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The salary slip preview lets you compute one employee’s payslip for a chosen period without creating anything. It is a dry run: pick an employee and a period, and Hitaji 360 shows you exactly what that person’s slip would look like — every earning, every deduction, the statutory breakdown and the resulting net pay — but nothing is saved, no run is created, and nothing touches your books. Use it to sanity-check a new salary structure before you commit, to see a new hire’s first slip, or to answer “what would so-and-so take home this month?” without disturbing the live payroll run. You’ll find this at: /payroll/preview
📷 Screenshot: the preview page with the employee and period pickers and the computed slip below — to be added.
Multi-business: the preview is scoped to the business in your switcher. You can only preview employees in the business you are currently pointed at — the system refuses to compute a slip for an employee in another business.

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What you choose

The Preview slip button stays disabled until both an employee and a period are selected. Changing either selection clears the previous result so you never see a stale slip.

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What you get back

When the slip can be computed, the preview shows the same breakdown a real run would produce:
  • Base salary, payment days and total working days for the period
  • Earnings — each component (code, label, amount), with statutory items flagged
  • Deductions — each component, including PAYE / NSSF / LST where they apply
  • Employer contributions — employer-side costs (e.g. employer NSSF) that don’t reduce take-home but are part of the cost of employment
  • Totals — gross pay, total deductions, total employer contributions and net pay
  • Tax breakup (where income tax applies) — the projected annual taxable amount, tax already deducted in the year to date, this month’s PAYE and the income tax effective for the period
Nothing here is persisted. The figures are computed on demand and thrown away when you leave the page — see the running payroll page to actually generate and post a run.

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When a slip can’t be computed

Instead of an error, the preview tells you why it was skipped:

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Permissions

Because the preview only reads and computes — it never writes — viewing access (payroll:read) is all that is needed. There is no approve or write step here.

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Behind the scenes — the accounting

Nothing. The preview is a pure calculation. It does not post a journal entry, does not create a payslip, and does not create a run. The ledger is only touched when a real run is approved and paid — see Running payroll → Behind the scenes.