The run is right before you see it
Leave, joiners, leavers and revisions come from Team, so the run starts complete and every change from last month is explained before you approve.
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Pay: payroll software that is right the first time, every month.
Pay runs payroll from what Team already knows: who worked, who was on leave, what changed. Salaries, PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax are prepared; you review one screen; people are paid on the day and get their payslips on their phones. Priced per business, not per employee: free for up to five people, then ₹799 a month.
not shipped · wave 3India at launchper business, not per employeeCelia prepares, a person approves
Product design preview · Pay has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Pay has not shipped yet.
Everything on these pages — the screens, the features, the prices — is Centilio Pay as designed. Pay has not shipped: it sits in the third wave of Centilio tools, after Team and Ledger, and there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet. At launch it is designed to run payroll in India only. We would rather set out the whole design and say so plainly than publish a thin page; join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Try it · the console as designed, sample data
See what changed. Read why. Approve the run.
This is the Pay screen as designed, running on a fictional business, Tamarind Lane Foods: October’s run prepared from Team, three changes explained, and one employee whose tax needs a document. The data is invented and the product behind it is not built yet.
- Prepare. Pay reads who worked, who was on leave, who joined and what changed from Team, and adds approved claims from Spend.
- Review. One screen shows everyone’s pay, with each change from last month marked and explained in a sentence.
- Approve. A named person approves the run; only then is the payment file released and the filings queued.
- Deliver. People are paid on the day, payslips arrive on their phones, and every entry is posted to Ledger.
What changes
Right the first time. Paid on the day. Nothing filed late.
Small business payroll is mostly the same job every month, done under pressure in the last three days. Pay is designed to do that job from what the business already knows, so the part left for you is a review.
People are paid on the day
Approve once and the payment file goes to your bank for pay day; payslips reach phones the same morning.
Filings are prepared, not remembered
PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax are computed with the run and their filings prepared, so the due date is a check, not a scramble.
Celia in Pay
Celia prepares. You decide.
Celia prepares the run, explains every change from last month, and flags anything unusual before you approve. It never pays without a person’s approval.
Each month Celia compares the new run with the last one and writes down why each person’s pay moved: two days of unpaid leave, a revision from 1 October, a first salary prorated from the joining date. It checks the statutory figures against the rules and against last month, and it tells you when something is missing, such as rent receipts for an HRA claim or a PAN that does not match.
It never releases a payment, never submits a filing on its own and never changes a salary. It prepares; a person approves; the trail records what Celia drafted and who accepted it. After the run it drafts a short summary for the owner and a working file for the accountant, both for a person to read before anyone else does.
- Explains every change from last month, person by person
- Checks PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax against the rules
- Flags missing proofs, odd amounts and eligibility changes
- Drafts the payroll summary and the accountant’s working file
Features
Run, statutory, payslips, money, control.
22 features, each designed and placed on a proposed plan. None of them is running yet.
5 feature groups
Proposed at launch unless marked after launchPayroll prepared from Team, reviewed on one screen.
Run
Read capabilities
- Run prepared from Team. Attendance, leave, joiners, leavers and salary changes come from Team, so a run starts complete rather than from a spreadsheet. Free
- One review screen. Everyone’s pay on one screen, with what changed since last month marked and explained. Free
- Salary structures. Basic, HRA, allowances and deductions set once per grade or per person, with CTC broken down the way your offer letters say. Free
- Loss of pay from leave. Unpaid leave and absences in Team become loss-of-pay days before the run is prepared, not after someone notices. Free
- Arrears, bonuses and one-off pay. Back pay, a bonus or a one-time deduction added to a run without breaking the structure. Pro
Proposed at launch unless marked after launchPF, ESI, TDS and professional tax, computed and filed.
Statutory
Read capabilities
- PF and ESI. Employee and employer contributions computed for everyone eligible, with the EPF ECR and the ESI contribution file prepared each month. Free
- TDS on salary. Tax deducted under the regime each employee chooses, old or new, from their declarations and proofs, with Form 24Q prepared each quarter. Pro
- Professional tax and labour welfare fund. State slabs applied by where each person works, with the returns prepared. Pro
- Filings submitted on approval. Where the authority allows, a filing is submitted after a named person approves it; elsewhere the file is ready to upload. Pro
- Full and final settlement. Leave encashment, gratuity where it is due, notice recovery and final dues worked out when someone leaves. Pro
Proposed at launch unless marked after launchPayslips and tax statements on employees’ phones.
Payslips
Read capabilities
- Payslips on the phone. Each person gets their payslip on their phone on pay day, with a plain breakdown of every line. Free
- Declarations and proofs. Employees declare investments and upload proofs on their phone; you approve them in one list. Pro
- Form 16 and tax statements. Year-end tax statements prepared for every employee and delivered to their phone. Pro
- Pay questions, answered from the run. When someone asks why their pay changed, they get the explanation that was approved with the run. Business
Proposed at launch unless marked after launchClaims in, salaries out, every entry to Ledger.
Money
Read capabilities
- Reimbursements from Spend. Approved expense claims added to the run, so people are reimbursed with their salary. Free
- Paid on the day. On approval, a payment file is prepared for your bank, so salaries leave on pay day and not before. Free
- Every entry posted to Ledger. Salaries, deductions and employer costs posted to the right accounts, with the run linked. Free
- Several entities and pay groups. Different companies, locations or pay dates, each with its own run, under one bill. Business
Proposed at launch unless marked after launchApprovals, roles and a trail on every run.
Control
Read capabilities
- Approval before pay. No run is paid and no filing goes out until a named person approves it. Free
- CA access. Your CA sees runs, filings and reports with a role of their own, and never counts against your plan. Free
- Maker and checker. One person prepares the run, another approves it, and the trail records both. Business
- Audit trail export and API. Every run, change and approval exported for an auditor, and an API (proposed) for the tools around payroll. Business
No matches. Clear the search or choose another group.
Views of Pay, designed and not yet built.
Sample screens, not connected services.
Who it is for
For Indian businesses of five to five hundred people.
Indian businesses of five to five hundred people, and their accountants. India first, because that is where the complexity is; other countries follow.
Founders who run payroll themselves
You should not need to know the ESI wage limit or the professional tax slab in each state. Pay is designed to know them and to show you what they mean for each person.
HR and office managers
One review screen instead of a workbook, declarations collected on phones, and a month that ends with filings prepared instead of reminders set.
Your CA
A role of their own across runs, filings and reports, and a working file each month instead of a request for the salary sheet.
Businesses with more than one location
Kitchens, stores or offices in different states, each with its own professional tax slab and pay date, run from one login.
Works with Centilio
Pay runs from what the other tools already know.
Every Centilio tool shares one record and one login. Three of the tools around Pay run today; the others arrive in their own waves.
Outside tools come later, and they will be listed only when they exist. Salary payments are designed to leave through a payment file for your bank.
Team · same wave
People, leave, attendance and salary changes: the record a run is prepared from.
Ledger · same wave
Every approved run posted as salaries, deductions and employer costs.
Spend · same wave
Approved expense claims added to the run and reimbursed with salary.
Hire · live
The person you hire becomes a joiner in Team and, a month later, a first payslip.
Drive · live
Payslips, Form 16s and filings filed under each person and each month.
Account · live
One login, and the roles that decide who may prepare, approve or only read.
Trust
Salaries seen only by the people who must see them.
Payroll is the most private record a business keeps. Pay is designed around what it must never do with it.
We claim no certification for Pay, because a product that is not built cannot hold one. When there is something true and dated to say, the security page will say it.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest, inside your organisation’s space
- Roles from Account: owner, payroll preparer, approver, CA, employee
- Every employee sees only their own pay
- No payment and no filing without a named person’s approval
- Nothing of yours used to train anything
Pricing · per business
One price for the business, not one per employee.
Proposed, in rupees; yearly billing saves about 20%. Nothing is charged until Pay ships.
Free for up to five people, then Pro at ₹799 a month for up to 50 and Business at ₹1,999 for up to 500. Full pricing and comparison →
₹0
per business / month
₹0 for one month
For a small team’s first payroll
- Up to 5 people paid
- Run prepared from Team, one review screen
- PF and ESI computed
- Payslips on employees’ phones
- Reimbursements from Spend
- Every entry posted to Ledger
₹799
per business / month
₹799 for one month
For a business that runs payroll every month
- Everything in Free
- Up to 50 people paid
- TDS, professional tax and filings prepared
- Tax declarations, proofs and Form 16
- Celia checks statutory figures
- Arrears, bonuses and final settlement
₹1,999
per business / month
₹1,999 for one month
For a business with entities, approvals and an auditor
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 500 people paid
- Several entities and pay groups
- Maker and checker approvals
- Audit trail export
- API (proposed)
Prices are proposals, excluding taxes. Annual totals use the rounded monthly equivalents × 12. No exact 20% discount or available checkout is promised.
Questions
Questions about Pay, answered plainly.
Can I use Pay today?
No. Pay has not shipped: there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet. These pages are the product as designed, and the screen above runs on invented data. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Which countries does Pay support?
India at launch, with its statutory compliance: PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax. Other countries follow by demand, so if you pay people elsewhere, tell us where.
Does Pay file with the authorities?
It prepares the filings and, where the authority allows, submits them on your approval. Where it does not, the file is ready for you or your CA to upload.
Do I need Team to use Pay?
Pay is designed to start from Team, which holds people, leave and attendance, so a run begins complete. Whether Pay will also run from an uploaded sheet alone will be decided before launch and stated here.
Can Pay pay people without me?
No. Celia prepares the run, explains every change from last month and flags anything unusual, but it never pays without a person’s approval. The trail records who approved and when.
Can your CA see the payroll?
Yes, that is the design. Your CA gets a role of their own that sees runs, filings and reports, and it never counts against your plan.
When is Pay available?
Pay is in the third wave of Centilio tools, after Team and Ledger. There is no date yet, and we will not publish one until we can keep it.
What will it cost?
The proposed price is per business, not per employee: Free for up to five people, then Pro at ₹799 a month for up to 50 and Business at ₹1,999 for up to 500. Nothing is charged until Pay ships.
Hear first when Pay opens.
Pay is in the third wave, after Team and Ledger, and it starts with India. Join the waitlist and you will hear before the announcement. Tell us how many people you pay, in which states, and what goes wrong in your month today; that shapes the design more than anything else.