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New Income Tax Rules 2026: 8 Payroll Changes for Indian SMEs
The Income Tax Act, 2025 came into force on 1 April 2026, replacing the six-decade-old Income-tax Act, 1961 (PIB, 2026). For most SME owners, the first question is not about tax slabs. It is about what must change inside the payroll sheet before the April salary run. The new Act rewrites the perquisite table, renames
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Avani Joshi11 Aug 2026
Franchise Payroll in India: Multi-Outlet Guide for 2026
Running a franchise chain with branches in Ahmedabad, Surat, and Jaipur means dealing with three different salary puzzles at once. Gujarat and Rajasthan have different minimum wages. Professional Tax kicks in for one state but not the other. PF registration rules shift depending on how your franchise agreement is drawn up, and most franchisors don’t
Full and Final Settlement in India: SME Payroll Guide
When an employee resigns or is terminated in India, the HR team has exactly two working days to pay out every rupee owed. Unpaid salary, leave encashment, bonus, reimbursements, and the final month’s wages all need to clear in that window. Gratuity has its own 30-day clock. EPF has its own 15 to 20 working
Faculty Payroll for Schools and Coaching Centres India
Running payroll for a school or coaching centre is nothing like running payroll for an office. You have permanent teachers who get a monthly salary, visiting lecturers who get paid per class, contract faculty who shift every academic year, and a non-teaching crew that includes lab assistants, librarians, transport staff, and housekeeping. Each group has
Attendance and Payroll for Corporate Offices in India
Most corporate offices in India are juggling three things at once: hybrid work schedules, multi-department leave policies, and payroll that must clear by the last working day of every month. When one of these breaks, the other two fall apart too. The short answer is this. A corporate office needs an attendance and payroll system
Labour Law Compliance Checklist India 2026: Complete Guide
Every Indian SME owner knows the sinking 27th-of-the-month feeling. The PF challan still sits in draft. The ESI contribution waits for sign-off. The Professional Tax return for Maharashtra missed last Tuesday’s deadline. And now, after the government notified the four Labour Codes on 21 November 2025, the rules for April 2026 onwards look very different
Maternity Leave in Payroll: Complete Guide
The 7th working day of the month is when most Indian salaries hit the bank. For a new mother, that date carries a weight the payroll team rarely sees. She’s checking her account between feeds, wondering if the statutory breakup looks right, if the PF column moved, if her payslip suddenly reads lower than the
Best Attendance-Linked Payroll Software in India (Under 50 Employees)
The pain starts at the biometric device on the wall. A blue-collar team of 28 punches in at 9. A part-time cleaner forgets. Two delivery riders get geo-tagged at the wrong outlet. By the 28th of the month, the HR admin is still reconciling the ZKTeco export against WhatsApp voice notes. For a business running
Avani Joshi
How Can Startups Run Payroll Without Hiring an HR Team?
For most early-stage Indian startups, payroll begins life as a Google Sheet, kept up to date by either the founder or whoever the first operations hire happens to be. It works well enough. Everyone’s salary structure fits on one tab, attendance gets reconciled on the 30th by someone flipping through a WhatsApp backlog, and the
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Top 15 Payroll Software Options for Indian Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide
Let’s be honest. Payroll in India is complex due to PF, ESI, professional tax, and compliance requirements. You have PF. You have ESI. You have professional taxes. On top of that, you need to track overtime, manage leaves, and make sure salaries are paid on time. Miss one thing, and you could face a penalty.
Jay Vyas
How To Calculate Payroll for Small Businesses (Step by Step)
A friend of mine runs a small manufacturing business in Surat. Ten staff. He was doing payroll on a notebook. Yes, a paper notebook in 2025. One day, he got a notice from EPFO. Turns out he had been short-paying PF for eight months. The penalty? Almost ₹38,000. All because he was using gross salary
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How Attendance Regularisation Works: Meaning, Process & Best Practices
Attendance regularisation is the process by which an employee requests a correction in their attendance record. That’s it. No complex definition needed. Say you forgot to punch out on Tuesday. Or the fingerprint scanner was down when you arrived. Or you were working from home, but the system marked you absent. In all these cases,
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Salary Management System: Features, Benefits & Best Software
Picture the last week of any month at a 50-person company in Ahmedabad. The HR manager is sitting with three Excel tabs open, cross-checking attendance registers against leave applications that came in over WhatsApp, manually looking up PT slabs for employees in Gujarat and Maharashtra, and praying that nobody’s PF calculation is off by even
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Small Business Payroll Software: Features Every SME Must Check
Small business payroll software is a system that helps companies calculate employee salaries, track attendance, manage statutory deductions such as PF, ESI, and professional tax, and automatically generate payslips. Popular options in India include Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll), Zoho Payroll, and Kredily. You’re probably here because you’ve decided to stop doing payroll on Excel. Good
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Shift Tracker for Small Businesses: Features & Use Cases
Introduction For small business owners, handling staff time management is likely a daily task. In a retail shop, some workers come early in the morning. Others come later in the day. Restaurants work in a similar way. Some staff work in the morning. Others work in the afternoon or evening. In warehouses or factories, workers
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