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Staff & Salary Slips

Managing staff and generating salary slips

Record what you pay each staff member through Payment Vouchers, then turn it into a clean, professional salary slip in one click — no separate payroll software.

Before you start

Staff is an optional module, and it deliberately doesn't try to be full payroll software — no PF, no ESI, no tax deductions. It's for a business that just wants a clean, professional record of what each staff member was paid.

A lot of small businesses don't need — or want to pay for — dedicated payroll software just to keep track of staff payments and hand over something presentable at the end of the month. WatCoreLite's Staff module builds a salary slip straight out of payments you're already recording, with nothing extra to maintain.

Add a staff member once

Create a staff record with their name, role, and contact details. If you want their salary slip to show a breakdown rather than just one lump figure, add a few rows under Salary structure — a label and an amount each, like "Basic Salary" and "TA". That structure is for display only; it doesn't drive any automatic calculation.

Record payments the normal way

Every payment to a staff member is just a Payment Voucher, linked to that staff member — the same voucher you'd already use to track any other business expense. There's no separate "run payroll" step to remember.

Generate the slip

From a staff member's page, pick a month and click to generate their Salary Slip. It shows their salary structure (if you set one up) and every payment voucher actually paid to them that month, side by side — two separate totals, not one blended number pretending to be an authoritative balance. Download it as a PDF to hand over or keep on file.

Why two totals, not one

A salary slip that shows "structure total" and "paid total" side by side tells the truth about two different things — what was planned and what actually went out — rather than subtracting one from the other and implying a payroll balance WatCoreLite was never built to calculate.
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