Simple payroll for a small business: from attendance to payslip
For a small business, payroll shouldn't need an accountant or a complicated spreadsheet. If you already track attendance, most of the work is done — the numbers just need to flow through to each person's pay. A simple payroll app for small business does exactly that: it takes the days and hours your staff worked and turns them into an accurate monthly payslip.
The problem with spreadsheets
Manual payroll means copying attendance into a sheet, remembering who took leave, subtracting advances, adding overtime, and hoping the formulas are right. It's slow and easy to get wrong — and a payroll mistake costs you trust with your team. Automating it removes the errors and the month-end scramble.
How Rosterbook turns attendance into pay
Because Rosterbook records attendance as it happens, payroll is mostly automatic:
- Days and hours are counted from real check-ins — for monthly-salary, daily-wage or hourly staff.
- Overtime and late arrivals are applied according to each person's shift and rate.
- Leave (paid, unpaid, sick) is tracked and reflected in the month's pay.
- Advances are deducted automatically when you finalize the month.
- Bonuses and allowances (conveyance, meal, extra-day) are added where they apply.
Payslips and exports
At month-end you review each employee's report, make any adjustments, and approve it. You can then share a clean PDF payslip with each person. On the Business plan, you also get a web dashboard and Excel and Tally exports, so handing figures to your accountant is a single click.
Pro-rating and mid-month joiners
Someone joined on the 12th? Rosterbook lets you pro-rate the month so new joiners and leavers are paid exactly for the time they worked — no manual maths.
Getting started
Add your work location, add your staff, and let them check in from their phones. By the end of the month your payroll is ready. It's free for up to 3 staff, and paid plans (which start with a free trial) add more staff, manager logins, the web dashboard and exports.
Turn attendance into accurate payslips — free for up to 3 staff.
Get Rosterbook
Questions? See our support page or email info@rosterbook.in.