How To Guides

Step-by-step guides to help you get the most out of Payroll Mauritius

FAQEN101 - How to implement the mobile application Staff Connect for Employees

The mobile application for Employees offers a wide range of opportunities for interaction between Employees and the HR/Payroll Department. In addition...

FAQEN102 - How to import the history of past pay slips

The recovery of pay slip history is only mandatory for a maximum period of 12 months : in order to have the exact calculation elements for PAYE deduct...

FAQEN103 - How to open access on Payroll Mauritius to other people

As an Administrator, you can open access on Payroll Mauritius to other people. These do not need to be created as an Employee in the System. You will ...

FAQEN104 - How to access online my invoices in Payroll Mauritius

Access in Payroll Mauritius, the online invoices corresponding to the payments made.

FAQEN105 - How to change my bank account for invoice payment

Access the bank account used to pay Payroll Mauritius subscription invoices, and modify it to use another bank account - or other bank - for payment, ...

FAQEN106 - How to change your company invoiced by Payroll Mauritius

Access the elements of your Company that you used when subscribing to Payroll Mauritius and that is the one invoiced by Payroll Mauritius, to modify a...

FAQEN107 - How to import the list of Employees without re-entering them

Before your first use of Payroll Mauritius (but also later, if you want to update one or more parameters for a group or for all Employees) you have th...

FAQEN108 - How to make a dematerialized declaration to the MRA and NPF

The Mauritian government authorities in charge of collecting taxes (MRA) and social contributions (NPF, NSF and LEVY) are asking companies to report t...

FAQEN109 - How to create a payroll section that is automatically fed by an entry in a timesheet

In order to simplify the entry of the variable elements of the monthly payroll for Employees, use a configurable column in the Time Sheets, so that yo...

FAQEN110 - How to create a payroll section for an Employee or all Employees

In order to automate a calculation for one or all Employees, how to create a payroll section that will be systematically automatically updated in the ...

FAQEN111 - How to have salaries with an amount in foreign currency

For some Employees, the amount of the basic salary is denominated in foreign currencies for an amount fixed by contract. Payroll Mauritius is able to ...

FAQEN112 - How to create a payroll section for a group of Employees

In order to automate a calculation for a group of Employees, how to create a payroll section that will be systematically automatically updated in the ...

FAQEN113 - How to remove employees who have left from Payroll Mauritius and avoid the associated charges

As a reminder, billing for the Payroll Mauritius subscription is based on the number of employees in the system who have had at least one payslip calc...

FAQEN114 - How to set up manual overtime management in Payroll Mauritius

Payroll Mauritius allows you to manage the time sheets (absence/attendance days) of Employees. You can also, if desired, manually add the overtime hou...

FAQEN115 - How to set up automatic overtime management (and lateness) in Payroll Mauritius

Payroll Mauritius allows you to manage the time sheets (absence/attendance days) of Employees. We have seen (see prerequisites) how to manage any over...

FAQEN116 - How to import absences from an external system into Payroll Mauritius Timesheets

When employee absences/attendances are managed in an external system and it is not possible to manage this in Payroll Mauritius, it is possible to int...

FAQEN117 - How to set up two-factor authentication to secure the super-admin password in Payroll Mauritius

The Payroll Mauritius subscriber has super user rights allowing him/her unrestricted access to the data held, as well as the ability to create access ...

FAQEN118 - How automatic calculation of end-of-year bonus works and how to adjust it to include the only necessary bonuses

According the Workers' Right Act for basic wages under Rs 100,000 or the End of Year Gratuity Act 2001 for basic wages above Rs 100,000, the calculati...

FAQEN120 - How to manage salary advances in Payroll Mauritius

The lives of your employees can make them need compensation on their monthly salary in advance, and you may be able to pay them a down payment on thei...

FAQEN121 - How to increment a variable that accumulates from one month to the next in Payroll Mauritius (travel funds, pension)

Some payroll elements are sometimes successive cumulations, it is useful to have a variable that is used to store an amount that auto-increments from ...

FAQEN122 - How to use an Employee's seniority to give a bonus

In some cases, a bonus (or access to a pension plan for example) may be paid depending on the length of time the Employee has been with the company.

FAQEN123 - How to regularize the total taxable amount on the following month in case of an error on my part

If you have given a bonus to an Employee (being within the taxable threshold after deduction of his/her EIT) but have failed to make it subject to tax...

FAQEN124 - How to make a lateness appear in case of an outing before the normal departure time

In standard, Payroll Mauritius is set up so that the Calendars defined as the normal hours for an Employee, do not consider an early departure (end of...

FAQEN125 - How to perform the mandatory annual government salary increase in Payroll Mauritius

Annually and as from January, the Government of Mauritius, following the recommendation of the National Wage Consultative Council, gives the minimum a...

FAQEN126 - How to increase an Employee's salary in Payroll Mauritius

At any time, you can increase an Employee's basic salary. This increase will then be taken into account as from the pay period in which you have carri...

FAQEN127 - How to grant early leave to an Employee in Payroll Mauritius

The Mauritian law says that a new Employee has the right to one day sick leave and one day local leave after 6 months of services without any absence....

FAQEN128 - How can I best secure my passwords to access Payroll Mauritius

Payroll data is by nature very sensitive data and should not be exposed. To this end, over and above all the security mechanisms put in place by Payro...

FAQEN129 - How can I have my pay period end not on a fixed date but on the last day of each month

The pay period in Payroll Mauritius allows you to get a day of the month for which holiday and overtime calculations are stopped. By default, Payroll ...

FAQEN130 - How to implement PRGF in Payroll Mauritius

The Workers' Rights Act 2019 by its note 39 of 2020 enacts the terms as to the obligation for Mauritian companies to provide a mandatory pension plan ...

FAQEN131 - How to temporarily deactivate Payroll sections for all - or some - Employees

Occasional and exceptional events (lock down) may make it necessary to disregard certain payroll sections for one (or several) months (such as for exa...

FAQEN132 - How to clock the working hours of the Employees with the Payroll Mauritius mobile application Staff Connect - Teleworking

Your Company's activity may make it increasingly common for Employees to use mobility (or teleworking). Therefore, the implementation of a time clocki...

FAQEN133 - Security Report on payrollmauritius.com

Payroll Mauritius is always concerned about the security of your data and regularly conducts intrusion tests, denial of access and numerous technical ...

FAQEN134 - How to compute the payroll and have a payslip entirely in foreign currencies (EUR, USD, GBP...)

Expatriate foreign workers may work in your Company. To do so, it may be necessary in the employment contract negotiated with them that their remunera...

FAQEN135 - How to automatically apply a seniority scale giving an annual percentage increase according to the month of entry of the Employee

Depending on your Company's practices, you may be required to give an annual increase in basic salary to Employees based on the number of years of sen...

FAQEN136 - How to issue the Statement of Emoluments to Employees, carry out the Return Of Employees (ROE) and, if needed, modify erroneous emolument assignments

As a Company employing Employees, at the end of each fiscal year (June 30), all Employees of the Company who are still present or who have left the Co...

FAQEN137 - How to change Payroll Mauritius so that the pay period is the pay period for the payment of Salaries -and not the calendar month-

The default setting of Payroll Mauritius is that the end date of the Payroll Period is the date on which absences (local, sick...) and overtime/latene...

FAQEN138 - How to implement the Solidarity Levy in Payroll Mauritius

The Solidarity Levy https://www.mra.mu/download/PayrollTaxes.pdf was decided in September 2020 in order to make employees (Mauritians and foreigners)...

FAQEN139 - How to implement the CSG (Contribution Sociale Generalisee) in Payroll Mauritius

Since September 1st, 2020, the CSG (Contribution Sociale Generalisee) replaces the contribution to the NPF (National Pension Fund).

FAQEN140 - How to modify the Monthly Payroll Report to add new fields

The "Payroll Report" is the monthly payroll book. It is an important element of payroll management since it allows you to automatically generate a rep...

FAQEN141 - How to add a stamp and or signature at the bottom of pay slips and SOE

The digital pay slip issued by Payroll Mauritius and given to the Employee is an important document which must be kept without time limit by the Emplo...

FAQEN142 - How to pay an employee a fixed amount in NET that does not vary according to the deductions

Some Employees contractually require to receive a NET amount excluding deductions of social charges (NSF, CSG...) and income tax (PAYE, Solidarity Lev...

FAQEN143 - How to enter monthly variable elements using a customizable multi employee form

The monthly payroll is established by combining fixed elements (basic salary, transport allowance, fixed bonus...) and elements that vary from one mon...

FAQEN144 - How to export all or part of the columns of a timesheet

By default, Payroll Mauritius allows you to export your time data from your timesheets to Excel®. Thus, if you have set them up, you will have the dat...

FAQEN145 - How to retrieve and re-import EDFs entered online at the MRA

Employees are able to enter their EDF online directly on the MRA website. However, in order to ensure an accurate calculation of the PAYE tax, it is ...

FAQEN146 - How to pay or carry over the remaining leave at the end of the year to the following year

As an Employer, you have to decide at the end of the year what to do with the remaining (local) holidays not taken by the Employees: either pay them o...

FAQEN147 - How to use Payroll Mauritius in green mode

Payroll Mauritius is contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by reducing the power consumption of its application to limit the env...

FAQEN148 - How to set a default value for a multiple choice field -combo- in a timesheet

Payroll Mauritius allows you to set up a Multiple choice (combobox) field in the Timesheet. How could we specify a "default" value that would be set ...

FAQEN149 - How to give access to a third party only to retrieve invoices from Payroll Mauritius

Payroll Mauritius issues monthly invoices for the provision of the service and can be dowload by the subscriber user only. However, it is possible to...

FAQEN150 - How to delete one or more payslips

Payroll Mauritius offers the possibility for an administrator to delete one or more already calculated payslips of one or more Employees. However, a s...

FAQEN151 - How to set up public holidays different from the standard Mauritian public holidays

Payroll Mauritius automatically implements the official Mauritian public holidays for the current calendar year. This allows you to benefit from the e...

FAQEN152 - How to use the APIs available from Payroll Mauritius to retrieve data to use in another system

Payroll Mauritius has a set of APIs that allow you to retrieve information stored in the system for use in another system. These informations are : ...

FAQEN153 - Payroll Mauritius APIs

Payroll Mauritius APIs Documentation available . Please read before FAQEN152 - How to use the APIs available from Payroll Mauritius to retrieve data...

FAQEN154 - Payroll Mauritius Privacy Policy

Payroll Mauritius Privacy Policy

FAQEN156 - How to compute all the normal working hours in a day in overtime

It may happen that all hours worked should be considered as overtime in order to pay a multiplier for all these hours (example: working on a public ho...

FAQEN157- How to put an external non-employee as a Manager and thus be able to validate other employees' leave via Staff Connect

It may be that a Director of the Company is not an employee of the Company, but may wish to access, for example, the leave approval of the local Direc...

FAQEN158 - How to put an Employee as a Manager of a team and thus authorise him-her to validate other Employees' holidays with Staff Connect

The Staff Connect mobile application (for Payroll Mauritius) allows an Employee, Manager (team leader) to have the rights to validate leave taken by h...

FAQEN159 - Explanations on new EDF PAYE 2023-2024 Calculation

Following the new Budget Speach 2023-2024 about new PAYE calculation, the system has been setting up automatically in Payroll Mauritius. You'll find ...

FAQEN161 - How to publish a document shared with the Employee through the Staff Connect mobile application

Staff Connect is the application that allows you to give employees access to their payroll data. The main functions are timesheets, leave, payslips an...

FAQEN162 - How to use access levels for Payroll Mauritius users to restrict views of payrolls and employees

In addition to the subscriber who has created access to the file and who has all the rights, Payroll Mauritius authorises you to create one or more ot...

FAQEN163 - How to filter on the content of a column in a Payroll Mauritius customisable report

Payroll Mauritius allows you to create your own reports by choosing which columns to display. However, you may only need to extract the contents of on...

FAQEN164 - How to export payroll accounting entries from Payroll Mauritius for integration into your accounting software

Once a month's payroll has been calculated, Payroll Mauritius allows you to export a personalised report in CSV format compatible with Microsoft© Exce...

FAQEN165 - How to make the compulsory salary adjustment for the minimum wage based on the level of education required for the position held

The Mauritian government has adjusted the minimum remuneration for employees earning less than 50,000 rupees, in line with the level of qualifications...

FAQEN166 - How to make the CSG adjustment for the compulsory salary increase and declaration of past payroll to the MRA in Payroll Mauritius

Following the readjustment of the minimum remuneration of Employees, the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) must be informed retroactively that the com...

FAQEN167 - How to calculate and pay the 14th month Special Allowance on Payroll Mauritius

Following validation of the payment of a ‘Special Allowance’ bonus known as the 14th month's pay,

FAQEN168 - How to request hourly leave in Payroll Mauritius or using Staff Connect

Payroll Mauritius allows employees to take leave by the day or half-day, but also optionally by the hour (or half-hour), either directly by the Payrol...

FAQEN169 - How to perform a local SQL database backup of your Payroll Mauritius data - Data Protection Act 2017 (DPA)

Payroll Mauritius therefore allows you to receive, at your convenience and on a recurring basis of your choice, an SQL (Structured Query Language) da...