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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you’re comparing Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) and greytHR, here’s the short answer: both handle payroll compliance well, but they solve different problems. Attendo bundles biometric hardware with payroll software for operations-heavy businesses. greytHR focuses on HR management with modules for hiring, performance, and employee self-service. India’s payroll services market is worth USD 1.78 billion
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What if your monthly payroll took two hours instead of two days? For most Indian SMEs, that sounds unrealistic. But the gap between manual payroll and automated payroll is exactly that wide. Manual payroll errors cost Indian businesses roughly 2-4% of their total payroll value every year (PCG International, 2025). On top of that, finance
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Here’s the reality of payroll management at most Indian businesses: attendance is on one register, leave records sit in an Excel sheet, salary calculations happen in a third tool, and the accountant spends two days stitching it all together. Every month. Sound familiar? India’s payroll services market stood at USD 1.78 billion in 2025 and
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If you’re comparing Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) and Keka, here’s the short answer. They’re built for different businesses. Keka is a full HR suite for mid-sized corporates. Attendo is a focused attendance-to-salary system for SMEs like restaurants, retail stores, factories, and hospitals. India’s payroll services market stood at USD 1.78 billion in 2025. It’s expected
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Introduction Payroll often depends on more than fixed salaries. In many organisations, salary calculations are linked to attendance records, leave approvals, shift timings, and overtime hours. When these records are handled in different systems, payroll processing can become difficult. Managers may need to verify attendance data before generating salary reports. Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) connects
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Many small businesses start payroll with simple tools. Attendance may be recorded in a register, through a biometric machine, or sometimes even through spreadsheets. At the beginning this works well. But as teams grow, payroll calculations start depending on many different records. Attendance entries, leave approvals, shift timings, and overtime hours all influence how salaries
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Managing your SME’s workforce attendance and payroll efficiently is critical to business growth. Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) offers two main pricing models, fixed cost and per-employee, designed to cater to diverse business sizes and needs. But for a mid-sized business running around 100 employees, which pricing option provides the best combination of value, flexibility, and
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Running a small business in Mumbai is tough. Between managing customers, handling operations, and keeping costs low, the last thing you want is payroll headaches keeping you up at night. If you’re running a company with 25-50 employees, you’ve probably felt this pain. Excel sheets that break when you need them most. Late salary payments
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