Attendo HR Blog
Payroll & Salary articles and guides from the Attendo HR blog — payroll, attendance and workforce management for Indian businesses.
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
HR & Payroll Experts
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’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
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
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
The shift towards digital payroll systems has accelerated among SMEs in India over the past few years. As businesses move away from paper-based registers & spreadsheet-driven salary calculations, the demand for structured payroll software has grown significantly. Modern attendance and payroll software now plays a central role in ensuring transparency, compliance, and workforce accountability. Among
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
As SMEs grow, payroll becomes more than just salary disbursement. Attendance tracking, overtime calculation, statutory deductions, and compliance reporting all start influencing how accurately and efficiently salaries are processed. What works for a small team can quickly become complicated as headcount increases, making structured payroll management software essential. This is why businesses evaluating payroll software
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
For small and medium-sized businesses, managing your team’s attendance and running payroll can be a real challenge, especially as you grow. Manually tracking hours, handling shift changes, and calculating wages, overtime, and deductions takes time and can lead to mistakes, especially in businesses that rely on hour-based payroll structures. Inaccurate payroll not only affects staff
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
Choosing payroll software is often a long-term financial decision for SMEs. Beyond features, businesses must consider compliance requirements, the complexity of salary structuring, and how software costs evolve as their workforce grows. A system that works well for a 10-employee team may become expensive or operationally restrictive at 100 employees. In the Indian market, payroll
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
