Features People · Employees & payroll

Everyone who works for you, and what they are paid.

Not everyone who works for you uses the app. The cook, the cleaner and the driver each have a record: who they are, who to call in an emergency, what they are paid, and what salary advance they have received. At the end of the month, Meku prepares the payroll from it.

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How it works

What you do, and what Meku does with it.

  1. You

    Open Employees and add someone: their name, their ID number, their phone, and who to call in an emergency.

    Meku

    Keeps the record whether or not they ever log in. A login is a separate thing, and most people here will not have one.

  2. You

    Set their salary from a date.

    Meku

    Keeps it as a line with a date. If you give a salary increase in June, it is a new line, not a change to the past, so a salary slip for March still pays March's salary.

  3. You

    If something happens at work, such as coming late, breaking something or a warning, write it down.

    Meku

    Records what happened, with no money on it. Taking money from their salary is a separate entry, so the record of what happened never becomes a list of fines.

  4. You

    Give someone part of their salary before payday.

    Meku

    Records it as a salary advance, which is money the business will get back, not money it spent, and takes it back through the payroll until it is fully paid.

  5. You

    At the end of the month, tap Build a draft.

    Meku

    Prepares the payroll from the records: who is paid, their salary, what was added, what was taken off, the salary advance, PAYE and NSSF, what they cost you, and what they receive. No money has moved.

  6. You

    Check it, fill in PAYE and NSSF, and approve.

    Meku

    Makes a salary slip for everyone. On the pay date, it records the cost, pays the money from the account you choose, and reduces the salary advances. You are told all of this before you press it.

  7. You

    Link a staff to their login on their record.

    Meku

    Puts their name on every sale they make, without anybody asking at the POS, and shows on their record the email they log in with.

What's included
  • A record for everyone, with or without a login
  • A linked record shows the email its login uses
  • Identity, ID number and next of kin
  • Salaries with dates, so a salary increase never changes the past
  • Incidents, recorded with no money attached
  • Additions and deductions as their own entries
  • Salary advances followed as money owed back to you
  • A monthly payroll prepared from the records
  • Two totals: what they cost you, and what leaves the account
  • Salary slips for everyone, and their own view of them
  • Approval is the owner's, and it happens once

Questions

Does Meku calculate my PAYE and NSSF?

No. You type those two, and everything else in the payroll comes from a record you made. Meku does not hold the TRA tax bands, and a wrong tax figure that looks calculated is worse than one you typed yourself.

Can I undo a payroll?

You can cancel an approval until the pay date. After the money is paid, it cannot be undone, because people have been paid. Everything before that, such as the draft, the figures and the dates, can be changed as much as you want.

Can I upload contracts and ID scans?

Not yet. ID numbers are typed and kept in the record. Safe storage for documents is being built. Until it is ready, Meku prefers to have no place for a national ID rather than the wrong place.

Why are there two totals at the bottom?

Because they are two different things. The cost is what employing people really costs your business, and it goes into your records. The net is what leaves your account. The difference is money you keep on someone else's behalf, such as PAYE and NSSF, and one total would hide it.

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