Dapplon Global Payroll vs Payroll Engine

Dapplon Global Payroll combines payroll with compliance, attendance, recruitment, performance, leave management, onboarding, analytics, and employee self-service. The company says payroll supports 45+ countries, with local tax and statutory deductions, multi-currency pay, and country-specific payslips. For India, listed payroll tasks include PF, ESI, TDS, Professional Tax, and Labour Welfare Fund calculations and filings, as well as Form 16 and payslip generation. Payments can be made by direct bank transfer and through more than 14 modes, including UPI and NEFT. Native integrations include Slack, JIRA, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, with a REST API and webhooks also available. Employees can use Android and iOS apps for leave, payslips, expense claims, profile requests, and payroll details. Dapplon lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR, and India IT Act compliance, and describes encryption at rest and in transit plus MFA for administrative accounts. Basic costs $29 a month for up to 25 employees. There is no free plan, though a 14-day trial is offered.

Payroll Engine is an open-source framework for embedding payroll processing into larger software platforms. Released under the MIT License, it provides a backend that processes payroll data through a REST API and configurable regulation layers; country regulations are commercial. It supports time-stamped payroll data, recurring and non-recurring payruns, and reports for payslips, legal filings, or data exchange. Its API covers tenant and employee management, payrun jobs, result queries, report output, and backend event webhooks. A browser application manages tenants, employees, regulations, case data, payruns, reports, tasks, and developer logs. The .NET Client SDK includes typed REST clients, test runners, local script tools, and JSON schemas for regulation validation. A built-in test framework supports case validation, payrun assertions, and regression testing. The backend is designed for local or Docker Compose deployment, and a database must be provided separately. API key and OAuth authentication are supported but disabled by default; audit trails are also disabled by default unless configured. The maker says the backend is a service and should not be used on the public Internet.