ARKcelerateARKcelerate
Payroll

Pay your team in 7 countries — each by its own rules.

Process payroll for India, the US, UK, UAE, Saudi, Germany and France — country-specific rules, payslips, statutory exports and custom bank files.

Payroll runs — run count, processing, paid and net-paid up top; each period by status with gross, deductions, net and headcount.
Payroll runs — run count, processing, paid and net-paid up top; each period by status with gross, deductions, net and headcount.

What makes it unique

The features that set Payroll apart from a generic ERP.

Built for projects-based manufacturing — not retrofitted to it. 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.

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 Settings — country jurisdiction (weekend days, pay cycle) plus custom bank-transfer templates that export to Excel/CSV.
Payroll Settings — country jurisdiction (weekend days, pay cycle) plus custom bank-transfer templates that export to Excel/CSV.
  • 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.

Statutory exports — PF ECR (EPFO challan format), ESI contribution (ESIC return format) and a full statutory summary, generated from the run.
Statutory exports — PF ECR (EPFO challan format), ESI contribution (ESIC return format) and a full statutory summary, generated from the run.
  • 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.

Payslip breakdown — earnings and deductions itemised per employee, with gross, total deductions and net pay.
Payslip breakdown — earnings and deductions itemised per employee, with gross, total deductions and net pay.
  • 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.

Salary Components — define earnings and deductions, their calculation method and default rate, per country.
Salary Components — define earnings and deductions, their calculation method and default rate, per country.
  • 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 projects-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.

32 featuresacross 7 areas
AreaFeatures
Payroll runs
  • Run lifecycle: draft → processing → finalized → paid
  • Per-employee work country drives the profile used
  • Line-by-line earnings and deductions per employee
  • Reopen and re-process a finalized run
  • Per-entry adjustments (advances, bonuses, recoveries)
  • Loss-of-pay from approved leave and attendance
  • Pay cycles: monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly, weekly
Salary structure
  • Earning and deduction components (fixed, % of basic, % of gross)
  • Per-country default components, per-employee amounts
  • Effective-dated salary changes with history
  • Fixed deductions and one-off adjustments
India statutory
  • PF (employee) — percentage of basic
  • ESI — auto-applied within the ₹21,000 wage cap (employer 3.25% in the return)
  • Professional Tax — fixed deduction
  • TDS — fixed deduction
  • PF ECR export in EPFO format
  • ESI contribution return + statutory summary CSV
Country profiles
  • Profiles for IN, US, UK, AE, SA, DE, FR (plus other)
  • Each sets currency, weekend days, default components and pay cycle
  • Default bank-transfer template per country (e.g. India NEFT, UAE WPS SIF)
  • India ships PF + ESI statutory reports; others ship the run summary
Payslips + bank file
  • Branded PDF payslip per employee per period
  • Email a single payslip or release a whole run at once
  • Bank-transfer export from a configurable column template
  • CSV or Excel output
Leavers (Full & Final, in HR)
  • Gratuity per the Payment of Gratuity Act (5-year rule, statutory cap)
  • Leave encashment against the tracked leave balance
  • Notice-period shortfall recovery
  • Consolidated net-payable settlement
Access + audit
  • Payroll gated to admin + Payroll manager
  • Employees see only their own payslips
  • Audit log on salary changes, runs and exports

Try Payroll alongside every other module.

One signup. Full feature access during your trial.