HR & payroll softwarePayday shouldn’t need an apology.

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.

Key modules & features

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).

Staying on spreadsheets isn't free — it's just a cost you don't see on an invoice. Consider what a single cycle leaks (figures illustrative — we'll size yours in the consult):

• Penalty and interest exposure. 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.
• Hours per payroll cycle. Collating attendance, reconciling biometric data and recomputing deductions can swallow days of senior HR and finance time, every single month.
• Payday errors that erode trust. One wrong payslip costs far more than the rupees — it costs an employee's confidence, and word travels fast in a team.
• Attrition from a poor experience. 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

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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 →

What it costs to put in depends on how many people you pay, how many locations and shifts you run, and how many need self-service. The calculator on this page asks about exactly those, and gives you a figure before anyone calls you.