Can I run it alongside my current payroll first?
Yes, and you should. There is a parallel run for exactly this: run the month in Facto Lite beside the payroll you use today, compare the two, and pay nobody from it until they agree.
A salary run you can check before you pay it.
Salary structures, statutory deductions, a pre-flight that names what is wrong person by person, and a payslip every employee can open. Attendance, unpaid leave, claims and loan instalments arrive in the run by themselves.
60 days free · no card · all three features
Salary
Compensation, salary structures, payroll runs, payslips and statutory deductions.
Open a run to see its lines. Nothing here is paid until somebody approves it.
Tap the phone to open the live demo.Tap any row. It is a live demo, with demo data.
Why people buy it
Three things it is bought to put an end to.
Every month starts from last month’s sheet
The salary file is a copy of the previous one with the numbers changed, and the formula somebody broke in March is still broken in August.
The mistake is found by the person it was made about
A wrong deduction is caught when a payslip is questioned, after the money has gone, and fixed by hand in a month it does not belong to.
PF and ESI are somebody’s memory
Which wages the fund is worked out on, what professional tax applies in which state, who is over the ceiling — answered afresh every month by whoever runs it.
See it on a desktop
Payroll, on the screen you will use it on. Try it here.
Demo data. Keep scrolling and it walks you through 4 screens, or tap any row, open a record and try it yourself. Everything here is the real interface, drawn small.
One run per month, with what it came to and whether it has been approved.
Interactive demo— click anything
Salary
Compensation, salary structures, payroll runs, payslips and statutory deductions.
| Month | Kind | Status | People | Gross | Net pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Monthly | Draft | 24 | ₹11,84,000 | ₹10,27,300 |
| August 2026 | Monthly | Paid | 24 | ₹11,84,000 | ₹10,29,800 |
| August 2026 | Reimbursements | Paid | 6 | ₹38,450 | ₹38,450 |
| July 2026 | Monthly | Paid | 23 | ₹11,46,000 | ₹9,96,400 |
Open a run to see its lines. Nothing here is paid until somebody approves it.
Interactive demo— tap to open
Salary
Compensation, salary structures, payroll runs, payslips and statutory deductions.
Open a run to see its lines. Nothing here is paid until somebody approves it.
What is in it
The whole module, listed out.
Nothing here is coming soon. It is what an account opens with on day one of the trial.
Structures and components
A cost to company is a number; a structure is what turns it into a payslip.
- Earnings you design — Basic, HRA, allowances — and the nine statutory heads created for you: PF, ESI, professional tax, labour welfare fund, TDS and the gratuity provision
- Structures that have to balance, with one line that absorbs the remainder, so a CTC always adds up
- A cost to company per person with the date it takes effect, and a kind of change — joining, increment, promotion, correction — a report can count
- Increments for a whole cohort, previewed before they happen
Statutory
The rates are maintained for you; the choices that are genuinely yours are asked once.
- Provident fund on the first ₹15,000 of wages or on all of them, ESI, and professional tax by the state a person is borne on
- Income tax under either regime, with investment declarations reviewed before they reduce anybody’s tax if you want them to be
- The senior-citizen slab tables applied from a date of birth, so somebody turning 60 is worked out correctly from the April payslip
- Fines and damage recoveries recorded as dated events with the reason the register has to state, never typed into a month
- Bonus: declare a percentage within the Act’s 8.33% to 20%, read who is entitled, and pay it with an off-cycle run
The run
Twelve steps in an order, and six states from draft to paid.
- A pre-flight that reads your whole setup and lists what is wrong, person by person, at three severities — blocks pay, blocks filing, needs attention
- Attendance, unpaid leave, loan instalments and claims routed to salary pulled in from their own modules
- Inputs locked, then a variance review: anyone whose pay moved more than your threshold since last month is flagged
- Submitted by one person and approved by another, then the output locked
- A bank advice file in your bank’s layout, with a named list of anybody it leaves out
- A parallel run for your first month, compared against the payroll you run today before anybody is paid
For every employee
Their own pay, on their own phone.
- Every payslip they have been issued, downloadable, and emailed too if you choose
- Their year to date, their tax regime and the switch between regimes until your deadline
- Investment declarations filed from the app, so monthly tax is right from month one
- Form 16 at year end
Joining and leaving
The two months that are never ordinary.
- A joiner or a leaver part-way through a month worked out on that month’s actual days
- Exits recorded with a last working day, and a final settlement that is a settlement rather than an ordinary run
- Letters — revision, promotion, certificate, bank, verification, probation and the leaver’s statement — from your own letterhead
- A leaver the ordinary run would pay twice is named on the pre-flight before it can
Price
HR & Payroll, by how many of you there are.
This is the price of the whole HR & Payroll module, which this page is one part of — it is not sold on its own. Yearly, with the monthly figure beside it.
Up to 10 users
₹24,999/year
or ₹2,499 a month
Saves ₹4,989 a year
Up to 50 users
₹49,999/year
or ₹4,999 a month
Saves ₹9,989 a year
Up to 100 users
₹89,999/year
or ₹8,999 a month
Saves ₹17,989 a year
Above a hundred people, tell us how many of you there are. All three features are free for 60 days, and when a trial ends nothing is deleted — see pricing for what the week after looks like.
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Read it before you buy it
3 written guides, open to everybody.
The same documentation the product ships with, published in full. No form, no account.
What it does not do
Easier to read now than to discover in week three.
- Payroll is part of HR & Payroll, not a product on its own. There is no payroll-only plan; the price below is the whole module’s.
- Nothing is filed for you. Facto Lite computes PF, ESI, professional tax and income tax and produces the figures; submitting a return is still yours.
- There is no bank integration. Payroll produces a bank advice file to upload; it does not move money, and it does not read a bank statement back.
- Statutory rules are Indian. The engine is built around PF, ESI, Indian professional tax, the Payment of Bonus Act and the Indian income-tax regimes.
- The concessional-loan perquisite is flagged, not computed. A loan that crosses the threshold is named for your accountant; the figure is theirs to confirm.
Questions
Asked before, answered here.
What if a statutory head is missing or misspelt?
The nine heads are created for you when the company is set up, matched on an exact code, and the pre-flight lists any that are missing. That check exists because a misspelt head is the most expensive mistake in payroll: the engine posts nothing for it and the run reports itself as correct.
Can a run be corrected after it is paid?
No — a paid run is final, and that is deliberate. A run can be rejected back to draft at any point before a payment is recorded; after that, a correction is an arrear in a later month rather than an edit to a settled one.
Does an expense claim reach the payslip?
If it is routed to be paid with salary, yes. It is picked up by the run for the month it was submitted in, and a claim approved after that month closes is named on the pre-flight rather than silently missed.
Run one month in parallel, then decide.
Sixty days, all three features, no card. Build one structure, run the month beside the payroll you have today, and compare the two before anybody is paid from it.