Thinking of building an app that checks your payslip for mistakes - would this be useful?

[k282001]

A lot of people I know (including me) have had payslips that were wrong without realising – overtime rate slightly off, wrong tax code, missing hours, holiday pay paid at basic rate instead of average, etc.

I was thinking of making a simple app where you upload your payslip (PDF or photo) and it checks for:
– wrong overtime rate
– incorrect tax code
– NI issues
– pension % wrong
– missing hours
– holiday pay miscalculated

Basically a quick “is this payslip right?” checker that flags possible mistakes.

If this existed, would anyone actually use it?

And would people be willing to pay a small subscription for monthly checks, or would this only be useful as a free tool?

Honest thoughts appreciated – trying to see if it’s worth building or if people would think “nah, I can read it myself”.

Oh come on. This is 1000% written by ChatGPT. Anyone who uses it a lot can spot it immediately. How do you think this app will work anyway? It will be powered by an existing AI model. This is someone thinking they can use AI to make money. I doubt it.

If huge companies like M&S get hacked, then something like this from small start up would be like taking candy from a baby for the hackers, way too much sensitive information, I'm sure YouGov offer something like this for free anyway

ChatGPT detector is talking bollocks 😆

That sounds like a fab idea. Maybe you could set up an app to help decipher an NHS payslip.
I would subscribe £3 pm.

I know every. single. time

There must be a fairly large percentage of employees like me not being paid hourly, get any overtime nor holiday pay. My payslip is fairly basic and not much that can go wrong so I have no need for an app to check it.

If nothing leaves your phone then how does the app understand what it’s looking at when you scan the payslip? Surely all payslips are a bit different in terms of layout, etc?

There's a very serious problem if your employer's payroll system can't work out payment owed by multiplying hourly rate by hours worked.
Only the employee knows the number of hours actually worked.
I wouldn't bother and certainly would not pay for it.