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UAE payroll system with GPSSA, WPS, final settlement and employee portal — English and Arabic
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About this software
About Payora
Payora Payroll is bilingual (English and Arabic) payroll software for UAE companies, modelled on Zoho Payroll. It handles employees, monthly pay runs, payslips, WPS salary files, GPSSA pension, gratuity and final settlements, loans, leave salary and reports.
It's built with .NET 10 (ASP.NET Core MVC) and SQL Server. It supports multiple companies with role-based access, and includes an employee self-service portal, workflow automation and full Arabic right-to-left layout.
Category: HR & PeopleStack: ASP.NET Core MVC 10 · SQL Server 2019+Built with: Claude Code Licence: Single-site, full source
Why Payora
What makes it better
than the alternatives
- 01
UAE-specific payroll
- 02
Bilingual payslips
- 03
Multi-tenant with organization isolation
- 04
Workflow automation
- 05
Employee self-service portal
Organizations & Users
- Sign-up wizard with organization setup
- Multi-organization membership per user
- Role-based permissions grid
view/create/edit/delete/approve/pay - User invitations with secure tokens (SHA-256 hashed)
- Audit log of every change (ActivityLog table)
Payroll Settings
- Pay schedule (work week
- actual or fixed working days
- pay date rules)
- GPSSA old and new schemes with applicable components
- 27 UAE salary components (bilingual)
- Salary templates
- Email and PDF templates (customizable per language)
- Employer bank accounts (IBAN encrypted with Data Protection API)
Employees
- 5-step add-employee wizard
- Bilingual names (English and Arabic)
- GCC national vs expatriate classification
- Salary structure with components
- IBAN validation (ISO mod-97)
- MOL person ID
- Documents with expiry tracking
- Probation and exit workflows
- CSV/XLSX import (EmployeeImport)
Pay Runs
- Regular
- one-time and off-cycle runs
- Loss of pay
- pro-rata
- overtime
- GPSSA calculation
- Approval workflow (Draft → Approved → Paid)
- Comments and adjustments per employee
- PayRunService.Calculation with PayrollCalculator
Payslips & WPS
- Bilingual payslip PDF (PayslipPdfRenderer with QuestPDF)
- Arabic page right-to-left
- Amount in words in both languages (AmountInWords)
- Payslip emails (OrganizationMailer)
- WPS SIF salary file generation (WpsSifFile)
Adjustments
- Salary revisions with automatic arrears (RevisionService)
- Revision letters (PDF)
- Leave salary (LeaveSalaryService)
- Loans with instalments (LoanService
- LoanTypeService)
- Giving (donation) campaigns (GivingService)
Final Settlement
- Gratuity per UAE labour law (FinalSettlementCalculator
- Gratuity)
- Leave encashment
- Notice pay
- Loan reconciliation
- Final settlement PDF
Employee Portal
- Separate authentication (PortalAuth scheme
- Portal cookie)
- View payslips
- Download documents
- Update profile (PortalService)
- No admin access
Reports
- 27 reports (employee
- payroll
- finance)
- ReportBuilder with EmployeeReports
- PayrollReports
- FinanceReports
- Scheduled report delivery (ReportScheduleService)
- Export to XLSX/CSV (ReportExporter)
- Report periods (ReportPeriod)
Workflow Automation
- Triggers on employee lifecycle events (hire
- probation end
- exit)
- Scheduled workflows (WorkflowProcessor)
- Actions: email alerts
- in-app notifications
- field updates
- WorkflowService
- WorkflowEvents
- Background job runner (BackgroundJobs hosted service)
Documents
- Employee and organization documents (DocumentService)
- Expiry tracking (ExpiryReminderService)
- Private file storage (LocalPrivateFileStorage)
- Upload validation (size
- extension
- file signature)
- Permission-checked downloads
Customization
- Custom fields (CustomFieldService
- 4 data types)
- Validation rules (RecordRuleService)
- Record locking rules
- Email template customization (EmailTemplateService)
- PDF template customization (PdfTemplateService)
Languages & stack✓ Verified from the source · 64,223 lines of code
| Language | Version | Framework | Used for | Share of code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C# | — | — | Web, API, admin | 55.3% |
| C# (Razor) | — | — | Web pages | 23.5% |
| SQL | — | — | Database | 11.5% |
| CSS | — | — | Styling | 3.9% |
| JavaScript | — | — | Front-end | 3% |
| HTML | — | — | Front-end | 2.4% |
| PowerShell | — | — | Scripts | 0.3% |
- Primary language
- C# 13 (.NET 10)
- Framework
- ASP.NET Core MVC 10
- Database
- SQL Server 2019+
- Authentication
- Cookie authentication (CookieAuthenticationDefaults), BCrypt password hashing, separate portal cookie (PortalAuth)
- Licence
- Single-site
- Screens
- 85
- Database tables
- 104
- Supported languages
- English, Arabic (full RTL)
- Browser support
- Modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2 vCPU | 4 vCPU |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| OS | .NET 10 Runtime (ASP.NET Core), SQL Server 2019+ (Express, Developer, Standard, Enterprise, Azure SQL), Windows Server 2019 | .NET 10 Runtime (ASP.NET Core), SQL Server 2019+ (Express, Developer, Standard, Enterprise, Azure SQL), Windows Server 2019 |
| Est. monthly hosting | $25 | $25 |
```bash cp .env.example .env # Edit .env: set MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD (8+ chars, upper/lower/digit/symbol, no semicolon) docker compose up -d # App at http://localhost:8080, database at localhost:1433 ```
```bash # Install .NET 10 Runtime wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh chmod +x dotnet-install.sh ./dotnet-install.sh --channel 10.0 --runtime aspnetcore # Install SQL Server 2019 (or use Azure SQL) curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.asc sudo add-apt-repository "$(wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/22.04/mssql-server-2019.list)" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup # Publish and run dotnet publish src/Royex.Payroll.Web -c Release -o /var/www/payora cd /var/www/payora export ConnectionStrings__PayrollDb="Server=localhost;Database=RoyexPayroll;User Id=sa;Password=YOUR_PASSWORD;TrustServerCertificate=True" export Email__Smtp__Password="YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD" dotnet Royex.Payroll.Web.dll # App at http://localhost:5000, configure Nginx reverse proxy for HTTPS ```
```bash # Create resources az group create --name payora-rg --location eastus az sql server create --name payora-sql --resource-group payora-rg --location eastus --admin-user sqladmin --admin-password YOUR_PASSWORD az sql db create --resource-group payora-rg --server payora-sql --name RoyexPayroll --service-objective S0 az appservice plan create --name payora-plan --resource-group payora-rg --sku B1 --is-linux az webapp create --resource-group payora-rg --plan payora-plan --name payora-app --runtime "DOTNETCORE:10.0" # Deploy dotnet publish src/Royex.Payroll.Web -c Release -o ./publish cd publish zip -r ../app.zip . cd .. az webapp deployment source config-zip --resource-group payora-rg --name payora-app --src app.zip # Set connection string in Azure Portal > Configuration > Connection strings # Name: PayrollDb, Value: Server=payora-sql.database.windows.net;Database=RoyexPayroll;User Id=sqladmin;Password=YOUR_PASSWORD ```
```bash # Prerequisites: .NET 10 SDK, SQL Server LocalDB or Docker SQL Server dotnet restore dotnet build # Start SQL Server in Docker (if not using LocalDB) docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "SA_PASSWORD=DevPass123!" -p 1433:1433 -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2019-latest # Update appsettings.Development.json or set environment variable export ConnectionStrings__PayrollDb="Server=localhost;Database=RoyexPayroll;User Id=sa;Password=DevPass123!;TrustServerCertificate=True" # Run dotnet run --project src/Royex.Payroll.Web --launch-profile https # App at https://localhost:7210 ```
Quality report
Manually reviewedHow to read the quality report
What this is. Every project on Vibe96 goes through an automated audit of its source code before a reviewer in Dubai checks it by hand. The score is out of 100; 75 is the minimum to be listed, and any single failing check blocks a listing regardless of the score.
- Security
- No real credentials in the code, every data-changing route protected, admin areas role-gated, no SQL built from user input.
- Code structure
- A developer can navigate and extend it: clear module boundaries, no giant files, little copy-paste.
- Docs & completeness
- The setup guide, example config, schema and required files the builder committed to are actually in the archive.
- Dependency health
- Packages pinned, no known critical vulnerabilities, no abandoned libraries in production paths.
- Build & deploy
- A clean machine can restore, build and start it by following the shipped instructions.
Warnings are problems that didn't block the listing; they stay visible here until a later version clears them. The audit reads the code — it does not run it — so always try the live demo before you buy. Lines of code are counted from the same audited archive.
Reviewer notes (4 minor)
No real secrets found; weak defaults in example files need environment variable enforcement; strong authentication and permission checks; minor gaps in employee portal ownership validation; raw ado.net with parameterized queries; schema solid; missing indexes on some foreign keys; clean architecture with minor duplication and some oversized service files. None of these stop the software from working; the developer has been told and improvements come in a future update.
Versions & updates
1.0.0
First release4 Oct 2026✓ Reviewed & audited
No updates yet. New versions appear here with a changelog.
Buyers receive updates free for 1 year.
What you get
- </>Full source codeThe complete audited source, delivered as a download from your account. No obfuscation.
- ▤DocumentationSetup guide, architecture notes, CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
- ↻One year of updatesEvery new version the builder publishes, free for 12 months.
- ♧30 days of supportInstallation and defect support through Vibe96 tickets.
