Run lifecycle, payslip PDFs, disbursement exports.

The wedge

Payroll software either does it for you (with fees and country lock-in) or hands you a CSV and tells you to deal with your bank. Odexy Payroll runs the cycle — pulls compensation from HRM, generates payslip PDFs, exports disbursements in your bank's format — and audit-trails every step.

What ships today

• Run lifecycle — draft → review → finalize → disburse → close. Every state transition logged.
• Per-employee compensation — annual / monthly / hourly, stored currency-aware in HRM. Payroll reads directly; no re-keying.
• Payslip PDFs — branded template with all line items, tax breakdown, year-to-date totals. Generated on finalize and emailed to the employee.
• Disbursement exports — CSV in common bank formats; per-org configurable.
• Multi-currency — runs in the org's reporting currency; per-employee currency converted at the configured rate.
• Audit log — every adjustment, every approval, every finalize is logged with actor and input hash.

How it integrates

• HRM — hrm_employees.compensation* columns are the source. Adjustments propagate.
• Accounting — finalized payroll posts to the GL (salary expense + tax liability + cash) automatically.
• Email — payslip emails route through the unified outbound module with suppression.
• Currency — uses the platform exchange-rate engine; no amount * rate float math.
• Notifications — finalize alerts, error alerts flow into the unified notification matrix.

How the AI helps

• "Run the December cycle for the EU entity, flag anyone whose compensation changed in the last 30 days."
• "Show me the variance between this run and last run by employee, grouped by department."
• "Draft the year-end disbursement export in our bank's format."
• "Send payslips to everyone whose email bounced last cycle — check the suppression list first."

Payroll-run finalize is gated as dangerous: true; the AI must propose and a payroll-permission user must approve.

Built for scale

• Audit log — full chain from compensation change → run draft → review → finalize → disburse.
• Permissions — payroll:run:create, :finalize, :disburse separate. Standard custom roles never grant :finalize to non-admins.
• Idempotency — re-firing finalize on the same run returns the existing result, not a duplicate.
• Currency precision — bigint cents; conversion via the typed currency engine. Never floats.
• Document export — every payslip PDF retrievable from the audit-log row's output_hash link.

Odexy Payroll vs. the category

| | Odexy Payroll | Gusto | Deel |

|---|---|---|---|

| Joined to HRM compensation in one schema | ✓ | partial (Gusto HR) | partial |

| Joined to Accounting in one schema | ✓ | — | — |

| Multi-currency native | ✓ | US-first | ✓ |

| Per-org pricing | ✓ | per-employee | per-employee |

| AI assists the cycle | ✓ | — | — |

Gusto is the gold standard for US payroll-as-a-service; Deel for contractor payments. Both add a per-employee fee on top of the platform price and integrate to your HR / accounting. Odexy Payroll runs in your HR/accounting schema.

Design-partner take

> "The payroll run that used to take a finance contractor a full day is a 20-minute review. The payslips are out before the disbursement file lands at the bank." — Design partner, 35-person services firm