Payroll now has its own home in ScholaRise: staff salaries listed by name with each person's monthly pay, a This month page showing where the month stands, what needs attention and who still has to approve, and pay runs you can follow through to payslips. Setup is plain forms — pay calendar, employers, approval steps, statutory rules, salary templates and tax slabs. Staff can see their pay before payday and raise a problem if something looks wrong.
Salaries are worked out from the days each person was actually covered, so unpaid leave, absences and joining or leaving part-way through the month are reflected in the pay. An increment applies from the date it takes effect, and any arrears owed are paid along with it.
Staff advances, security deposits, one-off bonuses, arrears and salary holds can be set up once and are then applied to each month's salary automatically. Open Payroll and pick the Adjustments tab.
Payslips now show each pay item's full monthly rate next to what was actually paid, and say how much absences and unpaid leave cut from the total.
ESI is now calculated on basic pay and dearness allowance, the way the rules require, instead of on total pay.
Payslips and staff pay details now open for staff who have no provident fund or ESI entry, instead of failing to load.
The This month page now follows the branch you choose in the sidebar, instead of showing its own separate row of branch buttons.
Payroll has a new Attendance tab for going through each person's absences and leave for the month, fixing what is wrong and confirming them before pay is frozen. You can approve leave that is still waiting, record a half day, switch a leave between paid and unpaid with balances following the change, and confirm several people at once. Only days that can actually change someone's pay are put up for review.
Drivers, conductors, housekeeping, security, gardening and other support staff now sit in the Staff module alongside teachers and office staff, each with a staff category you can filter by. Every one of them can be set up in Payroll, and a driver's record carries their licence, medical expiry and assigned bus.
A supervisor can now mark the day for drivers, conductors, housekeeping, security and other support staff who cannot punch from the app. Pick a date and a category, mark each person Present, Half or Absent, add a note if you need to, then save. Payroll picks those marks up automatically, half days included.
A mark above the maximum no longer stops the rest of the class from saving: the cell stays marked with the reason while every valid mark goes through, and a "not saved" list names the student, the cell and what went wrong. Marks you have not saved yet survive a reload, a save that lost its connection is recognised when it retries instead of failing all over again, and a mark saved on another device can no longer be quietly replaced by an older one.
The Entries Overview report now loads on its own without holding up the rest of the app, and offers you Try again if it takes too long instead of sitting there frozen.
The CBSE registration sheet now suggests each Class XI student's own elective subjects, instead of every subject the class is offered, and warns you when a saved sheet lists a subject that student does not study. "Use suggested subjects" puts the student's own list back.
Compliance now uses the accreditation framework's own words — standards and parameters — and every parameter shows the standard it belongs to. The submission binder and the master document index come out as branded documents carrying your school's logo, a cover page, contents and page numbers, ready to hand to an assessor.
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