Nearby Offers in Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll)

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 Offers feature, now live in the Attendo Employee App. It shows real-time restaurant deals based on the employee’s location, pulled from Petpooja’s network of 1,00,000+ restaurants across India. No extra cost. No setup. It just works.

Why Should SMEs Care About Employee Perks?

Only 23% of Indian employees reported feeling engaged at work in 2026, down from 30% the year before (Gallup, 2026). Disengaged employees don’t just underperform; they leave. India’s average attrition rate stood at 17.1% in 2025 (Business Today, 2026), and in hospitality and retail, that number runs far higher.

Large corporates fight this with gym memberships, food cards, and wellness budgets. A 200-person IT company in Whitefield can afford Sodexo meal cards. But what about a 15-person garment unit in Surat? Or a 30-employee clinic chain in Indore? Their HR budget is tight, and “employee engagement” usually means a Diwali bonus and nothing else.

That’s the gap Nearby Offers fills. It gives every employee access to real dining deals without the employer spending a single extra rupee.

For more on managing staff without a large HR team, read about smart staff management for Indian SMEs.

How Does Nearby Offers Work in the Attendo App?

The feature sits inside the Employee App that staff already use for attendance, leave requests, and pay slips. No separate download needed.

Steps to access offers:

1. Open the Attendo Employee App
2. Go to the Offers section
3. The app detects your city based on mobile location
4. Browse active restaurant offers near you
5. Tap any offer to see discount details, validity, and terms

These aren’t generic coupon aggregator deals. They come from restaurants running Petpooja POSS, India’s largest restaurant POS. When a QSR chain in Koramangala runs a “buy one get one” on weekday lunches, or a cafe in Aundh offers 15% off on orders above ₹300, those deals show up for employees in that area.

Why this is different: Attendo bundles dining deals at no extra cost because the offer data already exists within its restaurant POS network. No standalone payroll software can replicate this.

How Does This Compare to Coupon Apps?

Attendo includes dining offers inside the same plan that already handles attendance, payroll, and compliance.

Who Benefits Most from Nearby Offers?

Businesses with a young, mobile workforce: A quick commerce warehouse in Electronic City with 60 delivery executives aged 19-28. They eat out frequently and respond well to tangible, everyday perks rather than annual bonuses.

Multi-outlet operations: A bakery chain with 5 outlets across Ahmedabad. Staff rotate between locations, and offers update based on wherever they are that day. An employee at the Vastrapur outlet sees different deals than the one at Sarkhej.

What we see in practice: Across 30,000+ Attendo clients, the businesses that use the Employee App most actively for attendance and leave are the same ones where employees discover and use Nearby Offers. The app is already a daily habit; offers are a natural extension.

Businesses that can’t afford structured perks: A diagnostic centre in Salt Lake, Kolkata, with 18 staff and no dedicated HR manager. They can’t set up a meal card programme. Nearby Offers gives their employees the same kind of perk without any admin effort.

Companies offering benefits even 15-20% above the statutory minimum report 23% lower attrition (Wisemonk, 2026). Nearby Offers adds value above the minimum without adding cost.

For ideas on reducing turnover, read our guide on employee benefits every staff member wishes to have.

Does the Employer Need to Set Anything Up?

No. Zero configuration needed. The feature is available to every employee with the Attendo Employee App installed.

Here’s what the employer does NOT need to do:

• No deals to negotiate with restaurants
• No meal card vendors to sign up with
• No per-employee subscriptions to manage
• No separate onboarding or training

The employee simply opens the app, taps Offers, and browses what’s available near them. This is possible because Petpooja is more than just a payroll company. The same ecosystem powers Petpooja POSS (1,00,000+ restaurants), and the offer data flows across products without any third-party integration.

For a full walkthrough of all Employee App features, check our guide to Attendo’s complete feature set.

Conclusion

SMEs don’t have the budgets for elaborate perks programmes, but employee engagement in India is at a low point. Attendo’s Nearby Offers gives every employee access to real restaurant deals at zero extra cost, because the offer data already lives within Petpooja’s restaurant POS network.

If you’re on Attendo, your employees already have access. Make sure they know about it. No other payroll tool in India can offer dining deals because no other payroll tool runs a restaurant POS network.

For more retention strategies, read 5 strategies to retain your staff.

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