Resources
Notes from building payroll
What we learned making the numbers come out right.
Attendance
What an attendance record has to answer
Present, absent and half-day are not descriptions. They are inputs to somebody’s pay.
21 Aug 2026
Compliance
ESI contribution cycles, and why mid-cycle crossings are hard
An employee who crosses the wage ceiling in August stays covered until September. Getting that wrong is a compliance problem, not a rounding one.
2 Aug 2026
Payroll
Why payroll drifts, and what stops it
Most payroll errors are not arithmetic. They are the same figure entered twice, in two places, on two days.
14 Jul 2026