Startups – Slice1
For Startups

Start free. Stay focused.

When you're 7 people, a spreadsheet works. When you're 11, it breaks. hrPLANR is the platform that takes you from founder-doing-payroll-on-Sunday to first HR hire in year two — without ripping anything out.

Start free → Book a demo
Your starting state
7 employees
hrPLANR Free · ₹0/month
7 of 10 slots used
May payroll · 7 payslips generated
2 min
Leave policy · PL/CL/SL configured
setup
When you hit 10: upgrade to Starter
₹49/emp
No credit card · No expiry · No "but it doesn't include X" surprise
The patterns we hear from founders
01
Doing payroll on a spreadsheet — and dreading every PF deposit deadline
02
No clear paper trail when an employee leaves — F&F is a guess
03
Aadhaar/PAN sitting in a Google Drive folder shared with the whole team
04
Realised you owe ESI three months late · scrambling to back-file
05
No HR person yet but everyone keeps asking you for their payslip

The Free plan covers you to 10. Then Starter, when you cross over.

Free isn't a trial. It's the plan you use until you can't anymore — until you cross 10 employees. Then you upgrade to Starter at ₹49/employee/month and nothing changes about your data, your setup, or your workflows.

See the full pricing table →
Recommended

Free → Starter

₹0 / ₹49
free up to 10 · then ₹49/emp/mo
Up to 50 employees on Starter. After that, Growth.
  • HR records, payroll (incl. PF/ESI/PT), leave, attendance, ESS
  • Email support · self-serve product tour
  • AES-256 encryption · MFA on all accounts
  • No credit card on Free · upgrade when you need to
  • DPDP Act compliant · data in AWS Mumbai
Start free now
How it works for you

Set up in an afternoon. Run payroll in two clicks.

Most founders setting this up on a Saturday have payslips going out by Monday. The three things you'll touch first:

Payroll in 2 clicks

Add employees, set salaries, hit 'Run payroll'. PF and ESI computed correctly per state — including Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana — TDS based on each employee's Form 12BB. Payslips delivered to employees via the ESS app.

See payroll

Compliance, on track

PF on the 15th, ESI on the 15th, TDS on the 7th, PT per state cycle. hrPLANR's compliance calendar reminds you, prepares the filing, and tracks status so nothing falls through. Direct e-filing is on the roadmap for Q3 2026.

See compliance

Employees self-serve

Your 7 people stop emailing you for payslips. They open the hrPLANR app, find payslip / Form 16 / leave balance / Form 12BB. The HR ticket you didn't have time to answer doesn't get sent in the first place.

See ESS

What you don't have to think about. Yet.

Startups don't need every feature. We don't bill you for them, and we don't surface them in the UI until you're ready. These are available when you upgrade, not before.

When you hit 50 employees and graduate to Growth, this gets switched on — at the same data, same setup, same workflows.

AI HR AssistantPredictive attritionAI recruitment matchingMulti-entitySSO / SAML 2.0Custom approval workflowsDedicated CSMCustom integrations
What founders are using hrPLANR for

Companies like yours

SS
A 9-person seed-stage SaaS in Bengaluru running on Free — payroll, payslips, leave, and compliance. They'll upgrade when they cross 10.
DS
A 22-person design studio on Starter — runs F&F and exit interviews without an HR person. The two founders share the admin role.
MK
A 16-person agency in Mumbai using ESS so employees stop asking the founder for Form 16 every June.
CT
A 31-person Chennai consulting firm using compliance calendar — they'd been late on PT filings for two quarters before switching.
Other solutions by size
10 → 50 emp
For Startups
50 → 200 emp
For SMBs
200 → 1,000 emp
For Mid-market
1,000+ emp
For Enterprise

Founders shouldn't be running payroll. But until you hire HR, you are.

Free up to 10 employees. Setup in an afternoon. Cancel anytime.

Start free or book a demo →