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HRMS and payroll human resource management and payroll
An HRMS keeps employee records, attendance, leave and payroll in one place and produces the PF, ESI, PT and TDS figures your accountant files every month. The hard part is rarely the screens. It is getting the salary structures, shift rules and state-wise professional tax right.
Modules
Modules we build into your HRMS and payroll
Start with the modules that matter most and add the rest in later releases.
- Employee records
- Joining documents, KYC, bank details, reporting lines and a self-service profile, with access limited by role.
- Attendance and shifts
- Biometric or face attendance, mobile punch with location for field staff, rotating shifts, overtime and comp-offs.
- Leave management
- Leave policies by grade and location, holiday calendars by state, approvals on mobile and year-end encashment.
- Payroll
- Salary structures, arrears, loans and advances, variable pay, and payslips sent by email or WhatsApp.
- Statutory compliance
- PF ECR file, ESI contributions, state professional tax, labour welfare fund, TDS on salary with Form 16 and Form 24Q data.
- Hiring and onboarding
- Job openings, candidate tracking, offer letters and an onboarding checklist so day one is ready.
- Exits
- Resignation workflow, asset return, notice period recovery, gratuity calculation and full and final settlement.
AI built in
Where AI saves time in this system
HR helpdesk bot
Answers leave balance, payslip and policy questions on WhatsApp in the employee's language, and hands harder ones to HR.
Payroll checks
Compares this month's payroll with last month and flags unusual changes before you release salaries.
Resume screening
Shortlists applicants against the job description and explains why, with a recruiter making the final call.
Attrition signals
Highlights teams with rising absence or exits so managers can step in early.
- Headcount
- 486
- Attendance today
- 93%
- Monthly payroll
- ₹1.42 Cr
- Pending approvals
- 18
Monthly attrition (%)
Attendance by location (%)
- Head office96
- Plant91
- Warehouse89
- Field sales85
Effort and cost
USD 700 to 1,400
INR 69,650 to 1,39,300, plus taxes, for a typical first release
- Effort
- 350 to 700 hours
- Timeline
- First release in 5 to 7 weeks, including one parallel payroll run
At the 2good.dev rate of USD 2 or INR 199 per hour, billed against outputs you accept. Your own estimate depends on modules, integrations and data migration.
Build, buy or both
Payroll compliance changes every year, so for most companies a product such as Zoho People and Payroll, Keka, greytHR or Darwinbox is the safer choice and costs less than maintaining your own. Custom pays off when you have large contract or shift-based workforces (factories, security, hospitals, construction sites) with wage rules no product handles cleanly, or when HR data has to sit inside your own ERP. Often the right build is the part around the product: attendance capture at sites with poor connectivity, contractor wage registers, or a WhatsApp helpdesk, with payroll staying in a proven tool.
Connects with
- Biometric devices
- EPFO ECR
- ESIC portal
- Tally
- Bank salary upload
- WhatsApp Business
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Azure
Industries
Sectors that use HRMS and payroll this way
Questions
HRMS and payroll: common questions
Does it handle PF, ESI and professional tax?
Yes. PF and ESI are calculated on the right wage base, professional tax follows the slabs for each state you operate in, and the system produces the files your accountant uploads.
Can contract workers be included?
Yes. Contractor staff can have their own wage rules and attendance, and we can produce the registers the principal employer is expected to keep.
How do you test payroll before go-live?
We run at least one month in parallel with your current method and reconcile every employee's net pay before you switch.
Talk to us
Planning your HRMS and payroll?
Tell us what you use today and what is not working. We will say whether to extend it or build.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you are trying to build.
Share the problem in a short call. You leave with a clear view of the approach, the team and the cost.
A specialist replies within one working day. The first conversation is free.