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Our own product, sold under its own name at paylipayroll.com. Employers in Suriname run their payroll in it today, and Aruba, Curaçao and Guyana are ready to open. Every market has its own tax rules, its own premiums and its own year-end returns; keeping those current is our work, so the employer sees the same screens wherever the business is.
Live in Suriname · paylipayroll.com
Payli is payroll software for employers in the Caribbean who want to run their own payroll, without an accountant in between. It covers the full cycle rather than the calculation alone: 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 for iPhone and Android 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’s administration 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 re-entering the same month twice. An assistant answers questions from the employer’s own figures and from our knowledge base of Surinamese payroll law, and a company can connect its own ChatGPT or Claude to the same data.
It is sold directly, at paylipayroll.com: thirty days free, no card, then from one US dollar per employee per month. Registration to the first approved payslip takes about a quarter of an hour.
Payroll in the region is not difficult because the arithmetic is clever. It is difficult because it is exact, and because the rules move. Tables, premium percentages and ceilings are revised most years, each country on its own schedule, and an employer who misses one finds out through an assessment months later.
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 — all of it is a step in the product, not a call to an accountant.
New rates in January are our job, not yours.
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.| Markets | Live in Suriname. Aruba, Curaçao and Guyana are ready and open one at a time. |
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| 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 respects statutory payroll-record obligations |
Payroll is unforgiving: a mistake is somebody’s rent, and it 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 — the two are not the same exercise, and the second one is where the findings come from. Every figure on a payslip is traceable back to the rule it came from and to the person who approved the period.
| Live | Suriname, at app.paylipayroll.com, since September 2026. Web portal for the employer, Payli Portal app for employees on iPhone and Android. |
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| Built | Aruba, Curaçao and Guyana are complete and tested against each authority’s 2026 schedule; they open as markets one at a time. |
| Distribution | Direct, under its own name: paylipayroll.com. Thirty days free, then a subscription cancelled monthly. Accounting firms can run several employers under one account. |
| Languages | Dutch, English and Spanish in the product; payslips and mail in the language of the employee. |
Payroll is one example of a broader category: systems whose core logic is set externally, published as regulation, and revised on a schedule you do not control. Tariffs, levies, permits, subsidy conditions, compliance returns. If that describes your problem, we have built it for four jurisdictions inside one product, and we run that product ourselves.