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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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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon
Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.
Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.
The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.
Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.
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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.
Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.
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