This guide shows how to run Nigerian payroll in PayTrove: setting up the company and its people, running and approving monthly payroll, paying staff, remitting PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF and ITF, handling leave, loans, casual workers, bonuses and leavers, giving employees self-service, and filing the annual returns.
It follows one fictional company, Savannah Harvest Agro-Allied Limited, through its first three months on PayTrove (January to March 2026). Every screenshot was taken from PayTrove running that scenario, so the figures in the text match the screens.
How to read it. Each chapter covers one part of the work. Each numbered step has a screenshot and three parts: Why (what the step achieves and, where it matters, the law or rule behind it), Who (the role that normally does it — PayTrove enforces roles, so a Preparer cannot approve a run and nobody can approve a run they prepared) and What to do (the actions, in order). Numbered markers and orange frames on a screenshot point to the fields and buttons named in the steps with the same number.
Downloaded files (bank file, schedules, register, journal) are shown opened in a spreadsheet. PayTrove's screens show the product name as “Paytrove”; it is the same product.
The law in this guide. PayTrove applies the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 (in force from 1 January 2026), the Pension Reform Act 2014, the National Housing Fund Act, the Employee Compensation Act, the ITF Act, the NHIA Act 2022 and the Labour Act, as summarised in the statutory rates appendix. Rates and thresholds are held as dated rules, so a change in the law is applied from its effective date. Confirm the current position with your adviser or the relevant authority before relying on a figure in this guide.