Day 1 – 28
Capture inputs as they happen
- Employees check in / out from the portal — or admin marks attendance in bulk
- Leave requests approved with one click; balances auto-adjust
- Overtime / bonuses / adjustments raised through the year
Income Tax Act 2025 ready
Indian payroll, attendance & compliance — in one place.
FastLegal Payroll runs PF, ESI, PT, TDS-compliant payroll for your whole team. Built-in attendance, leave, bonuses, overtime, adjustments and contractor invoicing — plus employee and contractor portals. Designed for Indian SMBs and mid-market.
PF · ESI · PT · TDS · Gratuity built-inBranch & entity-wise payrollEmployee + contractor portals
app.fastlegal.in/dashboard
Active employees
128
+12 MoM
Payroll · May 2026
₹1.46 Cr
On track
Statutory due
₹18.4 L
5 challans ready
Filings prepared92%
Upcoming statutory · May 2026
PF ECR, ESI, PT, TDS, LWF — prepared automatically
15 MayReady
PF ECR
15 MayReady
ESI Return
20 MayReady
PT Karnataka
31 MayDrafting
TDS 24Q
30 JunScheduled
LWF Maharashtra
One workspace · every payroll workflow your finance team runs
PayrollAttendanceLeaveBonusesOvertimeAdjustmentsExpensesContractorsInvoicesDocumentsForm 16ComplianceEmployee portal
One platform
Everything your payroll team actually needs
FastLegal Payroll is shipped for Indian SMBs and mid-market — no fluff modules, no half-built features. Every screen below is in production today.
Indian Payroll Engine
PF (capped basic), ESI (₹21k ceiling), state-wise PT, TDS under Section 192 / Income-Tax Act 2025, and an opt-in 50%-of-CTC Basic-pay floor — all computed every cycle.
- PF / ESI / PT / TDS
- Multi-state PT slabs
- Branch / entity-wise runs
Attendance
Self check-in/out for employees plus an admin grid for marking single days, bulk days, full months, per-employee monthly editor, and CSV import — straight to payroll.
- 5 entry modes
- CSV template import
- Strict / relaxed mode
Leave & Holidays
Standard Indian leave types (CL/SL/EL/ML/PL/Comp-off/LOP) with per-employee balances, approval workflow, and holiday calendar grouped by Financial Year.
- Approval workflow
- FY-grouped holidays
- Balance ledger
Bonuses, Overtime & Adjustments
Performance bonuses, statutory bonus (Payment of Bonus Act), Factories Act overtime with weekday/weekend/holiday multipliers, and generic earnings or deductions — advances, EMIs, arrears, recoveries.
- Approve flow
- OT capping & rates
- Multi-month installments
Contractors & TDS
Onboard Indian or international contractors, capture PAN/GSTIN/bank/SWIFT, and let them submit invoices via the portal. TDS (Section 393 of Income-Tax Act 2025), GST and other deductions calculated automatically.
- Self-service portal
- 194J / 194C / 195 etc.
- GST CGST/SGST/IGST
Statutory Compliance
PF ECR, ESI return, PT, LWF, TDS 24Q — generated from payroll runs as ready-to-upload files. Audit trail captures every approval, edit, and payroll lock.
- PF ECR export
- Bank transfer file
- Full audit log
Tax & Form 16
New + Old regime slabs (FY 2025-26), Section 87A rebate up to ₹60k under ₹12L, standard deduction ₹75k. Auto-generated payslips, Form 16 (Part B), and offer letters as PDFs.
- New & Old regime
- Form 16 PDF
- Investment proofs
Expense Reimbursements
Employees submit GST-aware claims from the portal; admins approve, reject, or mark reimbursed. ITC tracked on every paid claim across the financial year.
- GST + ITC
- Approval workflow
- Mobile-friendly portal
Salary Structures
Build your own components (Basic, HRA, LTA, food coupons, employer contributions, balance) and assign them to employees with date-bounded CTC histories.
- Custom components
- Date-bounded CTC
- Code-on-Wages preset
Employee Portal
Every employee gets a self-serve portal — payslips, attendance check-in/out, leave requests, overtime entries, tax declarations, documents, expenses, profile.
- Mobile-first
- PDF payslips
- Tax declaration
Documents
Upload offer letters, Form 16s, PF challans, NDAs and tax declarations. Scope to one employee (private in their portal) or workspace-wide. Audit-tracked, 20 MB per file.
- 13 categories
- Per-employee scope
- Path-traversal safe
Audit & Notifications
Every workspace action is recorded — who, what, when. Employees and admins get in-app + email notifications for payroll, leave, OT, expenses and bonuses.
- Full audit log
- Email via ZeptoMail
- In-app inbox
1 click
End-of-month payroll run
5 modes
Attendance entry · single / day / month / employee / CSV
13 reports
PF ECR · ESI · bank file · TDS 24Q + more
Code 2019
Wages 50%-of-CTC floor · enforced
Built for India
Every Indian statutory rule, in the engine
No external calculator, no spreadsheet, no chasing a CA. PF, ESI, PT, TDS, gratuity, and an opt-in 50%-of-CTC Basic-pay floor are baked into every payroll run — and the Income Tax Act 2025 transition is already wired.
Income Tax Act 2025 ready
50% Basic-pay floor
All state PT + LWF
§87A rebate up to ₹60k
PF · capped basic
12% of basic, capped at ₹15,000/month for both employee and employer share.
ESI · ₹21k ceiling
0.75% employee + 3.25% employer, automatically waived when gross exceeds the ceiling.
PT · state-wise slabs
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat and more — built-in.
TDS · Section 192 / 393
Income Tax Act 2025 ready — salary TDS under §392, contractor TDS under the consolidated §393 with payment codes.
Bank transfer files
HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Kotak and generic NEFT/RTGS formats — exported straight from a payroll run.
GST · CGST / SGST / IGST
Contractor invoices split CGST + SGST for intra-state, IGST for inter-state — automatic from state of supply.
Inside a payroll month
From inputs to Form 16 — without leaving the dashboard
Every step below is in production today. No "coming soon" tags, no integrations you have to chase, no plug-ins to install.
Last day
Lock the month in three clicks
- Bulk-fill the calendar with PRESENT — weekends, holidays and leaves auto-skipped
- Pre-payroll checklist surfaces missing PAN, bank or assignment
- Run payroll for the workspace or a single branch · scheduled runs supported
Day +1
Disburse + file in minutes
- Bank transfer file generated for HDFC / ICICI / SBI / Kotak / generic NEFT
- Payslips e-mailed to every employee with the ₹ glyph rendered correctly
- PF ECR, ESI, PT and TDS 24Q exports ready to upload
Year-end
Form 16 generated with one click
- Reads every payslip, every TDS deduction, every regime selection
- Generates Form 16 (Part B) PDF per employee — TRACES-compatible
- Income Tax Act 2025 transition handled automatically
Why FastLegal Payroll
One workspace vs. a stitched-together stack
Everything below is in the box — no add-on tiers, no separate compliance suite, no separate portal product.
Capability
FastLegal Payroll
Legacy SaaS
Offline consultant
Setup time
60 seconds · workspace bootstraps with defaults
1–2 days of forms
1–2 weeks back-and-forth
PF / ESI / PT / TDS
All built-in, every run
Add-on modules
Manual Excel
Income Tax Act 2025 ready
Section 392 / 393 + Form 130 transition
Often 6+ months late
Depends on the CA
Basic-pay floor
50%-of-CTC Basic floor enforced
Configurable
Manual
Contractor TDS · §393
Built-in with payment codes
Rare
Manual challan
Attendance entry modes
5 (single, day, month, employee, CSV)
1–2
Spreadsheet
Adjustments + installments
Built-in · auto-split across N months
Plug-in
Manual
Employee + contractor portal
Included
Premium tier
Email
Exports & filings
Every file your CA, bank or auditor will ask for
Each export below is one-click from a finalized payroll run — no glue scripts, no manual Excel patching. Upload statutory files to EPFO / ESIC / TRACES portals directly; push bank files into your corporate net-banking portal.
- · File formats validated against bank / authority specs
- · ₹ and Indian-grouping ('1,00,000') everywhere
- · Audit log records every export download
PF ECR (.txt)Statutory
ESI returnStatutory
PT challanStatutory
TDS 24Q · Section 392Statutory
Bank transfer · HDFCDisbursal
Bank transfer · ICICIDisbursal
Bank transfer · SBIDisbursal
Bank transfer · KotakDisbursal
Generic NEFT / RTGSDisbursal
Payslip PDF (per employee)Document
Form 16 Part B · PDFDocument
Offer letter · PDFDocument
Contractor invoice · PDFDocument
Employees · ExcelReport
Payroll register · ExcelReport
Filings due · ExcelReport
Attendance CSV (round-trip)Report
Audit log · ExcelReport
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Run your next payroll on FastLegal Payroll.
Create a workspace, bootstrap the standard Indian defaults (leave types, salary structure, holidays for two years), add your first employee, and run May payroll — all before your evening chai.
- Workspace auto-bootstrapped on signup (leave types, salary structure, holidays)
- PF / ESI / PT / TDS computed every run — every cycle
- Employee + contractor portals included, no extra tier
- No credit card needed