Module
SIAARU Payroll
Salary, statutory deductions and Form 16 Part B — every rate stated with its source, and nothing filed on your behalf.
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The tenth. A payslip goes out with the provident fund quietly missing.
The running product, filmed as it works — every number on screen was computed live while the camera was rolling. The voice names no number, so a re-recording can never contradict the screen.
What it produces
- An org structure that is a structure: departments, reporting lines, grades, and a job description each role is measured against
- Promotion history — what changed, when, from what to what, and who approved it
- A salary structure per employee, effective-dated and never edited in place, as named components rather than one CTC number
- Payslips computed from that structure and the period's own events, each line printing the arithmetic that produced it
- Payslips mailed to the employee they belong to when a named person approves the run — one recipient per message, and an address shared by two people holds both
- EPF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS, every rate and slab carrying the source and effective date you stated it with
- Professional tax read against the slab of the state each employee works in, because that is the only way it can be right
- Form 16 Part B prepared from the year's own payslips
- Contribution files as CSV with the working — not a portal format written from recollection
A worked example
September — 42 employees, ₹18,44,120 gross
EPF ₹1,42,560 at 12% of basic, ceiling ₹15,000 — source: EPF Act, stated 01 Apr 2026
professional tax ₹8,400 on the Gujarat slab — stated 01 Apr 2026
1 employee unassessed: no professional tax slab stated for Karnataka
→ the return is prepared. Your accountant files it.
Illustrative numbers. On your tenant the same page shows yours.
Why it is hard
The part that is not a report.
Payroll is the one system where being confidently wrong is discovered by the employee, in public, on the tenth — which is why every rate, slab and ceiling here is stated by you and carries the source it came from, rather than being built in. The EPF wage ceiling, the two ESIC contribution rates, the professional tax slab for each state you employ in, and the income tax slabs for the regime each employee elected all move, and they move on different dates. Where one has not been stated the payslip refuses that deduction by name instead of quietly applying last year's. Form 16 has two parts and only one of them can honestly be produced by software that files nothing: Part B is the salary breakdown and the tax computed, prepared here from the year's own payslips, while Part A comes from TRACES and carries the quarterly returns actually filed.
Opened by the administrator and the finance director — what each of them sees first.
Said before you ask
What we don’t do.
SIAARU decides from your records and nothing else. It carries no copy of the world’s data, states no number your systems have not, and acts in nobody’s name. Where your data does not support an answer, it says so by name rather than producing a confident one — which is the whole reason a decision taken on it holds up later.
SIAARU files nothing. It holds no TAN credential, no digital signature and no portal login: it computes, records, and hands a person the numbers. The same boundary DutyGuard, e‑Invoice and Statutory Returns already hold. Four things are worth stating plainly. Every rate, slab, ceiling and threshold is yours to state, carrying its source and the date it took effect — the provident fund ceiling and whether it binds, the two ESI rates and the wage threshold, the professional tax slab for each state you employ in, and the income tax slabs for the regime each employee elected. Nothing of the sort is written into this product. Where one is not on file the payslip refuses that deduction by name rather than quietly applying last year’s, because a payroll that is confidently wrong is discovered by the employee, in public, on the tenth. Form 16 has two parts: Part B is the salary breakdown and the tax computed, prepared here from the year’s own payslips; Part A comes from TRACES and carries the quarterly returns actually filed, so it is downloaded, not produced here. The contribution files are readable CSVs with the working, not the EPFO’s ECR layout or the ESIC workbook — writing either from recollection is how a payroll uploads a file that is accepted, misread and credited to the wrong people, and the person who reconciles ours against the portal’s own template is the person who signs the upload. And two things are not computed: marginal relief on the section 87A rebate, which is applied on surcharge only; and perquisites and profits in lieu of salary, which SIAARU does not record and which the Form 16 therefore shows as nil and says so.
Where this sits
One of 36 modules, on one engine.
SIAARU Payroll reads the same reconciled data as everything else SIAARU runs — connected read-only to your ERP, scored on the way in, measured in SQL. How that engine works is a page of its own. The other 35 modules, each with the state it is really in and the reason where it is not switched on, are on the module list; what this one costs, and what it costs beside the rest, is on the pricing page.