Payroll

Payroll in the books, with withholdings kept separate.

You record each period’s payroll and Containn posts it to three accounts: the expense, what’s owed to your staff and the withholdings. When you pay it, the payment gets its own journal entry.

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Payroll · 1st half of September

Earnings186,000.00

Deductions21,540.00

Net pay164,460.00

6101 Wages and salaries186,000.00

2105 Payroll payable164,460.00

2106 Withholdings payable21,540.00

Recorded · amounts come from your payroll calculation

Track record

Part of R2 OS, the hotel operations platformFirst place worldwide in UN Tourism’s rural tourism programCase study at IE University, MadridOperating in twelve countries, from London to Patagonia

How it works

Record the period

Earnings, deductions and net pay.

The journal entry writes itself

To three accounts: the expense, the amount payable and the withholdings.

Record the payment

With its journal entry, when payroll is paid.

What’s included

Recording by period with earnings, deductions and net pay.
Automatic journal entry to three accounts: the expense, the amount payable and the withholdings.
Payment of recorded payroll, with its journal entry.
List by period.

The limit, stated up front

Containn accounts for payroll; it doesn’t calculate it. It doesn’t determine income tax (ISR), IMSS social security contributions or INFONAVIT housing contributions, and it doesn’t stamp payroll receipts (CFDI). The amounts come from your own calculation or your accounting firm; Containn posts them, pays them and keeps them auditable. Saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise halfway through a pay period.

PayrollEnter the payroll your payroll firm calculated: Containn creates the three-account póliza and the payment one. It books payroll, it does not calculate it.

Frequently asked questions

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Does Containn calculate payroll?

No. It accounts for it. The amounts come from your own calculation or your accounting firm.

Keep exploring

Accounts payableThe supplier invoice, with its creditable VAT (IVA) where it belongs.Banking and reconciliationYour bank statement against your books, with matches already suggested.Financial statementsIncome statement, balance sheet and trial balance, from the general ledger.

Start with yesterday.

If your hotel already signs off on its night audit, Containn can post yesterday today. The chart of accounts is set up in one step, the transaction code mapping is done once, and from then on every signed-off day becomes a journal entry.

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