Compute split-shift and holiday pay from attendance for a workforce that runs 365 days, distribute service charge correctly to eligible staff by department and hours worked, manage ESIC for a frontline workforce where almost everyone falls within the threshold, run department-wise cost centres within a single property, and apply Professional Tax correctly across every property in your chain - without rebuilding the payroll spreadsheet every week.
A hotel or restaurant chain running 365 days, with split shifts across multiple departments, service charge to distribute, and attrition in the double digits every month faces payroll complexity that a standard monthly-salary system was never designed to absorb.
When a property collects service charge, distributing it correctly to eligible staff - proportionately by department and hours worked, with a complete register - is a direct payroll obligation that most generic payroll software has no mechanism to handle.
Hospitality never closes. Staff work true split shifts, night duty, and every national holiday. Computing the correct pay for each shift type - including holiday-rate premiums and comp-off - is manual arithmetic across dozens of employees without the right system.
F&B, Housekeeping, Front Office, and Maintenance within the same building each carry different pay grades and allowances, but most payroll tools treat an entire property as a single payroll unit with no department-level cost visibility.
Most hotel and restaurant frontline staff - stewards, housekeeping, kitchen crew, front desk - fall within the ESIC wage threshold. Continuous auto-enrolment and monthly challan generation for this volume is a heavy compliance load without automation.
A chain with properties across states carries a different Professional Tax slab and filing frequency at every location. Tracking each property's PT correctly without a per-state manual lookup is effectively impossible at scale.
Restaurant chains in particular see attrition that makes staff turnover a near-constant operational event. Every new hire needs same-day payroll onboarding, and every exit needs F&F settled within the statutory window.
Hotels and restaurant chains run distinct workforce categories under one roof and across dozens of properties simultaneously. TankhaPay handles every category from one login.
Stewards, servers, and bar staff running split shifts, eligible for service charge distribution when collected, computed against hours worked.
Split Shift + Service ChargeChefs and kitchen crew working early morning and late-night shift patterns, with correct overtime and holiday pay computed from attendance.
Night Shift + Holiday PayOften part outsourced through contractors, housekeeping needs correct ESIC coverage and CLRA documentation where contractor labour is engaged.
ESIC + Contract ComplianceReception, concierge, and reservations staff on rotating front desk shifts, processed with the correct pay and department cost coding.
Rotating Shift PayGeneral managers, F&B managers, and department heads on fixed CTC with PF, TDS, and gratuity computed correctly alongside frontline staff payroll.
Full CTC + TDS + GratuityExtra staff engaged for banquets, weddings, and events processed with the correct short-term employment documentation and statutory treatment.
Contract Staff ComplianceRunning payroll for a hotel or restaurant chain means reconciling split shifts, distributing service charge, managing ESIC across a large frontline, and filing PT for every property - all in the same monthly cycle.
Bring service staff, kitchen, housekeeping, front office, and management across every property into one secure hub. Department cost centres configured per property, PT registration linked to each location, and service charge eligibility set per staff category.
Split-shift, night, and holiday pay is computed from duty roster attendance in the same cycle. Where service charge is collected and distributed, TankhaPay allocates it to eligible staff by department and hours worked with a full distribution register.
ESIC eligibility is auto-checked for every frontline employee, new joiners enrolled automatically, and monthly challans generated without manual tracking. PT is applied per each property's state with no manual lookup per location.
Salaries credited across every property and department in one run. Digital payslips available instantly in the app. When staff exit - whether individually or in bulk after peak season - F&F is settled within the statutory window without a per-employee manual exercise.
CMMI Level 5 is held by fewer than 1% of Indian tech companies. It means the quality standard your payroll runs under is the same standard the Government of India trusts for its own workforce.
No Indian payroll software competitor holds this certification. When your group CFO or an auditor asks who runs payroll, this is the credential that settles the question.
We have processed payroll through every significant Indian labour and tax law change since 1998. The 2025 Labour Code changes are the latest in a 26-year track record.
Most payroll software has no service charge module at all. TankhaPay distributes it by department and hours worked, with the full register that a statutory or brand audit would demand.
Run it in-house at 30 properties. When your chain crosses 300 outlets and needs a dedicated payroll team, switch to managed services on the same platform - no migration, no data loss.
From service charge distribution to split-shift computation - every hospitality-specific requirement handled by the system, not reconciled manually the day before disbursement.
When a hotel or restaurant collects service charge on a voluntary, disclosed basis, TankhaPay distributes it to eligible staff proportionately by department and hours worked, with a complete distribution register maintained as payroll documentation - the one function almost no generic payroll software offers.
Split shifts, morning rotations, night duty, and work on national holidays all carry different pay entitlements. TankhaPay computes each from attendance - including holiday premiums and comp-off where applicable - without manual calculation per employee per shift.
Each department within a property is configured as its own cost centre, with the correct pay grades, allowances, and headcount visible by department. The group CFO sees labour cost by property and by department - not just a single payroll total per property.
Each property carries the PT slab and filing schedule of its registered state. TankhaPay applies PT automatically per property location, so a hotel or restaurant chain operating across multiple states gets accurate compliance at every property without HR tracking it manually.
New hires across outlets are onboarded into active payroll the same day via bulk upload. Departing staff - individual exits or batches at peak-season end - are processed through F&F within the statutory window with leave encashment and final dues computed automatically.
Four steps. No manual split-shift calculation. No service charge reconciliation at month-end. No PT errors when a new property opens in a different state.
Duty roster and employee data syncs across every property and department, including service charge eligibility per staff category.
No manual data entryShift pay, service charge distribution, ESIC, and multi-property PT calculated automatically with current statutory rates and property-specific configurations.
Per employee, per department, per propertyProperty manager reviews and group HR approves via maker-checker. Anomalies flagged before disbursement - not discovered by a staff member querying their payslip.
Anomalies caught pre-runSalaries credited across every property. Service charge distributed. PF, ESIC, PT, TDS - all filed. Done before the statutory deadline.
Full compliance in one clickBuilt for India's hotels and restaurant chains - not general-purpose payroll software with a concierge icon in the header.
Voluntary service charge distributed to eligible staff by department and hours worked, with full documentation.
Every shift type - split, night, and national holiday - computed correctly from attendance without manual calculation.
F&B, Housekeeping, Front Office, and Maintenance as separate cost centres within each property, with department-level payroll reports.
Auto-eligibility checking and enrolment for a frontline workforce where almost everyone falls within the threshold.
PT applied per property's registered state automatically, across chains of any size running in any number of states.
Bulk F&F for departing staff processed within the statutory window, even when dozens exit in the same week.
Event and banquet contract staff processed with correct short-term employment and statutory documentation.
Payslips, service charge statements, and PF balance via mobile app - in regional languages for frontline staff.
Real-time labour cost by property and department - group CFO sees live cost, not a delayed month-end extract.
Updated for Labour Code 2025, ESIC threshold rules, and PT notifications - before the deadline, not after the notice.
Highlighted pills are hospitality-specific compliance requirements that generic payroll tools frequently get wrong or omit entirely.
One payroll run. Every shift type paid correctly. Service charge distributed and documented.
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