Payroll manages the portion of accounting that is related to salaries, wages, and bonuses for employees. The software must be able to support the following set of functionality: payroll profile for the employees, benefits and deductions, eligibility controls, user’s balances, tax deductions, as well as payroll calculations, processing of payments, check printing, check distribution, tax documentation, security and auditing, and automated timesheets.

The employee payroll profile allows administrators to add, change, or delete information regarding an employee (including their personal, wage, tax , deductions at source, and direct deposit information).

Earnings and deductions include all monies payable to and deducted from an employee for services rendered. Earnings may include wages, commissions, and bonuses. Deductions may include taxes, benefits, etc.

This user balances functionality allows administrators to define opening balances for earnings, deductions, and tax deductions for each employee within the enterprise. User balances can be defined in various units of measure such as, currency, hours, or integers. In deductions where there is a cap amount, the system will automatically stop the deduction once it has reached the defined user balance.