Garuda HR handles attendance, payroll, PF / ESI / PT / TDS, Form 16 and every other Indian statutory filing — to the last rupee, in 90 seconds a month.
Also offered: Garuda Property for societies, gated communities, and rental portfolios.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cloud or on-premise
Employees
512
Gross
₹2.18 Cr
Units
124 / 118 occ.
This month
₹14.2 L
Why Garuda
We don't do 47 modules. We do two products, and these three things are how both of them differ from the competition.
We built against the actual Acts — EPF 1952, ESI 1948, Income Tax Act, Apartment Ownership Acts — not a generic global framework with India bolted on. EPFO ECR, ESIC Form 5/6, PT per state, Form 16/24Q/26Q, TDS on rent — every file, every format, every quarter.
New notification from CBIC → update within 30 days, guaranteed.
Unplug the internet. The mobile app still punches attendance. The society gate guard still logs visitors. The month-end payroll still runs. Your data, your servers if you prefer — full on-premise Docker install is a first-class option, not an afterthought.
Works in basements, factories, villages, and power cuts.
If you run both products — a hotel, a factory, a school, a large landlord — you get single sign-on, one admin panel, one invoice, one support team in Chennai that actually picks up the phone. No "please contact HR vendor" vs "please raise with Property team".
One vendor. Two tools. Zero finger-pointing.
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Products, done well
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Statutory filings covered
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Uptime on Enterprise
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Compliance update SLA
Trusted by Indian businesses — manufacturing, hospitality, IT, societies & landlords
Statutory filings, built in
EPFO
ECR · UAN
ESIC
Form 5/6
TDS
24Q · 26Q
PT
per state
LWF
half-yearly
Form 16
16A · 12BA
GST
GSTR-1/3B/9
Shops Act
registers
Attendance, payroll, leave, compliance — the unglamorous monthly work an Indian HR team does, done for them in 90 seconds.
ESSL · ZKTeco · HikVision biometric out of the box. Mobile punch with GPS + selfie. Shifts, overtime, late-minutes, early-out — all computed per state rules.
3-second device → dashboard latency
Month-end: reads attendance + leave + LOP + bonus, applies PF/ESI/PT/TDS, emails every payslip as a signed PDF, and writes your bank's transfer file format (HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Kotak, Axis, Yes, IDFC).
90 seconds for 500 employees
Multi-level approval workflows. Per-policy accrual (CL, SL, EL, ML, PL). Comp-off generation from weekend/holiday work. LOP auto-calculated; manager notified before the payroll runs.
WhatsApp + email approvals from phone
EPFO ECR (.txt in portal format), ESIC Form 5 & 6, Professional Tax (per state — TN, KA, MH, WB, AP, TS, GJ, KL), LWF, Form 16 & 16A with digital signature, 24Q & 26Q, Shops Act registers.
One-click download in the portal's exact format
Multi-location (state-wise PT + Shops Act auto-applied). Roster templates per branch. Granular access — a Bengaluru HR only sees Bengaluru payroll. Works for 10-employee startups and 2,000-employee factories equally.
Scales without re-implementation
Employees check in, view payslip, apply leave, claim expenses, download Form 16, and e-sign investment declarations — all from a phone in their own language. Works offline; syncs when connectivity returns.
38 Indian languages supported
Moving from
Full data migration included on Professional and Enterprise. Keep your old system read-only for 30 days — safety net, not lock-in.
For societies, gated communities, and rental portfolios — the quiet mess of rent, maintenance, complaints and AGM minutes, finally under one roof.
Every unit has a ledger. Every tenant has an agreement on file with end-date reminders. Owner vs tenant distinction auto-applies to rent, TDS, and notice periods. Bulk import from Excel; agreements as signed PDFs.
From 10 units to 1,000+
Auto-generate the monthly bill on the 1st. GST on commercial rent. TDS on residential rent above ₹50k. UPI deep-link in the invoice email. Partial payments and late-fee interest tracked per unit.
WhatsApp + SMS reminders at 3-day intervals
Operating fund, sinking fund, repair fund — each with its own ledger, its own bank account, its own rules for what can be debited. Printable trial balance, income & expense statement, and auditor's schedule at any cutoff date.
Annual audit: 1 click, not 2 weeks
Resident logs a complaint → routed to the right vendor (plumber, electrician, lift AMC) → SLA timer starts → closure gets rated. Full history per unit, so repeat problems stop being forgotten.
Vendor AMC scheduling + payment in-line
Gatekeeper app: photo + OTP-to-resident → confirmed entry. Clubhouse / hall / party-lawn booking with time-slot clashes prevented automatically. Resident QR for personal entry; blacklist for nuisance visitors.
Zero-paper register, kept indefinitely
Agenda builder, live voting during the AGM, motion tracking, signed PDF of minutes emailed to all members within the hour. Committee decisions keep a paper trail so next year's committee has context.
Compliant with state co-operative society Acts
Moving from
Resident list, unit roster, outstanding dues and past minutes — all imported before you go live. Residents keep their old phone number & flat number.
If you run both
If your business has employees AND properties — you don't pay two vendors, integrate two support ticket systems, or reconcile two invoices. Everything lives together.
Single sign-on
One email, one password, one 2FA. Switch between HR and Property without re-logging. Admins permission things once, not twice.
One data centre
Same region, same backup, same disaster-recovery plan. If you're on-premise, one Docker stack, one maintenance window, one system to monitor.
One invoice. One support line.
Chennai-based support, 9am–7pm IST, Mon–Sat. The same engineer who knows your HR instance knows your Property instance. No "please raise with other vendor".
How onboarding works
Free trial, no card. We generate a subdomain for you (e.g. `acme.garudayantra.com`) in under 2 minutes.
Employees from Excel / Greytip, units from Excel / MyGate. Our importer maps fields and flags anything unclear. You approve the diff.
Side-by-side: last month's payroll in your old system vs Garuda. Zero-delta before you proceed. Same for Property: outstanding dues must match.
Team trained in parallel. Old system kept read-only for 30 days — safety net, no lock-in. Chennai support on WhatsApp.
Click a product — instant access. No sign-up. Real data, reset nightly.
Attendance, payroll, leave, PF/ESI/PT/TDS, Form 16, branches, appraisal, recruitment — all wired up with 47 demo employees.
Open HR demoSunrise Apartments — 124 units, ₹14.2 L last month, 4 open complaints, next AGM 12 April. Full society + rental demo.
Open Property demoHonest comparison
Built for India means something specific. Here are the things Indian vendors solve that global tools still treat as add-ons.
| Capability | Garuda | Greytip | Zoho People | MyGate | ApnaComplex |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPFO ECR · ESIC · PT filing built-in | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| Form 16 · 24Q auto-generation | ✓ | ✓ | Addon | ✗ | ✗ |
| Biometric (ESSL / ZK / HikVision) native | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Society fund audit (operating / sinking / repair) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Basic | ✓ |
| Per-unit rent + TDS on residential rent | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Partial | Partial |
| Offline mobile app (biometric + gate) | ✓ | Online only | Online only | Online only | Online only |
| On-premise (Docker, your servers) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| White-label (your brand, your domain) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| HR + Property in one login | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Support in India, Chennai office, Mon–Sat | ✓ | ✓ | Bengaluru | ✓ | ✓ |
3-minute walkthrough
The same HR flow — from onboarding a new employee to filing their first PF return — scroll through it, click each step.
Onboard
HR enters name, PAN, bank, joining date. Garuda validates PAN with NSDL, assigns a biometric ID, creates the employee login — all in one submit.
→ 1 form · 0 spreadsheets
Attendance
Punch from the biometric device (or the mobile app) appears on the employee's attendance card within 3 seconds — late and early-out minutes calculated against the shift automatically.
→ 3-second end-to-end latency
Payroll
Month-end: Garuda reads attendance + leave + LOP + bonus, applies PF/ESI/PT/TDS, emails every payslip as a signed PDF, and writes the bank transfer file.
→ 90s for 500 employees
Statutory
EPFO ECR (exact .txt), ESIC Form 5 & 6, Professional Tax challan per state, Form 16 bundle — all generated from the same payroll run. Download, upload to the portal, done.
→ 15 minutes of portal uploads
Close
Every action is logged. Every payslip is signed. Every filing has a receipt. CA opens the export on month 13 and the year is done — no back-and-forth, no "can you send me the challan again".
→ Audit: 1 click, not 2 weeks
HR · Add employee
New joinee
Full name
Priya Raghavan
PAN
AFNPR9872K · ✓ Validated with NSDL
Bank
HDFC · ****4210 · ✓ IFSC valid
Auto-generated
EMP-0513 · Biometric ID 0513 · UAN pending
Attendance · Today · Live
Last 5 punches
Priya Raghavan · IN
09:04:22 · Biometric · HQ
Ravi Kumar · IN
09:22:07 · Mobile · GPS Chennai
Anjali Sharma · OUT
13:04:55 · Biometric · Canteen
Jayalakshmi N · IN
13:59:12 · Biometric · HQ
Kiran Patel · IN
14:05:00 · Mobile · GPS Bengaluru
Payroll · March 2026 · Review
512 employees · ₹2.18 Cr gross
Statutory filings · March 2026
4 portal files ready
EPFO ECR
512 records · ₹22.10 L
ESIC Form 5 + 6
487 covered · ₹1.38 L
Professional Tax · TN
Challan · ₹1.02 L
24Q Quarterly
TRACES file · ₹9.84 L
Close · Month-end dashboards
All clear for the CA
ROI
Slide to your team size. Compare manual work (spreadsheets, Tally, hand filings) with Garuda.
Manual today
38h
HR hours / month on payroll + filings
On Garuda
2.4h
Mostly review + upload to portals
Saved per month
₹17,800
At ₹500/hr of HR time
Assumes monthly payroll + statutory filings in-house. Does not include leave/comp-off admin, PF query resolution, or Form 16 pain in Q1.
Migration
From Greytip or MyGate or 3 years of spreadsheets. Same weekend. No downtime.
One-click export from your current system. We run it together over a 30-min call.
Our importer maps employees / units, matches departments / blocks, flags ambiguities. You approve the diff.
Last month's payroll / outstanding dues side-by-side. Zero-delta required before we proceed.
Team logs in. Training in parallel. Old system kept read-only for 30 days — safety net.
What customers say
"Our monthly payroll used to take me 3 full days. Now it's 90 seconds plus reviewing the numbers. EPFO ECR that used to need our CA — we do it ourselves in Garuda."
Lakshmi Srinivasan
HR Head · manufacturing · 340 employees
"Before Garuda, 18% of residents were always overdue and I had no real way to chase. Now rent reminders go out on the 3rd, 7th, 10th automatically via WhatsApp. Overdue is under 4%."
Venkatesh Krishnan
Secretary · Sunrise Apartments (124 units)
"We run a hotel with 230 staff AND 12 owned properties we rent out. Garuda is the only Indian vendor I found with both on one login. One less password, one less invoice, fewer mistakes."
Rajkumar S.
MD · Savera Industries Ltd · Chennai
FAQ
No. We do two things — HR and Property — and we do them well. If you need CRM, inventory, GL/accounting, stay with your existing tool (Tally, Zoho Books, Quickbooks) and we'll export payroll journals in a format your accountant imports cleanly.
Yes. They're independent products. Buy one, both, or start with one and add the other when you're ready. No penalty for single-product pricing.
Yes. Professional and Enterprise tiers include a Docker-Compose install on your own Linux server (or ours, colocated in Chennai). Updates are pulled in via a simple `docker compose pull` — rollback to any previous version with one command. Your data never leaves your network.
Indian data centres — Mumbai and Chennai, with daily off-site backups to a third Indian region. DPDP Act compliant. You own your data and can export it to JSON / CSV at any time, including during cancellation.
30 days from the CBIC / EPFO / state notification, SLA-backed on Professional and Enterprise. For critical changes (e.g. Budget day rate changes) we target same-day.
Yes — payroll journal export in Tally XML, Zoho CSV, Quickbooks IIF. Rent collections export the same way. One click at month-end, no manual re-entry.
Cancel anytime. You get a full data export — JSON + CSV + your signed payslip PDFs + AGM minutes — before anything is deleted. 90-day retention on our side after cancellation, then permanent deletion. No lock-in clauses.
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We'll get your subdomain live in 2 minutes. Bring a teammate; they can log in from the welcome email.
Garuda Yantra Technologies · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · GST registered