Keka Payroll APIs – Update Employee Financials, Salaries, and Tax Data

Introduction

This article explains how to use Keka's Payroll APIs to automate updates to employee financial information, salary structures, and tax-related documents. Whether you're integrating with an external payroll tool or building internal workflows, these APIs provide flexible endpoints to manage critical payroll data programmatically.

Prerequisites

• A valid API authentication token

• Admin or payroll-specific role access in Keka

• Correct employee IDs for update actions

Steps

1. Newly Release Payroll APIs

Here’s a breakdown of the payroll-related API endpoints you can use:

1. Update employee financial details
   Modify statutory identifiers like PAN, UAN, PF number, and other compliance data.
   update employee financial details.

2. Update employee bank details
   Add or update the employee’s bank account number, IFSC code, or bank name.
   update employee bank details.
   
   Sample JSON for Post call for Update.

3. Add employee salary
   Define an employee's salary structure by specifying components and amounts.
   Add Employee Salary

4. Revise employee salary
   Adjust an employee’s salary package with updated components and effective dates.
   Revise Employee Salary

5. Get employee Form 16
   Retrieve Form 16 for tax filing and audit purposes.
   Gets employee form 16

6. Get all banks
   Fetch a list of supported banks available in the Keka payroll system.
   Get all Banks

7. Get employee tax declaration
   Access tax-saving investment declarations and attachments submitted by employees.
   Get employee tax declaration.
   Get Attachment Download Url.
   
   
   

Best Practices

Tip: Follow these guidelines to avoid common API issues:

• Always include a valid API token in your request headers.

• Use HTTPS for secure data transmission.

• Double-check employee IDs before making updates.

• Maintain audit logs for salary and tax-related changes.

• Ensure your request JSON matches the expected schema.
  
  
  

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