SalaryBox

Built for Hotels & Hospitality

Hotel Staff Management Software

SalaryBox is a complete hotel staff management software built for the way hospitality runs — 24×7 front-desk rotations, three-shift housekeeping, split-shift F&B teams, night-audit staff, on-call maintenance, and contract agency workers, all in one mobile-first platform. Capture touchless attendance at staff entry with AI face recognition, biometric devices, GPS, or QR code. Build rosters for every department. Automate night-shift allowances, weekend premiums, and overtime. Run payroll with full statutory compliance for PF, ESI, Professional Tax, LWF, and TDS — across every hotel, resort, and serviced apartment in your group.

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The Celestial Hotel & Spa
3 shifts active · 8 departments · 142 staff
Live
112On duty
28Night shift
8Departments
14Split shift
Front Office — Afternoon
RP
Ritu Patel
Front-desk · Face scan
14:02
SM
Suresh M.
Concierge · Selfie
13:55
Housekeeping — Split Shift
Lakshmi K.
Room attendant · Floor 3
Split
Dinesh V.
Night auditor · 22:00 shift
Night
5 Modes Attendance capture
24×7 Shifts Rotating & split
Unlimited Properties & branches
1 Click Payroll & payslips
The Hospitality Reality

The Most Complex Staff Operation
in Any Industry — Running 24×7

A hotel is not one workplace. It is eight operations running in parallel, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Front desk runs rotating shifts so reception is manned at 3 AM for a late arrival. Housekeeping works split shifts — morning room turnaround for check-outs, afternoon deep-clean for check-ins. The kitchen runs two breakfast cooks, lunch crew, evening banquet staff, and a night room-service team. Security patrols 24 hours. Maintenance responds on-call. Contract agency staff fill gaps during peak season. Every cadre has a different pay structure, different allowances, different overtime rules.

Most hotel technology covers guests. The Property Management System handles reservations and the channel manager syncs OTAs. But everything behind the guest experience — the staff delivering it — still runs on paper registers, WhatsApp group rosters, and month-end payroll panic. Proxy attendance is rampant in housekeeping. Shift swaps happen on messaging apps and never make it to payroll. Night-shift allowances get miscalculated. Multi-property groups have no central view. SalaryBox handles every employee behind the guest experience so your PMS can focus on guests.

Split Shifts & Night-Audit Chaos

Housekeeping on split shifts, kitchen on staggered timings, night auditors on 10 PM–6 AM — paper registers can't handle this and every miscounted hour inflates overtime.

Proxy Attendance in Housekeeping & F&B

Colleagues sign for absent staff. Time theft quietly adds 5–7% to monthly wages without anyone catching it until a grievance escalates mid-season.

Night & Weekend Allowances Miscalculated

Night duty premium, weekend duty allowance, festival pay, banquet incentives — every rule different and manual spreadsheets miss them every month.

Multi-Property Groups Run Separately

Three hotels, two cities, different PT slabs, different agency staffing. Each property's HR runs their own spreadsheets with no consolidated head-office view.

Why Hotels Choose SalaryBox

Hotel Staff Management Built
for the 24×7 Property

Every feature below is live in SalaryBox today — verified from the product, not marketing copy. One platform for attendance, rosters, leave, and payroll across every department and every property.

Five Attendance Modes for Hotels

AI Selfie Punch-In, biometric device integration, GPS attendance, QR code check-in, and AI Attendance Kiosk — five options for every role from front-desk to banquet event staff.

Property-Level Geofencing

Unlimited geofences for every hotel, resort, and serviced apartment. Fake GPS Blocking and Verified Device Punch-In prevent proxy attendance at every staff entrance.

24×7 Rotating & Split Shifts

Fixed and rotating shifts for front desk and F&B. Split shifts for housekeeping. Night-audit schedules. Multiple daily shifts with break tracking and mandatory working-hours rules.

Multi-Cadre Salary Structures

Monthly salaries for managers, hourly for agency contract staff, daily wages for banquet teams — all with HRA, DA, LTA, and custom allowances in one payroll run.

Night & Weekend Allowances Automated

Night duty allowance, weekend premium, holiday pay, and shift differentials all triggered automatically from roster and attendance data — zero manual calculation.

Multi-Property Dashboard

Every hotel, resort, and branch visible in one dashboard. Role-based access for GMs and department heads. Consolidated payroll for the entire hospitality group in one action.

One Platform for Every Hotel Department

From front office to banquet hall — SalaryBox manages attendance, rosters, and payroll for every cadre in your hotel operation, across every shift.

Front Office Reception & concierge
Housekeeping Room attendants
Kitchen & F&B Chefs & servers
Night Audit Overnight finance
Spa & Wellness Therapists & trainers
Maintenance Engineering & repairs
Security 24×7 rotation
Banquet & Events On-demand event staff
How It Works Inside Your Hotel

Four Features That Transform Hotel Staff Operations

From 24×7 staff entry attendance to split-shift rosters and night-duty payroll automation — every capability built for real hospitality operations.

1 Attendance Capture

Five Ways to Capture Hotel Staff Attendance

A hotel has five kinds of entry scenario, so one attendance mode cannot serve them all. Front-desk and back-office staff use a biometric device at the staff entrance — fast, reliable, hardware-grade accuracy. Housekeeping supervisors use AI Selfie Punch-In with face verification from their phone as they start floor rounds. Off-site maintenance engineers and villa staff use GPS attendance when they arrive at a remote block or outdoor site. Banquet event staff brought in for weddings and conferences use QR Code Punch-In at the event venue — scan and go in two seconds. Any spare tablet at the HR desk or reception becomes an AI Attendance Kiosk — automatic face-recognition punch-in without contact, no fingerprint hygiene concerns. All five modes feed into one unified hotel attendance dashboard in real time, visible to duty managers and HR across every department.

  • AI Selfie Punch-In with face verification — touchless for kitchen and spa staff
  • Biometric device at staff entrance for back-of-house teams
  • GPS Attendance for maintenance engineers and off-site villa staff
  • QR Code Punch-In for banquet, catering, and event staff
  • AI Attendance Kiosk — any tablet becomes a face-recognition station
Staff Attendance · 14:22
Ritu PatelBiometric · Front desk
14:02
Lakshmi K.Selfie · Housekeeping
13:45
Chef ArunKiosk · Kitchen
13:30
Ravi K.GPS · Villa block
14:15
Meera S.QR · Banquet hall
14:20
Total on duty 112 staff verified
2 Rosters & Shifts

24×7 Shifts, Split Rosters & Night-Audit Schedules

Hospitality is the hardest scheduling industry in any sector. Front desk needs cover at 3 AM when a red-eye flight lands. Housekeeping runs split shifts — morning cleans and afternoon turnarounds. Kitchen covers breakfast cooks, lunch line, banquet crew, and late-night room service. The night auditor works 10 PM to 6 AM alone. SalaryBox handles every pattern: fixed and rotating shifts for front-desk and F&B, split shifts for housekeeping morning-afternoon workflows, multiple daily shifts for kitchen crews, and dedicated night-audit schedules. Shift time limits automatically block early check-ins and late check-outs that silently inflate overtime. Break tracking deducts unpaid meal breaks automatically. Custom leave policies handle casual leave, sick leave, and seasonal staff leave with manager approvals from the mobile app. Monthly rosters build in minutes. Every hour captured feeds directly into payroll.

  • Fixed and rotating shifts for front-desk and F&B
  • Split shifts for housekeeping morning-afternoon workflow
  • Multiple daily shifts with shift time limits and break tracking
  • Night-audit schedules and mandatory working hours
  • Monthly roster planning for every department
  • Custom leave policies with mobile approvals
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3 Multi-Property

Multi-Property Geofencing & Central Dashboard

A hospitality group running multiple hotels, resorts, and service apartments needs central control without losing property-level autonomy. SalaryBox puts unlimited geofences around every property — main building, villa block, and off-site banquet lawn all covered with customizable radius. Staff can only mark attendance from inside the geofence. Fake GPS Blocking rejects location-spoofing apps. Verified Device Punch-In locks each staff member to an approved phone. Each property gets its own general manager dashboard while corporate HR sees live attendance across every hotel in the group simultaneously. Role-based access ensures the F&B manager sees only F&B staff, the GM sees the whole property, and corporate HR sees the whole group. Payroll runs per property or for the entire group in one action.

  • Unlimited geofences — one per hotel, resort, or serviced apartment
  • Fake GPS Blocking and Verified Device Punch-In prevent proxy attendance
  • Consolidated multi-property dashboard for hospitality groups
  • Role-based access for GMs, department heads, and corporate HR
  • Payroll per property or consolidated across the entire group
Hospitality Group · Live View
Flagship Hotel● 142 on duty
Hill Resort● 88 on duty
Service Apts● 34 on duty
Total staff on duty264
Night-shift staff42
Fake GPS blocked today5
4 Payroll & Compliance

Hotel Payroll With Night Allowances & Full Statutory Compliance

Hotel payroll is uniquely layered. Duty managers earn monthly salaries. Contract agency housekeepers earn hourly rates. Banquet servers earn daily wages. Night auditors earn a base plus night-duty allowance. SalaryBox supports monthly, daily, and hourly pay in the same platform with custom allowances — HRA, DA, LTA, night duty, weekend premium, hazard allowance, uniform allowance, banquet incentive. Every attendance record flows into payroll automatically. Statutory compliance is fully automated: Provident Fund with ready-to-upload ECR files, ESI contributions, state-specific Professional Tax slabs, Labour Welfare Fund, and TDS on the latest tax regime. Salary advances auto-deduct. Reimbursements with digital receipts integrate in-line. Instant payslip generation pushes payslips to every staff member through the app.

  • Monthly, daily, and hourly pay in one payroll run
  • Night duty, weekend premium, and holiday allowances automated
  • PF with ready-to-upload ECR files every cycle
  • State-specific PT slabs for multi-state hospitality groups
  • ESI, LWF, and TDS on latest tax regime fully automated
  • Instant payslip generation and sharing on the app
Night Auditor Payslip · Dinesh V.
Basic salary₹28,000
HRA + DA₹10,400
Night duty (22 shifts)₹6,600
Weekend premium₹2,800
Uniform allowance₹500
PF deduction−₹3,360
ESI + PT + TDS−₹1,140
Net take-home₹43,800
Customer Stories

Hotels & Resorts Run Staff on SalaryBox

From boutique hotels and resorts to serviced-apartment networks and multi-city hospitality groups — operators trust SalaryBox with staff attendance, rosters, and payroll.

Housekeeping proxy attendance was costing us nearly a lakh a month and we couldn't catch it on paper rounds. Face recognition at the staff entrance with geofencing stopped it overnight. Payroll now closes in two hours instead of a full week.

SK
Sanjay Kapoor
GM · 180-room boutique hotel
₹1L+monthly wage savings
2 hrsmonthly payroll close

Our group runs three hotels across two states — different PT slabs, different agency contracts, hundreds of contract staff at peak season. SalaryBox gave us one dashboard and automated every compliance rule. Our corporate HR team finally sees everything in one view.

AM
Anita Mehra
Corporate HR · Multi-property hospitality group
3 hotelsone dashboard
Zeromanual compliance

Run Your Entire Hotel Staff on One Platform

Free trial — no credit card required. Set up your property in under 15 minutes. Scale across every hotel, resort, and serviced apartment in your group when you're ready.

  • Biometric, face recognition, GPS, QR & kiosk attendance
  • Property geofencing with Fake GPS Blocking
  • 24×7 rotating, split, and night-audit shifts
  • Night, weekend & holiday allowances automated
  • PF ECR, ESI, PT, LWF & TDS fully automated
  • Multi-property dashboard for hospitality groups
Frequently Asked Questions

Hotel Staff Management — Common Questions

Answers to what hotel owners, general managers, HR heads, and operations directors ask before adopting SalaryBox.

Hotel staff management software is a platform that handles the workforce complexity unique to hotels and hospitality — 24×7 rotating shifts across front office, F&B, and housekeeping; split-shift scheduling; night-audit rosters; contract agency staffing; and hospitality allowances like night duty, weekend premium, and banquet incentives. It combines biometric and mobile attendance capture, shift rostering, leave management, multi-property dashboards, and payroll with full statutory compliance for PF, ESI, Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund, and TDS. SalaryBox delivers all of these in one mobile-first platform. It runs alongside your Property Management System (PMS) — SalaryBox handles staff, your PMS handles guests.
No. A Property Management System like eZee, Hotelogix, or Cloudbeds handles guest-facing operations — room reservations, check-in/check-out, OTA channel manager integration with MakeMyTrip and Booking.com, and guest folio billing. SalaryBox is a staff management software. It handles everything behind the guest experience: employee attendance, shift rosters, leave management, and payroll with full Indian statutory compliance. Most hotels run both together — your PMS for guests, SalaryBox for staff.
SalaryBox offers five attendance modes for hotels. Front-desk and back-office staff use a biometric device at the staff entrance. Housekeeping supervisors and F&B managers use AI Selfie Punch-In with face verification. Maintenance engineers and villa staff use GPS Attendance with geofence verification. Banquet event staff use QR Code Punch-In. Any spare tablet becomes an AI Attendance Kiosk — a touchless face-recognition punch-in station. All five modes feed into one unified hotel attendance dashboard in real time.
Yes. Three layers of anti-fraud: (1) Property-level geofencing — attendance only accepted inside the hotel boundary, customizable to cover the main building, villas, and banquet areas; (2) Fake GPS Blocking — location-spoofing apps are detected and rejected; (3) Verified Device Punch-In — each staff member is locked to an approved phone. Together these make proxy attendance effectively impossible on hotel premises.
Yes. Create fixed and rotating shifts for front-desk and F&B staff, split shifts for housekeeping (morning turnaround and afternoon deep-clean), multiple daily shifts for kitchen crews, and dedicated night-audit schedules from 10 PM to 6 AM. Shift time limits block early check-ins and late check-outs. Break tracking deducts unpaid meal breaks automatically. Monthly rosters build in minutes and every hour captured feeds directly into payroll.
Yes. Configure custom allowances once and SalaryBox applies them automatically based on attendance and roster data. Night-duty allowance triggers on night shifts, weekend premium on Sundays and public holidays, and festival pay follows your configured calendar. HRA, DA, LTA, uniform allowance, hazard allowance, and banquet incentive can all be added per cadre. Zero manual calculation at month-end.
Yes. Hospitality groups with multiple hotels, resorts, and serviced apartments use one consolidated dashboard. Each property has its own geofence, roster templates, and leave policies while corporate HR sees the entire group. Role-based access: F&B managers see their team, GMs see their property, corporate HR sees everything. Payroll runs per hotel or for the whole group.
Yes. PF is calculated with a ready-to-upload ECR file every month. ESI is calculated accurately for housekeeping, kitchen helpers, and support staff below the wage threshold. Professional Tax uses state-specific slabs — essential for multi-state hospitality groups. LWF follows state-specific rules. TDS is calculated on the latest income-tax regime. All compliance reports are audit-ready and exportable to Excel.
Yes. SalaryBox supports monthly, daily, and hourly pay structures in the same platform. Permanent hotel employees on monthly salaries, contract agency housekeeping on hourly rates, banquet servers on daily wages, and seasonal staff all run in one payroll cycle. Each cadre has its own salary structure, allowance profile, and statutory compliance rules.
Yes. Start a free trial without a credit card and invite your hotel staff immediately. The trial includes full access to all five attendance modes, unlimited property geofences, split-shift and night-audit rostering, custom leave policies, multi-property dashboards, and automated payroll with full statutory compliance. Most hotel HR teams go live with real staff attendance on the same day they sign up — setup takes under 15 minutes.