Attendo HR Blog
Payroll & Salary articles and guides from the Attendo HR blog — payroll, attendance and workforce management for Indian businesses.
Eight rules for advance salary, a copy-paste policy template and ready request formats, with the legal limit on recovering it from pay.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The Code on Wages, IR Code, Social Security Code and OSH Code replaced 29 labour laws in November 2025. Here is what each changes for salary, hours, leave and gratuity.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
RazorpayX Payroll’s published pricing, and six payroll tools compared on how attendance reaches the payslip.
Nisarg
Nisarg Kansara is Senior Marketing Manager at Petpooja. What he brings to table is the tactical layer, meaning the features most users never find, the automations that remove a daily chore, and the exact fix for a workflow that keeps breaking. He spends his weeks with Indian business owners working out where billing, purchase entries and task follow-ups fall apart in practice, and that input shapes how the products change. India has over 1.5 crore active GST registrations, and most of those businesses still handle compliance by hand. Nisarg writes for the owners trying to change that, with a focus on where AI removes manual work rather than adding another button.
Zoho People’s prices from India, and six HR tools that keep attendance, leave and payroll in one product.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Weighing Keka against other HR and payroll tools? See which one fits your team by device, billing and the HR tools you need.
Nisarg
Nisarg Kansara is Senior Marketing Manager at Petpooja. What he brings to table is the tactical layer, meaning the features most users never find, the automations that remove a daily chore, and the exact fix for a workflow that keeps breaking. He spends his weeks with Indian business owners working out where billing, purchase entries and task follow-ups fall apart in practice, and that input shapes how the products change. India has over 1.5 crore active GST registrations, and most of those businesses still handle compliance by hand. Nisarg writes for the owners trying to change that, with a focus on where AI removes manual work rather than adding another button.
Looking past Kredily’s free plan? See which tools bring their own attendance device and how each one bills you.
Nisarg
Nisarg Kansara is Senior Marketing Manager at Petpooja. What he brings to table is the tactical layer, meaning the features most users never find, the automations that remove a daily chore, and the exact fix for a workflow that keeps breaking. He spends his weeks with Indian business owners working out where billing, purchase entries and task follow-ups fall apart in practice, and that input shapes how the products change. India has over 1.5 crore active GST registrations, and most of those businesses still handle compliance by hand. Nisarg writes for the owners trying to change that, with a focus on where AI removes manual work rather than adding another button.
Where does the 8th Pay Commission stand? Its report date, why there is no official fitment factor yet, who it covers, and what it means for private employers.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
EPS 95 pension now runs under a 2026 scheme. Who qualifies, how the monthly pension is worked out, the minimum, and what changed for employers.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Does dearness allowance reach private pay as well? See the current central DA rate, how it is set, VDA in minimum wages, and how DA is taxed.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Offered money to stay on? A retention bonus falls due on the agreed date, is taxed as salary, and is hard to claw back once paid.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
The statutory bonus follows the Code on Wages, while performance and festival bonuses follow policy. Five worked examples show how each is calculated.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Tax on a festival payout is not a flat percentage, and the money does not always move in the same tax year the charge lands. Both catch payroll teams out.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
A Diwali shift pays extra on a declared holiday, after eight hours, or on a weekly off worked. Here is what each case pays.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Statutory bonus moved to a new law in November 2025. The rate and the timetable came through unchanged. The duty to hand it over in cash was reversed.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The EPF wage ceiling moved to ₹25,000 a month. The rates did not change, but what they apply to did, and that is where the extra cost comes from.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Two separate Codes carry overtime rules, and they disagree on who is covered, what a part-hour is worth, and whether anyone can be made to stay late.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
One form carries the employee’s tax claims in, the other carries the employer’s certificate out. Both were renumbered on 1 April 2026.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
A worked example for every payment that runs on a day rate, from an absent day to gratuity, all on one salary. Plus the one case where the law picks the number for you.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Minimum wages by state come down to four inputs. One is in the Code, two are in a notification, and the last one is sitting in your own employee records.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Leave without pay does more than dock a day’s salary. It reaches your provident fund, your ESI, the service behind a gratuity payment and the balance you build for the year ahead.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Registration is online, real time, and needs no paper at all. The state that wants 20 workers where its neighbour wants 10, what the C-11 letter proves, and why the amnesty no longer helps.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The question asks what you would cost, not what you would receive. Seven lines to use in an interview, the reasoning that backs each of them, and why the law measures a different figure from the one in an offer.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
One form per benefit, one office, and a three-day rule on medical certificates that quietly costs people money. What each claim pays, and how fast ESIC has to pay it.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
₹21,000 a month, unchanged since 2017. The three routes that bring a workplace into the scheme, why a raise in July does not end cover in July, and the 135 districts still outside it.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Education now allows ten claims and marriage five, where three covered both before. What the October 2025 rules changed, who qualifies after 12 months, and why the COVID advance is no longer on the list.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
EPFO paid 8.25% to its members this July. Who fixes that figure, what it is worked out on, and why a passbook can sit unchanged for months after the number makes the news.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
The government pays for new hires under the scheme once called ELI. A first timer can draw up to ₹15,000, and an employer as much as ₹3,000 a month per hire. Who qualifies, and the baseline rule that catches new businesses.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The regulations say who allots it, that you only ever get one, and exactly where your employer has to keep it. Where to look, and how to tell the number is right.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
One monthly return, one declaration at joining, and a nomination nobody can file on your behalf. The rest of the numbered forms left years ago.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
₹2 a year in Telangana, ₹35 a month in Haryana. Six states with full rates, every state accounted for, and the deadline most businesses miss.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Two products built for different companies: one bundles the attendance device, the other assumes you already have an HR team. Which fits yours?
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo supplies the attendance device itself, on a bill that does not move when you hire. Zimyo charges per user per month and leaves the device to a third-party supplier. Who owns that device turns out to be the decision that matters most.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
How Attendo tracks employee loans and arrears in one place, with a per-employee record and deductions that carry across pay cycles.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Spreadsheet payroll rarely breaks loudly. It leaks an hour here and a wrong deduction there. Here is what changes once a system does the counting.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Two capable products built for different jobs: one arrives with the attendance device in the box, the other goes wider on HR. Which one fits your team?
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Month-end payroll rarely fails loudly. It leaks hours into reconciliation and rupees into corrections, one cycle at a time.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Every feature in Attendo, what it does on a working day, and the statutory deductions it handles without a separate compliance tool.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo bundles an attendance device with payroll on a flat annual fee. Keka prices per employee above a seat threshold and leaves the hardware to a third-party supplier. For most shift-based businesses, that hardware question decides it.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
A punch at the door, a shift rule, an approved leave, and a salary at the end of it. Here is what sits between them.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo runs attendance through to payroll on one flat annual fee, with the device in the box. PagarBook keeps things mobile-first and bills per employee, with its device sold separately. Which fits depends on how much your headcount moves.
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo puts every feature in one package on a flat annual fee. PagarGuru splits its features across three per-employee tiers. If you would rather not work out which tier you need before you can run payroll, that difference is the whole comparison.
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
Attendo bundles the attendance device, installation and support into one flat annual fee. SalaryBox charges a monthly base fee plus a rate for each employee, and sells the device separately. The gap shows up as the team grows.
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
Per-employee billing looks cheap at ten staff and stops looking cheap at a hundred. A side-by-side on cost, salary setup and attendance control.
Dishal Shah
HR & Payroll Experts
Seasonal hiring, a new branch, a growth year: each one moves your software bill under one pricing model and leaves it untouched under the other. Plus six things to ask any vendor before you sign.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Most cost figures in payroll articles are somebody’s estimate. Here is how to work out your own, and what to compare it against.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
