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Leather & footwear

Payroll software for shoe and leather goods factories

Clickers, closers, lasters and finishers, each with a different structure. Mark the floor daily and the monthly run does the rest, advances included.

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In short

SimpleERP is payroll software for shoe and leather goods factories. Clickers, closers, lasters and finishers get salary structures once, attendance and leave feed the monthly run, and deductions and advance recovery appear on every payslip.

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

A payroll day at Nene Valley Footwear

Nene Valley Footwear employs 42 people: clickers who cut the upper leather, closers who stitch it, lasters who pull it over the lasts, sole fixers, finishers and packers, plus a designer and two in the office. Many closing outworkers in the trade are used to being paid by the pairs they finish in a lot, and a few still are.

Before Christmas and Eid the advances pile up, and every month someone has to work out how much to recover from whom. Attendance lives in the supervisor's diary, which he takes home.

SimpleERP gives each worker a monthly structure, marks the whole floor from one sheet, and recovers each advance through the payslip until it is cleared. Approving the run posts wages and deductions to the books.

How are clickers, closers and lasters paid?

Each role gets a monthly salary structure built from components, with skill allowances where the work needs them. The run reads paid days from attendance and applies the deductions for each person.

  • A skill allowance for clickers who cut the costly upper leather for each article.
  • Pension for enrolled staff, with the employer's share as its own component.
  • Income tax and social security are figures you set per employee from their tax details.
RoleComponentsShiftAdvances
Clickers (cutting)Basic, skill allowance, tax, social security, pensionDay shift, 9:00 to 6:00Christmas advance of $700, recovered over 5 months
Closers (upper stitching)Basic, tax, social security, pension where enrolledDay shiftEid advance, cut over four payslips
Lasters and sole fixersBasic, tax, social security, pensionDay shift, longer in the autumn seasonSmall loans, cleared on the next payslip
Finishers and packersBasic, tax, social securityDay shiftRarely
Designer and officeBasic, travel allowance, tax, social security, pensionDay shiftRarely
Payroll pattern at Nene Valley Footwear

Can the supervisor stop keeping a diary?

The daily sheet lists every worker with present, absent, half day and leave. One tap marks all present, and the supervisor changes only those who are out. Holidays and weekly offs are already on the sheet and cannot be overwritten.

  • Phone check-in for workers on self-service, with a late flag after the grace period.
  • Leave applied on a phone shows the balance before it is approved.
  • Loss of pay comes straight from absences and unpaid leave.

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

A closer checks in on a phone and the shift's grace period applies.

How do Christmas advances come back without a diary?

Record each advance with a monthly recovery amount. Every run deducts it until the balance is nil, and the payslip shows what is left, so a outworker who leaves after the season has a clear figure to settle.

  • Bonus is added in the review step for the month it is paid.
  • Approve and pay posts wages, deductions payable and the bank payment together.
  • Payslips reach workers on their phones through employee self-service.

One system

Where payroll connects

The approved run posts wages, statutory payables and the payment to the books in one step.

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 per-pair piece rates: outworkers paid by the pair need a monthly salary, with any output incentive typed in at review.
  • No weekly wage runs: payroll is monthly.

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 clickers, closers, lasters and finishers with their shift, salary structure, deductions and any advance outstanding.

  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

My closers are paid per pair. Can SimpleERP do that?

No. There is no piece-rate or per-pair pay, so the pairs a closer stitches are not counted into his wages. Units that move from per-pair pay usually set a fixed salary and add an output incentive as an amount in the review step, which is typed, not counted.

Can I pay a outworker weekly?

No. The payroll run is monthly. Weekly cash can be recorded as an advance and recovered from the monthly payslip, which keeps the outworker's balance clear and the books right.

Are tax and social security deducted for the floor staff?

The salary components seeded for your country appear on every payslip from the structure, at the amounts and percentages you set. Income tax is not computed from tax tables; set it per employee yourself.

Can workers see their own attendance and payslips?

Yes. Each worker signs in with their email to employee self-service, where they see payslips, leave balances and attendance, check in, and apply for leave that the supervisor approves.

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