Payroll the employer runs themselves.
Our own product, sold under its own name at paylipayroll.com. Employers in the Caribbean run their payroll in it, without an accountant in between. Every country has its own tax rules, premiums and year-end returns. We keep those current, so the employer sees the same screens wherever the business is.
The whole payroll cycle, not just the calculation.
Payli is payroll software for employers who want to run their own payroll. It covers the full cycle: employee records, salary components, leave and sick days, hours and overtime, weekly and monthly runs, corrections against periods that are already closed, payslips, bank payment files, and the year-end returns each tax office expects in its own format.
Employees get their own side of it. In the web portal or the Payli Portal app they open their payslip, request leave, report sick, photograph a receipt for an expense claim, and clock in and out. Managers approve straight from the notification. Nothing about pay or returns lives in the app; that stays with the employer.
Every employer stands on its own, with its own people, its own users and its own figures. The month posts straight into Zoho Books or Odoo, with an export for SAP, so a company keeping its books elsewhere is not entering the same month twice. An assistant answers questions from the employer’s own figures and from our knowledge base of local payroll rules, and a company can connect its own ChatGPT or Claude to the same data.
Not hard because the arithmetic is clever. Hard because it has to be exact, and the rules move.
Tables, premium percentages and ceilings are revised most years, each country on its own schedule. An employer who misses one finds out months later through an assessment.
That is the part Payli carries. We keep the rates and rules current for every market we serve. The employer opens the same screens in January as in December and the figures are simply right. Correcting a closed period, a leaver’s final month, a bonus in a different tax band: each is a step in the product, not a call to an accountant.
New rates in January are our job, not the employer’s.
When a tax office publishes new figures, the employer does not have to do anything, install anything or wait for anything. The next run uses them.From employee record to year-end return.
| Payroll cycle | Employee administration, salary components, leave accrual and balances, weekly and monthly runs, and corrections against periods that are already closed |
|---|---|
| Documents | Payslips, bank payment files, and the year-end returns each tax office requires, in the format it requires |
| Accounting | The month goes straight into the books, including corrections: Zoho Books and Odoo, with an export for SAP |
| HR data | Optional synchronisation with Zoho People; differences are shown for approval, never silently applied |
| Who sees what | Administrator, HR, line manager and employee each see their own part, on the web and in the Payli Portal app |
| Security | Two-factor authentication, a complete audit log, and each employer’s data kept strictly separate from every other |
| Privacy | Employee anonymisation, per-employer export, and retention that follows statutory payroll-record obligations |
| Languages | Dutch, English and Spanish in the product; payslips and mail in the language of the employee |
A mistake is somebody’s rent.
Payroll is unforgiving. A mistake is found by the employee, not by us. So the product goes through rounds of automated testing and, before every release, a reading of the system on the assumption that something in it is wrong. Those are two different exercises, and the second one is where the findings come from.
Every figure on a payslip can be traced back to the rule it came from and to the person who approved the period. That turns a question from an employee into a one-minute lookup instead of a reconstruction.
Live, and extended one country at a time.
| Status | Live at app.paylipayroll.com. Web portal for the employer, Payli Portal app for employees on iPhone and Android. |
|---|---|
| Markets | Several countries in the Caribbean, each with its own rule set that we maintain. New countries open one at a time. |
| Distribution | Direct, under its own name, at paylipayroll.com. Thirty days free, then a subscription cancelled monthly. Accounting firms can run several employers under one account. |
| Integrations | Zoho Books, Odoo, SAP export, Zoho People, and the customer’s own ChatGPT or Claude via MCP |
Everything, from positioning to keeping the rules current.
Product
- Positioning and pricing model
- Country strategy and rule sets
- Partner model for accounting firms
Build
- Web portal and employee app
- Accounting and HR integrations
- Rule modules per country
Operations
- Hosting in Europe, daily backups
- Monitoring and releases
- Annual rule maintenance and support
Rules that come from outside and keep changing.
Payroll is one example of a broader category: systems whose core logic is published as regulation and revised on a schedule you do not control. Tariffs, levies, permits, subsidy conditions, compliance returns. If that sounds familiar, we have built it and we run it ourselves.