People, attendance, and payroll
on one ledger.
Run the whole employee lifecycle — from the first interview to the final settlement — on a single system where every punch, leave, payslip, reimbursement, and statutory return posts to the same books. No more reconciling a biometric export against an Excel muster, or the payroll sheet against the accountant’s Tally.
Built for any Indian employer — from a 30-person studio to a multi-site company running shift workforces across factories, branches, and offices.
If you capture attendance on biometric devices, juggle multiple shift patterns and overtime rules, run payroll with EPF, ESI, Professional Tax, and TDS that have to file cleanly, approve leave and expense claims across reporting lines, and still answer to an auditor and a labour inspector — this is the system that holds all of it together. One tenant, many locations, one set of numbers HR, finance, and the employee all trust. It is also the HR engine inside every other Garuda vertical, so a school, hospital, or factory runs its people on exactly the same ledger.
The modules an Indian HR team
actually runs on.
Employee records & org structure
One file per employee carries the full profile — personal and contact details, PAN, Aadhaar, UAN and ESIC number, bank and KYC documents, qualifications, and the reporting line. Departments, designations, grades, and locations build the org tree, so approvals, audience-scoped announcements, and reporting all follow the hierarchy automatically — and a manager only ever sees their own team.
Recruitment & applicant tracking
Post a requisition, collect applicants, and move each candidate through screening, interview rounds, and offer without re-keying. Interview feedback and scorecards stay attached to the candidate, and an accepted offer rolls straight into onboarding — the new hire’s record, documents, and reporting line are created from the offer, not typed again on day one.
Onboarding & documentation
A checklist-driven joining flow collects every document, issues the appointment letter, and provisions the employee’s self-service login before they arrive. Probation milestones, asset handover, and policy acknowledgements are tracked to completion, so nothing is missing when the first payroll runs — and the same framework drives a clean exit checklist and full-and-final settlement at the other end.
Attendance & biometric capture
Pull in/out punches straight from biometric and RFID devices, or let staff mark attendance from the app with geo and selfie capture for field teams. Regularisation requests, missed-punch handling, and a live muster keep the day clean, and the attendance feed flows directly into shift, overtime, and loss-of-pay calculations — no monthly export-and-paste into a spreadsheet.
Leave & holidays
Configure every leave type — casual, sick, earned, maternity, comp-off — with accrual, carry-forward, and encashment rules, and a holiday calendar per location for regional festivals. Employees apply from the app, approvals route up the reporting line, and balances update in real time, so the payroll engine always reads the right paid and unpaid days without a reconciliation step.
Shifts, rosters & overtime
Define shift patterns, roster teams across day and night, and handle week-offs and shift allowances for factory and multi-site operations. Overtime is computed from the actual punches against the shift, with your own rate rules, so OT, late marks, and short hours all resolve to numbers payroll can trust — not a supervisor’s memory.
Payroll & statutory — EPF, ESI, PT, TDS
Run multiple salary structures with earnings and deductions, and let the engine compute EPF, ESI, and Professional Tax to current slabs and TDS on salary under Section 192. Payslips, Form 16, and the EPF ECR and ESI return files come out ready to upload, the salary register ties out to the rupee, and the net salary posts straight to the general ledger — payroll and the books reconcile by construction.
Expense claims & reimbursements
Staff raise travel and expense claims from the app with bills attached, approvals route through the reporting line against policy limits, and the cleared amount is paid through payroll or as a direct reimbursement. Every claim carries its approval trail and posts to the right expense head, so finance sees a costed, audit-ready record instead of a shoebox of receipts.
Loans & advances
Issue salary advances and staff loans with an EMI schedule, and let payroll deduct each instalment automatically until the balance clears. Outstanding principal, interest, and the recovery schedule are visible to both HR and the employee, and a full settlement on exit nets any open loan against the final dues — nothing slips through.
Appraisals & performance
Run appraisal cycles with goals, self-evaluation, and manager review, capture ratings against competencies, and keep the full history attached to the employee file. Outcomes feed increment and promotion decisions with an approval trail, so a revision is backed by a record the committee and the employee can both see — not a year-end guess.
Training & utilisation
Plan training programmes, enrol staff, and track attendance and completion against each employee’s skill profile. For project and services teams, utilisation reporting shows who is billable, who is on the bench, and where capacity is going — turning the headcount you pay for into a number you can actually manage.
Self-service, alerts & an AI HR assistant
Every employee gets a self-service portal — apply for leave, mark attendance, raise an expense claim, download payslips and Form 16, and update their own details — so HR stops being a request desk. A scrolling notice board carries circulars, birthdays, and work anniversaries; scheduled alerts and reports land in inboxes on time; and a built-in AI HR assistant answers policy and balance questions in plain language, drafts job descriptions and appraisal notes, and surfaces the report you asked for — all scoped to what the person asking is actually allowed to see.
A short tour through
a workforce on Garuda.
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One ledger means the biometric device, the payroll sheet, and the books are all looking at the same number — on payday, on filing day, on audit day, and every day in between.
Employee file linking attendance, leave, payroll & claims
ESI, PT & TDS computed and filed to current slabs
Self-service portal & AI assistant for every employee
Re-keying between attendance, payroll & accounts
See your payroll
running in five minutes.
The live demo is a real company tenant, pre-loaded with employees, shifts, a leave policy, and a salary structure. Click in, approve a leave, run a payslip, raise an expense claim, post a circular — no sign-up. Then write to us about your team.