Is your payroll processing not working as well as you’d like?
- Is it taking too long?
- Are you unsure statutory calculations are correct?
- Do you have to update several Excel sheets when you add a new employee or change an employees pay or deductions?
- Are your Excel formula’s too long and prone to error if you’re not careful?
- Is it difficult to add new data or change data in your current payroll system?
Nifty Payroll tries to solve all these problems to make payroll processing quicker and easier for you.
The Nifty Payroll Solution
As a developer of payroll software I experienced similar challenges and set out to solve them. Since 2020 I have been processing payroll for an organization with the following characteristics:
- Salaries ranging from the low millions to a few hundreds for casuals who worked only a few days of the month
- Frequent employee additions and departures, sometimes with prorated (partial) salaries
- Pension, Insurance check off, Sacco — all requiring special reports
- Opted out of NSSF Tier 2 so require upload of only Tier 1 to NSSF and Tier 2 sent to their pension manager
- HELB and loans
- Persons with disability
- Miscellaneous and irregular payments and deductions
- etc.
Every time I find something is taking too long, or that I have to manually input data into the payroll (instead of importing from the Excel files my client send me), I try to add a feature to make it easier.
By the way, I started programming payroll software in 2003. I have redone the software from scratch two times, to improve it’s foundation table design, based on experience, both mine and clients who have given me feedback. This third design, Nifty Payroll 2.0, is an accumulation of more than 20 years of using and selling payroll software to others. I have been using this latest version since 2022 and so far it’s design has held up very well to all the features I have added.
This same payroll system I use is what I sell to others to benefit from the shortcuts I have created for myself.
Some Of The Shortcuts and Features of Nifty Payroll
Here are some of the shortcuts I have created in Nifty Payroll:
- Importing from Excel
- Emailing payslips and P9’s
- Handling pay based on daily and hourly rates
- Sacco
- Computed Items, e.g., Housing as 15% of Basic Pay
- Fixed Items: Where you input salary and deduction items that remain the same for two or more months.
- Varying Items: Where you input items that change every month, are only paid occasionally, or only once.
- Fixed Pay setting: A way to decide what pay items to include in Regular Emoluments (Fixed Pay) to be used to compute SHIF, House Levy, NSSF.
- Customizable payslips: A way to include or exclude information in the payslips. E.g., department, job title, numbers (PIN, ID, etc.), company logo and address, etc.
Type of Organizations That Use Nifty Payroll
Likely the type of business you are in is represented here:
- Audit/Tax Consultancy Firms
- HR/Payroll Outsourcing Firms
- Energy Sector Firms (Petrol Stations)
- Schools (Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Universities. Local and International Curriculum)
- Hospitals and Health Centres
- Banks/Micro-finance Institutions
- Manufacturers
- Book Publishers
- Doctors and Dentists
- Investment Firms
- Car Rentals
- Churches and Catholic Missions
- Retailers and Wholesalers
- Hardware Shops
- Agrovet Shops
- NGO’s
- Real Estate Management
- Gambling/Betting Firms
- Large-scale Farming Operations
- Lawyers
- Architects
- Engineering Firms
- Construction Experts
- Long Haul Transporters
- Aviation Companies
- Delivery Agencies
- Tourist/Wildlife Conservation Firms
More than 200 payrolls are done using Nifty Payroll every month. From two-person tiny businesses to 400-plus-headcount operations.