Restaurant Payroll Software for Every Shift & Every Role
SalaryBox is restaurant payroll software built for the way restaurants actually run — tipped servers, hourly kitchen staff, salaried managers, and a team that changes every month. Mark attendance with AI selfie punch-in, GPS, QR code, or biometric devices. Build fixed or rotating shifts with a monthly roster. Track breaks, block early check-ins, and sync every hour into payroll automatically. Run payroll across multiple outlets in minutes, with PF, ESI, PT, LWF, and TDS handled for you. Stop burning your Sunday night on spreadsheets. Serve great food instead.
Restaurant Payroll is the Hardest Payroll You'll Ever Run
Running payroll in a restaurant isn't just cutting cheques. You're juggling hourly cooks, monthly-paid managers, daily-wage dishwashers, servers on split shifts, and kitchen staff pulling doubles on weekends. Attendance is scattered across paper registers and WhatsApp messages. Overtime gets miscounted. Reimbursements for staff meals, transport, and expenses pile up on scraps of paper. And every month, you sit down on a Sunday night to reconcile everything into a spreadsheet — while Provident Fund, ESI, Professional Tax, and TDS rules change every few quarters. Generic payroll software can't keep up with the chaos of a real restaurant. Your staff deserve to be paid accurately and on time. You deserve your weekends back.
Fake Attendance & Missing Hours
Kitchen staff forget to punch in, servers clock in for absent colleagues, and handwritten registers go missing at month-end. Missing hours mean wrong paychecks and unhappy staff.
Split Shifts, Doubles, and Overtime Chaos
Lunch plus dinner, weekend doubles, break deductions, overtime thresholds — manually counting all this on Sunday night is a recipe for errors and disputes.
PF, ESI, PT, LWF, TDS — Every Quarter Changes
State-specific Professional Tax slabs, Labour Welfare Fund rates, PF ECR files, and the latest TDS regime. Miss one update and you're facing penalties, not just back pay.
Payroll Software Built for Real Restaurant Operations
Every feature below is live in SalaryBox today — attendance, shifts, and payroll in one platform your team can actually use.
Five Ways to Mark Attendance
AI selfie punch-in with face verification, GPS attendance, QR code check-in, biometric devices, or the AI Attendance Kiosk that turns any phone into a face-recognition punch-in point.
Geofenced Check-Ins
Unlimited geofences with customizable radius ensure staff only mark attendance at the outlet. Fake GPS Blocking and Verified Device Punch-In stop attendance fraud cold.
Fixed & Rotating Shifts
Create fixed or rotating schedules, manage multiple daily shifts, build monthly rosters in minutes, block early check-ins and late check-outs, and track breaks with unpaid time deductions.
Flexible Salary Structures
Set monthly, daily, or hourly pay. Pick calendar-month, 30-day, or 26-day salary cycles. Add HRA, DA, LTA, and any custom allowances. Built-in templates or build your own.
Automated Statutory Compliance
Provident Fund with ECR file generation, ESI, state-specific Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund, and TDS on the latest tax regime — all calculated automatically.
Multi-Location Payroll
Manage payroll and attendance across every outlet from a single dashboard. Staff directory, document management, and payroll reports for the whole chain in one view.
Five Attendance Modes for Every Kind of Restaurant Staff
Not every restaurant employee is the same. Your servers carry phones and can punch in with a selfie. Your dishwashers and cooks might not have a smartphone — they need a biometric device at the kitchen door. Your delivery riders need GPS-verified check-ins. Event staff at a wedding banquet need a quick QR scan. SalaryBox gives you all five modes running side-by-side: AI Selfie Punch-In with face verification, GPS attendance, QR code check-in, biometric integration with hardware devices, and the AI Attendance Kiosk that turns any spare phone into an automatic face-recognition punch-in station. Use whichever mode fits each role. One unified attendance log.
- AI selfie punch-in with instant face verification
- GPS attendance for floor, field, and delivery staff
- QR code punch-in for banquets and pop-up locations
- Biometric device integration for kitchen staff
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Unlimited Geofences Stop Attendance Fraud
Set a virtual fence around every outlet — flagship restaurant, cloud kitchen, off-site catering venue — and staff can only punch in when they're physically inside it. The radius is customizable per location, so a 40-seat café gets a tight fence and a banquet hall gets a larger one. Fake GPS Blocking stops anyone trying to spoof their location with a third-party app. Verified Device Punch-In makes sure attendance can only be marked from a phone you've approved. The result: your kitchen staff can't clock in from the bus stop, your servers can't punch in from home, and you stop paying for hours that weren't worked.
- Unlimited geofences with customizable radius per outlet
- Multi-location support from a single dashboard
- Fake GPS Blocking prevents location spoofing
- Verified Device Punch-In restricts to approved phones
Fixed & Rotating Shifts, Monthly Rosters, Break Tracking
Restaurants don't run on 9-to-5. SalaryBox is built for real restaurant schedules — fixed shifts for kitchen staff, rotating shifts for servers, multiple shifts per day for managers, and monthly rosters you can build in minutes. Set shift time limits to block early check-ins and late check-outs that quietly drive up overtime costs. Configure mandatory working hours so half-days and full-days are tracked accurately. Turn on break tracking to deduct unpaid time automatically — no more guessing whether a server actually took their 30-minute meal break. Every hour in, every break out, flows directly into payroll.
- Fixed and rotating shifts for any team size
- Monthly roster planning for complex schedules
- Shift time limits block early or late punches
- Break tracking with automatic unpaid-time deduction
Payroll, Payslips & Statutory Compliance in a Single Click
Every check-in, every break, every approved leave, and every reimbursement flows into the payroll module automatically. Set up each employee's pay structure once — monthly, daily, or hourly, with HRA, DA, LTA, or any custom allowance — and SalaryBox does the math every month. Statutory deductions are handled for you: Provident Fund with ready-to-upload ECR files, ESI calculations, state-specific Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund deductions, and TDS on the latest tax regime. Loans and salary advances auto-deduct. Reimbursements with digital receipt uploads slot right into the run. One click and payslips are generated and shared — on the app and on the web — for every employee.
- Attendance and leave auto-sync into payroll
- PF ECR files, ESI, PT, LWF, and TDS automated
- Loans, advances, and reimbursements handled in-line
- Instant payslip generation and one-click sharing
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Restaurant Operators Run Payroll on SalaryBox
From single-kitchen cafés to multi-city restaurant chains — operators trust SalaryBox to handle attendance, shifts, and payroll without breaking a sweat.
Start Running Restaurant Payroll the Easy Way
Free trial, no credit card required. Onboard your team from the app in minutes. Scale from one outlet to fifty when you're ready.
- Selfie, GPS, QR & biometric attendance
- Unlimited geofences with fake GPS blocking
- Fixed & rotating shifts with break tracking
- Monthly, daily or hourly pay structures
- PF ECR, ESI, PT, LWF & TDS automated
- One-click payslips & multi-outlet payroll
Everything Restaurant Operators Ask
Straight answers to the questions restaurant owners, managers, and chefs send us most often.