Aether Payroll
Aether ERP
Enterprise control. Remarkably simple payroll.
Aether brings employee setup, attendance inputs, Leave Management, payroll calculation, approvals, payslips, Year-End conversion, and Final Pay into one clear operating flow.
Built for complex organizations. Designed so payroll teams can see what is ready, what needs attention, and what happens next - even as the payroll operation grows.
Lifecycle
Control summary
Recorded- Payroll rules
- Confirmed
- Attendance
- Validated
- Leave impact
- Included
- Approvals
- Separate roles
- History
- Recorded
Illustrative product view using synthetic data. Not a live screenshot.
- Employee data
- Attendance inputs
- Leave Management
- Payroll calculation
- Approvals
- Payslips
- Statutory preparation
- Accounting & payment outputs
Product promise
Powerful enough for complexity. Simple enough for everyday payroll. Built to scale with you.
Aether Payroll combines enterprise-grade payroll controls with a remarkably clear operating experience - and keeps that experience clear as the organization grows.
Powerful enough for complexity
Bring employee data, Attendance, Leave, payroll rules, exceptions, approvals, Year-End, Final Pay, and required outputs into one connected process.
Remarkably simple to operate
See what is ready, what needs attention, who needs to act, and what happens next.
Built to scale with you
Keep the same clear payroll process as employee populations, pay groups, sites, policies, approvals, and integration needs grow.
One connected payroll operation
One connected payroll operation
From employee readiness to Year-End and Final Pay, Aether keeps the work connected.
- 01
Employee Setup
Prepare company and employee information for payroll.
- 02
Attendance + Leave
Bring attendance and approved Leave into the payroll process.
- 03
Payroll
Apply the confirmed payroll rules and calculate results.
- 04
Review + Approval
Resolve exceptions and obtain the required approval.
- 05
Payslips + Outputs
Publish payslips and prepare the required records and files.
- 06
Year-End + Final Pay
Carry employee balances and consequences into Year-End and separation.
The problem
Payroll should not depend on disconnected files and invisible handoffs.
Bringing employee data together, resolving attendance issues, handling Leave, obtaining approval, preparing outputs, and distributing payslips is hard when the work lives in separate tools. The difficulty is that the steps do not add up to one clear process.
Clear payroll journey
See what is ready and what happens next
Guided stages with clear next steps keep payroll understandable - so teams can see what is ready, what needs attention, and how the period moves forward.
- 01Employee Setup
- 02Attendance + Leave
- 03Calculate
- 04Review exceptions
- 05Approve
- 06Payslips + Outputs
- 07Year-End + Final Pay
Aether Engine
A powerful payroll engine with clear controls.
Aether Payroll brings employee data, attendance inputs, Leave Management, calculations, review and approvals, payslip publication, statutory preparation, accounting records, payment preparation, and important action history into one operating flow - clear enough for payroll teams to run with confidence.
Employee data under control
Prepare employee records in stages, with import preview and confirmation before changes enter payroll.
Attendance inputs made ready
Bring attendance records into payroll through validated files, employee matching, and controlled correction.
Payroll rules you can explain
Philippine statutory calculation uses recorded rule versions that can be confirmed for each payroll period.
Separate preparation and approval
Different authorized people can prepare and approve payroll, so high-impact actions get independent review.
Role-based work
Users see the work their roles allow - preparation, review, approval, administration, or employee payslip access.
A clear history of actions
Important payroll actions leave reviewable records showing who acted, what changed, and when.
Remarkably simple to operate
Complex payroll underneath. Clear work on the surface.
The engine handles more complexity underneath while the people running payroll continue to follow understandable steps and next actions.
See what is ready
Setup, inputs, exceptions, and approvals have clear states.
Know what needs action
Missing or conflicting information is shown before payroll proceeds.
Keep responsibilities clear
Preparers, reviewers, approvers, administrators, and employees see the work relevant to them.
Keep the process clear as you grow
The same operating flow continues as employees, pay groups, sites, policies, and approvals increase.
- See what is ready across setup, inputs, exceptions, and approvals
- Know what needs attention before payroll proceeds
- Keep responsibilities clear for preparers, reviewers, approvers, and employees
- Keep the same clear process as the organization grows
- Employees can securely view their own published payslips when enabled
- Important actions remain recorded for later review
Built to grow
Built for the complexity you have today - and what comes next
Payroll complexity grows through more than employee count. It can include additional companies, pay groups, sites, schedules, policies, approval roles, attendance sources, statutory needs, accounting outputs, and payment requirements.
Aether is designed to support that growth while keeping the operating process clear for the payroll team. Scale is communicated through increasing operational complexity, transaction volume, workflow depth, and client-specific validation - not through one employee-count figure. Production readiness for larger or more complex organizations is confirmed through client-specific assessment, data-volume review, integration validation, performance testing, parallel payroll, and implementation approval.
- More employees
- More legal companies
- More pay groups
- More sites
- More shift patterns
- More Leave policies
- More approval levels
- More attendance sources
- More accounting dimensions
- More statutory and payment outputs
- Deeper client-specific integrations
Leave Management
Leave that stays connected to payroll
Set up Leave policies and employee entitlements. Manage requests, approvals, cancellations, carryover, expiry, and balance history in the same operating environment as payroll.
Approved Leave consequences can move into payroll, Year-End conversion, and Final Pay without requiring the payroll team to rebuild the employee's history from separate files.
- Policies and employee assignments
- Requests and approvals
- Balance and history
- Payroll consequence preparation
- Year-End conversion
- Final Pay Leave processing
Attendance
Attendance inputs made ready for payroll
Bring attendance records into payroll through validated files, employee matching, exception review, and controlled correction.
Aether helps the team find missing or conflicting information before it becomes a payroll problem.
- Attendance file validation
- Employee matching
- Exception handling
- Controlled correction
- Policy context during review
This describes attendance input coverage and validation - not a complete timekeeping replacement, and not automatic support for every attendance device.
Employee lifecycle
Payroll does not end with the regular cutoff
The employee lifecycle stays connected from active payroll through Year-End and separation.
Year-End conversion
Carry eligible balances and payroll consequences through a clear, reviewable Year-End process.
Final Pay
Bring separation details, remaining compensation, deductions, Leave consequences, review, approval, and completion into one connected Final Pay workflow.
Year-End and Final Pay follow the same clear operating discipline. They do not claim automatic legal compliance or automatic external filing.
Controlled QA evidence
Tested for demanding Leave and Payroll operations
Aether Payroll and integrated Leave Management have completed controlled, non-production QA across a retained synthetic tenant containing 12,000 employees in two governed pay groups.
Testing covered one million Leave ledger events, 390,000 Leave source lots (grouped Leave activity records), Leave consequences flowing into Payroll, correction and cross-cutoff handling, stale-result detection, controlled recalculation, durable recovery, and protected-run safeguards. Aether also completed a governed 10,000-employee multi-run Payroll cycle and, separately, one canonical Payroll run containing exactly 10,000 employees and 10,000 Payroll lines.
Serious operating power, without making Payroll difficult to understand or control.
- 1,000,000
- Leave ledger events tested across correction, allocation, recalculation, and recovery scenarios
- Large-scale
- 390,000 Leave source lots tested across corrections, reversals, cross-cutoff handling, controlled recalculation, and recovery
- One complete Payroll run
- Exactly 10,000 employees and 10,000 Payroll lines calculated and reconciled together
- Built for complex organizations
- 12,000 synthetic employees retained across two governed pay groups
Payroll journal previews balanced exactly, with PHP 0.00 difference.
The separate 10,000-line Payroll calculation completed in approximately 86 seconds in the tested QA environment. This is an observed test result only—not a guaranteed speed, production benchmark, or SLA.
All results were produced using controlled synthetic data in a non-production QA environment. They demonstrate the tested scenarios—not maximum product capacity, guaranteed client performance, production readiness, or an SLA. Larger implementations are confirmed through client-specific assessment, data-volume review, integration validation, performance testing, and parallel payroll.
Clear operating flow
Powerful underneath. Clear on the surface.
Aether handles the complexity in the engine while keeping the operating flow understandable for Payroll, HR, Finance, and approvers.
Step 01
Set up
Organize employees, pay groups, schedules, policies, sites, and responsibilities so the operation starts from a clear structure.
Step 02
Prepare
Bring together attendance, Leave, recurring inputs, employee changes, and the Payroll consequences that follow from them.
Step 03
Calculate
Use visible readiness, controlled calculation, exception review, warnings when earlier results need recalculation, and controlled recalculation when needed.
Step 04
Review and approve
Keep responsibilities clear, show exceptions visibly, and follow controlled approval paths with understandable next actions.
Step 05
Produce outputs
Prepare payslips, statutory outputs, accounting previews, Year-End work, and Final Pay within the client's approved operating model—release, agency filing, remittance, and external posting remain subject to that approved scope.
Product promise
Everything the payroll team needs, in one clear flow
Power, clarity, and growth stay balanced - so Aether feels capable without feeling complicated.
Powerful payroll engine
Complex payroll rules, calculations, inputs, approvals, outputs, and action history in one flow.
Clear guided workflows
Straightforward steps help teams move from preparation to review, approval, publication, and completion.
Secure employee payslip access
Employees can securely view their own published payslips when this feature is included.
Controlled approvals
Preparation and approval can be assigned to different people.
Built to grow
Support more employees, pay groups, sites, policies, and approvals without losing a clear process.
Works with your systems
We match Aether to your employee data, attendance files, approval process, accounting requirements, and payment formats.
Built to scale
Built to grow with your payroll operation
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 employee import batches with preview and confirmation. 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 and integration
Built around your payroll operation
We match Aether to the systems and processes you already use.
During implementation, we match Aether to your employee data, attendance files, approval process, accounting requirements, statutory needs, and payment formats. Every important input and output is validated with the client. Aether does not assume that one generic format fits every organization.
Client inputs
- HCM or employee masterfile
- Attendance sources
- Leave and adjustments
- Approved payroll instructions
Aether
- Check the inputs
- Apply the confirmed payroll rules
- Calculate
- Show exceptions
- Review and approve
- Publish and record important actions
Client and external outputs
- Payslips
- Statutory files and records
- Accounting records
- Payment files
- Management reports
- HCM / HRIS
- Attendance sources
- Aether Payroll
- Accounting
- Banking / Payment
- Statutory review
Configured file exchange and client-specific mappings - core payroll controls remain clear and consistent.
Aether prepares statutory and payment outputs within the approved scope. The client's authorized operators remain responsible for external portal submission, remittance, bank upload, checking, funding, and release unless a specific path is separately enabled.
Philippine payroll
Designed for Philippine payroll operations
Philippine statutory payroll calculation for BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG using recorded rule versions. Statutory outputs, accounting exchanges, payment workflows, and external submissions are configured within the client's approved implementation scope and validated before day-to-day 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
Clear controls for sensitive payroll operations.
Aether combines organization-level data separation, role-based access, controlled approvals, protected sensitive information, authenticated access, and reviewable action records to help organizations manage payroll data with confidence.
Each organization's data stays protected
Each organization's payroll data stays within its authorized workspace. Access is restricted to authorized users acting within that organization.
Role-based access
Users see only the work their roles allow. Payroll preparation, review, approval, publication, administration, and employee access can be separated across roles.
Controlled approvals
High-impact payroll actions can require review by a different authorized person before they take effect.
Protected sensitive data
Sensitive payroll information is restricted to authorized workflows and masked in normal work areas where appropriate - including bank and statutory values.
Secure employee payslip access
Employees see only their own published payslips when this feature is included.
A clear history of actions
Important payroll and administrative actions produce reviewable records showing who acted, what changed, and when.
Implementation
A clear path from assessment to day-to-day payroll use.
Implementation helps your team realize the value of Aether's 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 matching
- 03
Attendance and payroll-input setup
- 04
Approval and separation of duties
- 05
Statutory, accounting, and payment outputs
- 06
Configuration and data validation
- 07
Testing and review
- 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 - Philippine payroll software that brings employee setup, attendance inputs, Leave Management, calculation, approvals, payslips, Year-End conversion, and Final Pay into one clear operating flow. It combines enterprise-grade controls with a remarkably clear experience for payroll teams, reviewers, and approvers.
- Is Aether Payroll generally available for production use?
- This site describes Aether Payroll capabilities under controlled and certified environments. Client production use is confirmed through assessment, configuration, validation, parallel testing, and implementation approval. The best next step is to request a payroll assessment.
- How easy is Aether Payroll to operate?
- Everyday payroll is designed to stay clear. Teams can see what is ready, what needs attention, who needs to act, and what happens next. Preparation and approval can be separated. Employees can securely view their own published payslips when that feature is included.
- Can Aether support a complex payroll operation?
- Yes. Aether is built for payroll that includes attendance inputs, Leave Management, exceptions, approvals, statutory preparation, accounting records, payment preparation, Year-End conversion, and Final Pay. Complexity is handled in one connected process while the operating steps stay understandable.
- Can Aether grow with our organization?
- Aether is designed to support larger and more complex payroll operations. Growth can include more employees, legal companies, pay groups, locations, policies, approvals, attendance sources, and output requirements. The same clear operating flow is intended to remain visible as those requirements grow. The exact production approach is confirmed through assessment, configuration, validation, parallel testing, and implementation approval.
- What does scale mean beyond employee count?
- Scale includes more than headcount. It can mean more pay groups, sites, policies, approval layers, attendance sources, Leave policies, statutory and accounting outputs, payment formats, and client-specific integrations. Aether communicates scale through operational complexity, transaction volume, workflow depth, and client-specific validation - not through one employee-count figure.
- What does the QA certification prove?
- Aether completed controlled, non-production QA on a retained synthetic tenant with 12,000 employees across two governed pay groups. Certification included one million Leave ledger events, 390,000 Leave source lots, Leave consequences flowing into Payroll, correction and recovery handling, a governed 10,000-employee multi-run Payroll cycle, and a separate canonical Payroll run with exactly 10,000 employees and 10,000 Payroll lines. These results demonstrate the tested scenarios—not maximum product capacity.
- Has Aether been tested with large Payroll populations?
- Yes, in controlled synthetic QA. Aether calculated and reconciled one canonical Payroll run with exactly 10,000 employees and 10,000 Payroll lines, and completed a governed multi-pay-group cycle accounting for 10,000 synthetic employees. A retained QA tenant also held 12,000 synthetic employees across two pay groups. These are tested scenarios, not production customer proof.
- Does the 10,000-employee test mean 10,000 is the product maximum?
- No. The 10,000-employee and 10,000-line result describes one controlled synthetic QA scenario. It is not a statement of maximum product capacity. Client readiness is confirmed through assessment, integration validation, performance testing, and parallel payroll.
- Was the test performed in production?
- No. All cited scale results used controlled synthetic data in a non-production QA environment. They are not a production-readiness claim.
- Does the test mean every client will receive the same calculation time?
- No. The 10,000-line calculation completed in approximately 86 seconds in the tested QA environment. Actual client performance depends on configuration, data, integrations, infrastructure, and operating conditions. The observed time is not a guaranteed speed, production benchmark, or SLA.
- How does Aether confirm readiness for larger organizations?
- Larger or more complex implementations are confirmed through organizational assessment, data-volume review, integration validation, controlled performance testing, parallel payroll, and implementation approval.
- Does Aether Payroll handle Philippine statutory requirements?
- It provides Philippine statutory payroll calculation for BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG using recorded rule versions. Statutory outputs and external submissions are configured within the client's approved implementation scope and validated before day-to-day use. Government filing and remittance remain subject to that scope and applicable external requirements.
- Can Aether work with our existing systems?
- Yes. During implementation, we match Aether to your employee data, attendance files, approval process, accounting requirements, statutory needs, and payment formats. Important inputs and outputs are validated with the client. Deeper automation can be introduced through a controlled integration plan where needed. Scale QA does not mean every integration path was certified in that scenario.
- How does implementation work?
- Implementation starts with a payroll assessment, then moves through data matching, attendance and input setup, approval configuration, statutory and accounting outputs, testing, rollout sequencing, and handover where supported. Duration depends on scope, data quality, and integration readiness - not a fixed calendar promise.
- How does Aether protect payroll and employee data?
- Aether uses layered technical and operational controls, including organization-level data separation, role-based permissions, controlled approvals, protected sensitive fields, authenticated access, action history, 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.
See how Aether simplifies payroll.
Request an Assessment. Tell us about your employee population, pay groups, schedules, Leave policies, integrations, and approval requirements.