Free payroll software
Run payroll on tax packs for 24+ countries, or on pay items you set up yourself in any other country. Every run produces a payslip for each person and the files your bank and your accountant ask for.
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Income tax and social contributions are worked out per employee from the pack. Country not covered? Start from a blank schedule.
Salary, allowances and deductions are items you set up once and carry into every run.
Save the columns, separator, decimal mark and date format once, and every export follows them.
How payroll works here
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A pay schedule runs on one country's tax pack, with that country's currency and tax year, so a company with people in two countries has two schedules. Where there is no pack, a blank schedule works from the pay items you define: salary, recurring allowances and deductions.
Every run gives each employee a payslip that lists each pay item with gross, deductions and net pay. You word it in your own language, and each reader sees dates and amounts in their own regional format.
Two files, each in a layout you save once as a CSV or an Excel sheet. The payment file comes from an approved run, so your bank gets the columns it expects. The accountant export has one row per payslip with every pay line, for any date range or tax year.
Approved timesheets and approved leave for the period are pulled into the run, so nobody retypes hours from a spreadsheet. Payroll uses the same employee record that leave and time already use.
How it works
You do the setup yourself; nothing here needs a consultant.
Sign up on this site. There is no demo to book and no card to enter.
Add each person with their manager and workplace, along with their contract details.
Pick the country's tax pack, or a blank schedule, then set salary and recurring items for each employee.
Create a run for the period, review each employee, publish the payslips and download the payment file.
What free means
Free forever for teams of up to 10 people. Free for now for larger teams. If that changes, we'll tell you first. Payroll is in the free version like every other module.
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