Human Resources
Odoo Payroll: payroll software for SMBs
EnterpriseManage your employee payroll
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Calgary, in-house team
Manage your employee payroll
Odoo Payroll is the Enterprise app that runs the company's payroll cycle. Calculate gross pay from contracts and attendance, deduct taxes and benefits per jurisdiction, post the journal to Accounting, and generate payslips for every employee. Pre-built country engines cover a curated set of jurisdictions (United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, India, Australia, Hong Kong, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and more). For countries without a pre-built engine (notably Canada and the United Kingdom), Odoo Payroll is typically paired with a regional provider like Wagepoint, Payworks, or ADP that handles the local tax engine.
Companies running their own payroll where an engine ships natively use it directly; in Canada and the UK, Calibre typically wires Odoo's HR side (employees, contracts, time off, attendances, expenses) into a third-party payroll engine that handles the local statutory calculations. You can test Odoo Payroll free on the Odoo trial.
For Odoo's own product overview, see Odoo's official documentation.
Setup starts with the country-specific payroll engine for your jurisdiction (when one ships natively for your country). Each engine includes the local tax tables, statutory deductions (FICA in the US, social security and income tax brackets in France or Belgium, etc.), and the standard payslip layout. Each employee carries a contract that defines their gross pay structure (hourly wage, monthly salary, commission, bonuses) and their deductions and benefits. For countries without a native engine, the integration runs the other direction: Odoo holds employees, contracts, time off, and attendances, and exports those to a regional payroll provider.
A pay run starts when the payroll clerk creates a new batch for the period. The system pulls hours from Odoo Attendances (for hourly employees), reads contracts for salary employees, applies any leave deductions from Time Off, layers in approved expense reimbursements from Expenses, calculates the gross pay per employee, applies tax tables and statutory deductions (per the loaded engine), and produces a draft payslip per employee.
The clerk reviews the batch on a side-by-side screen (each employee with their gross, deductions, and net). Corrections (a missed overtime hour, an extra commission) are entered manually with an audit trail. When the batch is approved, Odoo posts the journal entry to Odoo Accounting (by default one entry per payslip into the payroll journal, or one batched entry per journal per month if the company turns on batch payroll move lines), generates the PDF payslip for each employee (delivered through their portal or by email), and prepares the bank transfer file for jurisdictions where a native format ships (NACHA in the US, SEPA in the EU).
Calibre configures Odoo Payroll for Alberta businesses: step by step, in writing.
Speak to an Implementation SpecialistSMBs whose data lives in QuickBooks, HubSpot Free, or Excel spreadsheets that were set up when the business was smaller. The team now spends hours building reports by hand and reconciling between tools every month-end.
Growing teams whose employee directory, payroll, and time-off tracking live in separate tools. The data overlap and reconciliation cost adds up every pay cycle.
Retail, manufacturing, mechanical, or professional services businesses with 10 to 200 employees running on a patchwork of point tools. The team wants one database for the whole company instead of Zapier holding it together.
Most companies running Odoo Payroll pair it with three or four other Odoo apps. Odoo Employees is the parent (Payroll calculates pay per employee from the directory). Odoo Accounting receives the payroll journal entry per pay run. Odoo Attendances feeds validated hours for hourly employees. Odoo Time Off feeds paid and unpaid leave for the pay calculation. Odoo Expenses can reimburse approved expenses through the next paycheck rather than as a separate AP payment.
List-price comparison against the hr management tools Calibre most commonly migrates customers off. The deciding factor is usually integration, not the line-item price. Odoo Payroll sits on the same database as every other Odoo app you install, so the data flows between modules without separate bridges.
| Tool | Per month (annual plan) | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Odoo Payroll | CA$35.20/user/mo | All Odoo apps included, free 15-day trial |
| ADP Run | US$30/user/mo | HR Management only |
| Deel Engage | US$19/user/mo | HR Management only |
| BambooHR Advantage | US$8.75/user/mo | HR Management only |
| Rippling Core | US$8/user/mo | HR Management only |
Annual-commitment rate where published; monthly list rate otherwise. Sourced from vendor pricing pages, 2026-05. Plans and regions vary. Full cost calculator on the Odoo overview page.
Pricing source: Odoo's published Standard and Custom plans as of 2026-05. Calibre quotes in CAD; conversion from Odoo's local pricing in your region may vary.
Written, phase-by-phase quote before any code is written. Odoo Ready Partner, Calgary. In-house team, no offshore handoffs.