The building blocks
- Components — earnings and deductions such as Basic, HRA, special allowance.
- A salary structure that combines components and their formulas.
- A pay group — who is paid together, on which cycle.
- Statutory rates for the current financial year: PF, ESI, professional tax and labour welfare fund by state, and income-tax slabs.
- Each employee's salary, under Salary structures (or imported).
Statutory rates are maintained by ECN and published to every company, but the seeded year is copied forward and flagged until somebody reviews it. Confirm PT and LWF slabs for your states with your CA before the first run.
Joining mid-year
If you switch to ECN People during a financial year, load each person's year-to-date earnings, PF and TDS with the YTD import (preview, then apply all or nothing; it can be undone). Without it, tax for the rest of the year is projected from zero.
Money and rounding
Amounts are held to the paisa and shown in rupees. Payroll only reads approved attendance and leave — it never guesses.