DESIGN OF A WEB-BASED EMPLOYEE PAYROLL INFORMATION SYSTEM AT ROMA MART MUARO BUNGO

Abstract

Roma Mart Muaro Bungo is a retail business that employs a number of staff members and requires an accurate, efficient, and reliable payroll management process. The existing manual payroll process often leads to calculation errors, delays in report generation, and difficulties in managing employee, attendance, and payroll records. These issues reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll administration. This study aims to design and develop a web-based employee payroll information system for Roma Mart Muaro Bungo to improve the accuracy and efficiency of payroll data management. The system was developed using the Waterfall software development methodology, which consists of requirements analysis, system design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The application was built using the Laravel framework with PHP programming language and MySQL database. System testing was carried out using the Black Box Testing method to ensure that all system functions operate according to user requirements. The results of this study indicate that the developed information system assists Roma Mart Muaro Bungo in managing employee data, job positions, attendance records, salary components, payroll calculations, salary slip generation, and payroll reports more efficiently, accurately, and systematically. In addition, the system simplifies data retrieval and minimizes calculation errors commonly found in manual payroll processing. Based on the results of Black Box Testing, all major system functionalities performed as expected, indicating that the system is suitable for implementation in supporting employee payroll management.