4Geeks Payroll¶
Workforce management and payroll for LATAM and global teams.
4Geeks Payroll is a complete payroll console for employers. It centralizes your people, their contracts, time and attendance, leaves, local statutory calculations, payroll runs and payslips — so your HR and finance teams work from a single source of truth.
Summary
Who it’s for: HR and finance teams.
What it covers: employees, time and attendance, taxes, runs, payslips, and reports.
Result: payroll processed with traceability and local compliance.
Start here¶
Getting started
Configure your company, stations, and first employees.
🧾Payroll runs
Preview, adjust, and process a pay period.
⏱️Time tracking
Approve timesheets before they reach payroll.
⚖️Tax & compliance
Configure local rules and employer contributions.
The product is made of three components:
| Component | What it is | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll console | The employer/admin web app where you manage everything | console.4geeks.io (this guide) |
| Employee app | A mobile app for employees to view payslips, clock in/out and contact HR | Android |
| FaceID kiosk | A tablet attendance terminal with touchless facial recognition | Android tablet |
The Payroll console¶
The console is organized into modules. The Payroll module itself has twelve tabs:
| Tab | What you do |
|---|---|
| Employees | Directory of employees and contractors, profiles, bonuses, deductions, FaceID photos and terminations |
| Timesheets | Review attendance and approve monthly timesheets |
| Stations | Create work locations used to group attendance and payroll |
| Runs | Calculate and process payroll runs |
| Payslips | Review, export and deliver payslips |
| Analytics | Cost trends, headcount, forecast and breakdowns |
| Reports | Download operational reports (Employees, Aguinaldo, Vacations, Leaves, History, Deductions, Bonuses, Employer Cost) |
| Leaves | Record and review leave requests |
| Holidays | Manage the holiday calendar and holiday pay |
| Overtime | Review and approve detected overtime |
| Travel Expenses | Aggregated per-diem payout report |
| Viáticos | Bulk per-diem upload |
Two related modules live outside the Payroll module but work with the same employee data:
- Work Shifts (
/operations/work-shifts) — shift templates, assignments, labor compliance and night differentials. - Settings → Payroll and Settings → Tax & Compliance — payroll preferences and tax rules.
- Documents (
/documents) — the HR Document Studio for generating contracts and letters as PDF.
Where to start
New to 4Geeks Payroll? Follow the Getting started checklist.
Countries, currencies and taxes¶
4Geeks Payroll is built around 12 Latin American countries with pre-configured social-security tables and local benefits:
Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Peru.
Payroll supports 12 currencies:
USD, CRC, MXN, GBP, PAB, COP, HNL, GTQ, UYU, PYG, CLP, PEN.
Additional country codes (such as the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Argentina) can be stored on an employee record, but they have no tax preset — you configure their rates manually, and local benefits such as vacation accrual and aguinaldo are not calculated for them.
Social security, not income tax
The tax engine calculates employee and employer social-security contributions from the tables you configure. It does not calculate progressive personal income tax (ISR/IRPF/Impuesto a la Renta). Add those withholdings as manual tax rules if you need them.
See Country reference for every table.
Plans and pricing¶
All plans require a minimum of 30 workers.
| Plan | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Core | $7 USD / worker / month | HR & worker profiles, multi-contract & multi-branch, multi-currency payroll & payslips, bonuses & deductions, local tax calculations |
| Business | $12 USD / worker / month | Everything in Core plus the employee self-serve app, GPS & Face ID time-tracking, API access & integrations, advanced analytics, priority support |
| Grow | Custom | Software plus a dedicated payroll specialist, full payroll maquila & operations, labor & legal advisory |
Volume discounts are available above 1,000 workers. See 4Geeks Payroll pricing or talk to a specialist.
How payroll is calculated¶
At a high level, a payroll run:
- Takes the pay period and the employees with approved timesheets in that period.
- Computes regular pay and approved overtime pay.
- Adds bonuses and holiday pay, and applies unpaid-leave deductions.
- Subtracts employee social-security contributions and employee deductions.
- Stores employer contributions for reporting.
- Produces a payslip per employee and can email it automatically.
Travel expenses (viáticos) are tracked on the payslip but are paid separately from gross and net salary.
Related¶
Still have questions? Ask on Discord or explore the tutorials.