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Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) charges a flat annual fee, ships a face recognition scanner with every subscription, and is built for Indian SMEs. Darwinbox bills per employee per month (third-party review sites report ₹180 to ₹420 PEPM), takes 3 to 6 months to go live, and targets enterprises with 2,000-plus staff. One is an attendance-to-salary
Avani Joshi·8 min read
Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) and Zimyo solve different problems. Zimyo is a full HRMS platform that bundles payroll with performance reviews, recruitment, and employee engagement tools. Attendo is a focused attendance-to-salary system that ships its own biometric hardware and charges a flat annual fee instead of per-employee pricing. If your business needs a complete HR
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) has rolled out four new updates in 2026 that fix real, everyday problems HR teams face: force-logout for shared credentials, backdated employee exits, an Employee App that now speaks 11 Indian languages, and holiday entries that no longer need to be created one date at a time. These aren’t cosmetic changes.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Your employees open the Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) app to mark attendance or check their pay slip. While they’re there, they spot a 20% off deal at a restaurant two streets away. They tap it, grab lunch at a discount, and walk back feeling like the company just gave them a perk. That’s the Nearby
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo’s new Loan & Arrears module merges employee loans, salary advances, and arrears into a single section with a per-employee ledger (Khata), automatic deduction logic, and a complete transaction trail. It replaces the old separate Loans and Advances sections with one unified screen where admins can issue loans, track partial payment arrears, choose between installment
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Managing field employees without location data is like running a warehouse with no inventory count. You know people are out there, but you don’t know where, how far they travelled, or which route they took. For a pharma distribution company in Ahmedabad with 30 medical reps covering rural Gujarat, or a construction firm in Pune
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Your field sales reps say they visited 12 clients yesterday. Your attendance register shows they clocked in at 9 AM and out at 6 PM. But you have no way to verify either claim, and definitely no way to see which routes they actually took or how many kilometres they covered. This gap between reported
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
On the working day, attendance never feels like a real problem. Staff turn up on time for the 8 AM rush at the first outlet, shifts get covered, and someone makes a note in a register or an Excel sheet. On the surface, everything looks fine. The problem shows up on the 1st of the
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
If you’re still running payroll on spreadsheets and registers, you’re probably spending 40-50 hours every month just on salary processing (Superworks, 2024). That’s more than a full work week gone every single month. With India’s payroll services market growing at 7.41% CAGR and projected to hit USD 2.74 billion by 2031 (Mordor Intelligence, 2025), businesses
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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