Employee records
Personal and employment details, documents, reporting manager, department, designation, joining date and status. One record, referenced by every other module.
Product
Employee management software for growing businesses
One record per employee, and every operational fact hanging off it — attendance, leave, holidays, projects, tasks, daily work reports and tracked hours. Per-user pricing — pay only for active employees; admins are free.
- 7-day trial
- No credit card
- Built-in payroll
- CSV export for payroll
What Employee Desk manages
Each module below is a page of its own, because each one is a decision you make separately. Together they are the operational half of HR, payroll included.
Attendance
Shifts, grace windows, late policy, automatic lunch deduction and month-end export.
Attendance software → 03Leave and holidays
Every leave type, balances that accrue monthly, one-click approvals and a shared holiday calendar.
Leave management → 04Projects and tasks
Projects with a code, a manager and members. Tasks with an assignee, a priority and a completion percentage.
Workforce management →Daily work reports
What each person worked on, against which project, for how many hours — read in one screen instead of asked for in a call.
Time tracking
Optional desktop app measuring active and idle time, with screenshots only if you enable them.
Time tracking →Reports and exports
Attendance, leave, tracked time and work reports over any date range, on screen as charts and out as CSV.
Roles and audit
Custom roles where every permission is scoped to own, team or all records, an audit log, optional TOTP two-factor for admins and a revocable signed-in devices list.
Security →Payroll
Salary components and templates, loss of pay from absences, payslip PDFs, loans and advances with EMI, PF, ESI and PT, a bank transfer sheet and a salary register.
Timesheets and chat
Weekly timesheets from tracked and reported hours, exported as CSV, and team chat inside the same portal.
Your own workspace
Each organization is an isolated workspace with its own users, roles, settings and logo. Nothing is shared with any other customer.
Plans and trial
Sign up yourself and get a 7-day free trial with no card. Plans are billed monthly per active user in rupees through Razorpay, plus 18% GST.
Pricing →Payroll from the same record
Because attendance, leave and holidays are already in the register, a payroll run does not start from an import.
- Components and templates. Earnings and deductions defined once, combined into salary templates and assigned per employee with an annual CTC.
- Loss of pay from absences. Unpaid leave and absent days are deducted automatically, and the payslip lists each LOP day with the reason, so nobody has to argue about the number.
- Payslip PDF that employees download themselves.
- Loans and advances recovered as a monthly EMI until cleared.
- PF, ESI and PT computed from the rates you configure, with a statutory sheet per month. TDS is entered as a monthly figure; returns are not filed from the product.
- Bank transfer sheet and salary register as XLSX once the run is approved.
Who it is built for
Companies that have outgrown spreadsheets but do not want a six-month HRMS implementation.
It fits when
- Attendance currently lives in a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand.
- Leave is approved over email or chat, and balances are argued about at year end.
- Work-from-home and hybrid staff make a biometric device insufficient on its own.
- You want payroll driven by the same attendance and leave record, or clean data going into the payroll you already run.
- Your buyer or your client contract requires the data to sit on infrastructure you control.
It does not fit when
- You need statutory return filing, income-tax projection and Form 16 generation inside the same product.
- You need a full recruitment and applicant tracking pipeline.
- You need appraisal cycles, goal cascades and 360-degree feedback.
- You have only a handful of employees — a spreadsheet may still be cheaper.
We would rather say this here than in month two of a rollout.
How it works
Four steps, and the third one is the only part that involves your team.
- Create the company and add the teamAdd people with their names, emails, departments and joining dates. Employees get an invite and set their own password.
- Set the rules onceShifts, grace window, late policy, leave types, accrual rates, carry-forward caps and the holiday calendar. These are the only decisions that need HR in the room.
- People start marking attendanceFrom the web portal, or from the desktop app if you are rolling out time tracking. Managers approve leave from the same screen they see the team calendar in.
- Export at month endRun payroll in Employee Desk from the same attendance and leave, or export the register as CSV or XLSX into the payroll you already use.
Runs on our cloud
Sign up, create your organization and invite the team. There is nothing to install for the web portal.
Billing is per active user, per month: plans from ₹59 per user/month + GST. Need an on-premise deployment? Contact sales. Full detail on the cloud page.
Pricing
Per active user, per month, in rupees, plus 18% GST. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Cloud
Starter
Core HR, shifts and chat
₹59 / user / month
+ 18% GST
- Employee records
- Attendance
- Leave management
- Holiday calendar
- Custom roles & permissions
- Organization settings
- Session control
- Shifts & roster
- Team chat
Cloud · most chosen
Growth
Projects, tasks, work reports, timesheets and activity tracking
₹99 / user / month
+ 18% GST
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Projects
- Tasks
- Daily work reports
- Timesheets
- Desktop time tracker (hours, active/idle)
Cloud
Pro
Screenshots, live productivity, planning, payroll and audit
₹149 / user / month
+ 18% GST
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- Screenshots, live board & retention
- Live screen capture, day timeline, browser tab history, top apps & pages, screenshots
- Productivity insights
- Workforce planning
- Payroll
- Audit log
Prices exclude 18% GST. Billed monthly per active user.
Per-user pricing — pay only for active employees; admins are free. Full detail on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
What is employee management software?
Employee management software keeps the operational record of every employee in one place: who they are, when they worked, what leave they have taken and what they worked on. Employee Desk covers employee records, attendance, leave, holidays, projects, tasks, daily work reports and optional time tracking, so those records do not have to be reconciled across separate tools.
How is this different from a full HRMS?
A full HRMS adds recruitment, performance appraisal cycles and compliance filing. Employee Desk does include monthly payroll: payroll covers salary components and templates, loss of pay from absences (listed day by day on the payslip), payslip PDFs, loans and advances with EMI, PF/ESI/PT and a bank transfer sheet. It does not file statutory returns or project income tax, which keeps the rollout short. If you already run payroll somewhere you like, export the attendance register instead.
How long does it take to set up?
On the cloud, importing a team and setting shifts, leave types and the holiday calendar takes an afternoon.
Can employees update their own records?
Yes, within limits you control. Employees maintain contact details, emergency contacts and documents; anything that affects pay or policy stays with the admin role and is written to the audit log.
Does it work for a team spread across offices and home?
Yes. Attendance is not tied to a physical device, so remote and hybrid employees mark attendance from the web portal or the desktop app, without a fixed device.
Screenshot
Employee record
A 360° record per person: 90 days of attendance and punctuality, average hours, open tasks, today’s shift, leave balance, probation and reporting line — with personal, job, payroll and document tabs.
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HR overview
HR staff get their own role: employee records, attendance, leave approvals, shifts and holidays, plus their own attendance and leave — without planning or cost data.
Try it on your own team this week
Start a 7-day free trial, no card needed. Per-user pricing — pay only for active employees; admins are free.
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- No credit card
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