Features
Everything Philippine payroll needs. Compliance in every plan.
Designed by a team with accounting and legal expertise, for Philippine companies and the firms that run their payroll. Every compliance feature is on every plan, Free included; paid plans include everything.
What does an employee cost?
- Take-home pay a month
- ₱22,611.20
- Company's cost a month
- ₱30,438.33
- Company's cost a year
- ₱365,260.00
SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and withholding tax from the tables in force today, for one month of steady pay; the company's cost adds its own shares and the 13th month pay. Salaries below ₱1,000.00 a month are not computed. An estimate for planning only, not tax or legal advice.
See the full breakdownPayroll that follows Philippine rules
Every amount comes from the official tables in force on the pay date, shows its formula, and can be traced to the rule behind it.
- SSS (including MPF and EC), PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG, deducted every pay, once a month, or each agency on its own schedule
- Withholding tax by the BIR table or year to date, counting a new hire's previous employer (BIR 2316), with year-end annualization and refunds
- Overtime, night differential, rest days and every holiday type, per the DOLE handbook, for monthly-, daily- and hourly-paid employees
- Official rates kept in dated tables, verified by a second person and frozen with each payroll, so past payslips always reproduce
- Minimum wage checked against the wage order in force on each day, by region, area and type of employer, with exemption certificates
- 13th month pay, final pay (separation and retirement pay, leave cash, loans), maternity benefit and salary differential, back pay for back-dated increases
- De minimis benefits at the current BIR limits, and the yearly tax-free ceiling for 13th month pay and other benefits
- Semi-monthly, monthly, weekly and daily pay, with your own cut-offs and pay dates
- AutoPilot prepares each payroll the day after cut-off, ready for your review Paid plans
BIR and government
Sahora prepares the forms and reports on BIR's and the agencies' own layouts. You or your accountant file them.
- BIR Forms 1601-C and 1604-C printed on BIR's own forms
- BIR Form 2316 for every employee (PDF, or a ZIP named the BIR way), with the employer's and the employee's signatures
- The alphalist DAT file in the layout of BIR's validation module, with checks before you file
- SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG contribution and loan lists, the Pag-IBIG remittance form, and a filing calendar with reminders
- Payroll journal entry for your books, in Excel or CSV
- QuickBooks Online and Xero import files, by cost center if you like Paid plans
- SSS and PhilHealth statements checked against Sahora's figures, employee by employee Paid plans
Time, leave and requests
Attendance from your biometric device, a timesheet or the employee's phone, with every problem shown before it reaches payroll.
- Biometric device files imported with a check first: every problem listed, a preview before saving
- Shifts and schedules; attendance from the time log, entered on screen or uploaded from Excel
- Leave, overtime, official business, time corrections and claims, with approvers, stand-ins and a team leave calendar
- Clock-in from the phone with selfie and location checks, with a liveness check; held for review when something looks off Paid plans
Control and review
A second pair of eyes before anyone is paid, and a record of every change after.
- Maker-checker approval: the preparer can't approve their own payroll (a one-person company approves its own, and Sahora marks it so)
- Every amount's formula shown; changes against the last payroll and against the last computation
- Checks before you compute: requests waiting for approval, missing holidays, employees without bank accounts
- Approved payrolls are locked; corrections go through adjustment runs
- A complete activity log of who changed what, and when
- Payroll comparisons, the year ledger and cost-center reports Paid plans
Employees
Everything about each employee in one file, and a portal where they see their own pay.
- Password-protected payslips in the employee portal, in English or Filipino
- An installable app that works in any phone browser: payslips, BIR 2316, loans, leave, requests and payslip questions
- Employees ask about a payslip from the payslip itself, and payroll answers there
- 201 files with salary and employment history, a document vault and expiry reminders
- Employees fill in their own details and ID numbers when they join
- Excel import of your employee list and opening balances, with a downloadable problems file
- SSS and Pag-IBIG loan deductions with running balances
- An email to each employee when their payslip is ready Paid plans
- Company loans and cash advances with the employee's e-signed authorization Paid plans
Security and privacy
Built for the Data Privacy Act, with each company's data kept apart at the database level.
- TIN, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and bank numbers encrypted
- Two-step sign-in (authenticator app) for everyone who handles payroll
- Each company's data isolated at the database level; access by role, branch or department
- Data kept in Singapore; your full data export at any time
- A public status page
For accounting firms
Run payroll for every client from one place, with your staff assigned to the clients they handle.
- One console for all your clients, with what is waiting in each
- Year-end for every client at once
- Your firm's name on your clients' payslips
- Sahora Managed: our payroll team runs your payroll on Sahora and prepares your government forms
- An API and webhooks for your own systems Paid plans
What Sahora does and doesn't do
Sahora prepares; you file.
Sahora produces BIR forms, the alphalist DAT and agency contribution reports, ready for upload or filing. It does not e-file on your behalf.
Bank payments.
Sahora produces a disbursement list for your bank today. Bank-specific file formats will be listed here as each one is finished.
Paying your subscription.
Bank transfer, InstaPay or check today.
See what Sahora produces
Samples for a fictitious company, computed by Sahora on the official tables in force. Open one to see the whole document.
