Brawta — Jamaican Payroll Software

Q: Does it work without internet?

Yes, for everything you do on your own — calculations, payslips, official forms, backups and the audit trail all run with no connection at all. A connection is needed for: downloading the app, update checks (the app looks for a new version when it can — it never downloads or installs one without you), sending payslips by email or WhatsApp, and — if you switch them on — two-person review and encrypted cloud backup, which both pass data between machines. Those are off unless you turn them on, and even then your data is locked before it leaves your computer.

Who runs it

One company, a book of them — or just you.

Same engine behind all three. What changes is how much of it you need — so each one gets its true weight here, not three equal boxes.

For a company

You run your own payroll.

One set of books, your staff, your returns — on your own machines, working whether the internet does or not.

Up to 250 staff — and no per-employee fees, ever
One prepares, another approves. Approving locks the month
Two computers, one payroll — the clerk and the owner, the office and the accountant
One price, in JMD, flat. It does not move when you hire

How two people share a month →

Two computers · one month

Preparer · the office

June 20263 staff

GrossJ$595,000.00

StatusSubmitted

Sealed

Reviewer · the owner

June 20263 staff

GrossJ$595,000.00

StatusApproved · locked

The relay carrying the month can never read it. Every send-back and approval lands on the audit trail with a name and a time.

Ten clients · one key

One licence, ten seatsYou choose which clients each seat can open. Every client keeps their own books.

For a practice or bureau

You run payroll for clients.

Every client keeps their own books, their own history and their own returns — reached with one key, from one place.

Ten client companies — one key opens every one
Ten seats, and you choose which clients each can open
Sealed in transit — the relay carrying a client’s month can never read it
Their S04 returns too, at a rate that drops with volume

How a practice runs it →

For yourself

You work for yourself.

No staff and no payroll — just your own income tax to sort out once a year, by 15 March. See your figures first, in your browser, before you pay; the official S04 and every schedule that goes with it, filled in from your own figures. Pay for the work, not the form — J$7,500 once it’s all worked out and checked.

See what I owe →

See it for yourself

The real product, not a mock-up.

Four real screens, in the order the month happens — and it goes round again next month. Or skip the pictures and open the live demo in your browser right now.

Brawta's Employees screen — the staff roster, with Excel import

01

Add your staffType them in, or import from Excel.

Running a pay period in Brawta — a finished payslip with PAYE, NIS, NHT and Education Tax

02

Run the pay periodPick a date — every figure worked out.

Brawta dashboard — gross payroll, net paid and total statutory due with the employer liability report

03

See what you oweEvery remittance, totalled.

Brawta's Returns screen — the Monthly S01 with the TAJ upload button

04

File the S01The TAJ portal upload file, ready.

One month · four steps

Add your staff01 of 04
Run the pay period02 of 04
See what you owe03 of 04
File the S0104 of 04

Try the live demo →

What it costs you today

From days to minutes.

The same month-end done the old way and the Brawta way — typical for a 25–50 staff payroll — then what those hours are actually worth to you.

Each month	The manual way	With Brawta
Work out gross-to-net	8–16 hours	Under 2 minutes
Bank upload file & payslips	4–8 hours	5–10 minutes
File the S01	4–6 hours	About 5 minutes
S02 year-end season	2–3 days	Instant export
Total each month	20–30 hours	Under 30 minutes

That's roughly three business days handed back to you every month.

NIS is 3% of gross, capped at the ceiling — it comes off before the tax base.
Education Tax is 2.25% of statutory income, not of gross — the mistake spreadsheets make.
PAYE at 25% above the threshold, periodic or cumulative — your choice, both correct.

Those hours are typical. Put your own numbers in:

Employees12

Pay cycle

Hours per payroll now3.0

Your time is worthJ$1,500

Hours saved a year

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That's work-days back

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Value of that time

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Assumes Brawta takes about 12 minutes a pay run; your S02 year-end drops from a full day to minutes on top of this. A rough guide, not a quote.

Get those hours back — download for Windows

Free to try · Windows 10 & 11 · or try it in your browser first

Simple, annual pricing

Pay once a year. File all year.

Every plan includes the full statutory engine and current-year tax tables. Choose by the size of your payroll — and start free.

Comparable cloud payroll, 20 staff

US$39–45a month · US$468–540 a year, in US dollars

Brawta Standard, 20 staff

J$24,000a year · in Jamaican dollars, flat

Under a third of the price at today’s rate — and yours never moves with the US dollar.

Jamlite Growth US$45/mo and HeadOffice US$39/mo — their list prices for up to 20 staff, checked 3 Sep 2026. Bars drawn at the Bank of Jamaica’s August 2026 selling rate. Others in the market quote on request.

Why it costs this little

It runs on your computer, not our servers. There is no hosting bill per customer to pass on to you.
No per-employee fee, no US-dollar price. Built in Jamaica, priced in Jamaican dollars, for Jamaican businesses.
No sales team and no office to carry. One flat price, and the free tier does the same maths as the paid one — correctness is never what you pay for.

Free

J$0

For the very smallest teams.

Up to 2 employees
Full, correct payroll
One company
1 user

Start free

Your S04, done.

Put in your figures. Brawta works out the tax and fills the return — with every schedule that has to go with it.

J$7,500 per return · see your figures before you pay

See what I owe → Get mine filed

Due 15 March · TAJ’s forms are free — you’re paying for the work · I’m an accountant

Brawta’s sole-trader S04 return — trade receipts, cost of sales and running costs, with Schedule 1 itemising the expenses

Questions, answered

Frequently asked.

Is my payroll data safe? Where is it stored?

Your data lives on your own computer — by default nothing is ever sent anywhere. Set a passphrase and the app locks on every launch and encrypts every backup (AES-256), supporting your obligations under Jamaica's Data Protection Act. Automatic daily backups (last 14 kept), one-click manual backups, and a full audit trail of every change come built in. If you want an off-site safety net, you can opt in to an encrypted cloud backup — the file is sealed on your machine first, so only you can ever open it (we and the cloud provider only hold a locked file). It's off by default and included free.

What happens when the tax thresholds change?

The 2025–2028 increases announced by the Minister are already built in and apply automatically on 1 April each year — so you're current through 2028 with nothing to do. Any later change ships as a one-click update. Rate sets are effective-dated, so pay runs before a change keep the old figures and runs after it use the new ones — exactly how TAJ expects.

Does it work without internet?

Yes, for everything you do on your own — calculations, payslips, official forms, backups and the audit trail all run with no connection at all. A connection is needed for: downloading the app, update checks (the app looks for a new version when it can — it never downloads or installs one without you), sending payslips by email/WhatsApp, and — if you switch them on — two-person review and encrypted cloud backup, which both pass data between machines. Those are off unless you turn them on, and even then your data is locked before it leaves your computer.

I'm self-employed — can Brawta do my S04 return?

Yes. Brawta works out your income tax, NIS, NHT and Education Tax from the figures you enter and fills the official S04 Annual Return. You can compute and preview your whole return free in your browser; the J$7,500 covers the work of filling and checking the complete return — every figure and every schedule, ready to file. TAJ's forms are free; preparing them properly is what you are paying for, or you can have a Brawta-powered accountant file it for you. See Self-employed pricing.

What if I don't renew my licence?

Brawta keeps working and your data stays yours — the app simply returns to the free tier's limits and stops receiving new-year tax tables. Nothing is ever locked away from you.

Can my accountant use it?

Yes. There's a read-only accountant view (they can inspect everything and export reports without being able to change a figure), a full audit trail, and a balanced GL journal export that drops into QuickBooks or Sage. Bookkeepers running many clients should ask about the Enterprise plan — the same one Jamaica’s payroll bureaus run on.

How do I pay / get a licence key?

Message us on WhatsApp. You pay in Jamaican dollars (bank transfer), we send your licence key, and you paste it into the app once — that's the whole setup. Keys work offline.

Run payroll the easy way.

Download Brawta for Windows and run your first payslip in minutes — or message us and we’ll set you up.

Download for Windows WhatsApp (876) 848-9513 Email us

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