Payroll that already speaks Vatu.
VNPF at 6% + 6%, whole-Vatu amounts, no PAYE, and a payment file your bank accepts. VatuPay runs pay the way Vanuatu actually works, so payday stops being a spreadsheet problem.
Every feature switched on from day one.
- 12%
- VNPF, split and tracked
- VT 0
- PAYE to withhold
- Whole Vatu
- no cents, anywhere
- One file
- straight to the bank
See it work
Open a run, check the totals, finalise.
Everything a pay period needs on one screen. The moment you finalise, the rates it was built with are locked in for good.
Fortnight to 24 April 2026 · Run #048
Pay run summary
Gross pay
VT 295,400
VNPF employee 6%
VT 17,724
Net to staff
VT 277,676
Employer cost
VT 313,124
| Employee | Gross | VNPF 6% | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie TavuaManager | 92,000 | −5,520 | 86,480 |
| John KalsakauLead hand | 61,000 | −3,660 | 57,340 |
| Pierre MassingCook | 56,000 | −3,360 | 52,640 |
| Lina WorworDeckhand | 48,000 | −2,880 | 45,120 |
| Esther BaniFront of house | 38,400 | −2,304 | 36,096 |
Illustrative figures. Note that only the employee's 6% comes off net pay. The employer's 6% is an additional cost, and both halves are remitted to VNPF together.
Built on the rules
Vanuatu's payroll law, encoded.
Not a global payroll product with a Vanuatu setting bolted on. These are the defaults VatuPay ships with, and every one of them is yours to change in Settings.
VNPF
6% + 6%
12% in total from 1 January 2026, split into employee and employer halves that are tracked separately.
VNPF threshold
VT 3,000
Compulsory for employees earning at least this per month. Applied for you, per person, per run.
Income tax
VT 0
Vanuatu levies no personal income tax or PAYE. Payslips say so plainly.
Currency
Whole Vatu
The Vatu has no minor unit, so every amount in the system is a whole number. Never cents.
Minimum wage
VT 300 / hr
Used as a validation hint when you set an hourly rate, so typos get caught.
Standard week
44 hours
Employment Act Cap. 160, with overtime at ×1.5 by default.
Severance
1 month / year
One month's pay per year of service, due after 12 months (Employment Act s.56).
Pay cycle
Fortnightly
26 pays a year by default; weekly and monthly are a setting away.
What you get
One system, the whole pay cycle.
Build a run, watch it total, finalise.
Pick the period and your staff, adjust hours, overtime, allowances and deductions per person, and the totals move as you type. Finalising locks in the rates that run was built with.
6% + 6%, threshold and all.
The VT 3,000 monthly threshold is applied per employee, per run. Employee and employer halves stay separate all the way through to a monthly return you can export and file.
A payment file, not a spreadsheet.
Export a bulk-payroll file in your own bank's layout, straight from a finalised run, with whole-Vatu amounts and account numbers intact. Anyone missing an account is listed, never silently dropped.
Payslips with the full breakdown.
Every earning, every deduction, the VNPF split and the employer contribution summary, printable for one person or for a whole run.
Staff loans that deduct themselves.
Issue a loan, set the flat interest rate, and the repayment comes off each run automatically with the balance tracked down to zero.
Several businesses, one login.
Run or administer more than one company from a single account, with each organisation's people and pay data kept strictly apart.
How it goes
Four steps, and payday is done.
- 01
Open the run
Choose the period and the people. Salaried staff arrive with their pay already worked out: monthly salary × 12 ÷ 26 for a fortnight.
- 02
Adjust and check
Hours, overtime, allowances, deductions and loan repayments, line by line. Gross, VNPF and net update live as you go.
- 03
Finalise
The run locks, and snapshots the VNPF rates and settings it was built with, so changing Settings next month never rewrites last month.
- 04
Pay and file
Payslips out, bank file exported, VNPF return and payroll register waiting in Reports.
The last mile
A file for the bank, not a night of retyping.
Finalise a run and export a bulk-payroll file in your own bank's layout, ready to upload as it is. Whole-Vatu amounts, account numbers intact, and anyone missing an account listed back to you by name rather than quietly dropped.
- Generated straight from the finalised run
- Whole Vatu, so no stray decimals reach the bank
- Staff without an account number are flagged, not skipped
- Banking somewhere else? Send us the template and we'll add it
vatupay-run-048-bred.csv
ReadyBIC,Employee Name,Employee Id,Account Number,Amount,Purpose,NoteBREDVUVU,Marie Tavua,1,00412887301,86480,Salary April,Run #048BREDVUVU,John Kalsakau,2,00419920455,57340,Salary April,Run #048BREDVUVU,Pierre Massing,3,00418033127,52640,Salary April,Run #048…and 34 more rows
Your bank, your format
Files for the banks you actually use.
National Bank of Vanuatu, BRED Bank Vanuatu and Wanfuteng Bank, with more added on request.
Built around you
Payroll that bends to how you actually work.
If your business needs customisable options to run payroll, contact us and we can build customisable options for you.
- A bank format we don't ship yet
- Pay run modes that match your rosters
- Reports and documents in your own layout
- A module shaped around your operation
Ready to run payroll the way Vanuatu works?
Bring your staff list across from a spreadsheet and have your first pay run, and the file for your bank, ready the same day.
Every feature switched on from day one.