Faculty + admin staff with the right leave structure (summer break, winter break, academic leave), pre-loaded academic allowance, transport allowance, and the right designation ladder from Principal to Lab Assistant. Built for CBSE / ICSE / state-board schools.
Each row is a pain point we've heard from operators in this vertical — and the specific FastLegal Payroll feature that addresses it.
ProblemFaculty get paid through the summer vacation but the leave-balance ledger treats it as LOP.
FastLegal solvesSummer Break is a built-in leave type (30 days/year, paid, doesn't carry forward). Engine treats it as paid time-off — full salary credited, no LOP deduction.
ProblemAcademic allowance for teaching faculty (paid in addition to basic) handled as an ad-hoc adjustment every month.
FastLegal solvesAcademic Allowance is a built-in salary component (₹2,000/mo default). Recurring, taxable, included in every payslip automatically.
ProblemPT teachers, art teachers, and counsellors don't fit the standard Teacher → HoD → Principal ladder.
FastLegal solvesIndustry profile pre-loads 10 designations: Principal / Vice Principal / HoD / Senior Teacher / Teacher / Assistant Teacher / Lab Assistant / Administrator / Counsellor / Sports Coach.
ProblemNon-teaching staff (housekeeping, transport, security) share one HR system but have different leave + shift patterns.
FastLegal solvesDepartments tagged Academic vs Non-academic. Non-academic (Transport, Housekeeping, Admin) follows standard CL/SL/EL; Academic follows summer/winter break pattern.
ProblemMorning + afternoon session schools need different start times but no software models this.
FastLegal solvesTwo shift templates pre-loaded: Morning Session (07:30-13:30) and Afternoon Session (13:30-18:00). Assign per teacher.
ProblemConference / professional development leave requested ad-hoc; principal can't track who's used how much.
FastLegal solvesAcademic Leave (5 days/year, paid) pre-loaded for conferences, training, professional development. Standard leave ledger tracks consumption.
Indian schools close for summer (May-June) and winter (late December-January). Faculty get full salary during these breaks even though they're not working. The leave engine treats these as paid time-off without affecting any balances.
Two allowances every Indian school pays but generic HRMS forces you to add manually. FastLegal ships them as recurring salary components on the School industry profile.
Departments split cleanly by category. Primary / Middle / Secondary / Higher Secondary / Sports / Arts under Academic; Administration / Transport / Housekeeping under Non-academic.
FastLegal Payroll references each of these frameworks correctly in its payslips, PDFs and statutory exports.
Minimum qualifications and pupil-teacher ratios for elementary schools.
Faculty pay scales, sanctioned vacancy ratios.
Section 392 salary TDS. Many schools are §10(23C)(iiiad) exempt from income tax themselves but still withhold.
Mandatory for 20+ staff. Most CBSE/ICSE schools cross this easily.
Basic + DA ≥ 50% of CTC. Auto-enforced.
Yes — Summer Break (30 days) and Winter Break (10 days) are pre-loaded paid leave types on the School industry profile. The engine treats them as paid time-off, so faculty receive full salary during the academic break without any LOP deduction or balance impact.
Departments are categorised Academic (Primary, Middle, Secondary, Sports, Arts) vs Non-academic (Administration, Transport, Housekeeping). Academic staff get the summer/winter break leave types and academic allowance. Non-academic staff follow standard CL/SL/EL with regular working through breaks.
Yes. Two shift templates pre-loaded: Morning Session (07:30-13:30) and Afternoon Session (13:30-18:00). Assign each teacher to their session via the roster — payroll picks up attendance against the right shift hours.
Both pre-loaded on the School profile. Academic Allowance (₹2,000/mo, taxable) for teaching faculty; Transport Allowance (₹1,600/mo, non-taxable up to actuals per Section 10(14)(ii)) for any staff. Modify the defaults per your school's policy from the Salary Structure page.
Yes. Section 192 / Section 392 obligations on the employer don't depend on the employer's own tax status. Even §10(23C)(iiiad) educational institutions exempt from income tax still have to deduct TDS on employee salaries and issue Form 16 / Form 130. FastLegal handles both.
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.