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Electrical and electronics

Payroll software for electrical manufacturing units

Pay panel wiremen, assembly helpers and the testing engineer from one attendance screen, with tax and benefit deductions and the season's advances taken back month by month.

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In short

SimpleERP is payroll software for electrical manufacturing units. Wiremen, assemblers and testers are paid monthly from attendance, structures carry Basic, allowances and the deductions you add, and advances are recovered on each payslip.

Illustration of a payslip with Basic salary, Allowances, Bonus and net pay of 4,440.

A payroll day at Valley Pump Controls

Twenty-two people work at Valley Pump Controls: wiremen who build the panels, assembly helpers who mount contactors and run copper wire, a testing engineer who powers every panel on the bench, two drivers and the office staff. A wireman is rated by how many DOL starter and star-delta control panels he finishes in a shift, a helper by how many MCBs, overload relays and busbars he mounts into enclosures, and the pump dealers who buy the panels never see any of it. Some of the helpers are enrolled in the company health plan and some are not.

From February to May the floor works Saturdays to meet the pump season, and the owner pays the extra days at the end of the month. The rest of the year is a normal week, and the payroll has to know the difference.

How do I set up a deduction that applies to only some workers?

Each employee has a salary structure. Add the health plan as a deduction component, a fixed amount, only to the structures of those enrolled. The run then deducts it for them and leaves the other payslips without it.

  • Social security and Medicare as percentages of gross, with the employer's share posted as a contribution.
  • Federal and state withholding set per employee from their tax details.
  • A raise from April is a new structure with an effective date.
ItemHow it is setWho it applies to
BasicFixedEveryone
Tool allowanceFixedWiremen and the testing engineer
Social security and Medicare7.65% of gross, as componentsEveryone
Health planFixed deductionStaff enrolled in the plan
Day shift9.00 to 5.30, 15 grace minutesAssembly floor and office
Season SaturdaysExtra days added as an earnings lineFloor staff, February to May
Salary advanceRecovered $150 a monthWhoever takes one
Components, shifts and advances as Valley Pump Controls sets them.

What does a panel wireman take home?

Miguel, a senior wireman, has Basic $3,000 and a tool allowance of $200, a gross of $3,200. Federal withholding of $260 as set, social security and Medicare at 7.65% of gross, $244.80, and his $150 advance instalment bring net pay to $2,545.20 for a full month.

  • Absent days become loss of pay from the attendance marks.
  • The advance line stops once the balance is cleared.
  • Payslip on A4 with net pay in words, or on his phone through self-service.

Illustration of the daily attendance sheet on a phone with a Mark all present button.

Attendance on a phone, which becomes paid days in the run.

How does the month's run reach the books?

Generate the run, fix the exceptions such as season Saturdays, then approve. Approval posts salary expense and employer contributions against salaries payable and deductions payable, and the pay step clears salaries payable from the bank.

  • A negative net pay blocks approval, so a large advance recovery is caught first.
  • Payroll register per run with every component, exportable to CSV.

One system

What it connects to

Attendance and leave feed payroll, and an approved run writes its own journal to the ledger.

Honest limits

What SimpleERP does not do yet

  • Income tax withholding is not computed from government tables; you set the deduction per employee
  • Social security, pension and end-of-service amounts are components you set, not statutory calculations
  • No biometric device integration: attendance is marked on the phone or entered by HR
  • No incentive per panel wired; pay it as an earnings line on the draft payslip

Getting started

Start with payroll

  1. Sign up with your email

    Name, email and a password. No card for the seven-day trial.

  2. Tell us about the business

    Pick your country and, if you are registered, type your tax number. Accounts, tax rates, units, roles and numbering are seeded for that country.

  3. Add your people

    Add your wiremen, helpers, testing engineer and office staff with a shift and a salary structure, adding the health plan only where it applies.

  4. Run the first payroll

    Attendance and leave feed the run; payslips post to the books and staff see them on their phones.

FAQ

Questions, answered

A helper joins the health plan after a raise. What do I change?

Give him a new salary structure from the raise date with the health plan component. Earlier months keep the old structure, so past payslips stay as they were.

Can the testing engineer mark his own attendance when he is at a dealer's site?

Yes, with the Employee self-service role he checks in and out from his phone, and the time is recorded against his shift. There is no location check, so it relies on trust or the supervisor's review.

We pay a bonus before the holidays. Is it pro-rated?

Not if you set the bonus component to skip pro-rating. Add it to the December run for everyone eligible and it is paid in full whatever the paid days, then posted with the rest of the salary expense.

Does it file the payroll tax returns?

No. SimpleERP posts every deduction to its payable account and lists them in the payroll register, which exports to CSV. The deposits and returns are filed with the tax authorities by you or your payroll consultant.

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