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Zoho Launches Zoho Payroll Solution For UAE Businesses
The cloud-based software allows UAE companies to process wages in a single click while staying fully compliant with local labor laws.
Zoho, a leading software provider with over 55 productivity and business apps, has launched its payroll management software — Zoho Payroll — for UAE-based companies. The solution allows businesses to streamline payroll management, automate monthly tasks, and ensure compliance.
“Businesses often face key challenges in payroll management like pulling in employee records from multiple sources while staying compliant with the local labor laws. Payroll is a modern alternative for UAE businesses, providing built-in compliance, automating monthly payroll tasks, and seamlessly connecting with the relevant data sources,” said Prashant Ganti, Head of Product Management, Zoho Finance and Operations Suite.
Zoho Payroll allows simple employee onboarding and offboarding, benefits handling, single-click payroll processing, and real-time reports. The app automatically ensures gratuity and pension scheme compliance and provides advanced customizations for salary components, email notifications, reminders, and alerts.
The platform also features a self-service portal that can be accessed through a dedicated iOS and Android app. Employees can view salary information, download payslips, track borrowed loans, and communicate with payroll teams.
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Zoho Payroll comes pre-integrated with Zoho Books, allowing for automated accounting entries, plus Zoho Expense for employee expense reimbursements, and Zoho People for employee data and annual leave tracking. The software also integrates with the recently launched Zoho Practice, a practice management software solution for accountants, where client’s pending pay runs, unapproved revisions, and payments can be viewed.
Pricing & Availability
Zoho’s new payroll software is available now, with prices starting at AED7 per employee per month, billed annually.
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AltoVolo Opens Orders For Limited Edition Sigma eVTOLs
Early buyers can now reserve build slots for AltoVolo’s 500-mile hybrid aircraft through a new online configurator.
AltoVolo has started taking pre-orders for its first electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, the Sigma, moving the startup closer to commercial rollout. Customers can now secure a build slot with a £860 deposit and customize every detail online — from paintwork to seatbelt stitching. It’s the first configurator of its kind for a civilian eVTOL, mirroring how luxury car brands let clients tailor performance models before production.
The Sigma runs on a hybrid-electric tilting jet system built for long range and low noise. It can travel up to 500 miles at a 220-mph cruise, and is over 80% quieter than a helicopter. The three-seater weighs just 980kg and can maintain stable flight even if one jet fails. Safety systems include triple-redundant controls, thrust-vectoring stability and a ballistic parachute.
“We will be delivering an ultra-refined hybrid electric aircraft,” said founder and CEO Will Wood. “We believe there are thousands of customers for this type of cutting-edge technology”.
The first 100 units will come with exclusive materials and finishes. AltoVolo is also setting up a global service and maintenance network, with early planning for overhaul schedules already underway. The company’s focus on ownership experience echoes its ambition to anchor itself alongside established aviation brands rather than pure tech ventures.
To help new owners train, the company has built a full-scale simulator that replicates the Sigma cockpit in carbon fiber and leather. Pilots can log time toward a license using the system, aligned with the new US MOSAIC rules that ease certification for powered-lift aircraft. Certification work in Europe and the UK continues in parallel, signaling growing international alignment around light sport and eVTOL regulation.
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Noise inside the cabin has become another design focus. Engineers are refining internal vibration levels and developing a responsive soundscape that shifts with each jet’s power load — part feedback, part theatre.
Urban air mobility projects across the Gulf and elsewhere are pushing regulators and manufacturers to meet in the middle. Dubai, Riyadh and Doha have each outlined plans for air taxi corridors this decade. AltoVolo’s hybrid Sigma, sitting between electric promise and aviation realism, looks built for that middle ground.
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