{"id":11045,"date":"2023-01-24T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:57:49","slug":"zo-world-reduces-its-payroll-time-with-razorpayx-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/zo-world-reduces-its-payroll-time-with-razorpayx-payroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Zo World Reduces Its Payroll &#038; Reimbursement Timelines by 75% with RazorpayX Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you watched Silicon Valley? The HBO show where a bunch of coders build a decentralized internet for the world. Web3 promises this concept. For real! And, Zo World (Zostel\u2019s brainchild) is bringing the digital nomad community together to interact &amp; hang out in a completely virtual manner on Web3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine if you could host your common rooms, have some interesting conversations around different rooms, or even play a game of Mafia together remotely. It is exactly what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zo.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zo World<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> enables you to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-founders Dharamveer and Chetan have also built Zostel, the world\u2019s largest branded backpackers hostel chain and came up with the idea of\u00a0 Zo World.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Zostel, we\u2019ve built a strong travel community and become the world\u2019s largest chain of Backpacker Hostels. And now, with Zo World, we are bringing the same ethos to Web3.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Zo World scaled, the company faced one major roadblock\u2013calculating and processing payroll &amp; reimbursements for its employees manually.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Zo World\u2019s challenges<\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I joined Zo World in October 2021, payroll processing, reimbursements, tax filings and generation of payslips were being done manually. It was not only time-consuming but also quite cumbersome. I felt, we have to find a better solution and need to automate things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Tanmay Srivastava, AVP &#8211; Finance at Zo World.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11046 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Frame-37-1-1024x536.png\" alt=\"Zo World\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Frame-37-1-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Frame-37-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Frame-37-1-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Frame-37-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I first heard about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RazorpayX Payroll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from a practising CA friend. He gave a brief introduction about the product, after which I searched on the web myself. After going through the website, I felt that the product looks quite promising.\u201d \u2013 Tanmay continues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I raised a ticket with RazorpayX Payroll\u2019s team. Somebody promptly reached out &amp;\u00a0 explained every single feature in detail. I was highly impressed. Soon after, the onboarding process was also completed in no time and it was pretty smooth &amp; seamless.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><b>How RazorpayX Payroll helped Zo World<\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides automating our payroll &amp; reimbursements, another major breakthrough arising out of collab with RazorpayX Payroll was TDS (Tax deducted at Source) filings &amp; make required compliance payments within the stipulated timeframe. Previously, we used to manually keep a track of such timelines.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cut to now\u2013everything is super smooth. Our tax filings (24Q)\u00a0 have been set on auto-pilot mode and taken care of by the product.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11049 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-3-1024x535.png\" alt=\"Zo world\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-3-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-3-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-3-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-3-1536x803.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are so many reports and free letter templates like offer letters, appointment letters, etc., to choose from. Right from the onboarding to salary execution, reimbursements to handling employee full and final settlement during exit\u2013 everything is simply flawless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test.png\" alt=\"Zo world\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test.png 2400w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test-1536x803.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/test-2048x1070.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Happy employees, productive employees<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The employees of Zo World are delighted as they don\u2019t have to ping Tanmay anymore for salary slips. Instead, they log into their accounts and access them with just a few clicks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am very happy and thankful to the team for launching such a wonderful product. It makes my life easier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, when we were making payments directly through banks, they would give us a template and every time we had to make a payment, we had to use that bulky template and fill in details manually, each time. Then we had to upload that onto their website. It was complicated and extremely time-consuming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping track of who has joined or exited the company manually was also becoming tough for me. But it has all become effortless after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RazorpayX Payroll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All I have to do is mark the employee inactive, and automatically the payroll will not happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, if a new employee has joined, I just have to create a new profile and put the joining date. His record will be automatically updated during payroll processing.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11052 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-1024x535.png\" alt=\"Zo world\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-1536x803.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"border-radius: 3px; background: #528ff0; padding: 15px; font-weight: 600; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: white;\" href=\"https:\/\/payroll.razorpay.com\/signup?r=blog_cta_ZoWorldCaseStudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">Try RazorpayX Payroll for free!<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>The icing on the cake<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnother feature that stands out for me towards the financial-year closure is the validation of investment proof filed by our employees by the <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/?r=blog_cta_ZoWorldcasestudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">RazorpayX Payroll<\/a> team. It used to be manually done earlier and was too time-consuming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this amazing product, employees can download their respective Form 16 themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProcessing reimbursements have become very easy. An employee just has to log in to their accounts, upload supporting documents, and then the manager has to approve. Then it comes to me. If I cannot see the supporting documents or the amount needs to change, I can bypass the approval and change the amount so that the correct amount is reimbursed to the person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything about the product is fantastic overall. But for me, validation of investment proofs filed by the employees, automation of TDS payments\/filings and processing of reimbursements are the cherries on top of the cake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the best part of using our product for Tanmay is:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I use my newfound free time to spend with my family and learn new skills that would help me grow professionally.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t take our word for it; try <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/?r=blog_cta_ZoWorldcasestudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">RazorpayX Payroll<\/a> yourself. We don\u2019t even require your card details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"border-radius: 3px; background: #528ff0; padding: 15px; font-weight: 600; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: white;\" href=\"https:\/\/payroll.razorpay.com\/signup?r=blog_cta_ZoWorldCaseStudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">Try it for free!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how Zo World reduced its payroll and reimbursement timelines by 75% using RazorpayX Payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,66],"tags":[417,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-11045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-customer-stories","8":"category-payroll","9":"tag-payroll-case-study","10":"tag-zo-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}