Payroll & payslips

Payroll is a Pro feature.

What it does

Team → Payroll builds a monthly figure for every staff member, from what you have already recorded during the month. You are checking and confirming numbers, not calculating them from scratch.

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What makes up the total

Component	Where it comes from
Fixed	Their agreed salary for the month
Extra classes	Classes they covered beyond their normal load
Commission	Earnings tied to admissions or collections
Bonus	Anything you add for that month
Deduction	Anything you subtract

Fixed + Extra + Commission + Bonus − Deduction = total payable.

Extra classes can be expanded to show the individual dates and batch names behind the figure — useful when someone questions the number.

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Running payroll

1. Open Team → Payroll and pick the month
2. Review each person's total, expanding anything that needs checking
3. Add bonuses or deductions where relevant
4. Mark each person Paid, recording how you paid them — Cash, UPI or Bank Transfer

Everyone starts the month Pending and moves to Paid as you go, so a half-finished payroll run is obvious rather than ambiguous.

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Sending a payslip

Once someone is marked paid, you can send their payslip over WhatsApp — the breakdown, not just the total.

This goes out from your own WhatsApp, the same way click-to-send works elsewhere in StudioPartner.

Payslips need a phone number on the staff profile. Anyone without one can be marked paid, but has nothing to send to.

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Correcting a mistake

A person marked paid in error can be unmarked, provided the month is still open for changes. Fix the figure and mark them paid again.

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History

Past months are kept, showing the totals for each. This is what to open when you want to see how the wage bill has moved across the year, rather than what a single person earned once.

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Attendance feeds this

Payroll is only as accurate as the attendance behind it. If someone's days look wrong here, fix it in Team → Attendance first — do not patch it with a deduction, or next month you will not remember why the number was odd.

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Need help?

Email support@studiopartner.app