Payroll for Indian startups.
Compliant from your first hire.
PF, ESI, TDS and Professional Tax are calculated on every run and refreshed the month the rules change - so no EPFO notice, no Section 234E late fee, no scramble on the 15th. Free forever for your first 10 employees.
- No credit card
- PF, ESI, TDS & PT on every run
- Switch from Excel in a day
Payroll & compliance
PF, ESI, TDS and Professional Tax computed on every run and refreshed the month a threshold moves.
Attendance & leave
Web, mobile, geo-tagged, face and fingerprint, or a sync from the punch machine you already own.
Payslips & reports
Password-protected payslips emailed in one click, with CTC and tax-liability reporting behind them.
Trusted by 1,000+ growing Indian businesses
Run payroll once. PF, ESI, TDS and PT are already handled.
You do not have to know the PF wage ceiling or which TDS regime suits each employee. Every deduction is computed on the run, refreshed the month a threshold moves, and the ECR and ESI files come out ready to upload.
- PF (3A / 6A / 12A)
- ESI
- TDS & Form 16
- Professional Tax
- LWF
- ECR export
- Gratuity
- Full & final
Attendance that lands in payroll without a spreadsheet in between.
However your team works - desks, sites, shifts or all three - attendance arrives in payroll on its own. Web, mobile, geo-tagged, face and fingerprint, bulk import, or a sync from the punch machine you already own.
- Web & mobile check-in
- Geo-tagged
- Face & fingerprint
- Biometric sync
- Shift roster
- Overtime & arrears
- Leave & holidays
Payslips out in one click. Answers without a data request.
Payslips go out password-protected to everyone at once. Behind them sit the CTC, tax-liability and salary-trend numbers your investors and your CA keep asking for - no export, no pivot table.
- Bulk payslip email
- Payroll register
- 10+ reports
- Excel & PDF export
- Scheduled reports
- Self-service portal
Less time, lower cost, and nothing pending with EPFO
Three numbers worth checking before you move off a spreadsheet: how long a run takes, what it costs you to start, and whether the statutory side is genuinely covered.
15 min payroll run
Average payroll run - down from 3 days by hand
Import, calculate and issue payslips in one run.
₹0 to start
To start - vs ₹2,495/mo minimum at greytHR
The Free plan covers up to 10 employees, no credit card.
100% compliant
Compliant PF, ESI & TDS, updated monthly
Statutory rates are updated for you, every month.
Off spreadsheets and running compliant payroll in three steps.
No implementation project, no migration fee, and no sales call before you can start. You do not need a payroll person to run this.
- Step 1
Add your team
CSV import or type them in. A 20-person team is set up in under five minutes.
- Step 2
Run payroll
PF, ESI, TDS and PT apply the moment you hit run. Nothing to configure first.
- Step 3
Pay & file
Payslips email themselves. ECR and ESI files come out ready to upload.
See why customers love using INDPayroll
The most user-friendly payroll tool for Indian startups. Audit compliance is no longer a worry.
One platform, tuned to how your team actually works
Whether your team sits in one room in Koramangala or across six warehouses, EPFO and ESIC expect the same filings. Only the way you capture work changes.
Payroll software for Indian SaaS and tech companies
A software team hires fast, pays well, and usually has nobody whose job is payroll. It sits with a founder or an ops lead - fine until the first EPFO notice, or the first engineer asks why take-home fell after a raise.
- Formula-based CTC
- Old vs new regime
- Form 16
- Self-service portal
- TDS projections
What a mistake costs: A special-allowance-heavy CTC looks efficient until the wage definition is enforced. Then the PF shortfall is backdated across everyone you have hired.
Running payroll for several client companies?
INDPayroll has a separate multi-client setup for practices - built for the firm doing payroll for twenty companies, not the company doing payroll for itself.
- A dedicated payroll account per client company
- Ready-to-upload PF, ESI and TDS annexures, per client
- Audit-ready logs across every account you manage
- One login, every client
- Per-client billing
- Payroll API
Building payroll into your own product?
INDPayroll's payroll engine is also available as a REST API - PF, ESI, Professional Tax, LWF and TDS calculations, payslips and bank files, without building the compliance engine yourself.
- Sandbox environment - test before you touch production
- Bearer or HMAC-signed auth, versioned and rate-limited
- 171 endpoints across 14 modules - employees to bank files
Pay for the people you pay. That's it.
No setup fee, no seat minimums. Upgrade or downgrade whenever you like.
Free
Best for: your first 10 hires, straight off spreadsheets
- Employee onboarding
- Basic web attendance
- Automated payroll runs
- Basic PF compliance
- Digital payslips
Free forever, not a trial.
Essentials
Most popularBest for: 10–200 person teams filing TDS, ESI & PT
- Full TDS, ESI, PT & LWF returns
- Form 16+ and ECR export
- Gratuity settlement
- 10+ reports
- 24/7 email support
Start free, upgrade when you're ready.
Ultimate
Best for: 200+ headcount and multi-entity groups
- Self-service employee portal
- Biometric & geo-tagged attendance
- Advanced leave & overtime
- Role-based access control
- Priority phone, chat & email support
Start free, upgrade when you're ready.
Less than the cost of one missed PF filing penalty - for a full year of compliant payroll.
- 4.8/5 · 1,000+ Indian businesses
- 256-bit encryption
- 🇮🇳 India data centers
- PF/ESI/TDS compliant
What happens after you click “Start free”
- 1Create your accountEmail and company name - about 60 seconds.
- 2Add your teamCSV import or manual entry, no setup call needed.
- 3Run your first payrollPF, ESI, TDS and PT calculated automatically.
INDPayroll vs. greytHR, Keka & Zoho: Features & Pricing Comparison
Attendance, leave, recruitment, performance and payroll - the same breadth as the platforms below, minus the flat platform fee or the sales call just to see a price.
- Razorpay Payroll
- Not published
- Zoho Payroll
- Not published
- greytHR
- ₹2,495/mo
- Keka
- Not published
- Razorpay Payroll
- Demo required
- Zoho Payroll
- Demo required
- greytHR
- Partial
- Keka
- No
- Razorpay Payroll
- Startups → enterprise
- Zoho Payroll
- Startups → enterprise
- greytHR
- Mid–large HRMS
- Keka
- Growing enterprises
- Razorpay Payroll
- —Not listed
- Zoho Payroll
- —Not listed
- greytHR
- —Not listed
- Keka
- —Not listed
- Razorpay Payroll
- No
- Zoho Payroll
- No
- greytHR
- No
- Keka
- No
Competitor pricing and positioning based on publicly listed information on each provider's website; figures are self-reported by each vendor and may change.
Still comparing? Run a real payroll instead.
greytHR wants ₹2,495 a month before you see it work. The Free plan is not a trial - it stays free for your first 10 employees, so you can test INDPayroll on your own salary data first.
Free forever for your first 10 employees · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Frequently asked, answered directly.
Still deciding?
Twenty minutes with someone who runs Indian payroll every day - or skip the call and try it on your own salary data.
Is INDPayroll really free?
Does INDPayroll handle PF, ESI and TDS automatically?
We are 12 people and have never run PF or ESI before. Is this going to bite us?
Is my payroll data secure?
How long does it take to switch providers?
What happens if I outgrow the free plan?
How is this different from a full HR suite like greytHR or Keka?
One missed PF deadline costs more than a year of this.
Interest and damages under EPFO start the day you are late. INDPayroll files on time by default - free for your first 10 employees.