Social insurance, income tax and payslips, calculated from the employees, attendance and leave you already keep in Zoho People.
Features in detail
Built around the data in Zoho People and the rules of Egyptian labour, insurance and tax law. Pick a category to see every feature.
Wanas Payroll reads your people data from Zoho People, so employees, attendance and leave are entered once and payroll always works from the same records.
- One-click Zoho sign-in
- Employees, custom fields and photos
- Attendance, leave and holidays
- Nightly and on-demand sync
- Super Admin detection
- Shift schedules
Statutory deductions are calculated from versioned rule sets that follow Egyptian social insurance and income tax law, so a change in the law is a rule update, not a rewrite.
- Social insurance, Law 148/2019
- Universal Health Insurance and martyrs' fund
- Income tax, Law 7/2024
- ETA tax treatments 01 to 05
- Net-to-gross
- Retro pay and additional payrolls
- Minimum wage checks
Each month is a pay run with a clear life cycle: calculate, review, approve, lock and pay. Every step is controlled and recorded in the audit log.
- Calculate and rerun
- Adjustments and CSV import
- Maker-checker approval
- Lock, reopen and mark paid
- Attendance coverage gate
- Run integrity
Turn the attendance and leave you track in Zoho People into pay. You define the rules once and they are applied the same way to every employee.
- Late arrival tiers
- Early leave
- Absence
- Overtime multipliers
- Unpaid and part-paid leave
- Weekends and holidays paid
- Shift alignment
Model how your company really pays: your own salary components, a ready Egyptian catalogue of allowances and deductions, and a dated history of every raise.
- Salary components per company
- 157-item Egyptian catalogue
- Flexible allowance calculation
- Mobile-bill excess
- Reimbursements
- In-kind benefits
- Salary versions and raise batches
- Staff loans
- Medical insurance plans
When a run is approved, everything that leaves payroll is produced from the approved figures: payslips, bank transfer files and reports.
- Bilingual payslip PDFs
- Employee self-service
- Payslip email delivery
- Bank transfer files
- Payroll reports
- Custom templates, HR letters and tax certificates
- Foreign-currency salaries
Settle a leaver's final pay from the same data as the monthly payroll, under the current Labour Law.
- Final settlement, Labour Law 14/2025
- Leavers report
Oversight for business owners and finance heads.
- Real-time dashboard
- Audit log viewer
- Data export
Payroll is some of the most sensitive data a company holds. Wanas Payroll is built so that each organization's data stays its own.
- Tenant isolation
- Encrypted sensitive data
- Audit log
- Roles
- Hosted on Cloudflare
A product your whole team can use in the language and the look they prefer.
- Full Arabic and English
- Right-to-left layout
- Light and dark themes
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FAQ
What is Wanas Payroll?
Wanas Payroll is cloud payroll software for Egyptian companies that use Zoho People. It reads employees, attendance and leave from Zoho People, calculates social insurance, income tax and net pay under Egyptian law, and produces bilingual payslips, bank files and reports.
Who can use Wanas Payroll?
Any company in Egypt that runs Zoho People can use it. An Admin of your Zoho People organization signs in with Zoho and sets up the organization, then invites payroll officers and employees. If you do not use Zoho People yet, Wanas Apps, a Zoho Premium Partner, can help you start.
Which Egyptian social insurance and tax rules does it support?
It supports Social Insurance Law 148/2019 (11% employee and 18.75% employer contributions within the EGP 2,700 to 16,700 limits), Universal Health Insurance, the martyrs' fund and income tax under Law 7/2024, including the EGP 20,000 exemption, the brackets, the high-income phase-out and EGP 10 rounding. Net-to-gross, retro pay and minimum wage checks are included. Rates live in versioned rule sets, and we recommend your accountant reviews your first pay runs.
Does it work with the Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA)?
Partly. Earnings and deductions already carry the ETA tax treatment codes 01 to 05, but direct submission to the ETA payroll tax platform is not available yet.
What does it ask Zoho for, and does it change my Zoho data?
It asks for one read-only consent when the administrator first signs in: your Zoho profile; Zoho People employee records, organization details, leave and attendance; and the Zoho Directory / Zoho One organization and users, to identify your Super Admin. It only reads data and never edits your Zoho records.
Where is my data stored and how is it protected?
On Cloudflare (Workers, D1 database and KV). Every record belongs to one organization and is only visible to its users, national IDs, IBANs and tokens are encrypted with AES-GCM, access is role-based (administrator, payroll officer, employee) and sensitive actions are audit-logged.
How much does it cost, and is there a free trial?
USD 30 per month, or USD 240 per year (USD 20 per month), flat per organization and not per employee, with every feature included. Each organization starts with a 14-day free trial and no card. After the trial you choose monthly or annual billing and can cancel from the billing page. The Zoho Books add-on will cost USD 5 per month or USD 60 per year.
Does it support Arabic?
Yes. The whole app switches between English and Arabic (right to left), and payslips can be printed in Arabic, English or both on one page.
Which bank transfer files can it create?
Files for CIB, QNB, Banque Misr and NBE, plus a generic CSV, for each company payroll bank account. The column layouts are editable, and we recommend confirming them with your bank before the first transfer.
Can employees see their own payslips?
Yes. Each employee signs in with Zoho and can open and download only their own payslips, in Arabic and English, once they are released. You can also email employees a notice when a payslip is ready.
Can it calculate end-of-service settlements?
Yes. It calculates the final settlement under Labour Law 14/2025 and produces a statement PDF. These settlements are pending a lawyer and accountant review, so we recommend a professional check before you pay out.
Does it work with Zoho Books?
A Zoho Books add-on that posts a balanced payroll journal after each run, with undo and redo, is built but not on sale yet. It is listed as coming soon, at USD 5 per month or USD 60 per year on top of your plan.