I was running a small business with seven employees working full time and wanted to streamline the pay roll aspect by calculating the loss of pay and casual leave and following all the procedures and needed software to get things done for me. I searched in the internet for the key word payroll software free download and got a lot of results and opened all the first page links and downloaded the payroll software free download from the web sites. I remember that I downloaded software relating to pay roll from CNET and brother soft.

I installed the software and checked the details and they were a bit complex and the pay roll calculation followed a lot of incentives, rewards and many other aspects. There were a lot of un wanted aspects in the software. My requirement was simple that I needed a pay roll slip where the basic salary will be calculated deducting the number of days absent in the office and loss of pay will be deducted from the basis pay and a report will appear on the screen to take a print of the document which will be handed over to the employee along with the salary with my signature. I needed only this aspect while the payroll software free download had a lot of unnecessary data which have to be eliminated.

Most of the payroll software free download cannot be customized and were all trial versions with a 30 day trial and I started using the payroll software free download from the brother soft web site. I entered the basic pay and the number of days the employee is absent and left all the other text boxes blank and clicked the button calculate and as I required the basic pay will be calculated and report in the company header will be printed and this was convenient for me in my work. I started using the software regularly to calculate the pay roll on a monthly basis and used to store the data in the database provided by the software thereby creating a back up of the data. I also maintained a hard copy of the data that I send and the pay that I give to the employees for auditing purposes. The software was very useful to me in managing the compensation aspect of the firm and took care of it by myself in the office.