A payroll closing on the fifth of the following month isn't acceptable. It's just normalized.
Indian HR teams are some of the best-resourced in the world at running compliance — and some of the worst-served by their software. The typical 100-person company runs five tools to do what one tool should: an HRMS, a payroll system, an attendance vendor, an ATS, and a compliance consultant on retainer. Quarterly, someone reconciles the numbers across them. Often, they don't reconcile.
We've sat on the HR side of that desk. We've watched a payroll cycle slide from the 30th of one month to the 5th of the next because two of the five tools disagreed on a leave balance. We've seen a perfectly capable HR head spend Friday evening rebuilding a TDS calculation in Excel because the system "had been configured wrong, but only for some employees, but nobody is sure which ones."
That's the problem we set out to solve. Not "modernize HR" — that phrase has been used and abused for a decade. Just: make the cycle close on time, every time, without late nights.
hrPLANR is the workforce operations platform built for that. HR, payroll, India statutory compliance, attendance, leave, recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding — on one platform, with AI woven through where it earns its place. PF, ESI, PT, TDS, POSH, DPDP — all included, not "configurable later."
We are India-first because that's the team we know and the buyer we serve. The Enterprise plan supports multi-currency for global teams, but the centre of gravity stays here. If a compliance requirement is unique to India, it's built in. If a workflow assumption is American, we've thrown it out.
This is what we've spent two years building. We hope it's the platform you've been waiting for.