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PF, ESI and PT Reconciliation

Challans against the books. Month by month. Every difference with its cause.

Payroll statutory dues are paid on challans and booked in the ledger, and the two rarely agree on the first try. CORAA reads the PF, ESI and professional tax challans, builds a month-by-month register of what was actually paid, and reconciles it to the payroll dues in the books, so the auditor or finance team sees exactly what is paid, what is booked and what is missing.

  • Challans read from the documents themselves, with the wage month and the identifier
  • A month-by-month register that stands on its own, even where nothing ties to the books
  • Employee, employer and admin split shown separately
  • Professional tax kept state by state
Two paths, one ledger

The old way, and ours.

Two paths to the same audit conclusion. One leaves traces; the other doesn't.

Traditional

The old way

  • -Challans collected from the client in a folder, one PDF per month and per statute
  • -Amounts keyed into a sheet and compared with the ledger by hand
  • -Employer share and admin charges get mixed up with the employee deduction
  • -A mismatch is noted, but rarely explained
Slow to prepare, easy to get wrong, and the explanation for a difference lives in someone’s head.
CORAA

On the Ledger

  • Upload the challans. CORAA extracts the identifier, wage month and amounts
  • Matches on the challan identifier first, so a month either ties or is flagged
  • Compares like with like: employee share to employee share, and reports the missing employer share as a finding
  • Exports the register and the reconciliation to Excel for the working paper
A register you can hand to the client, and a clear list of what to chase.
How it works

Three steps. Every trace logged.

Step 01

Upload the challans

PF, ESI and professional tax challans for the period, as the client holds them.

Step 02

Read each challan

CORAA extracts the challan identifier, the wage month, the state for professional tax, and the amounts.

Step 03

Build the register

A month-by-month register of what was paid, with the employee, employer and admin split, built from the challans alone.

Step 04

Reconcile to the books

Challans are matched to the payroll dues in the ledger. Differences are reported with the cause, such as a missing employer share or a month not paid.

Inside the module

What you actually get.

Identifier-first matching

Matching starts from the challan identifier and the wage month, not from a guess on the amount, so a result is either a clean tie or a clear exception.

Register that stands alone

The month-by-month summary is built from the challans, so you get a usable picture even where the books do not tie yet.

  • ›Employee, employer and admin charges shown separately
  • ›Gaps in months are visible at a glance

Like-for-like comparison

Where the books carry only the employee deduction, CORAA compares that to the employee share and reports the employer share as its own finding, instead of burying it in a variance.

Professional tax by state

Professional tax challans are read with their state, so each state’s payments are checked on their own.

Excel export for the file

The register and the reconciliation export to Excel, ready to attach to the working paper or share with the client.

Frequently asked

Answers, up front.

Books often carry only the employee deduction as the statutory due, while the challan includes the employer contribution and admin charges. Comparing the two directly always shows a difference. CORAA compares like with like and shows the employer share as a separate finding.
No. The month-by-month register is built from the challans alone, so you get the picture of what was paid even before the reconciliation is clean.
Challans are matched on their identifier and wage month first. That avoids relying on amounts, which differ between the challan and the books for good reasons.
Yes. Professional tax challans are read with their state so that each state’s payments and dues are reviewed separately.
Finance and compliance teams who need to prove statutory dues were paid, and audit teams who need the evidence for payroll and statutory compliance work.
See it on a real ledger

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