Work out everyone's salary, print their payslip and record it in your accounts — in minutes, once a month, without a spreadsheet. From $17 per user per month.
Payroll software works out what each person on your staff should be paid: their salary, their overtime, their deductions, and what actually reaches their hand. It prints or emails the payslip, and keeps the record.
Most businesses do this in a spreadsheet, then type the total into their accounts. Two jobs, and one of them is usually done late at night. With PeppyBooks, paying your staff and recording it are the same action — the payroll run reaches your accounts by itself, put against the right heads.
Staff cost is usually the biggest number in the business. It should not be the slowest job.
Today: Overtime, shifts and piece work are added up on paper every month.
With PeppyBooks: Attendance feeds the pay run, and the cost lands against the right department.
Today: Each branch's wages are worked out separately, then merged by hand.
With PeppyBooks: Every branch in one run, with the cost shown per branch.
Today: Labour cost per site is only known at the end of the project.
With PeppyBooks: Wages land against the site they were worked on, so the project cost is live.
Today: Salaries are the largest line in the budget and sit in a spreadsheet.
With PeppyBooks: One run, payslips out, and budget against actual visible to the board.
Today: Pay, leave and attendance live in three different places.
With PeppyBooks: One record per employee — pay, leave and attendance together.
Today: Field staff pay depends on what they sold, and that's a monthly argument.
With PeppyBooks: Sales come from the same platform, so the pay run has the real numbers.
Employee records, leave and payroll in one place.
Payroll runs that post balanced journals automatically.
Salaries allocated by branch and cost centre.
Salary components, deductions and policies per team.
Everything calculates; payslips email themselves.
Balanced journals post to the right accounts.
Set up salary structures once; each run calculates earnings, deductions and net pay for the whole team, with payslips emailed automatically.
Configurable salary components and structures
Statutory deductions calculated automatically
Payslips emailed to every employee
Off-cycle runs for bonuses and corrections
Keep employee records, leave balances and attendance in the same platform that pays them — no sync jobs, no CSV shuffles.
Employee profiles and document storage
Leave types, approvals and balances
Attendance capture and summaries
Role-based access for HR and managers
Track hours against projects and clients; approved time flows into payroll for staff and into invoices for billable work.
Project and client timesheets
Approval workflows
Billable hours pushed to invoices
Utilisation reports per person and team
Define your structure once — groups, categories, payheads and salary definitions — and every run after that is attendance in, payroll out.
Employee groups and categories for batch processing
Payheads: earnings, deductions and employer contributions
Salary definition per employee or per structure
Attendance types and entry feeding pay automatically
One-click payroll generation per period
Every payroll run posts balanced journals to the right expense and liability accounts — auditable, branch-wise and on time.
Automatic GL posting per run
Branch and cost-centre allocation
Liability tracking until remittance
Full audit trail
Structures set once; every run calculates itself.
Payroll, books and timesheets share one database.
Liabilities tracked from deduction to remittance.
An honest look at the usual options.
| What matters | PeppyBooks | Tally | Zoho Payroll | A spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works out everyone's pay | Yes | Yes — payroll is included | Yes — a genuine strength | Yes, if your formulas are right |
| Payslips to staff | Yes, by email | Yes | Yes | You make and send them |
| Leave & attendance feed the pay | Yes, same platform | Depends on your setup | Yes | Typed in by hand |
| Reaches your accounts by itself | Yes — same platform | Yes — accounting is its core | Best suited when used with Zoho Books | No — the total is typed in |
| Cost per branch, site or department | Yes | Depends on how you set up cost centres | Depends on plan | Only if you build it |
| Where your data lives | Cloud — reachable from anywhere | Best suited for a computer in the office | Cloud | On somebody's laptop |
| Country rules for deductions | Depends on your country — ask us about yours | Strong in India | Strong in its supported countries | You maintain them yourself |
| How it's priced | From $17 per user per month, payroll included by plan | Mainly a one-time licence, plus yearly support | Monthly subscription, by plan | Free, but paid for in your time and mistakes |
Where each is strong: Tally is a genuine strength if your books are already in Tally and your accountant knows it. Zoho Payroll is a strong dedicated payroll product in the countries it supports. A spreadsheet is fine for a handful of people on fixed salaries. PeppyBooks is best suited when you want pay, attendance and your accounts to be one system. Statutory deductions vary by country — please confirm your country's rules with us before you rely on this. Compiled from each vendor's published information — last verified 17 July 2026. Features and pricing change and vary by country and plan; please check the vendor's current terms before deciding.
Payroll is the one thing you cannot get wrong, so you check it before you trust it.
Names, salaries and joining dates from your spreadsheet.
The parts of pay you use — basic, allowances, deductions.
Run PeppyBooks alongside your spreadsheet and compare, person by person.
Only when every person's figure matches.
That's exactly why you run one month in parallel first. Nobody gets paid from PeppyBooks until your own spreadsheet agrees with it, person by person.
Yes. Payroll is behind its own permission — you choose who can see it. Most owners give it to one person and themselves.
Rules differ by country and change often. Tell us where you operate and we will confirm exactly what is handled before you buy.
Yes. PeppyBooks works out what everyone is owed and gives you the list; you pay the way you pay today.
Native to the PeppyBooks platform, open where it counts.
Last updated 3 July 2026 · Reviewed by the PeppyBooks product & compliance team
Payroll software calculates employee pay from salary structures — earnings, allowances, statutory deductions and net pay — then produces payslips and posts the accounting entries. Integrated payroll (payroll inside your accounting platform) eliminates the classic month-end failure mode: a payroll spreadsheet that never quite matches your books.
Yes — each run creates balanced journal entries for salaries, deductions and liabilities. No manual posting.
Payslips are emailed automatically each run, and HR can re-issue any historical payslip in a click.
Payroll and HR ship with the Ultimate plan; see pricing for details.
Yes — salary components are configurable per structure with employee-level overrides, and off-cycle runs handle bonuses and corrections.