Product
Aether Payroll
Tested at serious Payroll volume
Aether separately calculated and reconciled one canonical Payroll run containing exactly 10,000 employees and exactly 10,000 Payroll lines.
That result is a controlled synthetic QA scenario. It describes calculation and reconciliation evidence—not review, approval, posting, payment, or payslip release for that run.
In day-to-day use, teams still prepare inputs, calculate, resolve exceptions, review, approve, and produce outputs—including Year-End and Final Pay—through the clear operating flow.
All scale results used controlled synthetic data in a non-production QA environment. They are not maximum product capacity, guaranteed client performance, production readiness, or an SLA.
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.
01
Set up
Organize employees, pay groups, schedules, policies, sites, and responsibilities so the operation starts from a clear structure.
02
Prepare
Bring together attendance, Leave, recurring inputs, employee changes, and the Payroll consequences that follow from them.
03
Calculate
Use visible readiness, controlled calculation, exception review, warnings when earlier results need recalculation, and controlled recalculation when needed.
04
Review and approve
Keep responsibilities clear, show exceptions visibly, and follow controlled approval paths with understandable next actions.
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.
One connected payroll core
Aether Payroll is the commercial launch product under Aether ERP. It 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.
- Employee data
- Attendance inputs
- Leave Management
- Payroll calculation
- Approvals
- Payslips
- Statutory preparation
- Accounting & payment outputs
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
From employee readiness to Year-End and Final Pay, Aether keeps the work connected.
- 01Employee Setup
- 02Attendance + Leave
- 03Payroll
- 04Review + Approval
- 05Payslips + Outputs
- 06Year-End + Final Pay
Enterprise control, clear to operate
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.
Remarkably simple operational workflows
The engine handles more complexity underneath while the people running payroll continue to follow understandable steps and next actions.
- 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
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.
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.
Secure employee payslip access
Employees can securely view their own published payslips when this feature is included. They see only their own authorized records.
- Less manual payslip distribution
- No shared employee file repository for published payslips
- Clearer release history for authorized records
- Direct employee access to authorized payslips
- Controlled publication before employee visibility
- Stronger privacy than unsecured attachments or paper-only distribution
Employee payslip access is configured within the client's approved operating model. This describes employee access to published payslips - not a full employee self-service suite as production GA.
Built to grow with organizational complexity
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.
Philippine statutory calculation
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.
Built around your operating environment
During implementation, we match Aether to your employee data, attendance files, approval process, accounting requirements, statutory needs, and payment formats - so the engine fits the systems you already use.
Explore the capabilities
Each capability is described in practical terms - what it covers and how implementation scopes it around your operating environment.
Part of the Aether ERP vision
Aether Payroll is the first commercial product in the broader Aether ERP vision. Other modules are not implied as available today.
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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
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