In Development · Seeking Co-Development & Funding Partners

Payroll, HR & Hiring on One Platform

A unified HR, payroll and recruitment platform built for India — statutory-compliant by design, with a single hire-to-pay pipeline. The engine is built; we're now looking for partners to co-develop, fund and harden it for production.

3 Modules in One
11+ Statutory Rules
4 Role Portals
100% India Compliant

Payroll Shouldn't Mean Spreadsheets, Re-keying & Compliance Risk

Disconnected Tools

Attendance on one sheet, salaries in Excel, hiring over email. Every cycle, someone re-keys the same employee into three places — and errors creep in.

Compliance Risk

PF, ESI, Professional Tax and slab-based TDS change by state and salary. Manual calculations mean late filings, wrong deductions, and penalties.

Month-End Crunch

Payslips typed by hand, employees emailing HR for Form-16 and leave balances. The payroll run swallows days that should take minutes.

One Platform. Hire, Manage & Pay.

AshuLabs HRMS unifies HR, Payroll and Recruitment so your people data flows end-to-end. A candidate who accepts an offer becomes an employee and syncs straight into payroll — one pipeline, no re-keying.

India Statutory Engine

PF (12%), ESI, Professional Tax and slab-based TDS computed automatically — reconciling exactly to total deductions and net pay on every payslip.

Hire-to-Pay Pipeline

Accepting an offer automatically creates the HR employee record and syncs it to payroll for the next cycle. The gap most competitors leave manual.

Privacy by Design

PAN, Aadhaar and bank details are encrypted at rest. Built-in consent, data-export and erasure (DSAR) endpoints for DPDP & GDPR compliance.

Self-Hosted or Cloud

Modular Spring Boot services and a single Angular shell. Run fully on your own servers with Docker, or let us host it — full feature parity either way.

3 HR, Payroll & Recruitment in one login
11+ Statutory compliance rules out of the box
4 Role-based portals with their own views
PDF Payslips, offers & Form-16, no licensing cost

Everything Your Payroll & HR Team Needs

Purpose-built tools for compliant, modern people operations

Automated Payroll Runs

Process a full monthly cycle in minutes with auto-computed statutory deductions

Payslips & Form-16

Generated PDFs with the full PF / ESI / PT / TDS / gratuity breakup

Attendance & Shifts

Shift-aware attendance, overtime tracking, and a 2026 holiday calendar

Leave Management

Configurable leave types, approval workflows, encashment & settlement

Recruitment Pipeline

Jobs, candidates, interviews and offers — with auto-handoff to HR

Employee Self-Service

Staff view their profile, apply for leave and download their own payslips

Integrated Modules, One Source of Truth

Each module shares data through the platform — no exports, no re-entry

Payroll Engine

Configurable, statutory-compliant payroll processing

  • Per-employee salary structures & components
  • Taxable / non-taxable allowances & deductions
  • Automated monthly cycle processing
  • PF, ESI, Professional Tax & slab-based TDS
  • PDF payslips & Form-16 from real TDS data

Employee & HR

A single directory for your whole organisation

  • Employee profiles, departments & designations
  • Org structure across multiple departments
  • Bank account & statutory ID management
  • Encrypted PAN, Aadhaar & bank details
  • Role-based access (Admin, HR, Accountant, Employee)

Attendance & Shifts

Time tracking that feeds payroll directly

  • Shift management with shift-aware attendance
  • Work-hours & overtime tracking
  • Monthly attendance records per employee
  • Configurable holiday calendars
  • Attendance flows straight into the pay cycle

Leave Management

From request to encashment, fully tracked

  • Multiple configurable leave types
  • Apply, approve & reject workflows
  • Live leave balances per employee
  • Leave encashment wired into payroll
  • Final-settlement leave logic at termination

Recruitment

Source to hire, then straight into payroll

  • Job postings with a public listings API
  • Candidate pipeline by stage
  • Interview scheduling & tracking
  • Offer letters as generated PDFs
  • Accepted offer auto-creates the employee

Compliance & Security

Audit-ready and privacy-first by default

  • DPDP & GDPR data-export / erasure (DSAR)
  • Consent tracking for sensitive data
  • Complete audit trail of changes
  • JWT auth with issuer / audience checks
  • Per-organization data isolation

Recruitment → Hire → Payroll, With No Re-keying

The closing differentiator: one pipeline most platforms leave as manual hand-offs.

1. Hire

A recruiter moves a candidate through the pipeline, schedules interviews, and sends an offer letter — generated as a PDF at no licensing cost.

2. Onboard

When the offer is accepted, the candidate is automatically created as an HR employee — profile, department and statutory IDs in place.

3. Pay

The new employee is synced to payroll for the next cycle and receives a compliant payslip — without anyone re-entering a single field.

Your Data, Your Way

Cloud (SaaS)

Get started instantly with zero infrastructure

  • Zero infrastructure to manage
  • Automatic updates & backups
  • Per-organization data isolation
  • Email verification & notifications
  • Prometheus / Grafana monitoring

On-Premise

Complete data ownership on your servers

  • Docker & Docker Compose deployment
  • Runs entirely on your own servers
  • Full feature parity with cloud
  • All secrets externalized & encrypted
  • Modular — reuse the payroll engine

Built for Trust & Indian Compliance

Sensitive employee data is protected at every level, and statutory compliance is built into the engine — not bolted on.

Data Protection

  • PAN / Aadhaar / bank encrypted at rest
  • TLS in transit
  • Complete audit trail
  • DPDP & GDPR DSAR endpoints

Authentication

  • JWT with issuer & audience
  • BCrypt password hashing
  • Shared single sign-on across modules
  • Role-based access control

Statutory Engine

  • PF (12%) & ESI computation
  • State-wise Professional Tax
  • Slab-based TDS & Form-16
  • Gratuity & full-and-final settlement
PF Provident Fund
TDS Slab-based Tax
DPDP Data Protection
AES Encrypted PII

Planned, Transparent Pricing

Indicative tiers for launch — final pricing will be shaped together with our early partners

Free

Free

Up to 10 employees

  • Employee directory & profiles
  • Payroll runs & PDF payslips
  • Attendance & leave
  • Email support
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Premium

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Up to 500 employees

  • All Standard features
  • Recruitment & hire-to-pay pipeline
  • Leave encashment & settlement
  • DPDP / GDPR DSAR tooling
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Enterprise

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Unlimited employees

  • All Premium features
  • On-premise / self-hosted deployment
  • Monitoring & custom integrations
  • Dedicated manager & SLA
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Built for Indian Businesses

Real Indian compliance baked in — PF, ESI, Professional Tax and slab-based TDS reconcile exactly to net pay on every payslip, with Form-16 from the same data.

Statutory by Default PF · ESI · PT · TDS · Form-16

Hiring, HR and payroll share one database. Accept an offer and the new hire flows into payroll automatically — the re-keying gap most tools leave manual.

One Pipeline Recruitment → Hire → Payroll

Start free for a small team and scale to hundreds. Run it on our cloud or fully self-hosted on your own servers — full feature parity either way.

Start Free, Self-Host No lock-in, your data your control

Let's Build This Together

The platform's core — statutory payroll, HR, recruitment and the hire-to-pay pipeline — is built and working. We're looking for partners to co-develop, fund, and rigorously test it toward production. We're not running a public demo yet; we'd rather walk you through it directly.

Funding Partners

Back a working payroll & HR platform built for the Indian market. Help us fund the path to production: testing, compliance hardening, and go-to-market.

Co-Development Partners

Shape the roadmap with us. Whether you bring engineering, payroll-domain expertise, or a real-world use case, we'll build the features that matter together.

Pilot & Testing Partners

Run your payroll with us in a controlled pilot. Your feedback and real data (with full confidentiality) help us validate compliance and harden the product.

Want to see it or get involved?

We'd be glad to give you a guided walkthrough. Reach out and we'll set up a demo and discuss how we can work together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it handle Indian statutory payroll?

Yes. PF (12%), ESI, state-wise Professional Tax and slab-based TDS are computed automatically and reconcile exactly to total deductions and net pay. Form-16 reads from the same real TDS data.

Can I generate payslips and Form-16?

Yes. Payslips are generated as PDFs showing the full PF / ESI / Professional Tax / TDS / gratuity breakup, and Form-16 is produced from the same payroll engine — with no PDF licensing cost.

Is HR and recruitment included, or just payroll?

All three are one platform with a single login — HR (employees, attendance, leave), Payroll, and Recruitment. Accepting an offer auto-creates the employee and syncs them to payroll.

Can we self-host it on our own servers?

Yes. The platform ships as Docker containers and can run entirely on your own infrastructure with full feature parity. All secrets are externalized, and sensitive data is encrypted at rest.

How is sensitive employee data protected?

PAN, Aadhaar and bank details are encrypted at rest, access is role-based with JWT auth, and every change is audit-logged. Consent, data-export and erasure (DSAR) endpoints support DPDP and GDPR.

Does attendance feed into payroll?

Yes. Shift-aware attendance and overtime flow directly into the pay cycle, and leave — including encashment and final settlement — is wired into payroll automatically.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan covers up to 10 employees with core payroll, payslips, attendance and leave. You can upgrade as your team grows — no lock-in.

Can it integrate with our other systems?

The payroll engine is modular and API-first with OpenAPI docs. It can be reused as a module or integrated with POS, HRMS and other systems. Contact us for custom integrations.

Help Us Bring This to Production

We're looking for funding, co-development and pilot partners. Get a guided walkthrough and let's explore how we can build this together.

Get in Touch

Want a demo, or interested in funding or co-developing AshuLabs HRMS? We're not running a public demo site yet — tell us a little about you and we'll set up a personal walkthrough.

Location

Bengaluru, India