Payroll that already knows what your drivers did last month
A driver's pay depends on the duties they ran — night halts, outstation days, extra hours, holidays worked. Your operations system holds all of that. Running payroll somewhere else means typing it in again and hoping. Here, attendance, allowances, statutory deductions, salary slips, PF and ESI returns all come out of the work the platform already recorded.
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Without it
- ×Attendance is marked in one place, payroll runs in another, and the two disagree by month end
- ×Night halt and outstation allowance are reconstructed from duty slips with a calculator
- ×Comp-off for Diwali duty is remembered in a WhatsApp thread and forgotten by March
- ×PF and ESI returns are prepared by an outside consultant from a spreadsheet you email them
- ×Salary slips are a Word template someone fills in forty times
- ×A driver leaves and their final settlement takes three weeks and two arguments
- ×Salary tax deduction is estimated in March, badly, and corrected in the last payslip
With Travel Softdrive
- Duties, attendance and pay run off one driver record — nothing is entered twice
- Duty-based allowances flow into the salary calculation automatically
- Comp-off earned and used is a ledger, not a memory
- PF and ESI return files generated in the format the portals accept, from your own payroll data
- Salary slips generated for every employee in a run, with the full component breakdown
- Full and final settlement computed from the same records the monthly run uses
- Salary tax deduction computed across the year from declared investments, not guessed in March
What's inside
Employees, drivers and staff on one register
Drivers, dispatchers, accountants, mechanics and admin in a single employee master with designations, departments and payroll configuration. One driver record serves HR, payroll, dispatch and compliance.
Attendance and comp-off
Daily attendance per person, with comp-off earned for weekend and holiday duty and claimed later. Every earn and every use is on the ledger, so nobody has to win an argument about a Sunday worked eight months ago.
Leave management
Leave types with entitlements, an apply and approve workflow, cancellation and adjustment, and balances both the employee and the manager can see. Holiday calendars drive attendance rules and billing rates from the same place.
Salary structures and duty-based allowances
Template salary structures with the components you actually use — basic, allowances, deductions — applied to a group in one action. Driver allowances tied to duty conditions compute from the duties themselves rather than being keyed in.
Provident fund: challan and ECR
PF computed per employee against your establishment configuration, with the challan summary and the ECR file generated ready to upload. The fund's systems do not accept submissions from software, so what you get is the exact file the portal expects — not a report you then retype into it.
ESI: return and contribution file
Employee state insurance contributions computed on the applicable wage rules, with the return view and the upload file both produced from the payroll run. Applicability is assessed rather than assumed, so people who fall in and out of coverage as their wages change are handled correctly.
Salary tax deduction and declarations
Employees submit their investment declarations; tax is projected across the full year and deducted evenly rather than crushed into the final quarter. The quarterly salary return is produced from the same figures, using the section references currently in force.
Advances and recurring deductions
Salary advances issued and recovered on a schedule, alongside standing deductions. Both appear on the payslip as their own lines, so an employee can see exactly why this month is different from last.
Payroll periods with lock
Define the monthly period, process it, then lock it. Once salaries are paid, attendance for that month stops being editable — which is the only way a payroll register stays worth anything.
Salary slips and registers
Salary slips per employee with the full component breakdown, and a payroll register for the run. Drivers see their own slips and attendance in the app; you keep the register.
Full and final settlement
When someone leaves, the settlement is computed from the same attendance, leave balance, advance recovery and statutory records the monthly run uses. Transfers between your own establishments are handled as transfers rather than as an exit and a fresh joining.
Statutory setup guidance
Establishment details, applicability thresholds and the configuration each return depends on, with a readiness view that tells you what is still missing before a filing period rather than at the end of it.
Frequently asked questions
Does the platform actually handle PF and ESI, or just export data?+
It computes both and produces the files the government portals accept — the PF challan summary and ECR file, and the ESI return and contribution file. Neither system accepts submissions from third-party software, so uploading is the final manual step for everyone; what the platform removes is the preparation, the spreadsheet, and the consultant's fee for typing it.
Is this only for drivers, or for all staff?+
All staff. Drivers, dispatchers, accountants, mechanics and admin all sit on the same employee register with the same payroll, leave and statutory handling. The driver-specific parts — duty-based allowances, comp-off from weekend duty — are additions, not the whole product.
How do driver allowances get calculated?+
From the duties themselves. Night halt, outstation days, extra-hour shifts and holiday work are already recorded because the same duties produced the customer invoice. You configure the rule once and the amounts follow the work, with overrides available where a specific driver or duty needs different treatment.
Can drivers see their own payslips?+
Yes. Drivers access their attendance record, leave balance and salary slips through the app. Non-driver staff use the web portal. Making pay visible to the person being paid removes most of the questions that otherwise arrive on the last day of the month.
What if a driver works some days for us and some for a partner operator?+
Attendance is tied to the operator of record for each duty. A driver on your payroll serving a partner's duty does not have that day counted as your attendance. The relationships common in this industry are modelled properly rather than forced into a single-employer assumption.
Does payroll cost extra?+
No. Payroll, HR, statutory returns, accounting and compliance are all part of the platform. There is one price — the credit you spend on a booking — and nothing on top of it.
Works seamlessly with the rest of the platform
See a full payroll run, including the statutory files
Book a demo. We will process a month end to end — attendance, allowances from duties, salary slips, and the PF and ESI files that come out of it.
No credit card required. Credits never expire.