Keep every seafarer's certificates, MLC contracts and sea service in one place, and sign crew on and off across your fleet.
All 16 Features
Every feature in Payroll is built for daily maritime work — simple to use, fast to navigate, and fully integrated with the rest of Navatom.
01
Payroll Runs for Crew & Shore Staff
One payroll run pays one pay group for one pay period, monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly or weekly. Generate the payslips for everyone who served in the period, calculate the wage, pay inputs, taxes and net pay, approve, generate the payments, and close the run once every payment is settled.
A supplementary run pays days the regular run left unpaid, and a correction run replaces an issued payslip that was wrong. Calculating again picks up any change to members, agreements or inputs until the run is approved.
- Generate, calculate, approve, pay, close
- Monthly to weekly pay periods
- Supplementary & correction runs
- Recalculate until approved
- Crew & shore staff alike
02
Wage Scales from Collective Agreements
A crew wage scale prices every rank, line by line; a shore staff scale prices named packages. A scale can follow a collective agreement, and for ITF TCC, ITF Standard, IBF, POEA SEC or Turkish Law 854 one click fills the leave days, working hours, proration and rounding the agreement sets.
Prices live in dated revisions: copy the current one, uplift it by a percentage, or start blank, add seniority and conditional pay, then publish now or schedule it to go live by itself. Contracts take their wage from the revision in force on their start date, and the scale also holds the contract, appointment and discharge document templates.
- Crew ranks & shore packages priced
- One-click agreement defaults
- Uplift revisions by a percentage
- Scheduled revisions go live by themselves
- Contract documents from templates
03
Protected Seafarer Pay
Every deduction carries one of 7 purposes. Where the law or the pay group requires the seafarer's written consent, the deduction waits until a consent covering the pay date is on file, and the wage is paid in full meanwhile. A pay group can cap the share of pay that deductions take.
The cost of a seafarer's trip home is recovered only with a recorded ground. Runs warn when an allotment is below the legal minimum or a wage below the minimum the rules set, and a pay group that the rule does not cover can waive a warning-only rule, with a reason on record.
- 7 deduction purposes
- Written consent before deducting
- Cap on the share deducted
- Repatriation costs need a recorded ground
- Minimum wage & allotment checks
04
Four-Eyes Run Approval
Whoever calculated a run cannot approve it, unless they are an administrator or hold the right to approve their own work, and then the run records a self-approval. Approval is refused while a blocking exception remains.
An approver can leave named payees out of the approval so the rest are paid on time, and can revoke an approval until payments exist or a payslip is issued.
- Calculator & approver kept apart
- Self-approval recorded when allowed
- Leave payees out & pay the rest
- Revoke before payments go out
05
Payees Ready Before Pay Day
Everyone Payroll pays, crew and shore staff, has one page: pay group, processing currency, tax residence and numbers, payment instructions, leave, service periods, balances and payslips. Seafarers become payees through their crew contract and shore staff through a shore employment, so no one is added by hand.
A readiness column counts what would stop a payee being paid, such as no pay group, no payment instruction for the pay date or no active agreement, and each finding names the fix. A payee can be put on hold with a reason.
- One page per payee
- Added from contracts & employments
- Readiness checks before each run
- Hold with a reason
06
Pay Inputs: Recurring, One-Time, Advances & Charges
Enter what is paid or deducted besides the wage: recurring items, one-time payments, advances repaid in installments, and charges such as onboard purchases. Each input has its own currency and is converted into the payee's processing currency at the pay date's rate.
Advances can be suspended for unpaid leave or hardship, and forgiven or written off by an approver. An input that cannot be taken in full is deferred to a later payslip and shown on the run.
- 4 kinds of pay input
- Each in its own currency
- Advances repaid in installments
- Forgive or write off with approval
- Shortfalls carried forward
07
Payslips: Issue, Void & Correct
Each payslip shows the served days and every line of pay. Issue it to keep the document on record, print it as a PDF with or without the employer's cost, and record a dispute when a seafarer questions it.
An issued payslip that was wrong is voided or replaced by a correction, which supersedes the original and keeps both on record.
- Served days & every pay line
- PDF with optional employer cost
- Disputes recorded
- Corrections supersede the original
08
Allotments, Split Pay & Bank Files
Split each payee's pay between payment instructions, such as an allotment to the family and the remainder to the seafarer's own account. Pay by bank transfer, cash, e-wallet or check.
Export bank transfers as an ISO 20022 file and a CSV, one per paying account and currency, upload them to your bank, then mark payments paid or failed, re-route a failed payment or reverse a paid one. Each payment keeps the bank details it was made with, and anyone who may not edit bank details sees only the last four characters of an account.
- Allotments to families
- 4 payment methods
- ISO 20022 & CSV bank files
- Failed payments re-routed
- Bank details masked & frozen per payment
09
Tax & Contribution Tables
A statutory scheme holds one country's tax or contribution in dated tables: the base, brackets with employee and employer shares, rules by rank group, vessel, flag, residence or tax treaty, reliefs, exemptions and checks. Tables are imported or built by hand.
Each table carries test cases and is simulated before a second person activates it. Tax decisions are confirmed per run, and a run can close the tax year.
- Brackets, rules, reliefs & treaties
- Employee & employer shares
- Simulated & tested before use
- Activated by a second person
- Tax year close
10
Registrations, Filings & Tax Remittances
Register each employer with its tax and social security authorities. Define the file each authority asks for, CSV, fixed width or XML, column by column, and generate it for the months you choose.
Print tax certificates from your own template, and pay over the tax withheld as a tax remittance to the authority's account.
- Employer registrations per authority
- Filing files in CSV, fixed width or XML
- Tax certificates from your template
- Tax remittances paid & tracked
11
Sign-Off Settlement
When a contract or shore employment ends, the payee shows Final Pay Due. The sign-off settlement pays what is still owed, including leave, recovers what the payee owes, and settles them once it is issued.
- Final pay flagged automatically
- Unpaid days & leave paid out
- Debts recovered
- Settled once issued
12
Confidential Pay Groups
Mark a pay group confidential and only its named viewers see its payees, runs, payslips and payments, administrators included. Someone else can be let in for up to seven days, with a reason the viewers are told.
- Named viewers only
- Administrators kept out too
- Time-limited access with a reason
13
Leave & Service Periods
Leave accrues per contract at the days the wage scale sets, with the 2.5-day monthly minimum shown apart from leave above it. Record leave taken, link it to a Crew Planning leave request, and see what has been paid.
Sick, injury and travel periods are recorded as service periods, with a sick-pay day limit.
- Leave earned, taken & paid
- Minimum leave shown apart
- Linked to Crew Planning requests
- Sick-pay limits per period
14
Crew Cost by Vessel
See what each vessel's crew cost in a month, currency by currency, with payees, served days and gross pay. Pay for days served on a vessel lands on that vessel.
- Monthly cost per vessel
- Split by currency
- Served days & gross
15
Moving from Another Payroll
Bring balances from your previous payroll onto each payee: leave owed, year-to-date figures, advances still owed and unpaid wages. Crew contracts made before Payroll can be moved onto payroll from Crew Manager.
- Balances brought forward
- Year-to-date carried over
- Existing contracts moved to payroll
16
Payroll Analytics
Five analytics pages: money paid at home and on board, crew cost per vessel-day, wages and scales, pay operations, and crew protection, where deductions are set against the legal maximum and consent, and sickness, injury, travel and captivity cases against their limits.
- 5 analytics pages
- Crew cost per vessel-day
- Crew protection monitoring
- Wages against the ILO minimum
Technical
Under the Hood
Architecture and engineering behind Payroll — data handling, real-time sync, and interface design.
Exceptions Checked Before Approval
Each calculated run lists what to check before approving: a payee with no payment instruction, net pay that changed sharply, an input deferred, a tax check that failed. Blocking exceptions stop approval until they are fixed or the payee is left out; review exceptions only ask for a look.
Dated Wage Scale Revisions
Every wage scale keeps its history as dated revisions: draft, scheduled, active and superseded. A revision is checked for blockers and warnings before it can be published, and a scheduled one goes live by itself on its start date, so pay changes are prepared ahead and never edited in place.
Tested Tax Tables
Tax and contribution tables carry their own test cases and are simulated before use. Activation needs a second person, so a rate change is never made and approved by the same hands.
Multi-Currency Pay
Each payee is paid in a processing currency, every pay input can be in its own currency and is converted at the pay date's rate, and a payment instruction in another currency converts the pay again when it is paid.
Payments Frozen with Their Bank Details
Each payment keeps the bank details of its payment instruction at the moment it is made, so a later change to an account never rewrites what was paid. Bank files follow ISO 20022.
Complete Event History
Every change is recorded with who made it, when and what changed, with comments and attachments on every record.
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