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.
TWT Payroll
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.
On sale from early 2027. Talk to us today about your payroll.
Why TWT Payroll
Compute, release, close. Hours, overtime and commissions arrive from the time recording as a file, checked row by row before anything is taken over.
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.
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
A complete German payroll, from the employee's master data to the audit.
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
One to fifty employees, and the payroll is done in-house, by the owner or the office.
Somebody who knows the payroll and wants every report checked before it leaves.
The closed month's payroll posting arrives in your journal ready to book, and the integration costs no extra licence.
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.
Give your adviser access to check the payroll, and take it away again whenever you like.
What the law wants
TWT Payroll follows them as the authorities publish them, and says so plainly when a case lies outside what it computes.
Wage tax by the programme flowchart the Federal Ministry of Finance publishes each year, contributions by the health insurers' own master file.
Each social-insurance report passes the health insurers' official core check before it leaves, and ELSTER checks the wage tax itself.
Only the people you give the payroll rights to open the payroll. Every employee sees their own documents and nobody else's.
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
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 usPrices
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
A closer look
Salaries are the most private data a company keeps, and this is how they stay that way.
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.
Questions
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.
TWT Payroll goes on sale in early 2027. Talk to us now, and we will tell you as soon as your company can start.
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.
No. TWT Payroll is software: you, your office or your tax adviser run the payroll in it, and the responsibility stays with the employer.
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.
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.
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.
On our own servers in Germany. No cloud storage and no third-party notification service, for your payroll or anything else.
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.