TWT Payroll

Every payslip.Every report.

German payroll for companies that run it themselves: from the month to the payslip, the wage tax and the social-insurance reports.

TWT Payroll computes each employee's month by the Federal Ministry of Finance's programme flowchart and the health insurers' contribution rates. The wage tax return and the wage tax certificates go straight to ELSTER, and every social-insurance report passes the official core check before it is filed. Your employees fetch their payslips themselves.

  • Priced by the number of employees
  • Wage tax straight to ELSTER
  • Reports checked before filing
  • Hosted in Germany

On sale from early 2027. Talk to us today about your payroll.

Why TWT Payroll

What changes when the payroll is in your own hands

The month in three steps

Compute, release, close. Hours, overtime and commissions arrive from the time recording as a file, checked row by row before anything is taken over.

Checked before it is sent

Every social-insurance report passes the official core check before it leaves, and ELSTER checks the wage tax before it accepts it. A mistake shows on your screen, not in a letter from the health insurer.

Employees who help themselves

Payslips and wage tax certificates wait in each employee's own corner once the month is closed. A new address or bank account is reported there and applies once you accept it.

Functions

What TWT Payroll covers

A complete German payroll, from the employee's master data to the audit.

The monthly payroll

  • Gross to net by the Federal Ministry of Finance's programme flowchart
  • Contribution rates from the health insurers' master file
  • Payslips as PDF, the payroll account, corrections as a new version
  • Hours, overtime and commissions from the time recording

Wage tax

  • The wage tax return, monthly, quarterly or yearly, sent to ELSTER
  • The electronic wage tax certificate at leaving and at the end of the year
  • Church tax by denomination, and the flat-rate taxes in boxes of their own
  • The ELStAM change lists from ELSTER, assigned to your employees

Social insurance

  • Registrations, deregistrations and the annual reports
  • The contribution statement per health insurer and month
  • Every report checked by the official core check first
  • Filed through the SV-Meldeportal until TWT Payroll is certified

Your employees

  • Master data with social-insurance number, health insurer and tax data
  • Company cars, the company pension and meals, valued every month
  • Wage garnishments by the year's garnishment table
  • Absences, sick notes, maternity protection and parental leave

Certificates and refunds

  • Pay certificates for sickness, sick child and maternity benefit
  • The U1 and U2 refunds of sick pay and maternity protection
  • A1 certificates for work abroad, and employment certificates
  • The short-time work allowance with its settlement list

Audits and records

  • Every change kept with the date it takes effect
  • The data for the wage tax audit through the DLS
  • The pension insurance's employer audit, electronically (euBP)
  • The annual wage statement to the accident insurance
All 30 features in detail
  • DashboardDashboard

    What needs doing today and the figures behind it, cut to your package: invoices, supplier invoices awaiting approval, hours and projects, or the books. Plus a guided first-run checklist.

  • PayrollPayroll overview

    Where the payroll master data stands at a glance: the employer details, the employees and what each still needs for the social-insurance reports and the payslip, and the date of the health insurers’ master file.

  • PayrollPayroll runs

    Every employee’s month, computed by the Federal Ministry of Finance’s programme flowchart and the master file’s contribution rates: compute, release, close. With payslips as PDF, the payroll posting in the journal, the payroll account, and corrections as a new version. Hours, overtime and commissions arrive as a CSV file from the time recording: checked row by row, taken over completely or not at all, and taken back at any time before the release.

  • PayrollWage tax return

    The wage tax return from the closed months, monthly, quarterly or yearly: wage tax, solidarity surcharge and church tax by denomination, checked by ELSTER before it is sent, transmitted straight to the tax office, with the protocol and corrections. What the employer taxes at a flat rate – the way to work at 15 % up to the commuting allowance, meals and the internet allowance at 25 % – stands with its church tax of the simplified procedure in boxes of its own.

  • PayrollWage tax certificates

    The electronic wage tax certificate for each employee from the payroll account, at leaving or at the end of the year: gross pay, taxes, social insurance line by line and the year's tax deduction data, sent to ELSTER, with the printout and corrections.

  • PayrollSocial insurance reports

    The contribution statement for each health insurer and month from the closed payroll, contribution group by contribution group, with the due date and the deadline, checked by the official core check before it is filed — and as the template for the SV-Meldeportal until TWT Payroll is certified.

  • PayrollEmployees

    Each employee’s master data with social-insurance number, health insurer, person group, contribution groups, occupation code and tax attributes. Checked the way the official DEÜV check does it, and every change is kept with the date it takes effect. Company cars under the 1 % rule with the way to work – for electric cars and plug-in hybrids with a quarter or a half of the list price – are valued by the payroll every month by itself, meals at the year’s official value. So is the company pension, with the salary conversion, the employer’s 15 % subsidy and the year’s tax- and contribution-free limits. Wage garnishments and assignments follow the year’s garnishment table, the net method and the priority of maintenance creditors, advances their instalments – the creditors’ amounts are listed in the run with account and reference.

  • PayrollAbsences & eAU

    Sickness, hospital stays, rehabilitation and maternity leave with the employee’s report. The electronic sick note is requested from the health insurer: checked by the official core check before it is sent, the answers shown with their period and code, cancellations and waiting periods as the rules lay them down. Parental leave shortens the payroll and reports its beginning and end to the health insurer. Unpaid leave and unexcused absence shorten it too; when they last longer than a month, the end of the employment and its resumption are reported. Military service interrupts it from the first day. Care leave, short-term care leave with the care support allowance and an employment suspended for a disability pension follow the social-insurance rules as well.

  • PayrollU1/U2 refund

    Sick pay and the cost of maternity protection back from the health insurer: refund claims under the German employer expense compensation act, computed from the absences, the maternity cases and the closed months — U1 with the rate of the insurer’s statutes, the waiting period and the six weeks, U2 for the maternity protection pay and the employer’s top-up to the maternity benefit in full. Checked by the official core check before they are sent, the insurer’s decision shown with its amount and reason, corrections filed as cancellations.

  • PayrollMaternity protection

    One case per pregnancy: the certificate of the expected day of birth, the birth or a miscarriage, employment bans. From it every payroll computes the protection periods, the employer’s top-up to the maternity benefit from the three settled months before, the maternity protection pay, the social-insurance days and the test of benefits that go on — a closed month that no longer fits is flagged for correction.

  • PayrollPay certificates

    The pay certificates the health insurer computes the sickness, the sick child and the maternity benefit from are made by themselves: for the sickness benefit as soon as an incapacity lasts longer than its six weeks of continued pay – with the pay of the last settled month, its net and the one-off payments of the year before; for the sick child benefit after the month is settled – the working days released and the pay lost; for the maternity benefit from the maternity case – the start of the protection period, the last insured day, the net of the months before and what goes on being paid. Checked by the official core check before they are sent, the insurer’s answers kept with them, corrections filed as cancellations.

  • PayrollA1 certificates

    The application for the A1 certificate for employees who work for a while in another state of the EU or the EEA, in Switzerland or in the United Kingdom: one case per posting, the person from the master data, the workplaces or the ship, earlier postings and the 24 months. The application goes to the health insurer, the professional pension fund or the pension insurance, depending on where the person is insured. What would lead to a rejection is shown before anything is sent. It is checked with the official core check and the published schema. The A1 certificate comes back to the case as a PDF, and corrections go as cancellations.

  • PayrollEmployment certificates

    The employment certificate for the Federal Employment Agency, only when the employee or the agency asks for it. The payroll gives the end of the employment, the last complete pay period, the pay of the 12 or 24 months, the absences and the tax, insurance and working-time data. The employer adds how the employment ended, the notice period and the payments because of the end. What is missing is named before anything is built. It is checked with the agency’s official core check, and a correction replaces the certificate as a whole. When the agency asks for it, also the EU employment certificate with the total gross of the months asked for, and month by month the side-income certificate for employees who draw unemployment benefit.

  • PayrollShort-time work

    The short-time work allowance with the payroll: the hours lost from the time recording or typed, the salary cut by them, target and actual pay by the rules of the Federal Employment Agency, the allowance at 60 or 67 % from the year’s flat-rate net pay – the factor method included. The employer’s contributions on 80 % of the pay lost go into the contribution statement and the reports. Month by month the settlement list for the claim, with the short-time number and the work-loss number, as a file and with its deadline.

  • PayrollPension insurance audit (euBP)

    The payroll data for the pension insurance’s employer audit, electronically instead of on paper: the audit announcement is recorded and the period worked out by the pension insurance’s rules – also for the delivery when the payroll program or the service provider changes. Every file is checked with the German pension insurance’s own validator.

  • PayrollAccident insurance

    The wage statement to the employers’ liability insurance association or accident fund grows out of the settled months: per carrier, risk class and person the earnings up to the maximum annual earnings, the working hours and the number of insured, with the contribution statement archived as a document that cannot be changed. Memberships, company number and PIN are kept encrypted.

  • PayrollReports and audit

    The data for the wage-tax audit through the tax authorities’ Digitale LohnSchnittstelle (DLS): one data set per year with the master data, the wage types, the payroll account and the social-insurance data, corrections as differences, the way the auditor reads it in. Beside it the reports of the months.

  • PayrollEmployer details

    The company number, the accident-insurance carrier and membership number, the wage-tax filing period and who submits the reports: the practice as reporting office, or the employer itself.

  • PayrollTrust Center certificate

    The key and the certificate the social-insurance reports are signed, encrypted and sent with: the request and the hash sheet for the ITSG Trust Center, the certificate imported, the connection test to the GKV communication server. The private key never leaves the server unencrypted.

  • PayrollMy payroll documents

    The employees’ own access: their payslips and wage-tax certificates once the month is closed, a new address or bank account reported – it applies only once the employer has accepted it – and documents handed in. Everyone sees their own documents only; the notice that a payslip is ready names no amount.

  • AdministrationCompanies

    Full legal profile: register data, tax numbers, banking, branding and § 19 UStG small-business mode.

  • AdministrationUser Management

    Invitations, access levels, per-user permission overrides and ownership transfer.

  • AdministrationTax advisor

    Who, besides your own people, may reach your data. A practice asks, you decide, and you can withdraw the access at any time — your own users are untouched.

  • AdministrationTwo-factor requirement

    Whether a second factor stays voluntary, is required of everyone, or only of the access levels that can move money. Setting one up stays on each person’s own profile, and that page stays reachable so nobody is locked away from the requirement they have to meet.

  • AdministrationBilling

    Plan and single-module subscriptions paid by card — the payment itself switches the module on.

  • AdministrationTWT invoices

    Every invoice from TWT in one place, across all modules, with the payment status per module and each invoice as a PDF.

  • AdministrationCancellation

    Contract, end of term and cancellation in one place. Paid time stays usable to the end of the period, and the cancellation can be withdrawn until then.

  • AdministrationAudit Logs

    21 action types across 21 entity types, filterable and CSV-exportable, surviving deletion.

  • AdministrationSupport

    Help from inside the product: ask a question, attach a screenshot, read the answer in the same thread. Each person sees only their own requests.

  • AdministrationNotifications

    Where the product writes to: e-mail, Telegram or WhatsApp — one set for the company, and one of their own for each person. With a test message, so a wrong number is caught at once instead of staying silent.

Who it is for

Companies that run their own payroll

  • Small companies

    One to fifty employees, and the payroll is done in-house, by the owner or the office.

  • Whoever does the payroll

    Somebody who knows the payroll and wants every report checked before it leaves.

  • With TWT Accounting

    The closed month's payroll posting arrives in your journal ready to book, and the integration costs no extra licence.

  • With TWT One

    Payroll as an extra module beside everything else you run in TWT One, with the same login, and its posting in your journal at no extra licence.

  • Together with your tax adviser

    Give your adviser access to check the payroll, and take it away again whenever you like.

What the law wants

Payroll follows rules that change every year

TWT Payroll follows them as the authorities publish them, and says so plainly when a case lies outside what it computes.

The official computation

Wage tax by the programme flowchart the Federal Ministry of Finance publishes each year, contributions by the health insurers' own master file.

Checked before it is filed

Each social-insurance report passes the health insurers' official core check before it leaves, and ELSTER checks the wage tax itself.

Salaries for those who may see them

Only the people you give the payroll rights to open the payroll. Every employee sees their own documents and nobody else's.

Records that hold up in an audit

The payroll account of § 41 EStG for every employee, and the data for the wage tax audit and the pension insurance's audit, delivered electronically.

Until TWT Payroll has passed the system examination of the ITSG, you file the social-insurance reports through the SV-Meldeportal. TWT Payroll prepares every value for it.

Getting started

How your payroll comes across

We set TWT Payroll up with you: the number of employees decides the band, and the month you start in decides what comes across.

Starting in the middle of the year works: the months already paid are entered, so every limit and every annual report comes out right.

Your tax adviser can follow along throughout, with access you give and withdraw.

Talk to us
  1. Tell us your sizeHow many employees you pay, and from which month you want to start.
  2. We open your payrollYour employer details, the health insurers and the accident insurance carrier, ready for the first month.
  3. Your first monthEnter your employees, compute the month, check the payslips and release them.

Prices

By the number of employees

One price per band, by the employees on your payroll, with the same functions in every band. Net, plus VAT.

  • up to 5 employees

    19,90 €/ month

    or 199,00 € a year, two months free

  • up to 10 employees

    29,90 €/ month

    or 299,00 € a year, two months free

  • up to 25 employees

    49,90 €/ month

    or 499,00 € a year, two months free

  • up to 50 employees

    79,90 €/ month

    or 799,00 € a year, two months free

Beside TWT Accounting or TWT One, TWT Payroll is an extra module with the same login, and its integration with either costs no extra licence. On sale from early 2027.

Every band carries

  • The monthly payroll, with payslips as PDF
  • The wage tax return and certificates to ELSTER
  • The social-insurance reports, checked by the official core check
  • Absences, sick notes, maternity protection and the U1 and U2 refunds
  • Pay certificates, A1 and employment certificates
  • The employees' own corner for their documents
  • The data for the wage tax and pension insurance audits

A closer look

Where the difference shows

Salaries are the most private data a company keeps, and this is how they stay that way.

Learn more

Access Control A real ACL, not role labels

More than 130 permission keys, organised as a module → component → action tree. Every member starts with the rights of their role; on top of it you grant or withhold single rights for exactly that person, and a withheld right always wins.

  • One key gates the API, the menu and the route
  • Modules you cannot reach never ship their JavaScript
  • Changes apply on the user's very next navigation

Questions

What companies ask first

What does it cost?

It follows the number of employees on your payroll: up to 5, up to 10, up to 25 or up to 50, with the same functions in every band. The prices are net, plus VAT. More than 50 employees? Talk to us.

When can we start?

TWT Payroll goes on sale in early 2027. Talk to us now, and we will tell you as soon as your company can start.

Is TWT Payroll certified?

Not yet. Until it has passed the system examination of the ITSG, the IT service centre of the statutory health insurance, you file the social-insurance reports through the SV-Meldeportal: TWT Payroll prepares every value and checks each report with the official core check first. The wage tax return and the wage tax certificates already go to ELSTER directly.

Do you run the payroll for us?

No. TWT Payroll is software: you, your office or your tax adviser run the payroll in it, and the responsibility stays with the employer.

Do we need TWT Accounting?

No. TWT Payroll is sold on its own as well. With TWT Accounting or TWT One, the closed month's payroll posting arrives in your journal ready to book, and that integration costs no extra licence.

Is TWT Payroll part of TWT One?

No. TWT Payroll is an extra module beside TWT One and TWT Accounting, with the same login, and is not part of TWT One's package price.

Who sees the salaries?

Only the people you give the payroll rights to. Every employee sees their own payslips and certificates and nothing else, and the notice that a payslip is ready names no amount.

Where is the data?

On our own servers in Germany. No cloud storage and no third-party notification service, for your payroll or anything else.

Ready to run your payroll yourself?

Tell us how many employees you pay and how you run the payroll today. TWT Payroll goes on sale in early 2027, and your data stays on our own servers in Germany.