Set up payroll settings — working days, hours, day off, departments and shifts

Before you start

• Sign in at /signin with your MAJA account, then open MAJA Payroll from the app switcher.
• Your company name, logo and theme are set in MAJA Books → Settings, not here.

Steps

1. In the left menu, under Company, click Settings.
2. In Payroll Defaults, enter Hours/day and Annual leave days/year (30 by law; more if you give more — the leave balances follow it).
3. Enter Annual leave days/year.
4. In Work on a public holiday, choose The law — day + 50% (×1.5) or ×2.5 (the old MAJA rate).
5. Under Default day off, tick one or more days.
6. Click Save Payroll Defaults.
7. Click Departments to open it, click Add Department, rename the new line, and click Save Departments.
8. Click Employee Statuses to add or rename statuses, then click Save Statuses.
9. Click Work Shifts, click Add Shift, type the Shift Name, Start Time and End Time, and click Save Shifts.

What MAJA does for you

• A new employee starts with these hours, days and the first ticked day off.
• The hours of each shift are shown next to it (a shift may end after midnight).
• The holiday rate is used on the payroll run and the payslip.

Good to know

• An employee cannot be saved without a department and a shift, so add at least one of each first.
• The leave balance follows the UAE scale (nothing before 6 months, 2 days a month from month 6 to 12, then 30 days a year); the Annual leave days/year box does not change that calculation today.
• Pay is worked out on a 30-day month (basic ÷ 30) whatever the working days a month.
• Pension, salary components and attendance rules are further down the same page — see their own articles.