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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

1. Very Smooth Onboarding Process

2. Automates payroll calculations, tax deductions etc.

3. API integration option available.

4. Flexible with payroll settings to various pay structures and policies.

5. Employee self Services.

6. Web and App Access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

1. Multilayer process flow need to improve.

2. Customer supportslow response time.

3. There are some limitations with geographical coverages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy and Instant access of Payslip, Required Tax Documents and any deduction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zoho Payroll Overview

What is Zoho Payroll?

Zoho Payroll is a cloud-based payroll software, and also the simplest one that exists in the market today. You can automatically stay compliant with labour and statutory laws of USA, India, UAE and Saudi Arabia.​ Whether you're a startup or a large enterprise, it offers great scalability and plenty of customization to fit your needs. With a uniquely integrated payroll ecosystem, you can automate accounting, and expense management.​ The support team is quick, friendly, and always ready to help you with any questions you might have, along with migration and implementation assistance to make your journey smooth. The intuitive employee self-service portal is loved by the employees, and has the highest ratings in Google Play Store and iOS App Store in its category, as employers have digitized all their manual paperwork. India edition : Comply with Income Tax, Employee Provident Fund (EPF), Employee State Insurance (ESI), Labour Welfare Fund (LWF), and Professional Tax for each state. Download Form 24Q and pre-formatted reports to make return filing easy. Pay salaries online with direct deposit integrations with YES Bank, and HSBC. Employees can submit investment proofs and reimbursement claims digitally through their self-service portals. UAE edition : Comply with pension, end of service, and WPS. Employ any GCC national, and pension deductions are calculated automatically by Zoho Payroll, as dictated by the pension schemes of each GCC country. Gratuity for expats is automatically calculated based on contract type, separation type, and free zones. Download auto-generated SIF files to make your WPS submission easy and quick. Send payslips automatically and allow employees to instantly get access to payslips, and other payroll related documents. USA edition​ : Covering all 50 states, Zoho Payroll is built to automate payroll end-to-end. You can accommodate diverse compensation structures based on your needs, finish payroll in a few clicks, send salaries, and automatically generate pay stubs online with a thorough breakdown of salary, overtime, federal and state tax withholdings, benefit deductions, and adhoc payments. Through Zoho Payroll, you can pay federal, state, and local taxes online, and ensure that all due taxes are paid on time with timely reminders acting as your guiding light. KSA Edition : Zoho Payroll automates payroll calculations and ensures compliance with local laws. It supports the minimum salary requirements for Saudi nationals, calculates end-of-service benefits, and manages social security contributions such as GOSI Annuities, SANED (unemployment contribution) and GOSI hazards. The software can handle various employee exits, document management and minimum salary threshold of 40,000 SAR for Saudi Nationals. Additionally, SIF files are auto-generated to simplify WPS submissions. Zoho Payroll sends payslips automatically and allows employees to instantly access payslips and other payroll-related documents.

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Zoho Payroll is a cloud-based payroll software which automatically calculates salaries, taxes and deductions, sends payslips /pay stubs. It currently has three editions built to work in compliance with the taxation and labour laws of India, UAE, and USA. Core features - Automatic salary, tax, and deduction calculations - Compliance with tax and labour laws of India, UAE, and USA - Generate and distribute pay stubs online - Employee self-service portal with mobile apps - Flexible salary configurations - User access control - Salary revisions - Approval flows - Integrations with Zoho Books, Zoho Expense, and Zoho People India edition Comply with Income Tax, Employee Provident Fund (EPF), Employee State Insurance (ESI), Labour Welfare Fund (LWF), and Professional Tax for each state. Download Form 24Q and pre-formatted reports for make return filing easy. Pay salaries online with direct deposit integrations with ICICI Bank, YES Bank, and HSBC. Employees can submit investment proofs and reimbursement claims digitally through their self-service portals. UAE edition Comply with pension, end of service, and WPS. Employ any GCC national and pension deductions are calculated automatically by Zoho Payroll, as dictated by the pension schemes of each GCC country. Gratuity for expats is automatically calculated based on contract type, separation type, and free zones. Download auto-generated SIF files to make your WPS submission easy and quick. USA edition Comply with all federal and state taxes in the USA. Calculate your employees' federal tax (FUTA, FIT, social security). Calculate state taxes and unemployment taxes (subject to list of supported states in Zoho Payroll). Generate pay stubs online and pay your employees on time with Forte direct deposit integration.


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Shradha J.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It is a great software to automate the payroll process."
Ease in operating. It is user friendly. Easy to integrate with other Zoho Applications to track. Good support from the zoho whenever required . You...
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User friendly, Quick Support, Self learning
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3.5 out of 5
"It has good features but confusing"
Its detail oriented. the access control is too much which is good and bad both on the admin side.
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Zoho Payroll Demo - Zoho Payroll USA edition
Automatic federal, state, and local tax payment and filings
Zoho Payroll Demo - Employee self-service portal USA
Employee self-service portal - web and mobile app
Zoho Payroll Demo - Zoho Payroll India edition
Compliant with TDS, EPF, ESI, LWF, and PT. Direct deposit with ICICI Bank, YES Bank, and HSBC.
Zoho Payroll Demo - Employee self-service portal India
Download payslips, declare investments, submit reimbursements, and investment proofs, contact payroll admin, and more
Zoho Payroll Demo - Zoho Payroll UAE edition
Compliant with pension, end of service, and WPS
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Shradha J.
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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Ease in operating. It is user friendly. Easy to integrate with other Zoho Applications to track. Good support from the zoho whenever required . You can implement this sofware easily with large group . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

There is nothing to dislike about this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Right from the TDS calculation to generating form 16 it is very helpful. Also you can keep check on the various reports gerated by the software which helps in decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Zoho Payroll is one of the most cleanest and easy to use payroll software. It has amazing user experience making it very pleasing to the eye of the user. Also, the features are so intuitive and useful like you can toggle between investment declarations, salary details, your monthly payslips, naturally without any difficulty. I use it very frequently to keep a track of my finances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

Extensive customaizations for unique payroll structures might require some technical expertise or additional support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping the organization to maintain the payroll of each employee, the investment declarations as well as submission of proofs for investments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunil Y.
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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

The best thing I like about Zoho payroll, it is easy to onboard new employees on our company profile.We can check history of employees, all the data is easily available. We used it for month to month payroll processing and pay slip generation. We used it for around 8 months. The customer support is also friendly they help us if we have any issues. Overall transition from old payroll system to this was very easy and streamlined. It was easy to implement with any organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

The missing feature which acccording to me lacks is running payrolls in batches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho payroll according to me helps small and medium enterprises to have their own payroll system without spending too much of budget. It helped us to minimize the additional efforts and costs to manual intervention in paying salaries and managing employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Posting self-appraisal forms by the employees are employee friendly.

Tax filing is very user-friendly as it computes tax by itself when we submit the proofs.

Easy shift between the old regime and the new regime with a click while computing tax.

In compliance with the local laws and regulations.

Supports easy integration with other Zoho products and apps.

An easy user interface for HR and business professionals without in need of any personal training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

Response time for the customer service is slow.

Dashboards and the templates page could have been better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Every month's payroll is easily accessible.

Automatic tax calculations are very supportive reducing errors and user friendly.

Integrations with other Zoho apps are easy.

Investment declarations and submitting proofs for tax filing is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Zoho Payroll is great and easy platform to use. The software allow automatic tax & salary calculation with every less human interferance.

The dashboard are very simple to use and navigate and can be accesible at any device at any point of time.

Easy integration.

Additionally, all the compliance part is pre entered in the software as per the organisation needs which allow you as admin to do things freely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

The software needs to be more flexible and the interfer can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho is benefiting us by the following ways:

1.No manual calculation of salary and taxes.

2.No need to remember the compliance law, everthing is already there in the system.

3.Easy to access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

It is easy to use and track all the calculations simultaneously at the same place. Support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

Migrating from other sources takes time. Sometimes it leads to slowness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

It simplifies the calculation process by automations. For us, it is much easier when we integrate with other Zoho products. Easy for the Employees to view and download the data. The graph helps to check their performance growth as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Himanshi  B.
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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Its detail oriented. the access control is too much which is good and bad both on the admin side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

The processes are to lengthy. Please increase more customer support. most of the time I raise the query and it's overlooks or not answered. We are a potential customer to Zoho Payroll, atleast the processes should be explained to us. No option to edit basic historical changes like 'employee exit details', after a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

to run company payroll Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Everything is spread out naturally, and, surprisingly, fresh recruits can explore fundamental capabilities like submitting timesheets. It's a breeze to set up new representatives and oversee fundamental finance errands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

I maintain a private venture with a couple of workers who live in various states, and Zoho Payroll has battled with taking care of the different state and neighborhood charge savings precisely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Payroll makes a fair showing. It smoothes out errands like direct store and computerizes numerous monotonous cycles. This saves significant time I can spend zeroing in on developing my business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

Simplifies payroll management by setting up straightforward processes.

Guides users with a step-by-step process making it easy for new users.

Integration is user friendly.

It stays compliant with the local payroll laws and regulations.

It is easy to automate tasks, calculate salary, and compute tax.

It is user friendly and reduces time and avoids human error.

Easy to access pay slips and tax forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

Customer support could have been better.

Live chat and support features could have been better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

Investment declaration and proof of investment filing could not be much easier in any other tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zoho Payroll?

I can see my salary, download payslips, and do IT declarations all from the same platform. It is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zoho Payroll?

I haven't come across anything that I have difficulty understanding or dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zoho Payroll solving and how is that benefiting you?

I don't have to reach out to my HR for Form 16, salary slips, or any payroll-related info. Everything is mentioned one the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.