Payroll software in Bangalore
Attendance, leave and statutory-ready payroll for Bangalore teams — PF, ESI, Karnataka professional tax and TDS applied to every payslip, with upload-ready return files.
What is payroll software in Bangalore?
Payroll software for a Bangalore business computes each employee's salary from attendance and leave, applies PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS, and issues payslips employees can download themselves. PeopleDeck does this per employee, per month — and generates upload-ready statutory files instead of leaving you to build them in spreadsheets.
Bangalore runs on IT and startup headcount — offer letters, ESOP-heavy CTCs and rapid joining cycles.
Statutory treatment for Karnataka
Karnataka professional tax is applied to every payslip automatically, alongside PF, ESI and TDS.
EPF
12% employee + 12% employer on the ₹15,000 ceiling (Code on Social Security 2020, notified 29 May 2026). ECR generated for upload by the 15th.
ESI
0.75% employee + 3.25% employer up to the ₹21,000 wage ceiling, tracked across both contribution periods.
Gratuity & TDS
Gratuity accrues at 15/26 of monthly wages per completed year; monthly TDS is computed per declaration, with Form 16-ready data.
PeopleDeck applies these to every payslip and generates upload-ready files; it never files on your behalf, so nothing reaches a portal without your sign-off.
Built for Bangalore's teams
IT services
Startups
Product & SaaS teams
- ✓ Web and mobile punches flow straight into the payroll run.
- ✓ Leave balances, approvals and encashment in the same system
- ✓ Payslips, Form 16 data and reimbursements on employee self-service
- ✓ Onboarding to full-and-final settlement, per employee per month
Payroll in Bangalore, concretely
Bangalore payroll is offer-letter payroll: CTCs assembled from basic, HRA, special allowance and variable pay, revised often as talent moves. The practical work is keeping structures coherent while people join mid-month, switch bands, and negotiate revisions, each with an effective date that has to compute cleanly into arrears. Karnataka professional tax applies as a monthly slab and sits beside PF and TDS on every payslip; ESI matters mainly for support and facilities staff under the wage ceiling. What breaks spreadsheets here is churn: joiners, exits and revisions in the same cycle, every cycle. What fixes it is effect-dated computation and a run preview that shows exactly which days and components each payslip paid. Notice-period buyouts, joining bonuses with clawbacks and relocation reimbursements (standard Bangalore offer furniture) each carry distinct tax treatment, and the engine computes them as the labelled lines they are instead of burying them in 'special allowance'. When the next funding round doubles headcount, the structures scale by assignment, not by copy-paste.
IT services pay patterns in Bangalore
Tech and startup teams pay differently from the city's factories: variable pay lands quarterly, reimbursements are heavy (device, internet, learning budgets), and notice-period buyouts appear in full-and-final settlements. PeopleDeck treats each as its own payslip line with its own tax treatment, so a quarterly incentive month doesn't distort TDS projections, and a buyout recovery is computed and shown rather than negotiated by email.
Your first month, realistically
A Bangalore team's first PeopleDeck month usually starts mid-quarter with hiring in flight: import the current master from the offer tracker, map bands to structures, and let the next joiner batch onboard straight into the system. The parallel run against the old sheet typically surfaces two things, a variable-pay component that was being taxed flat, and one or two PF ceilings applied on full basic instead of the ₹15,000 cap. Fix both in the structure, not per employee, and the second cycle is clean. By then self-service has quietly absorbed the payslip requests, and the only monthly artefacts finance still touches are the run preview and the bank file, which is the point at which most teams stop maintaining the old spreadsheet 'just in case'.
Mechanism deep-dives: the payroll engine · attendance & leave · statutory compliance
Running a school or college instead?
PeopleDeck is the standalone HRMS for any business, priced per employee. If payroll should live inside your institution's ERP, use SchoolDeck staff payroll for schools or CampusAlly payroll for colleges.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Bangalore have professional tax on salaries?
Karnataka professional tax is applied to every payslip automatically, alongside PF, ESI and TDS.
How is PeopleDeck priced?
Per employee, per month, in rupees. The bill follows your active headcount and nothing else: no module bundles, no per-branch fees, and the rate is shown transparently at sign-up.
Does PeopleDeck file PF and ESI returns?
No, and that boundary is intentional: the engine computes the contributions and builds portal-ready files, while the actual uploads and payments are acts you or your CA perform and sign off.
Can it handle it services attendance in Bangalore?
Web and mobile punches flow straight into the payroll run. Punches, shifts and leave land in the same run that computes PF, ESI and TDS.
Do ESOP-heavy CTCs work in PeopleDeck?
Cash components compute and pay as structured; ESOP grants are recorded as structure line items for the record but valuation and vesting stay with your cap-table tooling — stated plainly so there is no ambiguity about what the payroll engine owns.
How do frequent salary revisions stay manageable?
Each revision carries an effective date; the engine computes arrears across affected months in the next run and shows the month-wise working on the payslip, so even mid-cycle changes stay auditable.
What happens to payroll when we double headcount after a raise?
Structures are assigned, not rebuilt: new joiners inherit band structures on day one, batch imports validate statutory IDs up front, and the run scales without the month-end getting longer.
Run Bangalore payroll without the spreadsheets.
Per employee, per month: attendance to upload-ready returns.
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