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Payroll that's right the first time — fully India-compliant, with employee self-service built in. Live in weeks, on a system your team actually uses.
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Official ERPNext Partner
In business since 2011 · 200+ clients
It's the 28th. Half-day leaves are still sitting in your HR head's email. Attendance is a register someone has to type into Excel. Last month's payroll is being recalculated by hand — again — because two people changed shifts and one joined mid-cycle. Then the real worry: a PF deduction looks off, a TDS slab was missed, and a single slip-up now means interest and penalty on a statutory filing. Your team isn't lazy. They're buried. And on payday, your people feel every one of those errors.
There's a calmer way to run people operations. As an Official ERPNext Partner, Acube Innovations delivers a Frappe HR–based Modern HR & Payroll system that automates the full employee lifecycle — hire to retire — with India statutory compliance (PF, ESI, PT, TDS) computed automatically and a mobile employee self-service (ESS) app that takes leave, payslips and claims off HR's desk. Payroll runs right the first time. Your team stops firefighting and gets back to people.
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Attendance lives in a register, leave lives in email, and payroll lives in your head.
Every payroll cycle is recalculated by hand — and a mistake means a payday apology.
PF, ESI, PT and TDS are worked out manually, and you lose sleep over penalty risk.
Biometric punches never quite reconcile with the salary you actually pay.
There's no structured way to hire, onboard, confirm or appraise people.
Employees ping HR for every payslip, leave balance and reimbursement.
Your payroll tool doesn't talk to your accounts — so finance re-keys everything. That last one quietly costs the most. Let's fix all of it.
Salaries, deductions and statutory contributions calculated automatically, so payday is accurate and on time — every cycle.
PF, ESI, Professional Tax and TDS computed by the system, with the registers, challans and Form 16 your team files — no penalty-inviting manual math.
Attendance, shifts and leave flow straight into payroll, ending the copy-paste marathon before each run.
Employees self-serve payslips, leave and claims on a mobile app, so HR stops being a help desk.
Payroll posts directly to your accounts — no export-import games, no reconciliation gap.
Accurate pay, fast approvals and a structured hire-to-appraise journey lift retention where it's hardest. See it on your data: Call +91 62358 66111 or WhatsApp us.
Built on Frappe HR (the HR & payroll suite from the makers of ERPNext), the platform manages recruitment, onboarding, attendance, leave, payroll, claims and appraisals in one system — with payroll engineered for Indian statutory compliance and a mobile employee self-service app Acube builds and tailors in-house to your policies.
| Module | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| Recruitment & onboarding | Job openings, applicant tracking, offers and structured onboarding. |
| Attendance & biometric | Biometric/geo check-in, shifts, rosters and overtime — synced to payroll. |
| Leave management | Configurable leave policies, balances, approvals and holiday calendars. |
| India-compliant payroll | Automated salary with PF, ESI, Professional Tax and TDS, plus payslips. |
| Employee self-service (ESS) | Payslips, leave, claims and requests via web and a mobile app. |
| Performance & appraisals | Goals, KRAs, appraisal cycles and continuous feedback. |
| Expenses & compliance | Reimbursement claims and statutory reports (Form 16, challans, registers). |
The everyday HR stack is a pile of disconnected tools held together by re-keying. Here's the shift:
| Before — your stack today | After — one Frappe HR system |
|---|---|
| Attendance muster in Excel, copied in by hand | Biometric/geo punches flow straight into payroll |
| Leave approved over email, balances lost | Policy-driven leave with live balances and approvals |
| Payroll recalculated manually each month | Automated runs with PF, ESI, PT and TDS built in |
| Standalone biometric + standalone payroll tool | One platform — attendance, leave and payroll connected |
| Payroll re-keyed into Tally/accounts | Payroll posts directly to your accounts ledger |
| Employees emailing HR for every payslip | Self-service app for payslips, leave and claims |
The point isn't more software — it's one system. When attendance, leave, payroll and accounts share the same data, the errors that cost you penalties and trust simply have nowhere to hide.
Ready to retire the spreadsheets? Book a free, no-obligation review → — we'll show you exactly what your first payroll run looks like on Frappe HR.
A late or wrong PF, ESI or TDS deposit can trigger interest and penalties — recurring, avoidable, and entirely on you when the math is manual.
Collating attendance, reconciling biometric data and recomputing deductions can swallow days of senior HR and finance time, every single month.
One wrong payslip costs far more than the rupees — it costs an employee's confidence, and word travels fast in a team.
No self-service, slow approvals and pay-day mistakes quietly push good people toward employers who've got the basics right. Automating payroll and compliance turns those leaks off. Most teams recover the hours within the first few cycles — and the penalty risk drops to near zero because the system, not a tired spreadsheet, does the statutory math.
A point payroll product handles one slice and stops at your accounts door. Frappe HR is built to be the whole picture:
| Frappe HR (with Acube) | Standalone payroll tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Total cost of ownership | 60–80% lower — open-source, no per-employee licence climbing yearly | Per-employee fees that grow with headcount |
| One system with finance | Payroll posts straight to ERPNext accounts | Export/import, manual re-keying, reconciliation gaps |
| Built for India statutory | PF, ESI, PT and TDS, registers and challans out of the box | Often add-ons or partial; localisation costs extra |
| Employee self-service app | In-house ESS app, tailored to your policies | Generic portal or none |
| Grows with you | Add recruitment, appraisals, full ERP when ready | Locked to payroll only |
| Ownership & lock-in | Open-source, your data, fully customisable | Proprietary, vendor-controlled |
See the difference on your numbers: Call +91 62358 66111 or WhatsApp us.
SMEs and growing enterprises, multi-location and multi-state companies, professional services firms, retail, distribution and manufacturing teams, and any business scaling its workforce across India. Because every organisation runs payroll and manages people, it fits every sector we serve — explore industries to see how we tune HR to yours.
We've delivered for 200+ organisations across India and overseas, including manpower and people-business clients like Careers World — exactly the kind of operation where headcount, attendance and accurate, on-time pay are the business, not a back-office afterthought. The same process-first method shapes our HR rollouts: we map how your attendance, leave policies and salary structures actually work, configure Frappe HR to match, migrate your data cleanly, and stand beside you through the first live payroll runs. See the case studies →

Official ERPNext Partner
Yes — statutory deductions, contributions, professional tax by state, and TDS are computed automatically, with the registers and challans your team files.
Yes. Biometric and geo check-ins, shifts and overtime feed straight into attendance and payroll, so nothing is reconciled by hand.
Yes — employees apply for leave, view payslips, submit claims and raise requests from the ESS mobile app, which Acube builds and tailors in-house, cutting HR's inbox.
Both. Frappe HR works standalone or as part of ERPNext, so HR, finance, projects and operations can share one platform whenever you're ready.
Yes — we move employee masters, salary structures, leave balances and opening figures across as a defined step, and reconcile them before your first live run, so day one starts on numbers you trust.
Most HR & payroll rollouts go live in weeks, depending on headcount, policy complexity and the modules you start with. We agree an honest timeline up front and phase larger rollouts into quick wins rather than one risky big-bang.
Yes. Professional Tax is configured per state, and multi-location attendance, shifts and salary structures are all supported, so a distributed team still runs on one payroll.
Always. We move into long-term support and AMC, help with statutory updates, and can host and manage your system — a partner, not a one-off project.
Get a clear plan, an honest timeline, and a fixed scope. Talk to a real expert today — whether or not you work with us.
Kochi (Kadavanthra & Infopark) · Thiruvananthapuram · across India & overseas · In business since 2011