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Building Mintage, month by month
From the first commit in December 2020 to today: an article for every month of every product, on the biggest thing we built and why it mattered.
2026
415 commits
Mintage Payroll
Workforce and Payroll, in step
October tightened the link between Mintage Workforce and Payroll, from probation details to shared Health and Life plans, and added proration for joiners and leavers.
WorkforceBenefitsPayroll· 1 min read529 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Overtime claims, leave sync and audited corrections
Staff can claim overtime and request clock-time fixes, approved leave flows in from Workforce, and every timesheet correction now needs a reason.
OvertimeLeaveReporting· 1 min read251 commits
Mintage Workforce
Benefits now move in step with Payroll
Benefit plans and enrolments now sync with Mintage Payroll, alongside major work on performance reviews, probation, leave rules and attendance exceptions.
BenefitsPayrollPerformance· 2 min read18 commits
Mintage Connect
Expenses with receipt reading, and time requests
Employees can now photograph a receipt, check what was read from it and send an expense to finance, and ask for overtime or clock-time corrections from the app.
MobileExpensesAttendance· 2 min read24 commits
Mintage Pulse
Overtime requests at the kiosk
Employees on a planned shift can now ask for overtime at the kiosk. Pulse also asks for missing profile photos and handles kiosks that do not use face clocking.
KioskTimeKeeperOvertime· 2 min read10 commits
Mintage Bridge
Moving existing terminal users into TimeKeeper
Staff already enrolled on a terminal can now be merged into their TimeKeeper employee record, fingerprints and all, with 3 days to undo a wrong match.
TimeKeeperZKTecoFingerprints· 2 min read302 commits
Mintage Payroll
Payroll setup moves into the app
Settings that used to live in server configuration are now managed in Mintage Payroll itself, with a guided setup tool for new companies.
SettingsOnboardingPayments· 2 min read92 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Location and face checks you can review
We made geofence and face checks configurable and reviewable, added day-by-day timesheet finalising and gave supervisors a workspace in Connect.
GeofencingFace recognitionTimesheets· 1 min read10 commits
Mintage Workforce
TimeKeeper gets faces and documents
A short month: TimeKeeper can now pull enrolled faces and file employee documents in Workforce, and staff can sign in with their work accounts.
IntegrationSign-in· 1 min read31 commits
Mintage Connect
Kiosk QR on the home screen, and redesign polish
The Pulse kiosk QR code moved to the Mintage Connect home screen with a choice of clock action, and the new design got a second pass across the app.
MobileAttendanceDesign· 2 min read43 commits
Mintage Pulse
Hands-free clocking, and an iOS port begins
Pulse can now clock people in without a tap, enrolment drops to two photos, and work started on an iOS version of the kiosk. The iOS app is not released.
KioskiOSAndroid· 2 min read11 commits
Mintage Bridge
Easier roster management and hands-off updates
Bridge gained roster search, a safer way to make terminal admins, admin roles from TimeKeeper, a password sign-in option and automatic updates on Windows.
TimeKeeperWindowsZKTeco· 2 min read255 commits
Mintage Payroll
Payment batches: splitting a pay run your way
August introduced payment batches, letting a pay period be split into named groups with their own exports. We also moved to Laravel 13 and added a payroll audit feed.
PayrollPayments· 2 min read295 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Clock in from a phone, a kiosk or a fingerprint
TimeKeeper now takes clock-ins from Mintage Connect, the Pulse face kiosk and fingerprint terminals, and companies can sign up for their own workspace.
ClockingIntegrationsAttendance· 2 min read29 commits
Mintage Workforce
Workforce and TimeKeeper start sharing
Workforce began serving employee profiles, photos and payroll self-service to TimeKeeper, and Connect learned to take sections from whichever product owns them.
IntegrationTimeKeeper· 1 min read72 commits
Mintage Connect
Connect works with TimeKeeper, crews and kiosks
Our busiest month: Mintage Connect now works with TimeKeeper, lets supervisors clock their crew, handles jobs and schedules, and can clock in at a Pulse kiosk by QR code.
MobileAttendanceTimeKeeper· 2 min read27 commits
Mintage Pulse
Pulse joins TimeKeeper, with PIN and QR clocking
Pulse now sends clock events to Mintage TimeKeeper and gains new ways to clock in: a PIN, a rotating Connect QR code, or tapping your name.
TimeKeeperKioskConnect· 2 min read516 commits
Mintage Payroll
Protecting employee data, and a gateway for AI tools
July's focus was data protection: sensitive employee details are now encrypted at rest. We also opened a controlled gateway for AI assistants to work with payroll.
SecurityPrivacyAI· 2 min read78 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
TimeKeeper becomes its own product
We removed the last payroll pieces, adopted a new design and built schedules, jobs, timesheets, pay rules and labour cost reporting.
SchedulingTimesheetsPay rules· 1 min read107 commits
Mintage Workforce
A self-service portal and stronger reviews
Employees gained a web self-service portal matching Connect, performance reviews were tightened, and letters, dependents and training records were reworked.
Self-servicePerformance· 1 min read69 commits
Mintage Bridge
Bridge rebuilt as a Windows and Linux app
We rewrote our earlier terminal tool as a single app for Windows and Linux that finds ZKTeco terminals, keeps rosters and fingerprints in step, and sends punches to Workforce.
ZKTecoWindowsWorkforce· 2 min read398 commits
Mintage Payroll
Net pay guard: locking pay once it is right
June added a net pay guard so approved pay cannot change silently, alongside a deep restructure of the calculation engine checked against saved results.
PayrollControlsEngineering· 2 min read74 commits
Mintage Workforce
Readable change history and faster scheduling
Profile changes now read as plain-language history, payroll sync status shows on each profile, and schedules can be copied and assigned in bulk.
HRScheduling· 1 min read154 commits
Mintage Payroll
Showing the working: the PAYE explainer grows up
The PAYE explainer was redesigned and can now be downloaded as a PDF. May also brought new overtime types and better year-to-date reporting.
PAYEOvertimeReports· 2 min read31 commits
Mintage Workforce
Team views for managers and spreadsheet import
Managers can now browse their own team and receive their team's leave requests, and HR can import employees from a spreadsheet.
HRPermissions· 1 min read102 commits
Mintage Payroll
Workforce and Payroll start sharing employees
A quieter month, focused on one link: employees added in Mintage Workforce now flow into Payroll for review, with sensible defaults for anything missing.
WorkforceIntegration· 2 min read176 commits
Mintage Workforce
Scheduling and location-checked clock-ins
Workforce gained employee scheduling, a weekly attendance view with admin corrections, and location checks on Connect clock-ins. The face clock became Pulse.
SchedulingAttendance· 1 min read12 commits
Mintage Connect
Location added to clock-ins
Clock-ins from Mintage Connect now carry the phone's location, with a check for an accurate position first, plus fixes for crashes and Android layout.
MobileAttendance· 1 min read20 commits
Mintage Pulse
The kiosk becomes the home screen
April made the kiosk the screen Pulse opens to, gave it the Pulse look, and added a liveness check, location and a verification photo to every clock event.
KioskDesignGoogle Play· 2 min read208 commits
Mintage Payroll
Exchange: moving payroll between instances
March introduced Exchange, a way to move employees and their current-year payroll from one Mintage instance to another, with screens to configure and track transfers.
PayrollDataSupport· 2 min read355 commits
Mintage Workforce
Clocking in by face, plus training and reports
Workforce gained face-recognition clock-in for Connect and a kiosk, the system later named Pulse, alongside training, a document library and HR reports.
AttendanceTrainingReports· 1 min read15 commits
Mintage Connect
Clocking in and out with a face check
Mintage Connect can now record clock-ins and clock-outs from the phone, confirmed with a face check, after a first round of fixes for real cameras.
MobileAttendance· 1 min read27 commits
Mintage Pulse
Back to work: QR pairing and face enrolment
After a long pause, the kiosk app returned with QR-code pairing to Mintage Workforce, a guided face enrolment flow and a new name: Pulse.
KioskWorkforceFace recognition· 2 min read563 commits
Mintage Payroll
Getting NIS and PAYE right for 2026
February brought the 2026 NIS rules to every pay frequency, plus child allowance and tax-free overtime work, and a first look at a PAYE explainer.
NISPAYECompliance· 2 min read350 commits
Mintage Workforce
Workforce rebuilt as a complete HR platform
In one busy month the new Workforce gained employee records linked to Mintage Payroll, leave, onboarding, recruitment, benefits, documents, letters and an AI assistant.
HRPayrollPlatform· 2 min read19 commits
Mintage Connect
A leave tracker with balances and history
Mintage Connect gained a full leave tracker, showing balances, a request form and history, and document types now come from Workforce with verification status shown.
MobileTime offDocuments· 1 min read567 commits
Mintage Payroll
Opening 2026: new PAYE rules and year-end forms
January meant closing out 2025 and running the first pay of 2026 at the same time. We added the 2026 PAYE rules and refreshed the GRA year-end forms.
PAYEGRAYear-end· 2 min read90 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
A fresh start for TimeKeeper
TimeKeeper got a new backend and a new web app, with Attendance and Roster modules, employee invitations and a first location wizard.
AttendanceRostering· 1 min read111 commits
Mintage Workforce
A new foundation for Workforce
The code base that now runs Workforce was started this month, first as a small internal messaging tool, then stripped back to a clean starting point.
PlatformBeginnings· 1 min read18 commits
Mintage Connect
Loans arrive, and payslips can be shared
Employees can now see their loans and repayments in Mintage Connect, share payslips, and rely on steadier PDF viewing and sign-in.
MobileLoansPayslips· 1 min read
2025
242 commits
Mintage Payroll
Publishing payslips to Mintage Connect
Payroll can now publish payslips to Mintage Connect, our mobile app, and invite employees by email or WhatsApp. A rebuilt new-employee wizard finished the year.
PayslipsMintage Connect· 1 min read7 commits
Mintage Connect
Phone sign-in and push notifications
A short month for Mintage Connect: employees can now sign in with their phone number, and the app can receive notifications that open the right screen.
MobileNotifications· 1 min read460 commits
Mintage Payroll
Employee self-service and Form 7B
Employees can now be invited to self-service, and their uploaded documents can be approved or rejected. Payroll also gained a GRA Form 7B export and a reviewed data sync.
Self-servicePAYEReports· 2 min read61 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Rebuilding on the Mintage Payroll core
We brought the codebase onto the same shared core as Mintage Payroll, added an activity log and built a sync API for employees and locations.
ArchitectureSync· 1 min read23 commits
Mintage Workforce
The HR app takes the Workforce name
The early HR front end was renamed Workforce, gained a self-service tab for inviting employees, and got refreshed sign-in pages.
HRSign-in· 1 min read37 commits
Mintage Connect
Mintage Connect's first build: payslips, documents, time off
We started the Mintage Connect employee app from scratch, with payslips, tax certificates, documents, time off requests and a profile, on Android first and then iOS.
MobilePayslipsDocuments· 2 min read120 commits
Mintage Payroll
Moving payroll onto the 2025 NIS settings
A shorter month. We set up the 2025 NIS deduction for every pay frequency, added Outlook as a way to send email, and started on employee self-service.
NISEmailSelf-service· 1 min read281 commits
Mintage Payroll
Password-protected payslips
Companies can now password-protect payslip PDFs, using a password format they choose. Period dates became editable and departments can be merged.
PayslipsSettings· 1 min read352 commits
Mintage Payroll
Weekly timesheets, and Payroll in two languages
Our busiest month of the year. We built a weekly timesheet that splits regular hours from overtime, and translated the Payroll interface into English and Spanish.
TimesheetsOvertimeLocalisation· 2 min read133 commits
Mintage Payroll
Loan adjustments and write-offs
Employee loans can now be adjusted or written off, with every change shown in the payment history. Pay period lists are also easier to read.
LoansPayroll· 1 min read226 commits
Mintage Payroll
Day-by-day overtime and loss time trackers
Overtime and loss time can now be entered as dated entries that add up automatically. We also added NIS maternity leave handling and a careful way to remove employee records.
OvertimeNISEmployees· 1 min read171 commits
Mintage Payroll
A quieter month: batched payslip delivery
A maintenance month. The main change was sending email and WhatsApp payslips in batches, with a few report and import improvements alongside.
PayslipsMaintenance· 1 min read305 commits
Mintage Payroll
Periodic adjustments: set it once, apply each period
A new module lets payroll staff set up recurring allowances and deductions per employee and apply them to a chosen pay period in one step.
PayrollAdjustments· 1 min read228 commits
Mintage Payroll
Child allowance claims, one child at a time
Instead of a single count, employees' children are now recorded one by one, and claims feed directly into PAYE. Pension and NIS forms improved too.
PAYEChild Allowance· 1 min read268 commits
Mintage Payroll
2025 PAYE goes live, with overtime handled
The 2025 PAYE rules became the active default, non-taxable overtime was added to every pay frequency, and the 2025 NIS schedule template arrived.
PAYENISOvertime· 1 min read339 commits
Mintage Payroll
Getting ready for the 2025 PAYE rules
We set up 2025 PAYE for every pay frequency, added a number-of-children field, and gave payroll staff a clearer audit history for each employee.
PAYEPayroll· 2 min read
2024
254 commits
Mintage Payroll
Signed Form 7B, with QR codes
Employers can now add their signature once and have it printed on GRA Form 7B, which also gained QR codes. Bank files now cover every pay frequency.
PayrollGRAFrontend· 1 min read76 commits
Mintage Payroll
Year-end forms for every pay frequency
Preparing for year end: a merged GRA Form 7B PDF and Form 2A for fortnightly and bi-monthly payrolls, plus employee profile pictures.
PayrollGRAReports· 1 min read76 commits
Mintage Payroll
Bank payment files and payslip options
A quieter month: Mintage can now produce payment files for several local banks, and payslip emails and number formats became configurable.
PayrollReports· 1 min read163 commits
Mintage Payroll
Bi-monthly payroll arrives
Mintage now supports bi-monthly pay periods across the app, alongside a framework upgrade and our first automated PAYE tests.
PayrollFrontendEngineering· 1 min read3 commits
Mintage Workforce
Last touches before a long pause
Three small changes to job, pay and time-off defaults. After this month the first Workforce front end went quiet for over a year.
HR· 1 min read120 commits
Mintage Payroll
Payroll columns, your way
Users can now choose and save payroll columns right from the payroll page, with new NIS options and a pension fund report.
FrontendNISReports· 1 min read10 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Policy options and a tidy-up
Ten commits that gave policy milestones their own settings and tidied the remuneration and employee modules.
PoliciesMaintenance· 1 min read7 commits
Mintage Workforce
Balance write-offs and onboarding lists
Admins could now write off time-off balances, the team list showed onboarding and inactive employees, and forms handled national insurance details better.
LeaveHR· 1 min read152 commits
Mintage Payroll
Pension fund history and loan controls
A new pension fund history module, the ability to pause and resume loans, scheduled payslips, and employee document storage.
PayrollPensionsLoans· 1 min read11 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Recruitment and support tickets begin
A short month: first versions of a recruitment module and a ticket module joined the modular core.
RecruitmentSupport· 1 min read8 commits
Mintage Workforce
Small refinements to people and time off
A light month: employee photos in the directory, a clearer empty state, and better control over time-off adjustments.
HRLeave· 1 min read158 commits
Mintage Payroll
Making the monthly routine smoother
June focused on the small things payroll teams do every period: carrying employees forward, payment preferences, and checking TIN and NIS numbers.
PayrollFrontend· 1 min read53 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
A time-off engine that does the maths
We built and then rebuilt a time-off policy engine that handles accrual, milestones, carryover, partial months and running balances.
Time offPolicies· 1 min read55 commits
Mintage Workforce
Time-off policies, requests and balances
Our first Workforce front end gained a working time-off system: policies with accrual rules, requests with approval, and a tracker with running balances.
LeaveHR· 1 min read394 commits
Mintage Payroll
The full pay cycle, start to finish
Our busiest month: weekly and fortnightly payroll, live updates, closing a payroll, and sending payslips all came to the new app.
FrontendPayrollPayslips· 1 min read31 commits
Mintage TimeKeeper
Laying the foundations
The first commits behind what is now TimeKeeper: a modular codebase with an HR module and a remuneration module, set up in a single day.
FoundationsArchitecture· 1 min read5 commits
Mintage Workforce
A first version of Workforce gets started
We set up the first web app for our HR product and added its first time-off pages. A quiet start to a long project.
HRBeginnings· 1 min read311 commits
Mintage Payroll
The payroll page arrives in the new app
The new frontend gained its core payroll page, with dialogs for salary, overtime, deductions, NIS and PAYE, plus export and import pages.
FrontendPayroll· 1 min read218 commits
Mintage Payroll
Starting a new Mintage frontend
We began a new Vue frontend for Mintage Payroll, starting with settings, employee and tools pages, while the backend gained stronger data validation.
FrontendPayroll· 1 min read128 commits
Mintage Payroll
Filing-ready NIS and GRA exports
February was about statutory filing: new NIS schedule and text-file exports, GRA Form 2A for online filing, and more reliable year-to-date figures.
PayrollNISReports· 1 min read89 commits
Mintage Payroll
A new tax year: PAYE rules for 2024
We added the 2024 PAYE calculation for monthly and fortnightly payrolls, plus a PDF GRA Form 7B and a payroll register in exports.
PayrollPAYEReports· 2 min read
2023
97 commits
Mintage Payroll
Year-end: NIS form v2 and final-period PAYE
December prepared for year end with a new NIS offline form, weekly PAYE and NIS offline exports, and a fix for PAYE in the final pay period.
NISPAYEYear end· 1 min read190 commits
Mintage Payroll
One framework for every report
November rebuilt Mintage's reports on one shared framework, so payslips, filings and journals all generate in the background with progress.
ReportsPlatform· 1 min read185 commits
Mintage Payroll
Offline GRA and NIS files, and a YTD journal
October added PAYE and NIS offline filing exports, a year-to-date payroll journal, and the first exports that run in the background with progress.
GRANISReports· 1 min read199 commits
Mintage Payroll
Timesheet uploads straight into payroll
September let employers upload timesheets straight into payroll, added a Payroll Journal export and put year-to-date totals on payslips.
PayrollImportsReports· 1 min read123 commits
Mintage Payroll
Time-off requests and balances
August built time-off requests on top of July's groundwork: balances, approvals and admin adjustments, plus document uploads on employee profiles.
HRTime off· 1 min read262 commits
Mintage Payroll
Laying the foundations for time off
July set up time-off policies, requests and enrolments, and added addresses, custom fields, employment status and compensation details to employee records.
HRTime offEmployees· 1 min read191 commits
Mintage Payroll
Employee profiles grow beyond payroll
June turned the employee record into a fuller profile: managers and direct reports, notes, emergency contacts, photos, birthdays and work anniversaries.
EmployeesHR· 1 min read36 commits
Mintage Payroll
A quiet May: salary dates and payslip footnotes
A maintenance month with 36 commits: payslips can show the salary date and a custom footnote, and net pay can round up to the nearest hundred.
PayslipsMaintenance· 1 min read139 commits
Mintage Payroll
Payslips over WhatsApp, and Laravel 10
April laid the groundwork for sending payslips over WhatsApp, moved the platform to Laravel 10 and added PAYE refund columns to the year-to-date export.
PayslipsPlatform· 1 min read151 commits
Mintage Payroll
Generating GRA Form 7B from payroll
March added a GRA Form 7B export filled straight from payroll data, alongside a run of fixes to NIS and PAYE filing exports.
GRAReports· 1 min read200 commits
Mintage Payroll
Updating Mintage for 2023 PAYE and NIS
A new tax year meant new PAYE and NIS calculations for every pay frequency, plus the first version of emailed e-payslips.
PAYENISPayslips· 1 min read194 commits
Mintage Payroll
Bringing payroll in from Excel
January was about getting data into Mintage: a validated Excel import for employees and payroll, formula-based allowances, and PDFs rendered in-house.
PayrollImports· 2 min read
2022
121 commits
Mintage Payroll
New sign-in foundations and a head start on 2023
December's big project was moving sign-in to a dedicated identity service. We also set up the 2023 year, added pension plan deductions and started an import module.
AccountsPayrollPensions· 1 min read13 commits
Mintage Payroll
A maintenance month: year-to-date totals
With year end in sight, November went into year-to-date reporting: counting periods employed, fixing spreadsheet totals and letting long rebuilds finish.
ReportsMaintenance· 1 min read16 commits
Mintage Payroll
A maintenance month: payslip fixes and cleanup
A maintenance month: payslip template fixes, a correction to how employee age is worked out for weekly and fortnightly staff, and removing a package we no longer needed.
MaintenancePayslips· 1 min read30 commits
Mintage Payroll
Laying groundwork for face-based attendance
September started something new: a biometric module for registering employees' faces and attendance devices. Groundwork only, alongside some payroll fixes.
BiometricsPayroll· 1 min read6 commits
Mintage Pulse
Building the first kiosk mode screen
September 2022 added the kiosk screen, with a live camera and face detection, and filled out registration, sign-in and employee enrolment.
KioskFace recognitionAndroid· 1 min read17 commits
Mintage Payroll
A maintenance month: currency and rate-based pay
A short month. Payslips stopped hard-coding the currency, rate-based pay lines show their working, and a PAYE worksheet calculation was corrected.
PayslipsMaintenance· 1 min read6 commits
Mintage Pulse
Pulse starts life as a face clock-in prototype
The app that became Mintage Pulse began as a small Android project: a sign-in screen, an options screen and a way to register a tablet as a clock-in device.
AndroidKioskBeginnings· 2 min read31 commits
Mintage Payroll
Offline PAYE and NIS forms from payroll data
In July, Mintage Payroll learned to produce the PAYE and NIS offline forms directly from a monthly payroll, with company details filled in.
PAYENISExports· 1 min read63 commits
Mintage Payroll
Custom pay lines, set up per company
June made pay more flexible: companies can switch on their own custom earnings lines, paid as a fixed amount or worked out from days or hours, and see them in every export.
PayrollSettingsExports· 1 min read42 commits
Mintage Payroll
Sharper payslips and a PAYE over-deduction fix
May tightened what April started: a fix so year-to-date adjustments no longer over-deduct PAYE, plus better payslip exports and new PAYE spreadsheets.
PAYEPayslipsExports· 1 min read142 commits
Mintage Payroll
Year-to-date PAYE checks and our first tests
April's big piece: a year-to-date engine that compares the PAYE an employee should have paid with what they actually paid, plus the first automated tests for our tax maths.
PAYETestingPayslips· 2 min read101 commits
Mintage Payroll
Getting the 2022 PAYE rules right
March was about accuracy: insurance deducted before PAYE, corrected 2022 bands for every pay frequency, and a careful way to keep earlier pay runs reproducible.
PAYECompliancePlatform· 2 min read15 commits
Mintage Payroll
A quiet month: Laravel 9 and payroll housekeeping
A maintenance month. We started the move to Laravel 9 and made a few practical improvements to how payroll handles removed and inactive employees.
MaintenancePayroll· 1 min read31 commits
Mintage Payroll
A new tax year and online filing files
January was about getting ready for 2022: new PAYE calculations for every pay frequency, plus exports that produce NIS and GRA online filing files straight from payroll.
PAYENISExports· 2 min read
2021
9 commits
Mintage Payroll
Year end: a first GRA Form 2A export
A short month to close the year: a first export for GRA Form 2A, a framework update and employee details that refresh when they change.
GRAMaintenance· 1 min read147 commits
Mintage Payroll
Locations, custom pay items and a weekly fix
Payroll gains locations, custom allowances and deductions, a fix for weekly and fortnightly overtime, and an automatic backup before each payroll is created.
PayrollFlexibility· 1 min read98 commits
Mintage Payroll
Year-to-date totals and a step-by-step close
The year-to-date report is completed and payroll closing is reworked into clear, checked steps, with events keeping the whole payroll up to date.
PayrollReports· 1 min read53 commits
Mintage Payroll
Payslips and a loan manager
Payslips arrive, generated from a template with the company logo and bundled for download, alongside a new loan manager and a PAYE export.
PayslipsLoans· 1 min read174 commits
Mintage Payroll
Version 0.9 and the first live deployments
The busiest month of the year: versions 0.89 to 0.93, clearer names for pay figures, non-taxable allowances, and the first production deployments.
ReleasePayroll· 1 min read96 commits
Mintage Payroll
Weekly and fortnightly pay, plus the first exports
Payroll grows beyond monthly to weekly and fortnightly cycles, and gains the reports people actually hand in: PAYE and NIS schedules, pay labels and signature sheets.
PayrollExportsGRA & NIS· 1 min read168 commits
Mintage Payroll
The first monthly payroll takes shape
Employees can be assigned to a monthly payroll and recalculated, with hooks for allowances and deductions, bank details, departments and live updates.
PayrollCalculations· 1 min read52 commits
Mintage Payroll
First payroll building blocks: pay and deductions
Payroll code arrives: a remuneration module, a pattern for deductions, employee age and per-year options, all served through a new API.
PayrollAPI· 1 min read55 commits
Mintage Payroll
Clearing the ground for Mintage
We removed the old modules and legacy admin packages, then set up the five core packages that Mintage Payroll grew from: Core, Employer, Employee, Compute and Builder.
FoundationArchitecture· 1 min read6 commits
Mintage Payroll
A quiet month: storage and notifications
A maintenance month with four small commits: file storage settings, a notifications table and a package we later removed.
Maintenance· 1 min read82 commits
Mintage Payroll
Laying the foundation: auth, roles and an audit trail
A busy first month on the shared foundation: API authentication, roles and permissions, a modular structure and change tracking on every record.
FoundationAuthAuditing· 2 min read