Running Payroll Step by Step Pro / Solo
Payroll in Sweldo is a two-phase process: Generate computes all the numbers from attendance data, and Release finalizes them so employees can view their payslips. You can edit any line between those two steps.
Step 1 — Choose the period
Open the Payroll tab. Select the month and year.
Select the cutoff period:
- 1st – 15th — covers work from the 1st to the 15th of the month
- 16th – End of Month — covers the 16th to the last day of the month
Philippine labor law typically requires semi-monthly payroll (twice a month). Run payroll twice per month — once for each cutoff.
Step 2 — Generate
Click Generate Payroll. Sweldo reads every time log, approved OT, approved leave, vale balance, and allowance for each active employee within the selected period, then computes a payroll line for each person.
A table appears showing one row per employee. Each row shows days present, hours worked, base pay, deductions, gross pay, and net pay. The Total Net at the bottom is the total amount you'll pay out.
Step 3 — Review and edit
Review each employee's row. If anything looks wrong — wrong hours, missing OT, incorrect tax — you can edit the line directly. See Editing Payslip Lines →
If you add 13th month pay or holiday pay for specific employees, enter those in the editable fields. See Editing Payslip Lines → for details.
Step 4 — Release
When you're satisfied with all the lines, click Release Payroll. This finalizes the run — the status changes from "draft" to "released" and payslips become visible to employees in their staff portal.
Print or download payslips as PDFs for your records and to distribute to employees. See Printing Payslips →