Payroll software in Chennai
Attendance, leave and statutory-ready payroll for Chennai teams — PF, ESI, Tamil Nadu professional tax and TDS applied to every payslip, with upload-ready return files.
What is payroll software in Chennai?
Payroll software for a Chennai 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.
Chennai payroll straddles factory shifts and IT floors, with Tamil Nadu's half-yearly professional tax cycle.
Statutory treatment for Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu professional tax runs on a half-yearly cycle; PeopleDeck applies it per employee and keeps the two contribution periods straight.
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 Chennai's teams
Manufacturing
IT services
Auto & ancillaries
- ✓ Factory shifts, wage attendance and overtime 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 Chennai, concretely
Chennai payroll lives on two clocks: factory shifts along the auto corridor and IT floors in the parks, under Tamil Nadu's distinctive half-yearly professional tax cycle, assessed per six-month period rather than deducted as a flat monthly slab. Getting TN PT right means tracking each employee's earnings across the half-year and applying the slab at the period, which is exactly the kind of rule a spreadsheet forgets in month four. PeopleDeck runs the half-yearly cycle natively, while shift attendance, overtime and wage-and-staff mixed payrolls compute the way the city's manufacturers actually operate. The corridor's apprentice pipelines (NEEM, NAPS, ITI batches) rotate quarterly, each with stipend structures that are not salaries and must not be treated as such. Keeping apprentices, contract operators and staff statutorily distinct while paying them all on time is the Chennai plant's real month-end test.
Manufacturing pay patterns in Chennai
Auto and ancillary units run three-shift patterns with overtime as a standing feature, and apprentice stipends beside wage payroll. Each population holds its own structure: shift wages with OT multipliers, stipends with their own statutory treatment, staff salaries, and the ECR that leaves at month-end carries all of them member-accurate. Export-oriented units add buyer-audit evidence to the list: wage and hour records per worker, exportable when compliance questionnaires arrive, generated by the same runs that pay the floor, never reconstructed after the fact.
Your first month, realistically
The Chennai migration has one non-negotiable first step: load each employee's half-year earnings to date, because Tamil Nadu professional tax is assessed per period and a mid-period cutover without history would misapply the slab. With that carried in, the first run applies PT against true period earnings and the half-year closes correctly. Plant populations follow the usual sequence (rosters, capture, OT multipliers) and apprentice stipend structures come last, kept by design separate from wages. The first ECR generated from actual shift data, member-accurate without a clerk's weekend, is typically the moment the plant accountant stops hedging.
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 Chennai have professional tax on salaries?
Tamil Nadu professional tax runs on a half-yearly cycle; PeopleDeck applies it per employee and keeps the two contribution periods straight.
How is PeopleDeck priced?
A single per-employee monthly rate in rupees, with the full platform included. Joiners add to the bill when they join; settled leavers stop counting when they leave.
Does PeopleDeck file PF and ESI returns?
It prepares, you file. Contributions are applied at current rates and the ECR and return files generate from each approved run, but filing authority remains with the establishment and its consultant.
Can it handle manufacturing attendance in Chennai?
Factory shifts, wage attendance and overtime flow straight into the payroll run. Punches, shifts and leave land in the same run that computes PF, ESI and TDS.
How does Tamil Nadu's half-yearly professional tax actually work?
PT in Tamil Nadu is assessed per half-year against slab earnings for the period. PeopleDeck accumulates each employee's half-year earnings and applies the correct slab at the cycle, no monthly guessing, no year-end surprises.
Can factory and IT payroll run in one cycle?
Yes, separate structures and capture per location, one statutory engine and one run. A plant in Sriperumbudur and an office in Taramani close the same payday.
How are NAPS/NEEM apprentices paid correctly?
On stipend structures with apprentice-appropriate statutory treatment (distinct from employee PF/ESI) so the plant's month-end covers all three populations without conflating them.
Run Chennai payroll without the spreadsheets.
Per employee, per month: attendance to upload-ready returns.
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