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.
  • Your Excel sheet, rebuilt Add-on — working figures like Gross or PF wage that aren't paid, a Standard (full-month) and Actual figure for every head, rules that read an employee's own fields, and rounding to whole rupees the Excel way.
  • Monthly inputs Add-on — OT days, arrears, TDS, advance recovery — on one grid or from an Excel template, plus paid days for anyone whose attendance lives elsewhere.
  • Clean payslips — heads that come to ₹0 that month are left off employees' payslips, unless you choose to show them.
  • Contractors and freelancers Add-on — monthly fee or daily/hourly rate × approved days, TDS under 194J/194C with thresholds, a payment advice for each, and a TDS register for 26Q.
  • Heads kept for later — mark a head "not in use": it stays set up, off payslips, and counts as zero in formulas until you need it.

Salary structure — Priya S.

Basic
₹25,000
HRA
₹10,000
Special allowance
₹5,000
PF (employee)
− ₹3,000
Net pay
₹36,800
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 ₹25,000 wage ceiling (from 17 September 2026); the employer share counts towards CTC, not take-home.
  • Professional Tax Add-on — pick your states and each one's current slabs are filled in (all editable); staff in different states each pay by their own, and exempt employees are switched off with a reason.
  • ESI & Labour Welfare Fund Add-on — ESI with its wage ceiling and contribution periods, LWF by slab in the months it's due; when a rule changes, add the new figures with the date they start.
  • 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%)
₹3,000
PF (employer, 12%)
₹3,000
Professional Tax
₹200
Cost to company
₹43,000
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.
  • Redo a month — delete a month's payslips (or one person's), fix the setup, generate again; loan instalments go back to pending.
  • Approve before release Add-on — your approvers sign off the month in order; employees see payslips only once it's released.
  • Loans, advances & WhatsApp Add-on — instalments deducted on the payslip automatically, and payslips sent on WhatsApp to people who agreed.

September 2026 payroll

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

Every payroll report, ready to file

Pick the month and the columns, preview with totals, and download as Excel, PDF or CSV.

  • Statutory Add-on — PF with the EPFO ECR upload file, the Professional Tax pack, ESI, quarterly TDS on salary and Form 16 / Form 130 Part B.
  • Registers and bank sheet Add-on — salary register, a Standard & Actual payroll register, and a bank transfer sheet that flags missing account details and reconciles to net pay.
  • Summaries, pivots and billing Add-on — totals by team, designation or location, any two fields cross-tabbed, and an optional service charge and GST block.
  • Your columns, saved Add-on — add your own fields, save the report, and put several into one Excel workbook each month.

Reports — September 2026

PF contribution + ECR
Excel · ECR
Professional Tax pack
Excel · PDF
Bank transfer
Difference ₹0
Form 16 / Form 130
PDF

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, check contributions with the PF calculator, or turn a CTC into take-home pay with the in-hand salary calculator. Offer, appointment, experience and relieving letters: see our free HR letter formats.

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 ₹25,000 wage ceiling (from 17 September 2026), split into the employee deduction and the employer contribution (which counts towards CTC, not take-home pay). Professional Tax is set up by state: pick the states your staff work in and each state's current slabs are filled in — editable, with each employee paying by their own state and exemptions recorded with a reason.

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. ESI, TDS or any other deduction or allowance is a salary head you define — a fixed amount, a formula (for example ESI only when an employee's "ESIC applicable" box is ticked), or a figure entered each month — so it appears on every payslip, in the salary sheet and in the ESI and TDS reports.

What payroll reports can I download?

With the Reports add-on: salary register, a Standard & Actual payroll register, bank transfer sheet with reconciliation, payroll cost by month or team, CTC, PF contribution with the EPFO ECR file, Professional Tax pack, ESI, quarterly TDS on salary and Form 16 / Form 130 Part B — as Excel, PDF or CSV, with the columns you choose.

Run your next payroll in SetuWork

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