October 2026
Budgets and spend control, one approval engine for every request, accounting connectors, and payroll reports ready to file.
Budgets and spend control
Hold budget lines by department, location, category and month, upload them from Excel with a row-by-row error report, and check spend when it is requested rather than at month-end. Spending requests show the balance before and after as you type. Revisions and transfers go through approval, and a dashboard with traffic lights, month-end reconciliation and budget reports keep finance and department heads on the same figures.
Learn more about budgets and spend controlOne approval route for every request
Leave, loans, expenses, spending requests, bank and profile changes and more now follow the same approval engine. Route by amount, budget, category, department or location, send steps to the head of department, add reminders in hours and escalation, and let managers decide from the staff app or from the buttons in an approval email once they are signed in.
Learn more about one approval route for every requestZoho Books and Zoho People connectors
Once connected, approved payroll, paid claims and cash advances post to Zoho Books as journals, with account mapping and a reconciliation report. Import staff from Zoho People with a dry run first, so you see every change before it is saved.
Learn more about zoho books and zoho people connectorsPayroll reports and remittance schedules ready to file
Each approved run now has one set of reports: pay analysis, the payroll journal, the bank schedule with its cover letter, statutory schedules and pre-approval checks. Remittance schedules download in each receiving body's layout, and the payroll journal can be split by department and location.
Learn more about payroll reports and remittance schedules ready to fileExact pay for part months
Joiners, leavers and pay changes inside a period are paid for exactly the days they cover, with one payslip line for each part. Daily-paid staff are paid from their attendance, and you can record pension or NHF exemptions for individual employees.
Contracts, employee numbers and exits on one record
Set numbering series by department, branch, grade or pay group, and former numbers are never reused. By default, staff need an active contract covering the period to be paid. Every exit follows one flow, and final pay goes through the normal payroll run.
Learn more about contracts, employee numbers and exits on one recordMore controls you can switch on
Second-person approval for payroll runs, payment batches and bank-detail changes is now a setting you choose. Bank account numbers are checked before any batch is approved, a full company export needs a super admin and a fresh authenticator code, and backups now run hourly with a monthly archive kept for seven years.
Learn more about more controls you can switch on