Use this guide when you run payroll for your own company. Paydae creates your organisation as part of first-run setup, alongside your local workspace and owner account.

If you manage payroll for multiple clients, follow Add a bureau client organisation.

Before you begin

Have the company’s legal name, trading name if used, jurisdiction and payroll currency ready.

Decide the payroll frequency, first service period and closing deadline.

Have a statutory release available for the jurisdiction, currency and service-period end shown during setup.

If you have not reached Create the payroll organisation, follow Quickstart to create the workspace, choose the setup mode and secure the local owner account.

Create your company during onboarding

  1. Choose single-company setup

    In Setup mode, choose I run payroll for my own company. Complete the licence and local owner steps to reach Company profile.

  2. Enter your company profile

    In Company profile, enter Legal name, add a Trading name if used, and confirm Jurisdiction and Primary currency. Select Continue.

  3. Configure the payroll calendar

    In Payroll setup, choose the payroll frequency and complete the calendar settings shown for that frequency, including the cadence anchor, timezone and close-by rule. Review the first service period and the following occurrences before continuing.

  4. Confirm the statutory release

    In Statutory release, review the release and resolve any readiness message for your company and first service-period end. Select Confirm release and continue when ready.

  5. Choose your backup setup

    Complete the Backup choice. Configure automatic backups if selected, or choose Remind me later.

  6. Review and enter the workspace

    In Review, check the company, payroll calendar, statutory readiness and backup summary. Use the edit links to correct anything, then select Enter workspace to finish setup.

The company organisation is created when onboarding completes. If you close or abandon onboarding before completion, the incomplete attempt is discarded; start again from Welcome.

After creation

Confirm the company identity and payroll currency in My Organisation. Complete the remaining contact, address, tax and statutory information using the company’s authorised records. Add any employer bank transfer or mobile money route under Edit Organisation Profile → Organisation payment methods. See Review organisation settings, Set up organisation payment methods, and Configure your organisation’s statutory profile.

Before preparing payroll, add employees and review their pay-schedule assignments. See Set up pay periods and Organisation readiness blockers for remaining setup actions.

Common problems

Cannot continue from Payroll setup

check the calendar validation message and make sure the service-period preview resolves.

Cannot confirm the statutory release

follow the displayed readiness message and check coverage for the first service-period end.

Cannot enter the workspace

review the incomplete items shown on Review and use their edit links to finish them.

Important boundaries

The close-by date is an operational deadline, not an employee payment date. For regular and off-cycle payroll, statutory coverage uses the service-period end.

Creating the organisation records the information you supply; it does not verify legal ownership, statutory registration or official filing status. Review payroll and statutory outputs before submitting them through the required official channel.