India-deep payroll. Multi-country ready.
Full statutory payroll for India — PF, ESI, PT, TDS, Form 16, 24Q. Every other country: configurable salary structures, multi-currency payslips, and bank files generated from your own bank's sample.
What makes it unique
The features that set Payroll apart from a generic ERP.
These are the workflows big ERPs either skip or get wrong.
Per-employee work country
Each employee carries their own work country, which sets their weekend pattern, currency, default salary components and bank-transfer format. India and UAE staff run from the same database.
India statutory, built in
PF and ESI (auto-applied within the ₹21,000 wage ceiling) plus Professional Tax and TDS as deductions — with PF ECR and ESI return CSVs generated in the formats the portals accept.
Configurable salary structure
Define earning and deduction components per organisation or per country, then set per-employee amounts. Salary changes are effective-dated, so the full history is preserved.
Attendance-aware pay
Loss-of-pay is computed from approved unpaid leave and days marked absent in attendance, against the working days in the period.
Payslips, emailed
Branded PDF payslips, sent to each employee individually or released to everyone in a run at once.
Bank files your bank accepts
Map a reusable bank-transfer template (India NEFT, UAE WPS SIF, or your own columns) and export the run as CSV or Excel for direct upload.
Compensation history — hikes, variable pay, bonuses in one record
Every salary revision is a dated record: percent or amount on gross, the reason, and the structure change that goes with it — the hike updates payroll from its effective date automatically. Annual variable-pay targets and their payouts, ad-hoc bonuses, all on the employee’s compensation timeline. When the review meeting asks "what did we give them last year?", the answer is on one screen.
Job roles + salary bands — see where everyone sits
Define your job roles with a min–max monthly gross band each, link employees to roles, and the band view shows every person as a dot on their role’s range — who’s below band, who’s at the top, where compression is building. Org-wide overview plus a per-employee placement on their profile, so hike decisions start from the picture, not a spreadsheet.
Feature 01
Pick your payroll country — and build the exact bank file your bank wants.
Set the payroll country and it drives the rest: the default salary components, weekend days, default pay cycle and bank-file format all follow. Switch from India (INR) to another jurisdiction and the right defaults seed in. Then define bank-transfer templates — each one is the exact column layout a given bank expects — keep a separate template per bank, choose one at export time, and download the whole run as a ready-to-upload Excel or CSV file.
- Payroll country sets default components, weekend days and pay cycle
- Country profiles: India, US, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France
- Per-country default bank-file format (e.g. India NEFT)
- Custom bank-transfer templates — define the exact columns your bank needs
- Export a run straight to Excel (XLSX) or CSV, ready to upload
Feature 02
Statutory deductions, with portal-ready export files.
Set up the statutory and compliance deductions your payroll needs and they are applied automatically on every run. When it is time to file, export the data your authority expects — a full per-employee statutory summary you can use anywhere, plus, for India, the PF ECR (EPFO format) and ESI contribution return built in. Hand the file to your accountant or upload it straight to the portal.
- Define statutory + compliance deduction components per country
- Applied automatically on every run, within the rules you configure
- Per-employee statutory summary export — works for any country
- India built in: PF ECR (EPFO format) and ESI contribution return
- Download as CSV — hand to your accountant or upload to the portal
Feature 03
A controlled run, from draft to paid.
Build a run for the period, process it to generate every payslip with a line-by-line earnings and deductions breakdown, review, then finalize and mark it paid. Reopen a finalized run to correct it and re-process. One-off adjustments — advances, bonuses, recoveries — sit on the entry and survive re-processing.
- Lifecycle: draft → processing → finalized → paid
- Line-by-line earnings and deductions per employee
- Reopen and re-process a finalized run when something changes
- Per-entry adjustments: advances, bonuses, recoveries
- Loss-of-pay from approved leave and attendance
Feature 04
Configure your own salary components — earnings and deductions.
Define the building blocks of pay yourself. Each component is an earning or a deduction, calculated as a fixed amount, a percentage of basic, or a percentage of gross, with a default rate, a country tag and an active toggle. Seed a country template to start — India ships Basic, HRA, DA, PF, ESI, Professional Tax and TDS — or add your own: bonuses, allowances, recoveries, whatever your payroll needs. Every salary structure and payroll run draws from this catalogue.
- Earning and deduction components you define
- Calculation: fixed, percent of basic, or percent of gross
- Per-country components, each with a default rate and active flag
- Seed a country template, or add your own components
- Used by every salary structure and payroll run
The project-based manufacturing angle
One database, payroll for two countries, no duplicate data entry.
A manufacturer with an HQ in Maharashtra and a branch in Sharjah does not want two payroll systems. ARKcelerate runs both from the same employee records — India staff on the Indian profile, UAE staff on the AED profile — and the salary change you make in HR carries straight into the next monthly run. Statutory return files and bank-transfer files come out of the same run.
Everything in the module
The full Payroll feature list.
Grouped by functional area. Every feature below is included in every plan — no paywalled tiers, no “enterprise edition” unlocks.
| Area | Features |
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| Payroll runs |
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| Salary structure |
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| Compensation — hikes, variable pay, salary bands |
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| India statutory |
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| Country profiles |
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| Payslips + bank file |
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| Leavers (Full & Final, in HR) |
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| Access + audit |
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