Payslips That Answer Questions Instead of Causing Them
Every earning, deduction and payable-day figure laid out clearly — distributed to employees automatically, and backed by registers that reconcile to the rupee.
A payslip is the only part of payroll most employees ever see, and it is usually the worst-designed artefact in the whole cycle: a dense grid of abbreviations, a net figure, and no explanation of the one number the employee actually cares about, which is why this month differs from last month. That design failure creates real work. Every unexplained payslip becomes a query to HR, and answering it means someone reconstructing a calculation by hand. AttendancePay generates payslips from the figures payroll computed — not from a separate template that recalculates and drifts — and shows the payable-days basis alongside the earnings, so the most common question is answered on the document itself. Distribution runs through employee self-service and email rather than a printer. Behind the payslip sit the registers finance and audit need: the payroll register, statutory deduction registers, the professional tax register, the bank transfer file and the PF ECR upload, all reading the same computed figures so what you file matches what you paid.
Why payslips create work instead of preventing it
The payslip does not explain the variance
An employee wants to know why this month is lower than last. The payslip shows components and a net figure but not the payable-days basis, so the answer requires a manual reconstruction every time.
Distribution is manual
Payslips are generated, saved individually, and emailed one at a time or printed and handed out — a full day of work every month that produces nothing except distributed files.
Reports recalculate instead of reading
A register that recomputes figures rather than reading what payroll produced will eventually disagree with the payslips, and reconciling the two becomes its own project.
Statutory registers are assembled by hand
The professional tax register or the ECR file is built in a spreadsheet from exported data, so what gets filed is one transcription away from what was actually deducted.
Past payslips cannot be reissued
An employee needs last March's payslip for a loan application and it can only be produced by re-running a calculation that may no longer resolve the same way.
How payslips & payroll reports works
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Payslips are generated from the computed run
Each payslip reads the figures stored on the payroll entry rather than recalculating, so a payslip and the register behind it can never disagree.
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The payable-days basis is shown
Alongside earnings and deductions, the payslip carries the days basis — payable, present, leave, holiday and week-off — which is what answers the most common employee query without a conversation.
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Distribution is automatic
Payslips are published to employee self-service and can be emailed in bulk for the period, rather than saved and sent individually.
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Registers export from the same figures
Payroll register, statutory registers, professional tax register, bank transfer file and PF ECR all read the stored run, per period and per branch.
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History stays reproducible
Because payroll entries retain what was computed at the time, a payslip from a prior period can be reissued exactly as it was originally produced.
What you get
Readable payslip layout
Earnings, deductions, employer contributions and the payable-days basis laid out on a single page, with statutory components named rather than abbreviated.
Bulk generation and distribution
Generate for a whole period in one action and publish to employee self-service, with bulk email distribution.
Employee self-service access
Employees retrieve current and historical payslips themselves from the mobile app or the web portal, which removes the single most common HR request.
Payroll register
Full per-employee breakdown of earnings, deductions and net pay for a period, exportable and filterable by branch or department.
Statutory registers
Professional tax register and statutory deduction reports for the period, aligned to what was actually deducted.
Bank transfer file
Net-pay disbursement file for upload to the bank, generated from the approved run.
PF ECR export
The EPFO ECR upload file in the required delimited format, generated from the same PF figures shown on the payslips.
Annual TDS statement
Per-employee, per-financial-year TDS totals with PAN, taxable salary, deductions and the quarterly split — the inputs a CA needs to file Form 24Q.
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Frequently asked questions
Can employees download their own payslips?⌄
Yes, from the mobile app and the web portal, including historical periods. This removes what is typically the single most frequent request HR receives, and it means an employee needing a payslip for a loan or visa application does not have to wait for someone to produce it.
Does the payslip explain why this month differs from last?⌄
It shows the payable-days basis — payable days, present days, leave, holidays and week-offs — alongside the earnings and deductions. That is what answers the most common query, because the variance is almost always a days variance rather than a rate change.
Can we reissue a payslip from a previous year?⌄
Yes. Payroll entries retain the figures computed at the time the run was processed, so a historical payslip is reproduced rather than recalculated. This matters because component definitions and salary structures change, and a recalculated payslip would not match the one originally issued.
What reports are available for finance and audit?⌄
The payroll register with a full per-employee breakdown, statutory deduction registers, the professional tax register, a bank transfer file for disbursement, the PF ECR file in EPFO format, and the annual TDS statement used to prepare Form 24Q. All of them read the stored payroll run rather than recomputing.
Can payslips be emailed automatically?⌄
Yes, in bulk for a payroll period, in addition to being published to employee self-service. Email delivery depends on the company having its outgoing mail configured.
Are payslips available in the mobile app?⌄
Yes. Employees can view and download current and historical payslips from the staff app, which is the practical distribution channel for field and site workforces who have no desk and no company email address.