Enlivy

Payslips

Record every payslip line by line, and Enlivy checks its totals

Included in Payroll €19.99/month

Your accountant works out the figures, and you record each amount in Enlivy on its own line, under your country's payroll code. Enlivy checks that the lines match the payslip's totals.

Record your first payslip

Free account, no card needed. The Payroll pack is €19.99/month, excluding VAT, and you add it in the app.

A payslip's totals and its coded lines for hours, days and earnings; amounts covered

TOTALS AND LINES

A payslip that carries its own numbers

Every total on the payslip is a figure in its own named field, not text inside a document.

The payslip keeps gross, employee contributions, tax relief, the taxable amount, tax, post-tax deductions, what was actually paid, and what the employment cost the employer.

Underneath, every one of those totals is built from lines you can read one at a time.

  • Nothing is hidden in a template:

    the figures are stored as figures, so a payslip from three years ago still reads the same way as one from this month.

  • Positive amounts, typed direction:

    a line's class says which way the money flows, so a deduction can never be entered as an earning by accident.

  • Gross and net, side by side

    Both totals are held on the payslip itself, alongside the taxable amount they were worked out from.

  • Employee and employer split

    What the person contributed and what the employer contributed are separate totals, never merged into one number.

  • Tax relief in its own column

    Personal allowances and other relief sit apart from the tax itself, so the calculation stays readable.

  • Paid, and what is left

    The amount that actually reached the bank is its own field, after post-tax deductions such as advances or garnishments.

  • Its own period

    Every payslip states the start and end of the period it covers, separately from the day it was issued.

  • Encrypted identity

    The national identification number is held encrypted on the payslip and its employment, never in plain text.

Payroll records should not live in a spreadsheet

The accountant does the math. The problem is everything that happens to the result afterwards.

  • The figures arrive as a PDF and stop there

    Without Enlivy: Your accountant sends a statement every month. It gets filed in a folder, or retyped into a spreadsheet, and nothing else in the business can read it.

    With Enlivy: The same figures land as structured lines, so they can be totalled, searched, reported on and connected to the payment that settled them.

  • Every country calls things something different

    Without Enlivy: A generic payroll form makes you map CAS onto "social contribution 1" and hope everyone remembers what that meant next year.

    With Enlivy: Each jurisdiction's own wage types are built in, under the names payroll actually uses there, resolved from the employment rather than your company address.

  • One transposed digit and nothing balances

    Without Enlivy: A payslip that does not reconcile can sit unnoticed for months, until someone reconciles the year and has to work backwards through twelve of them.

    With Enlivy: The chain is checked on every save and a mismatch is reported immediately, with the expected figure beside the entered one.

  • Records scattered across systems

    Without Enlivy: Payslips in one tool, contracts in another, bank transactions in a third. Answering a simple question means opening three systems.

    With Enlivy: Link a payslip to its employment and you find it next to the contract, the month's working-time record and the payment.

SEVEN CLASSES, ONE VOCABULARY

Earnings, contributions, tax and deductions on separate lines

Payroll everywhere is built from the same seven kinds of line. Enlivy names them, so a figure can be totalled, printed and reported without anyone guessing what it was.

  • Informational Counted, not paid. The hours and days behind the money.
    • Norm hours and hours actually worked
    • Two bands of overtime, night hours, weekend hours
    • Leave, sick, unpaid and unexcused days
  • Earnings Everything that adds to the gross.
    • Base salary and earned salary
    • Bonuses, commission, overtime and shift premiums
    • Leave pay, sick pay, meal vouchers, expense reimbursement
  • Employee contributions What the person pays into the state systems.
    • Social security, health insurance, pension
    • Unemployment insurance
  • Tax relief What reduces the taxable amount before tax is applied.
    • Personal allowance
    • Any other relief your jurisdiction grants
  • Tax Income tax, at every level that levies it.
    • Income tax
    • State and local income tax where they apply
  • Post-tax deductions Taken from net pay, after everything else.
    • Advances and loan repayments
    • Garnishments and union dues
  • Employer contributions What the employment costs on top of the gross.
    • Employer social security, health and pension
    • Employer unemployment insurance

Every class also carries an Other line that keeps your accountant’s own wording, so no figure is ever forced under the wrong heading.

YOUR COUNTRY'S OWN WORDS

CAS and CASS in Romania, National Insurance in the UK

The line list is not a generic form. It is your jurisdiction's own payroll vocabulary.

Alongside the universal classes, each country pack carries the wage types that country actually uses, named the way payroll names them there.

For a payslip linked to an employment, Enlivy takes the allowed codes from that employment's jurisdiction, not from where your company is registered, so a Romanian company with a remote employee abroad gets the right codes for that person.

  • A wrong code is refused, not stored:

    a code outside the universal set and your jurisdiction's own catalogue is rejected, so a Romanian contribution can never land on a British payslip.

  • The document speaks the record's language:

    a payslip prints in the language its jurisdiction keeps records in, not the language whoever opened it happens to read.

  • Romania

    CAS, CASS, CAM and deducerea personală, under their own names.

  • United Kingdom

    National Insurance, student loan repayments, statutory sick pay.

  • United States

    Federal income tax, Medicare, 401(k) contributions.

  • Germany

    Solidaritätszuschlag, Kirchensteuer, Pflegeversicherung.

  • Measured in real units

    Hours and days are counted in the same UN/ECE units your invoices bill in, not in free text.

  • See the allowed codes first

    When you add a line, the app lists exactly the codes that employment is allowed to carry.

Payslips and payroll records

Keep every payslip as figures, not files

Each amount goes on its own line, under your country's payroll code. Enlivy checks that the lines match the payslip's totals, and you can link each payslip to the bank transaction that paid it.

Record your first payslip
  • Free account, no card
  • Payroll pack €19.99/month
  • Prices exclude VAT

CHECKED, NOT BLOCKED

The arithmetic is checked every time you save

Gross, minus employee contributions, minus tax, minus post-tax deductions, should equal what was paid.

Enlivy runs that chain on every save. When it does not close, the app says so straight away, because a real payslip reconciles exactly and a mismatch is almost always a typo.

A difference in the totals never blocks the save: your accountant's document is the authority.

  • You see the difference and decide:

    the app shows what the figures imply beside what was entered. Nothing is corrected for you.

  • Five statuses:

    pending, approval required, approved, rejected and paid, so you can see which payslips still wait for approval or payment.

  • Approve, then pay

    Move a payslip through approval before it is marked paid, with the payment method on record.

  • Tied to the payment

    Connect the payslip to the bank transaction that settled it, so you can see who was paid and when.

  • Readable on screen

    Open a payslip to see its totals and every line, grouped by kind, without opening a file.

  • A second language on request

    Through the API, download a second copy in another language when someone needs one, without changing the record.

  • Survives a deleted contract

    Removing a contract releases the link instead of taking the payslip with it. The record stays.

  • Kept, never filed

    Enlivy prints the payslip from your figures and keeps the record. It submits nothing to an authority: filing stays with you or your accountant.

How a payslip gets made

From the employment record to a payslip your accountant would recognize.

You are not doing the payroll here. You are recording its result in a shape that still makes sense years later, and the app checks your typing on the way in.

  1. Start from the employment record

    First add the Payroll pack in the app. Then create an employment record for each person, with their contract, jurisdiction and pay period. You create it once, then link each payslip to it.

  2. Enter the lines

    Take your accountant’s figures and enter them as lines. Enlivy offers the codes that employment is allowed to carry, in your country’s own vocabulary.

    A payslip's lines by kind: informational, earning, employee contribution, tax relief

  3. Save, and Enlivy checks the totals

    When you save, Enlivy recomputes the totals and checks the chain. If something does not add up, the app shows exactly which figure disagrees.

    A payslip's totals: what the lines compute beside what was entered

  4. Approve it and link the payment

    Move it through approval and connect the bank transaction that settled it.

Everything a payslip record should do

Your accountant works out the figures. What happens to them afterwards is the part that usually goes wrong, and the part Enlivy is built for.

  • Enter a payslip in your country's own codes

    The app offers exactly the lines that employment is allowed to carry, so a wrong code is refused rather than quietly stored.

  • Catch a typo when you save

    Enlivy recomputes the totals on every save and shows which figure disagrees. It warns you and never blocks the save.

  • Connect the slip to the payment

    Link a payslip to the bank transaction that settled it, so you can see who was paid and when.

  • Approve a payslip before it is paid

    Move it through approval before it is marked paid, with the payment method on record.

API reference

Payslip management from the API

Push the payslips your accountant produces straight into the record: typed totals, coded lines, and the employment each one belongs to, without anybody retyping a figure.

A line sends its code and its amount. The class it belongs to is derived from that code, never supplied, and a code your jurisdiction does not know is refused with a 422 rather than stored under the wrong heading.

Query payslips with pagination and navigation metadata, and expand their lines. Each slip carries its own typed totals: gross, employee contributions, tax relief, the taxable amount, tax, post-tax deductions, net pay, and the employer cost.

GET/organizations/<organization_id>/payslips
curl -G 'https://api.enlivy.com/organizations/<organization_id>/payslips' \
  --data-urlencode 'page=1' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=20' \
  --data-urlencode 'include=lines' \
  --data-urlencode 'include_meta=navigation' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ENLIVY_API_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'

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Payslips and payroll records

Keep every payslip as figures, not files

Each amount goes on its own line, under your country's payroll code. Enlivy checks that the lines match the payslip's totals, and you can link each payslip to the bank transaction that paid it.

Record your first payslip Find your setup
  • Free account, no card
  • Payroll pack €19.99/month
  • Prices exclude VAT