Payroll

The Payroll module is where you pay your team. You define how salaries are made up, set each employee's pay, configure your pay cycle and tax rules, then generate payslips for a period, review the amounts, mark them paid, and let employees see their own slips.

All of these features live under the Payroll section of the left-hand sidebar. What you can see and do depends on the modules your company has enabled and the permissions assigned to your role.

Important: Payroll has a clear order of operations. You must set up salary components, salary structure and each employee's salary before you can generate a single payslip. If you are new to Payroll, start with article 01.

Articles in this category

#	Article	What it covers
01	Getting started with Payroll	The prerequisites and the exact order to set Payroll up: salary components → salary groups → employee salaries → cycle & settings → generate. Includes a setup checklist.
02	Employee Salary	How salary is structured (annual CTC, basic pay, components, special allowance), and how to add, edit, increment and view the history of an employee's salary.
03	Generating Payroll	The key walkthrough: run payroll for a period, choose who is included, review amounts, make adjustments, move slips through the statuses, mark them paid, post the expense, and download payslips.
04	Payroll Expenses	The expense records that Payroll creates when you mark salaries paid, and how to view them.
05	Overtime Requests	Log overtime against an overtime policy and pay code, approve or reject requests, and feed approved overtime into a payslip.
06	Payroll Reports	Export monthly and cumulative salary sheets, and view Employee TDS and Company TDS reports.

A note on terms: In BusinessHRM the people you do business with are called Contacts, and they are never paid through Payroll. Payroll only ever covers your own employees.