabs, including gender-specific exemptions and a different February amount.
  • Company details — GST, PAN, TAN and CIN kept on your company profile, and an April–March (or any) payroll year.

PF & PT — this month

PF (employee, 12%)
₹1,800
PF (employer, 12%)
₹1,800
Professional Tax
₹200
Cost to company
₹41,800
Payslips

One click for the whole month

Payslips are generated from attendance, previewed as the exact PDF, and emailed from your own address.

  • Pay follows attendance — days payable and loss-of-pay days come straight from attendance and approved leave.
  • Generate and email in bulk — everyone, a team or a hand-picked list; each employee gets their own PDF.
  • Company salaries view — every employee's pay for a month, hidden until revealed, with an Excel salary sheet to download or email.
  • Payroll month locks Add-on — finalised months stay final until an admin unlocks them with a reason.

September 2026 payroll

Payslips generated
42 / 42
Total net pay
₹18,46,200
Salary sheet
Excel ↓
Month
Locked

How payroll works in SetuWork

Payroll starts from two things you already have: your salary structure and your attendance. Each employee has monthly amounts against your salary heads — entered on their profile or imported from the spreadsheet you keep today. Attendance comes from self-service clock-in, from your biometric device's export, or from HR marking it.

When you generate a month, SetuWork works out days payable (calendar days minus loss-of-pay days — approved leave still counts as paid), pro-rates every head that should shrink with unpaid leave, and applies PF, Professional Tax and your own formulas. The result is frozen onto that month's payslip, so a later change to someone's structure never quietly rewrites a payslip already sent.

Changed a salary or corrected attendance after payroll ran? Refresh compares the whole payslip and keeps the old figures in history, or you can carry a correction into next month instead. With the audit log add-on, every step is recorded too.

Need a single payslip right now without signing up? Try our free payslip generator, or check contributions with the PF calculator.

Questions

Payroll software — common questions

Is SetuWork payroll software free?

Yes — companies with up to 10 people get the whole platform, payroll included, free. No card is needed to register.

Does it calculate PF and Professional Tax?

Yes, with the payroll formula add-on switched on. Provident Fund is worked out from Basic with the ₹15,000 wage ceiling, split into the employee deduction and the employer contribution (which counts towards CTC, not take-home pay). Professional Tax uses your own state's slabs, including different amounts by gender or in February.

Can I import salaries from our existing Excel sheet?

Yes. Upload the sheet you already keep — one row per employee, one column per salary head. Columns match themselves by name, amounts like 1,20,000 or ₹ 25,000 are read as written, and a preview checks every row before anything is saved.

How are payslips sent to employees?

Generate one employee's payslip or the whole month's in one click, preview the exact PDF, and email it — individually, to a team, or to everyone. Employees can also download their own payslips any time.

Can a month's payroll be locked once it is final?

Yes, with the payroll month lock add-on. A locked month's payslips can't be regenerated and its attendance can't be changed until an admin unlocks it with a reason. Locked payslips can still be downloaded and emailed exactly as they are.

What about TDS, ESI or other deductions?

PF and Professional Tax have built-in calculators. Any other deduction or allowance is a salary head you define — a fixed amount per employee, or a formula such as a percentage of gross — so it appears on every payslip and in the salary sheet.

Run your next payroll in SetuWork

Free for teams up to 10 people — no card required.