14 integrated modules

One platform, hire to retire

PayCraft is a complete, India-first HRMS — every module shares one employee record, one set of roles and one audit trail. No bolt-ons, no integrations to babysit.

Core HR, Org & Lifecycle Payroll Engine Statutory & Compliance Attendance & Time Leave Management Recruitment / ATS Performance / PMS Learning / LMS Expense & Travel Helpdesk & Assets Benefits & Insurance Documents & e-Sign Analytics & Dashboards Platform, RBAC & API

People & organisation

The system of record for the entire employee lifecycle.

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Core HR, Org & Lifecycle

A complete employee master, built for India.

✓Employee master with statutory IDs (PAN, UAN, ESIC, Aadhaar — encrypted at rest)
✓Rich profiles: personal, family & dependents, education and prior experience
✓Org chart with reporting tree, plus positions & headcount (budgeted vs filled)
✓Pay grades & bands and a nested business-unit hierarchy
✓Audited lifecycle timeline — confirmation, promotion, transfer
✓Onboarding & exit journey templates, custom-field builder, bulk CSV import

Payroll & compliance — the moat

A rules-as-data engine where every rate, ceiling and slab is versioned, effective-dated data — never hardcoded.

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Payroll Engine

Indian payroll that actually keeps up.

✓PF, ESI, state-wise PT, TDS (new & old regime, 87A + marginal relief), gratuity, bonus, LWF
✓Loans & advances with EMI auto-deduction, retrospective arrears, variable pay & incentives
✓Flexible Benefit Plan (FBP) cafeteria and per-employee salary structure editor
✓Salary revisions (effective-dated) with revision letters and auto arrear triggers
✓Immutable, idempotent runs · off-cycle / bonus runs · run approval workflow (Draft→Paid)
✓Dedicated Full & Final settlement worksheet with gratuity, leave encashment & netting

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Statutory & Compliance

Filing artifacts straight from your runs.

✓PF ECR, Form 24Q, Form 16 Part B, bank NEFT CSV and balanced Tally accounting JV
✓All-state Professional Tax & LWF reference, gender-aware, with Feb top-up
✓Challan payment tracker and a compliance filing calendar with due-date countdowns
✓IT investment declarations (80C/80D/HRA/NPS/home-loan) with proof-of-investment verification
✓Labour Codes 2025 ready — 50% wages rule, effective-dated, always current
✓Reproducible, audit-defensible historical runs

Time, attendance & leave

Where time turns into accurate pay.

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Attendance & Time

From punches to payroll, automatically.

✓Monthly grid (employees × days) with weekends/holidays auto-shaded
✓Policy engine: grace, late-mark, half-day/absent auto-classification
✓Overtime & on-duty requests, comp-off, regularization → approve
✓Shift types (flexi/night/split/rotating) and a date-effective roster with shift-swap
✓Attendance analytics; loss-of-pay flows straight into payroll

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Leave Management

Configurable policies, clean approvals.

✓Leave types, balances and configurable accrual policies
✓Apply / approve with comments, cancel & withdraw, edit
✓Overlap + sandwich detection, comp-off workflow
✓Status tabs, request timeline and a team calendar
✓Loss-of-pay integrated with the payroll run

Talent — hire to grow

Attract, develop and retain — on one platform.

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Recruitment / ATS

Requisition to offer to employee.

✓Hiring requisitions: raise → approve → auto-opens a job
✓Job CRUD, candidate pipeline (Kanban), search, filters & dedup
✓Multi-round interview scheduling with scorecards
✓Recruitment agency portal and resume uploads
✓Offers → hire auto-creates the employee · public per-job careers pages

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Performance / PMS

Goals, reviews and calibration that hold up.

✓Review cycle lifecycle with weighted templates · self + manager reviews
✓OKR tree (objectives + key results) with progress tracking
✓360° peer feedback and a competency framework
✓9-box talent grid, merit matrix (rating → increment %) and calibration distribution
✓PIP / improvement plans and 1:1s

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Learning / LMS

Compliance and skills, tracked end to end.

✓Course builder with content modules and a quiz engine
✓SCORM / xAPI support
✓Mandatory + due tracking, self-enroll catalogue, learning paths
✓Course player and printable certificates
✓Compliance training reports (POSH and more)

Operations & employee experience

Everything employees touch day to day.

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Expense & Travel

Policy-driven claims and trips.

✓Expense claims with GST capture, categories and per-category spend limits
✓India city-tier per-diem, mileage, receipt thresholds and policy flags
✓Multi-level approval routing with state-transition history
✓Batch reimbursement → bank transfer file, integrated with payroll
✓Travel requests, cash advances and actual-vs-estimate settlement (multi-currency)

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Helpdesk & Assets

Tickets and asset lifecycle.

✓Helpdesk: categories + SLA, priority, assignee, comment thread, KB and CSAT
✓Asset register with assign / return / transfer / condition / retire
✓Full asset event history and a request portal

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Benefits & Insurance

Plans, enrollment and claims.

✓Plan CRUD (GMC / GPA / Term / NPS / Wellness) with financial & policy metadata
✓Dependents, enrollment windows and a claims workflow
✓My-Benefits employee self-service

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Documents & e-Sign

Generate, sign and track.

✓Offer / relieving / salary-certificate generation with print/PDF
✓Template builder with {{merge}} fields and bulk letter generation
✓In-app e-signature and mandatory policy acknowledgement
✓Category, expiry tracking and role-based document visibility

Insight & platform

The connective tissue that makes it enterprise-grade.

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Analytics & Dashboards

Decisions backed by your own data.

✓Workforce dashboards: headcount, attrition, diversity, payroll cost
✓By department / state / gender, with pending-action counts
✓Time-series trends rendered as charts
✓In-app notifications with a top-bar bell

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Platform, RBAC & API

Secure, configurable and integrable.

✓Configurable multi-level approval-workflow engine with delegation and an inbox
✓Granular custom roles layered over base RBAC · global search · report builder
✓Public REST API with scoped keys and outbound webhooks
✓Append-only audit log (actor + IP), verified tenant isolation, Postgres RLS
✓Field-level PII encryption (PAN + bank) and DPDP-aware data handling

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