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greytHR
Indian HR and payroll software focused on payroll processing, statutory compliance, and core HR for SMBs.
Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹2,495/mo
For a registered business
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist greytHR if you are an Indian company that wants payroll and statutory filings handled inside the core product rather than through a separate compliance tool. Before paying, price out your real headcount, since the base fee covers 50 employees and every active employee above that is billed monthly, and check whether you need attendance, which only starts on Growth.
Read the full verdict
Ask sales about the one-time setup fee in the terms, which the pricing page does not show. Against Keka or Zoho Payroll, greytHR is the more compliance-led choice, but performance, expense and hiring cost extra per user unless you negotiate Premium. Very small teams pay for 50 employees from day one, so a per-employee tool can be cheaper below that size.
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In short
greytHR is listed under HR & Recruiting, reviewed for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹2,495/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for Indian SMBs needing reliable payroll + compliance; a poor fit for companies under 50 employees, because the base price covers 50 headcount whether you actually have 8 people or 50.
What greytHR costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹2,495
greytHR is billed in rupees at ₹2,495/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹29,940/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹2,944 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹2,495/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹2,495
- Registered per year
- ₹29,940
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,944
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- Plans are billed in rupees every month on the number of current employees, with taxes added to the invoice and a setup fee on the first invoice that the vendor does not publish.
More
An annual subscription is offered but its price is not listed, and if you leave mid-year the unused credit is not refunded. The base fee covers 50 employees, so small teams pay the full floor and larger ones should model the per-employee overage plus any per-user add-ons.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho greytHR fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is greytHR?
greytHR is an HR and payroll suite run by Greytip Software Pvt. Ltd., a Bengaluru company. It processes Indian payroll with statutory compliance built in, covering PF with ECR files, ESI challans, professional tax, labour welfare fund, TDS with Form 24Q returns and digitally signed Form 16. Around payroll it adds leave, attendance and shifts, onboarding and exit, an HR helpdesk and an employee self service portal on web and mobile. It is delivered as cloud software on three plans, where the two published plans include 50 employees in a base fee and charge per employee above that, while performance management, expense, time sheets, GPS tracking and recruitment are sold as add-ons. Attendance and shift management need the Growth plan, and the all-module Premium tier is quote only.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Statutory payroll compliance for PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS, including Form 24Q and Form 16, is part of every plan
- Published rupee pricing for the two main plans, so a team knows its monthly floor before talking to sales
- Indian operating company that bills in rupees and adds applicable taxes on its own invoice, with no forex or card friction
The catch
- The base fee covers 50 employees and every employee past that adds a monthly charge, higher on Growth than on Essential
- Attendance and shift management only come with Growth, which costs about 80 percent more than Essential each month
- Performance management, expense, time sheets, GPS tracking and recruitment bill separately per user or per recruiter unless you buy the quote-only Premium
- A setup fee appears on the first invoice in the terms but is not shown on the pricing page, and prepaid annual plans are not refunded on early exit
Best for
- Indian SMBs needing reliable payroll + compliance
- Teams wanting employee self-service
- Businesses prioritizing statutory accuracy
Who should avoid it
- Companies under 50 employees, because the base price covers 50 headcount whether you actually have 8 people or 50
- Teams that want attendance, performance and expense inside one price, since each arrives as a plan upgrade or per user add-on
India readiness
How well greytHR fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
Compare greytHR
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How greytHR compares
Against the 8 other HR payroll tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other HR payroll tools
Recorded for greytHR and for at most a third of the 8 others we list.
- Excel import export
- AI HR chatbot
- Biometric device integration
- India payroll processing
- Multi company support
- REST API
- Role based access control
- SSO SAML
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 8 others, and for greytHR.
- Leave management
- Employee self service
- Mobile app
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything, roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What we verified about greytHR
Read from greytHR’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What greytHR does
Features we confirmed57
- SSO SAML
- SSO is listed as a paid add-on on Essential and Growth, included in Premium
- Selfie attendance
- Attendance page lists selfie attendance and Visage as marking mechanisms
- Role based access control
- Feature table lists access and user management with six sub-features
- REST API
- API access is an add-on on Essential and Growth, included in Premium
- Payslip generation
- Payslips named in payroll feature list and in ESS document access
- Multi company support
- Multi-company and group company support offered as add-on, included in Premium
- Leave management
- Pricing page says every plan includes leave management with unlimited leave types
- India payroll processing
- Payroll page describes complete payroll cycle from inputs to payouts for Indian salary structures
- HR helpdesk ticketing
- Essential plan includes Helpdesk for employee query servicing
- Full and final settlement
- Payroll feature list names F&F Settlement explicitly
- Face recognition attendance
- Visage is listed as an attendance marking method alongside selfie attendance
- Excel import export
- Feature table lists extensive Excel import and export facility
- Employee self service portal
- ESS portal is included in every plan per the pricing page
- Mobile app
- Feature table lists Employee Portal for both web and mobile app
- Custom report builder
- Payroll page describes Payroll Statement Builder and ad hoc QueryBuilder queries
- Biometric device integration
- Attendance page lists third-party attendance hardware with automatic scheduled swipe download
- Attendance regularisation
- Attendance page has a dedicated attendance regularisation workflow for employees
- AI HR chatbot
- Feature table lists AI-powered chatbot and site banner promotes NAVOS agentic AI assistant
- Accounting journal voucher export
- Payroll feature list names Accounts JV output for the ledger
- Alumni portal
- Alumni Portal add-on for ex-employee engagement at 20 rupees per user monthly
- Approval workflow automation
- Feature table lists employee workflows for process automation, Limited on Essential
- Attendance shift management
- Growth plan adds advanced attendance and shift management
- Auto shift detection
- Attendance page lists auto shift detection among automatic processing features
- Bank transfer file formats
- Payroll page lists electronic bank-transfer formats for all major banks
- Confirmation workflow
- Growth plan specifically adds a probation confirmation workflow
- Digitally signed form 16
- Payroll page lists digitally signed Form 16 and 12BA generation
- Direct salary disbursement
- greytHR PayNow described as direct-debit facility transferring salaries from inside the application
- Employee loan management
- Payroll feature list names Loans as a handled component
- ESI challan generation
- Payroll page lists ESI computations and challans
- Exit offboarding workflow
- Feature table lists comprehensive employee exit management
- Expense claims module
- Expense Management add-on covers claims, approvals and reimbursements
- Flexible benefit plan
- Payroll page names FBP and ESS lists flexi-benefits
- Form 12ba generation
- Explicitly named alongside Form 16 on the payroll product page
- Form 16 employee download
- ESS lists Form 16s alongside YTD and IT statements for employees
- Form 24q generation
- Payroll page advertises one-click Form 24Q generation with automatic FVU validation
- Fvu validation
- greytHR runs automatic FVU validation on generated 24Q files
- Geo fencing attendance
- Attendance page lists GPS enabled geo-fencing and geo tracking for marking attendance
- Gps live tracking
- Add-on GPS Live Tracking gives real-time field employee tracking
- Income tax declaration portal
- ESS lists PIT declarations and POI proof-of-investment submission online
- IP based attendance restriction
- ESS attendance marking notes IP based access control defines attendance location
- Labour welfare fund deduction
- Payroll page lists Labour Welfare Fund calculation and deductions
- Manpower planning budgeting
- Feature comparison table lists manpower planning and budgeting as a new module
- Overtime tracking
- Growth plan lists overtime, permissions and geo-fencing
- Performance management module
- PMS covering goals, reviews and appraisals is sold as an add-on
- Pf ecr generation
- Payroll page lists PF calculations with ECR file generation
- Prebuilt mis reports
- Payroll page says hundreds of ready-made MIS and compliance reports are included
- Professional tax state rules
- Payroll page states PT with all state-specific rules built-in
- Project timesheets
- Time Sheets add-on described as project time tracking
- Recruitment ats module
- greytHR Recruit is offered as an all-in-one recruitment add-on
- Reimbursement claims
- ESS section describes reimbursement claims with automatic policy enforcement
- Salary arrears processing
- Payroll feature list names Arrears handling
- Self onboarding
- Essential plan lists employee self-onboarding and exit
- Shift rotation rostering
- Attendance page describes multiple shifts with rotation and automatic shift-rotation plans
- Statutory bonus calculation
- Payroll page lists bonus calculations and reporting
- TDS etds returns
- Payroll page lists comprehensive TDS (IT) calculations and eTDS returns
- Unlimited leave types
- Essential plan explicitly lists leave management with unlimited types
- Unlimited salary components
- Payroll page states unlimited salary components and highly configurable payroll engine
What people use it for4
- Run payroll
- Payroll page pitches saying farewell to Excel sheets and computation errors
- Track attendance and leave
- GeoMark and GPS Live Tracking target employers with field teams
- File statutory returns
- Buyers hire it to produce PF ECR, ESI challans, PT and eTDS returns on time
- Reduce HR admin queries
- ESS is positioned as reducing administrative work by 80 percent
Works with2
- Cleartax
- Cleartax is listed as a tax filing app in the Unite Marketplace
- Taxspanner
- TaxSpanner is listed as a tax e-filing partner app in Unite Marketplace
Terms, compliance and how you buy34
- No lock in
- FAQ states there is no cancellation fee or lock-in period on any plan
- No card required
- Trial is described as no commitments and no upfront cost with billing starting after 7 days
- Monthly or annual billing
- FAQ confirms both pay-per-use monthly and 12-month annual subscription options
- ISO 27001 certified
- Pricing page badge row shows ISO 27001 certification
- Bengaluru headquartered
- Site footer address is Grape Garden, 17th Main, 6th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru
- Add ons free on top tier
- Pricing page marks most add-ons FREE IN PREMIUM with roughly 30 percent savings claimed
- App marketplace
- Unite Marketplace offers 25+ curated HR apps inside the greytHR account
- Customer owns data export
- FAQ states you own your data and can export it on any plan
- Fifty employee price floor
- Base price covers 50 employees whether or not you have that many
- Free trial 7 days
- Pricing page offers a 7-day free trial with no upfront cost
- GDPR ready
- Pricing page badge row states GDPR READY
- Heavy add on model
- PMS, timesheets, expense, GPS, recruit and alumni all bill separately on lower plans
- India built
- Footer shows Greytip Software Pvt. Ltd. at Koramangala, Bengaluru
- INR billed
- All published plan prices are in rupees, from 2,495 a month
- Large installed base
- Pricing page claims 30,000+ companies use greytHR
- Marketplace india only
- Unite page states the marketplace is available to Indian customers only
- Multi tenant architecture
- Security FAQ describes multi-tenancy architecture with customer data isolation
- Netbanking accepted
- Payment FAQ explicitly lists net banking as an accepted method
- No annual refund on cancellation
- FAQ says remaining credit is not refunded if you discontinue during an annual plan
- No free plan
- Only a trial is offered, every published tier is paid
- Offline payment option
- FAQ directs offline payments to billing@greytip.com
- Overkill under 50 employees
- notBestFor says companies under 50 pay for 50 headcount regardless
- Partner channel via payroll bureaus
- Footer lists Payroll Service Providers and a Payroll Pro plan for bureaus
- Payroll led not talent suite
- FTS verdict notes it is more payroll and compliance-led than a full talent suite
- Per employee overage pricing
- Employees past 50 add 45 rupees on Essential and 85 on Growth
- Per recruiter pricing
- Recruit add-on is priced at 2,500 rupees per recruiter per month
- Published pricing
- Essential and Growth rates and per-employee overage are printed on the pricing page
- Quote only top tier
- Premium tier shows Custom and routes to Contact Sales Team
- Self serve online payment
- FAQ accepts credit, debit and net banking payments inside the product via My Account
- Slow support reported
- Our cons record recurring reviewer complaints of slow ticket resolution
- Smb focused
- Positioned for Indian SMBs and priced from a 50-employee base
- Soc 2 type 2
- Pricing page badge row shows SOC II Type 2
- Uptime 99 5 claim
- Payroll page advertises 99.5 percent uptime
- WhatsApp sales channel
- Footer offers Message us on WhatsApp as a contact route
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- greytHR pricinghttps://www.greythr.com/pricing/
- greytHR HR softwarehttps://www.greythr.com/hr-software/
- greytHR payroll softwarehttps://www.greythr.com/payroll-software/
- greytHRhttps://www.greythr.com/
- greytHR terms of service (billing, setup fee, refunds)https://www.greythr.com/terms-service/
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greytHR questions
Does greytHR give a GST invoice in India?
- greytHR issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is greytHR good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits Indian SMBs needing reliable payroll + compliance. It bills in rupees and issues a GST invoice, so a registered business claims the GST back. It is not the right pick for companies under 50 employees, because the base price covers 50 headcount whether you actually have 8 people or 50.
Does greytHR have a free plan?
- greytHR does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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