Month-end, from the clock
Restaurant payroll software that starts from attendance
Your staff already clock in and out. A pay run should read those hours, not ask someone to copy them into a spreadsheet on the 30th.
Last reviewed 1 Oct 2026
- 1AttendanceHourly staff are paid for the minutes they clocked
- 2PF, ESI and TDSWith professional tax, at the rates you set
- 3Named sign-offEvery rate stays a draft until a named person signs it off
- 4Bank fileA file for your bank: no money moves through CountStand
- Clocked timepays hourly staff; salaried staff get their monthly pay
- PF · ESIwith professional tax and TDS, at the rates you set
- Signed offby a named person before any run can be approved
- Bank fileto pay salaries: no money moves through CountStand
01At a glance
What a pay run reads, and what it gives back
- Attendance, from the floorStaff clock in and out under Labor, Attendance, or a manager clocks them in. The minutes worked are what an hourly person is paid for.
- Three kinds of payEach person is salaried, hourly or a contractor. Salaried pay is split into basic and HRA by the percentages you set.
- Statutory deductionsEPF, ESI, professional tax by the state’s slab, and TDS under section 192 on the new or old regime, from the rates and slabs you enter.
- A named sign-offEvery rate stays a draft until a named person signs it off. Until then the run cannot be approved, and the screen says no figure is final.
- Payslips people can readOne per person, marked as a draft until the run is approved. Each person sees their own payslips in the app.
- Payment, as a fileOnce the run is approved, CountStand writes a bank-advice file for you to send to your bank. It does not move the money.
02In detail
Why is restaurant payroll hard to get right?
A restaurant pays a roster that changes every week: salaried cooks, hourly helpers, someone on trial who left on the 20th. What each person is owed depends on the hours actually worked and on deductions that follow rules of their own. When the hours live in a register and the rules in somebody’s head, month-end becomes an evening of adding up, and someone is still paid wrong.
CountStand keeps the hours where they are clocked, on the same system that runs the floor. The pay run reads them. Nobody types the month again, and a payslip can be traced back to the shifts behind it.
Why does every rate need a sign-off?
PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS change by law, by state and by budget. A payroll tool that shipped its own figures as the truth would sooner or later be wrong somewhere, quietly. CountStand starts from defaults and calls them what they are: unverified until a named person checks them and signs them off.
That person’s name and the date go on the record. The run cannot be approved before it, so no approved payslip carries a rate nobody has checked. The statutory returns themselves stay with your accountant.
03Questions
Questions about payroll
For hourly staff, yes: they are paid for the minutes they clocked. Salaried staff are paid their monthly salary, split into basic and HRA.
Yes, with professional tax, from the rates and slabs you enter. Every rate is a draft until a named person signs it off, and the run cannot be approved before that.
No. An approved run gives you a bank-advice file to send to your bank. No money moves through CountStand.
No. A pay run reads clocked time, salaries and statutory deductions. Advances and overtime arrangements stay in your own records.
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