Aether Payroll
Aether ERP
Enterprise control. Remarkably simple payroll.
Aether combines a powerful governed payroll engine with a clear, modern experience for payroll teams, approvers, and employees.
Built to scale with your organization and align with the systems and workflows you already use.
Lifecycle
Control summary
Receipted- Rule pack
- Versioned · frozen
- Attendance
- CSV · hashed
- Approvals
- Maker-checker
- Evidence
- Append-oriented
Illustrative composition only. No customer data. Not a live screenshot.
- Employee data
- Payroll inputs
- Calculations
- Approvals
- Statutory preparation
- Accounting outputs
- Payment preparation
- Audit evidence
The problem
Payroll should not depend on undocumented changes and invisible spreadsheets.
Fragmented employee data, manual reformatting, unclear approvals, hard-to-explain changes, and disconnected handoffs slow payroll teams down — and make audits harder than they need to be.
Controlled payroll journey
A clear path from inputs to evidence
Guided stages with clear next steps keep payroll governed — so teams can explain what happened and why without reconstructing disconnected handoffs.
- 01Onboard
- 02Validate inputs
- 03Calculate
- 04Review exceptions
- 05Approve
- 06Post
- 07Preserve evidence
Aether Engine
A powerful governed payroll engine.
Aether Payroll is built around a governed payroll core — employee data, inputs, calculations, review and approvals, payslip publication, statutory preparation, accounting outputs, payment preparation, and audit evidence — with an operating surface clear enough for payroll teams to run with confidence.
Employee data under control
Staged employee setup and governed import batches with preview and confirm validation keep workforce records accurate before they enter a run.
Traceable payroll inputs
Traceable CSV attendance imports with receipts, plus controlled handling of structured input files configured around agreed formats.
Versioned statutory calculation
Versioned statutory payroll calculation rule packs that can be frozen on payroll runs, so the rules behind a period remain explainable.
Governed approvals
Maker-checker controls on the payroll run lifecycle in certified environments keep preparation and approval as distinct steps.
Role-based access
Database and application-layer role-based access controls, with ongoing hardening, keep actions aligned to responsibilities.
Audit-ready evidence
Governed, append-oriented audit receipts for key payroll actions help teams reconstruct what happened.
Product promise
Powerful enough for complexity. Simple enough for everyday payroll.
A powerful payroll engine, made remarkably simple to use — and designed to grow with organizational complexity while fitting the systems you already run.
Powerful payroll engine
Complex payroll rules, calculations, inputs, approvals, outputs, and audit evidence in one governed flow.
Clear guided workflows
Straightforward steps help teams move from preparation to review, approval, publication, and completion.
Secure employee payslip access
Employees access only their own published payslips through an individually authenticated account, scoped to authorized payroll records.
Governed approvals
Role-based access and maker-checker controls help separate preparation, review, approval, and publishing.
Built to scale
Support growing employee populations, multiple pay groups, and more complex operating structures.
Designed to integrate
Connect through validated imports, mappings, exports, and client-specific adapters.
Remarkably simple to use
Remarkably simple for the people who run payroll.
Clear guided workflows, understandable statuses, and focused work areas help payroll preparers, reviewers, approvers, and administrators move through each period with fewer manual handoffs. Managers and employees see only what their roles permit — including employees accessing their own published payslips.
- Guided actions and clear next steps on the payroll journey
- Plain-language statuses instead of opaque spreadsheet states
- Focused dashboards and consistent review actions
- Simple maker-checker approval steps where configured
- Employee access to individually published payslips
- Understandable audit history for key payroll actions
Built to scale
Built to scale with your organization’s complexity
The payroll engine scales with your organization’s complexity while keeping everyday payroll clear and controlled. Aether is designed to grow with your payroll operation — from initial implementation to larger employee populations, additional pay groups, more complex approvals, and deeper integration requirements. Supports staged employee setup, including incomplete readiness states, and governed employee import batches with preview and confirm validation. Employee import files are supported up to 10,000 rows per file (enforced cap). The file-size cap is an enforced limit, not a certified production load-test result.
Implementation & integration
Designed to work with the systems you already use
Alignment is how Aether fits the payroll engine into your operating environment.
Aether’s payroll engine can be configured around your HR, attendance, accounting, approval, and payment workflows. During implementation, we assess employee master data, attendance sources, payroll inputs, accounting requirements, approval workflows, and downstream processes. We then configure the appropriate file exchanges, import adapters, validation rules, and export mappings. Where deeper automation is required, Aether can define a controlled integration plan based on the capabilities of the client’s existing systems and the level of validation required.
- HCM / HRIS
- Attendance / Biometrics
- Aether Payroll
- Accounting
- Banking / Payment
- Authorized Statutory Filing
Configured file exchange and client-specific mappings — core payroll controls remain standardized and governed.
How alignment is delivered
- Current workforce structure and pay groups
- Configured file exchange and validation rules
- Client-specific import adapters and export mappings
- Attendance and payroll-input paths
- Accounting output mapping
- Payment and authorized filing workflows
- Deeper automation introduced with validation
Philippine payroll
Designed for Philippine payroll operations
Philippine statutory payroll calculation for BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG using versioned rule packs. Statutory outputs, accounting exchanges, payment workflows, and external submissions are configured within the client’s approved implementation scope and validated before operational use. Government filing, remittance, bank release, and third-party automation remain subject to that approved scope and applicable external requirements.
How Philippine statutory calculation and configured outputs work
Security & controls
Layered security and control for sensitive payroll operations.
Aether combines organization-level data separation, role-based access, governed approvals, protected sensitive information, authenticated access, and reviewable audit evidence to help organizations manage payroll data with confidence.
Organization data separation
Each organization operates within a tenant-aware data boundary. Access to payroll records and workflows is restricted to authorized users acting within that organization.
Role-based access
Permissions are aligned with each user’s responsibilities. Payroll preparation, review, approval, publication, administration, and employee access can be separated across roles, with ongoing hardening.
Governed approvals
High-impact payroll actions can require review by a different authorized user before they take effect. Maker-checker controls apply on the payroll run lifecycle in certified environments where configured.
Protected sensitive data
Sensitive payroll information is restricted to authorized workflows and masked in routine governed display paths where appropriate — including bank and statutory values.
Secure employee payslip access
Employees access only their own published payslips through an individually authenticated account. Visibility remains scoped to the employee, the organization, and payroll records authorized for release.
Audit evidence
Important payroll and administrative actions produce reviewable records showing who acted, what changed, and when — through governed, append-oriented audit receipts.
Implementation
A clear implementation path from assessment to operational use.
Implementation helps your team realize the value of Aether’s powerful payroll engine. An assessment leads to a practical plan shaped by your verified requirements. Duration depends on scope, data quality, and integration readiness — not a fixed calendar promise.
- 01
Payroll assessment
- 02
Employee and payroll data alignment
- 03
Attendance and payroll-input integration
- 04
Approval and maker-checker controls
- 05
Statutory, accounting, and payment outputs
- 06
Configuration and data validation
- 07
Testing and certification
- 08
Rollout sequencing and handover
Pricing
Pricing shaped to your payroll scope
Pricing depends on workforce size, number of legal companies, payroll complexity, integrations, and implementation scope. Numeric list pricing is not published here.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- What is Aether Payroll?
- Aether Payroll is the launch product of Aether ERP — a powerful governed Philippine payroll engine with enterprise control patterns such as maker-checker controls, versioned statutory calculation rules, governed audit receipts, and secure access to published payslips for employees. It is made remarkably simple to operate for payroll teams, reviewers, and approvers.
- Is Aether Payroll generally available today?
- This site describes Aether Payroll in terms of governed capabilities under controlled and certified environments. The best next step is to request a payroll assessment so fit, scope, and implementation sequencing can be discussed directly.
- Does Aether Payroll handle Philippine statutory requirements?
- It provides Philippine statutory payroll calculation for BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG using versioned rule packs. Statutory outputs and external submissions are configured within the client’s approved implementation scope and validated before operational use. Government filing and remittance remain subject to that scope and applicable external requirements.
- How easy is Aether Payroll to operate?
- Everyday payroll is designed to stay clear: guided workflows, understandable statuses, focused work areas, consistent review actions, and simple maker-checker approval steps where configured. Employees can access their own published payslips through individual accounts when employee access is enabled for the organization.
- How large a workforce does it support?
- Aether is designed to grow with your payroll operation — from initial implementation to larger employee populations, additional pay groups, more complex approvals, and deeper integration requirements. Employee import files are supported up to 10,000 rows per file as an enforced cap. The file-size cap is an enforced limit rather than a certified production load-test result.
- Can Aether Payroll work with our existing HR, attendance, and accounting systems?
- Yes. Aether’s payroll engine can be configured around the systems and processes your organization already uses. During implementation, we assess your employee data, attendance sources, payroll inputs, accounting requirements, approval workflows, and downstream processes. We then configure the appropriate file exchanges, import adapters, validation rules, and export mappings. Where deeper automation is needed, Aether can define a controlled integration plan based on the capabilities of your existing systems and the validation required for production use.
- How does Aether protect payroll and employee data?
- Aether uses layered technical and operational controls, including organization-level data separation, role-based permissions, governed approvals, protected sensitive fields, authenticated access, audit evidence, controlled releases, and incident-response procedures. The controls applied to each implementation depend on the approved client scope, user roles, and operating requirements.
- How is Aether Payroll priced?
- Pricing depends on workforce size, number of legal companies, payroll complexity, integrations, and implementation scope. Numeric list pricing is not published here; a tailored assessment is the appropriate next step.
- How long does implementation take?
- An assessment leads to a practical implementation path covering data alignment, attendance and input integration, approvals, statutory and accounting outputs, payment workflows, testing, rollout sequencing, and handover where supported. Duration depends on scope, data quality, and integration readiness — not a fixed calendar promise.
See how Aether simplifies payroll.
Request a payroll assessment to review your current payroll workflow, discuss your environment, and plan a controlled implementation path.