Payments
Payroll-Based Payments
Design products anchored to payroll: bulk salary runs, on-demand pay, and employer–bank–fintech data flows with the controls HR and treasury demand.
Format: 2 weeks · instructor-led or self-paced options · certificate of completion · examples from our production builds (Meras, Infinipi, and others).
What you will be able to do
- Map employer payroll systems: HRIS, payroll bureaus, file formats, timing.
- Model EWA vs traditional advance; wage assignment and disclosure patterns (jurisdiction-dependent overview).
- Handle verification of employment/income without breaking employee trust.
- Engineer payout rails: ACH-style batches, instant rails where available, recalls/returns.
- Build employer dashboards: funding, approvals, audit logs, offboarding.
- Understand operational risk: duplicate advances, partial pay cycles, terminations.
Syllabus
Week 1 — Employer domain & payroll data
- Stakeholders: employer, payroll provider, bank, employee, regulator themes.
- Pay cycles, garnishments, deductions, and net pay calculation awareness.
- Integration patterns: SFTP, APIs, flat files, webhooks from HRIS.
- Consent and notice: wage access, data use, opt-out—product copy hooks.
- Eligibility engines: tenure, hours worked, max advance percentages.
- Funding models: employer-funded vs fintech float vs hybrid.
- Security: least-privilege access to PII and payroll files.
Week 2 — Disbursement, EWA lifecycle & controls
- Payout orchestration: batch windows, instant vs standard, fees transparency.
- Repayment attachment to payroll: reconciliation to payroll deductions.
- Edge cases: leave without pay, bonuses, corrections, reversals.
- Fraud: synthetic employers, collusion, account takeover at payout.
- Reporting: employer statements, employee histories, tax document handoffs (overview).
- Capstone: product flow for EWA + salary disbursement with control checklist.
Tools & concepts
Batch payment APIs
File transfer security
HRIS integration patterns
Employer portals
Ledger links
Capstone
Produce employer onboarding checklist, employee journey, and a repayment reconciliation diagram.
Who should attend
PMs and engineers in earned wage access, salary advances, and B2B2C payroll fintech.
Prerequisites
General payments literacy helpful; payroll specifics taught from scratch.
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Fee $1,700 · 2 weeks. Students receive 50% off with valid ID. We will email payment instructions and next steps after you submit.
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Payroll Fintech & Earned Wage Access Pakistan — Frequently Asked Questions
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RAAST is SBP's real-time instant payment rail. Employers and fintechs can use RAAST's bulk disbursement API to credit employee salaries instantly to any bank account or digital wallet in Pakistan. Our payroll fintech course covers RAAST API integration, bulk payment file formats, reconciliation, and error-handling for payroll use cases.
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Yes — salary advance apps are a growing category in Pakistani fintech. You need employer partnerships for salary data access, a credit or lending licence from SECP or SBP depending on your model, and RAAST connectivity for disbursement. FintechPaa's payroll fintech course covers the full technology and regulatory stack for building salary advance products in Pakistan.