There is an unspoken rule in software: the moment an e-commerce brand grows from 5 to 25 employees, the business owner's life gets substantially worse.

Why? Because suddenly you are running four disconnected systems: your e-commerce store, a separate biometric attendance machine, a third-party HR subscription, and an agonizing monthly payroll spreadsheet. Every month, someone spends three days manually calculating who was late, how many sick days were taken, which employee took an advance loan, and writing paper salary vouchers.

We asked a simple question: Why should an e-commerce company pay a monthly fee for a separate HR software when all employee roles, orders, and permissions already live inside Manmerce?

This week, we shipped the integrated Human Resource Management (HRM) and Payroll suite.

1. Organization Hierarchy & Daily Attendance Matrix

Powered by the PayrollService, Manmerce structures the workforce cleanly:

  • Departments & Designations: Structured organizational trees with designated department heads.
  • Employee Directory: Comprehensive profiles (EMP-001) capturing basic salary, bank wire details, National ID, emergency contacts, and joining dates.
  • Interactive Attendance Calendar: A visual monthly grid (/admin/hr/attendance) tracking daily check-in/out timestamps, auto-computed work hours, and statuses: present, late, half_day, absent, or leave.
  • Leave Approval Workflows: Employees submit leave requests; managers review them with one click, automatically updating remaining leave quotas.

2. The 1-Click Automated Payroll Engine

At the end of the month, running payroll no longer takes three days. It takes one click:

// Payroll Calculation Formula
$netSalary = $basicSalary 
           + $allowances 
           - $unpaidLeaveDeductions 
           - $activeLoanEmi 
           - $tax;
  • Loan & Advance Ledger: If a warehouse worker took a ৳20,000 emergency loan repayable in 4 monthly installments, the payroll engine automatically deducts ৳5,000 each month and updates the loan balance until it reaches zero.
  • Printable & Downloadable PDF Payslips: Generates crisp, branded salary payslips (/admin/hr/payslips/{id}) detailing basic pay, bonuses, itemized deductions, and signature blocks.
  • Employee Self-Service Portal: Staff can log into their customer dashboard (/account/hr) to download payslips, inspect attendance records, and request time off.

Next week: handling inventory you don't physically stock, and servicing what you sell—DropShipping vendor routing and workshop warranty repair job cards.

Mustafa Kamal Hossain

Mustafa Kamal Hossain

Founder & Principal Engineer at Manfi. Passionate about Laravel, SaaS architecture, and high-performance engineering.