IT and agencies
Payroll software for IT companies and agencies
Thirty salaries, half the team working from home on any day, two joiners and one exit this month, and four freelance designers who are not on payroll at all.
In short
SimpleERP is payroll software for IT companies and agencies. Developers and designers get payslips from attendance and leave with tax and pension deductions, work-from-home is an attendance status, and freelancers are paid by supplier bill.
Illustration of a payslip with Basic salary, Allowances, Bonus and net pay of 4,440.
A payroll day at Temple Quay Softworks
Salaries at Temple Quay Softworks go out on the last working day, and the developers notice when they are late. This month two developers joined on the 12th, a QA engineer is serving the last fortnight of her notice, and a designer took four days of unpaid leave between sprints.
Most of the team works from home on Mondays and Fridays. Attendance used to be a shared sheet that nobody filled after the first week, and the HR executive rebuilt it from Slack messages before every payroll.
Four freelance illustrators and a contract developer work on retainer and raise their own invoices. They are paid like suppliers against their invoices, and they never appear in the salary register.
How should a software company set up salary components?
Set one structure per grade and assign it to each person. The run reads paid days from attendance, pro-rates a joiner on the 12th automatically and posts the whole month to the books once approved.
- Bonus and arrears added to a payslip before you approve.
- Income tax set per employee from their tax code or details, since income tax is not computed.
| Who | Paid through | Lines on the payslip or bill |
|---|---|---|
| Developers, QA and designers on salary | Payroll | Basic, allowance, income tax, social security, pension |
| Joiner mid-month | Payroll, pro-rated by paid days | The same lines for the days worked |
| Employee serving notice | Payroll until the last day | Leave encashment or recovery as a manual line |
| Freelance illustrator or contract developer | Supplier bill | Their fee as a service line, with their tax if they charge it |
| Client travel and co-working passes | Expense claim | Each bill with a receipt photo |
Does work from home count as a paid day?
Yes. Work from home is an attendance status of its own, so a developer at home on Monday is paid exactly like one at Temple Quay. Leave is requested on a phone, approved by the team lead, and loss of pay comes only from absences and unpaid leave.
- Check-in from a phone browser, at home or in the office.
- Leave balances that change the moment a request is approved.
- Bank holidays set once for the year.
Illustration of the daily attendance sheet on a phone with a Mark all present button.
How do joiners and exits fit in the monthly run?
A new hire is added with a joining date and a structure, invited to self-service and allocated a laptop in the same afternoon. At exit, the final payslip carries the last paid days, and the asset register lists the laptop and monitor to collect before the relieving letter goes out.
- Advances recovered from the final payslip if any balance remains.
- Payslips on the phone for every month while they are with you.
- Payroll register exported to CSV for your accountant's payroll filings.
One system
What it connects to
IT services and agencies
Pipeline to retainer invoices, payroll for a salaried team and a laptop register.
See howInventory for IT companies
Track the routers and firewalls you resell and the spare parts you keep for maintenance contract visits; register laptops as assets and ignore the rest.
See howAccounting for IT companies
Service income by line of business, client advances, tax withheld by clients, cloud and software costs and a monthly close for a software house.
See howPayroll
Salary structures, monthly runs and payslips with your earnings and deductions, posted to the books.
See how
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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 Form 16 generation or full-and-final settlement workflow; the final payslip is adjusted by hand
Getting started
Start with payroll
Sign up with your email
Name, email and a password. No card for the seven-day trial.
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.
Add your people
Add each developer, designer and QA engineer with a joining date and a salary structure, and invite them to self-service by email.
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
Can developers see their own payslips without emailing HR?
Yes. Every employee has self-service on their phone, with payslips for each approved month, leave balances, attendance and the status of their claims. They see only their own; salaries stay hidden from anyone whose role does not include payroll.
Does SimpleERP work out income tax on salary?
No. It does not compute income tax. Your accountant or HR works out each developer's monthly tax from their tax code, and you enter it as the tax deduction on their structure; payroll then deducts and posts it.
We pay freelancers every month. Should they be in payroll?
No. Freelancers and contract developers raise invoices, so record each one as a supplier bill and pay it from payables. They stay out of the salary register and payroll deductions.
Our team leads approve leave. Can they also approve claims?
Yes. Approvals are single-step: a team lead given the approve permission for leave and claims approves or rejects them, and the accountant pays approved claims. There is no second approval level in this release.
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