Payroll the ERP calculates, not the model improvises.
Employees, attendance, time off, and appraisals feed a payroll register the ERP calculates from contracts, work entries, and approved overtime. Integer currency units, a locked period, one calculation.
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Capabilities
What this module actually does inside Agaro ERP.
01
Employees as one record
Department, contract, stored compensation, and performance history hang off the same person. Appraisals, goals, and analysis read that record instead of a copy of it.
02
Attendance and time off
Check-in and check-out, hours, working schedules, allocations, and approved time off arrive at payroll as work entries — not as a spreadsheet mailed at the end of the month.
03
A register built from real inputs
Contracts, compensation, work entries, approved overtime, bonuses, adjustments, benefits, deductions, and taxes go in. Gross minus taxes and deductions plus approved reimbursements comes out.
04
Locked period, one calculation
The period locks before the run and the register is computed in integer currency units, so the same inputs produce the same number every time anyone opens it.
05
Payslips, payment file, journal
Each run emits the payroll register, a payslip snapshot per employee, a payment file for the bank, the payroll journal entry, and the audit record.
06
People operations and fleet
Recruiting, referrals, and front-desk visitors share one front door, and fleet keeps vehicles, drivers, services, and accidents against the same employee records.
Specifications
Engineered to a standard, not a slogan.
Engines
Deterministic payroll engine
The assistant directs the workflow. The engine calculates the register and enforces correctness in integer currency units.
Data model
Employee → attendance → payroll → journal
Work entries, time off, and approved overtime are the same records the payroll run reads. Nothing is re-keyed between them.
Permissions
Role-gated payroll surfaces
Payroll and bank surfaces are restricted to the roles the workspace grants, at the navigation and again at the server action.
Assistant access
Same authority as the user
A user who cannot open a pay run cannot ask the assistant to open one for them.
Audit
Register plus audit record
Every run keeps its inputs, its outputs, and the identity that ran it, so a closed period can be explained later.
Deployment
Workspace-isolated PostgreSQL
People data stays inside the workspace that owns it, with the same isolation boundary as every other module.
Frequently Asked Questions · HR & Payroll
What teams ask about HR & Payroll before they move their operations.
The ERP. Payroll in Agaro is calculated by a deterministic engine, never improvised by a model. Inputs come from stored records: employment contracts, stored compensation, attendance and work entries, approved overtime, bonuses and adjustments, benefits, deductions, and taxes. The register runs one calculation — gross pay minus taxes and deductions plus approved reimbursements equals net pay — in integer currency units against a locked period, so the same run produces the same numbers every time. Outputs are the payroll register, payslip snapshots, the payment file, the payroll journal entry, and the audit record. The assistant directs the workflow: it can assemble the run, tell you which work entries are missing, and walk the exceptions with you. It does not do the arithmetic, and it cannot round or adjust a figure the engine produced.
Only where you can, and only through the normal approval action. Time off, attendance corrections, and overtime move through Agaro's approval steps, and the assistant is bound to the same role, module access, and grants as the person prompting it. A team lead who can approve their own team's requests gets an assistant that can approve their own team's requests, and nothing beyond that. Anything outside that scope is refused before a record is touched. What the assistant is genuinely good at here is the work around the decision: finding the open requests, showing the balance and the coverage conflict, drafting the entry, and recording the outcome once you act. Approved overtime then feeds the payroll register as an input, so the decision and the pay it produces stay connected in one record set.
Through records, not re-entry. Employees, contracts, attendance, time off, and appraisals live in the same workspace as everything else, so an hour logged against a project task and an approved overtime request are already payroll inputs by the time the period closes. When the register runs, the engine reads contracts and stored compensation, applies the work entries and approved adjustments for the locked period, and produces gross-to-net in integer currency units. The payroll journal entry posts to the same books the finance engine writes to, so labor cost appears in reports without a second import or a reconciliation step. If an input is missing — an unapproved overtime request, an employee without an active contract — the run names the incomplete record rather than silently estimating a number to make the total look finished.
Only the people who could already see it. The assistant has no visibility of its own; it resolves data as the signed in user inside that user's workspace. If your role does not grant access to HR and payroll, a prompt about someone's compensation returns nothing, because access is checked before any record is read. Where access exists, the assistant reads the same records the interface would show and records what it did under your identity. Payroll data sits in workspace isolated PostgreSQL alongside the rest of the workspace, so an agency staff member working in one client business cannot reach another client's payroll at all. Every change leaves an activity entry naming the actor and the time, so an HR lead can see exactly who ran a register, who edited a contract, and when.
Agaro ERP is an AI native ERP from Agaro Technologies LLC, built so the software can do the work rather than only record it. It covers finance and invoicing, HR and payroll, CRM and leads, marketing, inventory and supply chain, manufacturing, projects and tasks, an app and website builder, a module builder, agency mode, and the AGARO Assistant — one connected workspace instead of a stack of tools that have to agree with each other. ERP has always held the facts: the customer, the price, the hours, the contract, the approvals. Someone still had to find the records, calculate the result, push the buttons, and reconcile what happened. Agaro closes that gap by giving the assistant the same authority the prompting user has and keeping deterministic engines in charge of money, pay, and stock. It is launching soon.
It does not decide; your access does. The prompting user is the identity and their workspace is the data boundary, and the assistant inherits all of it: same role, same module access, same user grants, same model permissions, same workspace. If the user cannot perform an action, the assistant cannot perform it. Every prompt follows one path — prompt, identity, access, resolve data, engine, action, audit — and access is checked before any record is read, so a request outside your permissions stops before data is resolved rather than being declined politely after the fact. The model's role is narrow by design: it selects an action, and Agaro decides whether and how that action executes. Anything that commits or delivers is presented for confirmation, and everything that happens is recorded under your identity in your workspace's audit history.
It means no route from a model to your data skips the business logic. The product interface, the AI assistant, the API, and MCP all resolve to a signed in actor with a workspace, role, modules, and model permissions, then pass through one shared action layer where input validation, authorization, the transaction, and the activity log happen. Only then do the finance, payroll, inventory, CRM, and workflow engines run, against workspace isolated PostgreSQL data and audit history. A button click and an assistant tool call reach the same guarded business logic. Practically, that is why the model never calculates an invoice total, a payroll register, or a stock quantity: the engines do, deterministically, and the same request produces the same result whichever route it arrived on. Same identity, same controls, same business actions, one audit trail.
Agaro ERP is launching soon. We are not publishing a date, because the parts that have to be right — the finance and payroll engines, the single stock-write path, the permission model binding the assistant to the user — are the parts worth finishing properly rather than shipping to a calendar. Early access is by talking to us. Tell us what you run today, which modules matter first, and whether you operate one business or a portfolio of client businesses through agency mode, and we will tell you plainly whether Agaro fits and when. If it does not fit yet, we would rather say so than take the signup. You can sign up on agaro.ai to be told when it opens, or reach Agaro Technologies LLC directly at info@agaro.ai or +1 (571) 278-8979. The company is based in Brambleton, Virginia.
The AGARO Assistant can do anything the prompting user can do. It is not a search box or a summarizer bolted onto a report screen — it creates and updates records, runs workflows, and completes transactions inside the ERP. Ask it to invoice a customer and it resolves the real customer, the catalog item, the stored price, the workspace currency, tax, and payment terms, then calls the finance engine to validate the request, calculate totals, allocate the invoice number, create the invoice, and commit the journal. It can create and assign tasks, move projects, prepare a payroll run, raise a purchase, or record a stock movement, each through the same server action a person triggers by clicking. When something is missing it asks. When an action needs confirmation, such as sending a document to a customer, it presents that action and waits for you.
By the prompting user. The signed in user is the identity and their workspace is the data boundary, so the assistant inherits the same role, the same module access, the same user grants, the same model permissions, and the same workspace. If the user cannot perform an action, the assistant cannot perform it. There is no service account with elevated rights sitting behind the chat window and no side channel into the database. Every prompt follows one controlled path: prompt, identity, access, resolve data, engine, action, audit. Access is evaluated before any record is read, engines validate and calculate before anything is written, and the outcome is recorded under the user who asked, not under the model. The model selects an action; the ERP decides whether and how that action executes. The audit history reads the same whether the work was done by clicking or by prompting.
Get early access to HR & Payroll
Agaro ERP is launching soon. Tell us how you run this part of the business today and we will show you how the assistant runs it inside Agaro.