Payroll API

Build Nigerian payroll into your own systems.

The SpireSlip payroll API exposes the same engine your dashboard uses (payroll runs, PAYE and pension schedules, and employees) over clean REST endpoints, so your product can run compliant Nigerian payroll without rebuilding the maths.

A free trial for your team, set up after your demo. No card required.

SpireSlip API
v1
GET  /payroll-runs200
GET  /payroll-runs/{id}/lines200
POST /payroll-runs/{id}/approve200
GET  /paye-schedule200
The same engine the dashboard uses, over REST.

The endpoints you would expect.

Read payroll runs and their lines, approve a run, pull PAYE and pension schedules, and manage employees, the API mirrors the product, so there is nothing to reverse-engineer.

  • Payroll runs, and the lines within a run
  • Approve a run with an approval token
  • PAYE and pension filing schedules
  • Employees
  • JSON over HTTPS, in the Complete bundle
GET /payroll-runs/{id}/lines
employeeAmaka Osei
gross850000
paye121730
net651770
Every figure computed under NTA 2025 rules.

Compliant by construction.

Every figure the API returns is computed by the same engine as the dashboard, under current NTA 2025 and PenCom rules. You build the integration; the compliance is already handled.

  • PAYE, pension, NSITF, NHF, and ITF computed server-side
  • Approval and disbursement flow preserved
  • Rates updated centrally, no client changes
  • Included in Complete and for accounting firms
Response · totals
gross_total24840000
paye_total2984200
net_total19210400
statusready_for_approval
Same numbers as the dashboard, to the naira.
NTA 2025
REST
clean JSON endpoints over HTTPS
Same engine
as the dashboard, to the naira
Complete
API access in the Complete bundle

Payroll API questions, answered

Yes. The SpireSlip API exposes payroll runs and their lines, run approval, PAYE and pension schedules, and employees over REST endpoints, so you can build Nigerian payroll into your own systems.

Yes. Every figure the API returns is computed by the same engine as the dashboard, under the current NTA 2025 and PenCom rules, including PAYE, pension, NSITF, NHF, and ITF. Rates are updated centrally, so no client changes are needed.

Payroll API access is included in the Complete bundle and for accounting firms. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Yes. Runs are approved through the API with an approval token, and the review-then-approve-then-disburse flow is preserved, so control is not lost by going through the API.

Put Nigerian payroll in your product.

A free trial for your team, set up after your demo. No card required.