What this feature does
Payroll settings decide which deductions appear on your payslips and how they are worked out. Open Payroll → Settings in the dashboard.
Every deduction is switched off until you turn it on. A center that changes nothing here generates payslips with earnings and its own structure deductions only, exactly as before.
Edunza is not your tax adviser
This is important, so it is stated plainly.
Edunza gives you calculators you configure. It does not file returns, submit challans, verify that your establishment is registered, or confirm that the figures you enter are the right ones for your state, your headcount, or your employees.
Where a field is pre-filled, it is pre-filled with a commonly used figure as a convenience, not as advice that it applies to you. Confirm every rate, ceiling and band with your accountant or a qualified CA before you rely on a payslip. You remain the employer and the figures remain yours.
Settings belong to the center
These settings are held against your center, not against the administrator who typed them. Two administrators of the same center always generate payslips on identical rules, whoever presses Generate.
What you can configure
Income-tax withholding
A single switch, off by default. When it is off, no income-tax line appears on any payslip.
When it is on, Edunza estimates the year's tax and withholds a share of it each month, rather than applying a flat percentage. It looks at pay already received in the financial year plus a projection of the months remaining, works the total through annual bands, and withholds only the part not already deducted, spread over the months left. The practical benefit is that a mid-year pay rise corrects itself over the remaining months instead of leaving a large shortfall at year end.
There is also an optional financial year override. Left blank, the financial year is worked out from the payslip's own month. Set it, and tax is calculated against a specific year's configuration.
Provident fund
A switch, off by default, plus three inputs:
- The employee contribution percentage
- A monthly wage ceiling—leave it blank to contribute on full wages
- Whether dearness allowance counts toward provident-fund wages
Provident fund is calculated on basic pay (optionally plus dearness allowance), not on the whole salary, so allowances such as house rent are excluded. The basic pay it uses is the same component your salary structure marks as its base, so the deduction and the payslip can never disagree about what basic pay is.
Note that only the employee contribution is calculated. Employer contribution, ESI and gratuity are not part of Edunza today.
Professional tax
A switch, off by default, plus an editable list of bands. Professional tax is a flat monthly amount decided by which band the month's gross pay falls into—not a percentage—and because it is a state levy, you set the bands yourself. Each band has an upper limit on gross pay and a flat monthly amount, and you can add or remove bands.
The top band must be open-ended, so that an unusually high salary is never left uncharged by accident.
Weekly off days
Weekly off days are stored with your payroll settings but edited on the holiday calendar page. See Holiday and working-day calendar.
Good to know
- Saving one settings page never blanks the other's values.
- Edunza will not let you mark all seven days as weekly offs, because that leaves no working day to calculate a per-day rate against.
- Only center administrators can view or change payroll settings.