Running GCC payroll — from draft run to bank-ready UAE & Oman WPS files
Every scene in this chapter of the demo film, in order. From chapter 4: Payday
How to run payroll in the UAE, from zero 51s
Watch on YouTubeOne month, in one country's rules. A company operating in two countries therefore has two runs a month, always.
The payroll calendar — cut-off and pay day 2:20 min
The cut-off is the day the month stops changing; the pay day is the day the money has to be in the employee's account. Payroll has only these two dates.
Opening the month — one payroll run per country 2:08 min
Two decisions: which month you are paying for, and which country's rules apply. Country is not a label — it picks the whole rulebook — and the run populate…
The payroll register — gross, deductions, net 49s
Gross is everything the employee earned this month, deductions is everything taken off it, and net is what reaches the bank — gross minus deductions, on ev…
UAE vs Oman social insurance — what each country deducts 1:04 min
Watch on YouTubeThe whole package — housing and transport included — so a national earning twenty thousand basic can have a contributable wage of thirty thousand. Eleven p…
Hide salaries from staff who run payroll admin — the Privacy Wall 49s
Watch on YouTubeThe same run, with every total withheld — not an error, a stated refusal. They can see that the run happened and who is in it, but not what anybody earns.
Editing a draft — overtime, additions, deductions 48s
Five things, including overtime hours, one-off additions and one-off deductions. Overtime is its own column and only exists while the run is a draft — once…
Salary advances and loans, with a three-step approval 3:09 min
Integration note: Advances are interest-free. The affordability check uses gross salary, not net.
Three — manager, HR and finance — and the flow will not let you skip a step. Loans in Ahlan Hamad are interest-free, and the affordability check reads gros…
Earned wage access — drawing pay already worked for 1:56 min
Integration note: Earned-wage access carries no fees, and the 50% cap is fixed. Repayment through payroll deduction isn't connected yet.
At most half of what has accrued — the share of the month already worked — so halfway through the month half the pay has accrued and half of that can be dr…
The payroll review before you lock the month 1:38 min
Two people sharing one bank account — one gets paid twice and the other gets nothing, and the file still looks perfectly valid — and an employee with no IB…
Finalize — and the two things payroll refuses to do 1:21 min
A shared bank account, and negative pay — where you would be collecting more than the employee earned. Both guards are identical in the UAE and Oman, and t…
What WPS is, and why a Gulf state mandates it 42s
Watch on YouTubeA file the state can audit, showing that people were paid. Cash leaves no trace and non-payment becomes invisible; the WPS file makes it visible in the sam…
Generating the WPS file — two countries, two formats 2:23 min
Watch on YouTubeSixteen fields per line, no header and no employer block — just people — modelled on the Bank Dhofar and Central Bank of Oman layout. The screen says "not …
The signature — only the CEO can release payroll 1:14 min
No. The HR admin prepares it and cannot release it; only the CEO can. Preparing and releasing are two separate decisions, enforced in code rather than in t…
A bilingual payslip employees can read in Arabic or English 1:57 min
Watch on YouTubeAlways — both languages on one page, with your company's name on it rather than the vendor's. Even the ID is labelled the way the employee's own country na…
Correcting payroll after the money moved 1:08 min
No. The right answer is a correction with a record of its own — additions in green, deductions in red, each carrying a reason — so the wrong figure and the…
Preparing the monthly social insurance contribution file 2:48 min
Watch on YouTubeThe employee's share, the employer's share and the total owed for a month you have already paid, with one row per covered employee and a total at the bottom.