Contractor payroll software built for Indian labour compliance

Calculate wages from approved data

Payroll uses worker category, designation, wage setup and approved attendance. This keeps wage slips and registers tied to the same source data.

For contract labour teams, payroll quality depends on what happened before calculation: onboarding data, deployment context, attendance approval, weekly offs, holidays, overtime and deductions all need to be settled first.

• Attendance-based wage calculation
• Worker category and designation context
• Staff and labour payroll workflows

Review statutory deductions and contributions

HR can review PF, ESI, professional tax, labour welfare fund, overtime, bonus and deductions before submitting payroll for approval.

The page is intentionally specific to Indian contractor payroll rather than generic payroll. The review points include contribution summaries, wage bases, recoveries, payment dates and the forms that will be generated from the approved month.

• PF and ESI contribution summaries
• PT and LWF workflows where applicable
• Advances, fines, damage or loss recovery and bonus context

Generate wage outputs

After approval, payroll feeds wage slips, wage registers, PF/ESI summaries and monthly report packs.

Payroll questions buyers should ask

A contractor payroll product should make review easier without removing accountability from HR, the contractor or the employer.

• Can payroll be traced back to approved attendance?
• Are PF, ESI, PT, LWF, overtime and deductions visible before approval?
• Do wage slips and wage registers reconcile with the same calculation?
• Can payroll be reviewed by contractor, PE, state and period?
• Can exceptions be corrected before forms are generated?

Monthly payroll close sequence

A practical contractor payroll workflow starts with attendance closure, then wage calculation, then statutory contribution review, then wage slip and register generation.

When teams skip this order, the same correction can appear in several places: attendance sheets, wage slips, PF/ESI workings and PE reports. agnihr is designed to keep those outputs tied to one approved monthly basis.

Outputs payroll should support

Contractor payroll is not complete when net pay is calculated. HR also needs records that can be shared, reviewed and traced later.

• Worker-wise wage slips
• Wage registers and deduction records
• PF and ESI contribution summaries
• PT and LWF reports where applicable
• PE-wise monthly report packs

Buyer review points

When evaluating contractor payroll software built for indian labour compliance, review whether the workflow reduces manual reconciliation and gives teams enough evidence to explain the monthly output.

A good fit should make the before-and-after process clear: which records enter the workflow, who approves them, which reports are generated and what still needs human review.

• Source records are visible
• Approval status is clear
• Exceptions can be corrected
• Outputs match the selected period
• Final statutory responsibility remains explicit