The use of application software is not a mandatory part of doing business, nevertheless it is necessary. In the modern era, it is essential to respond timely to the challenges posed by the market, gather the data for processing, dissemination, and creating quality information which is then used by the business to survive and gain the market share. Application software facilitates, simplifies and speeds up the work of any business. In addition to using application software to perform better on the market (web site representation, online sales and purchases, gathering and disseminating information), maintaining internal records and databases, numerous businesses also use specialized accounting software to meet the complex legal requirements. Keeping records on business activities is a complex and time consuming process. Manual data processing enables high efficacy, reduces business costs, makes it easier to obtain the desired data, but there is a high possibility of error. That way, salary statement could be made with merely pen and paper, but because of the aforementioned reasons businesses tend to use application software. The development of computer technology which includes faster computers and software such as HTML, PHP and databases has contributed to the abundance of various application software solutions. This paper evaluated five different application software solutions used in salary statement draw-up. We evaluated positive and negative characteristics, simplicity of the interface, ease of access and use. Based on the results of the research, a model was developed for a web-based elementary salary statement program.