Best HRMS for Indian Startups in 2026, From ₹49 per Employee per Month

Indian HRM is the HRMS Indian startups actually pick when the founder is also the HR person. Payroll runs from your first hire. PF, ESI, and TDS are calculated automatically. Attendance, leave, hiring, and policies all live in one tool. No setup fee, no credit card, three months free to try.

We run HR for 150+ Indian startups and 12,000+ employees. Most of them moved over from a mix of Excel sheets, Tally payroll, and a WhatsApp group. Migration takes 3 to 5 business days, and we do it for you.

Pricing That Fits a Startup Burn Rate

Foundation is ₹49/employee/month. Growth is ₹99/employee/month. Enterprise is custom for teams above 250. The first three months are free, no credit card asked, and we don't charge an onboarding fee. A 20-person team on Foundation costs ₹980 a month, less than a single afternoon of a CA's time.

You can downgrade, pause, or leave any month. Nothing is locked behind annual contracts.

Compliance From Day One, Not Day Ninety

Most founders get to ten employees and realise PF and ESI registration is overdue. Indian HRM ships with PF (12% + 12%), ESI (3.25% + 0.75%), TDS for both old and new regimes, Professional Tax by state, gratuity, and bonus already wired in. You enter a salary, the system computes the rest.

What you get without doing anything extra

One-click PF ECR exports, ESI challans, monthly TDS reports, Form 16 at year end, and a payslip PDF for every employee that holds up to a tax-officer's eye. If a regulator asks for proof, it's already there.

Look Like a Real Company to Your First Hires

The first 5 to 50 hires set your culture. They also Google your offer letter on LinkedIn before signing. Indian HRM's ATS gives you a hiring pipeline, AI resume scoring (0 to 100, with the reasons), interview scheduling, and e-signed offer letters that look professional. Onboarding hands off automatically: the candidate accepts, the employee record is created, day-one checklist is sent.

Payslips are branded with your logo. Policies sit in a self-service portal. Investors who do reference checks won't find a Google Drive folder full of PDFs.

A Mobile App Your Team Will Actually Open

Native Android and iOS apps, not a wrapped website. GPS check-in with selfie verification stops buddy-punching. Biometric login means employees can mark attendance in two seconds. Offline mode queues punches and syncs when the network comes back, useful for field-sales hires and remote teams.

Leave requests, payslip downloads, expense claims, and the company directory all live in the app, so you stop being the person someone messages at 11pm asking for last month's salary slip.

Scales With You, No Re-platform at 100 Employees

Most startup HRMS choices break around 100 people. You suddenly need approval workflows, multi-branch payroll, role-based permissions, an HR analytics view, and a real audit trail. Indian HRM has all of that already: 132+ permissions, multi-tenant architecture, India-region data centres, REST API, Slack, and Google or Microsoft SSO.

Same product at 8 employees and at 800. You won't have to migrate again at Series A or Series B.

Switching From Excel, Tally, Keka, greytHR, or Zoho

Send us your current employee sheet and last payroll run. We'll map the fields, import the data, replicate your salary structure, and run a parallel payroll cycle so you can verify nothing slipped. Most teams are live in under a week. Migration is included on every plan, including Foundation.