Payroll ledger for Indian teams
EPF, ESI, professional tax and TDS computed against the current slabs every month, leave and unpaid days taken off automatically, and a payslip PDF for every employee. Set up by the owner in an afternoon — no demo call, no minimum headcount, no implementation project.
Free forever under 5 employees · No credit card · PAN, Aadhaar and bank details encrypted
Payroll run — this month
March, closed in 41s
Salaries, deductions and net pay computed in one pass — no spreadsheet formulas to babysit. You approve the numbers; your bank still moves the money.
Provident fund split across EPF and EPS, ESI held to its contribution periods, professional tax and labour welfare fund at each employee's work-state slab and frequency, and TDS projected across the full financial year under both regimes.
The variable half of payroll, which is the half spreadsheets get wrong. Approved leave and loss of pay come off the run automatically, and a mid-month raise or an exit is a calculation the product does, not one you do.
Every payslip reads like a clear statement rather than a code dump — basic, HRA, deductions, net, laid out plainly. Form 16 Part B is computed on paid plans; Part A still comes from TRACES, as it does everywhere.
Paid plans export the bulk transfer file your bank takes, so payday is one upload instead of a row of manual NEFTs. VetanBandhu never touches the money itself.
Statutory identifiers and account numbers are encrypted at rest, not sitting in a shared spreadsheet named final_salary_v3.xlsx.
A closed run stays on file with the numbers as computed, ready to reopen when someone asks about March. Sensitive changes are recorded with who made them and when — coverage is still being widened across the product.
No implementation project, no configuration workshop, no consultant. The longest part is typing in your employees the first time.
Name, salary structure, work state, PAN. Type them in or bring a spreadsheet — the importer maps your columns, and there are ready-made profiles for Zoho, greytHR, Keka and RazorpayX on paid plans.
Approved leave and unpaid days come off, EPF, ESI, professional tax and TDS compute against the current slabs, and arrears or a final settlement go in where they apply. Every figure shows the working behind it before you approve anything.
Payslip PDFs for everyone, Form 16 Part B and a bank advice file on paid plans, and the run stays on file exactly as computed for the month someone asks about it in October.
Every other payroll tool assumes an HR team, so it ships org charts, approval chains and a portal your staff have to be talked into using. Under 15 employees all of that is overhead you pay for and then work around.
Nobody to onboard, nobody to offboard, no password resets for a person who left in March.
Payslips go out as PDFs you send however you already talk to your team, usually WhatsApp. A self-service portal is there if you want one; nothing breaks if you never turn it on.
Payroll is already your job. VetanBandhu is built for that, not for routing it through an approval chain that does not exist.
What happens when you outgrow it: Growth adds 3 admin seats and the employee self-service portal, and Scale adds 10 seats, separate entities under one parent and roles you define yourself. Two limits worth knowing before you sign up: extra seats beyond a plan's allowance cannot be bought yet, and the self-serve price list stops at 1,000 employees — past that it is a conversation, not a checkout.
Provident fund with the EPS split, ESI held to its contribution periods, and TDS projected across the financial year under both regimes. We compute and document; we do not generate EPFO ECR or TDS FVU files and we do not file on your behalf.
Applied at each employee's work-state slab and at that state's frequency, monthly or half-yearly. Every state you employ in needs its slab configured first.
There is one, from Growth upward. Below that there deliberately is not: under a dozen people, no logins to hand out and no app to install is the feature, not the gap.
We produce the bank advice file on paid plans and your bank moves the money. VetanBandhu never holds or transfers it, which is also why there is nothing of yours for us to hold up.
Where we are behind, this table says so. In a compliance product a comparison you cannot trust is worse than no comparison.
Four public bands, one number in each. Every plan runs payroll as many times a month as you need, produces PDF payslips, and lets you export your data. The only question is how many people you pay.
For very small teams, at no cost
No card, no expiry, no GST to add.
No card · Cancel anytime
For small teams getting payroll off spreadsheets
+ 18% GST · ₹707 inclusive
15 employees included, then ₹40 per extra employee/month
No card · Cancel anytime
For growing businesses running payroll every month
+ 18% GST · ₹2,123 inclusive
50 employees included, then ₹35 per extra employee/month
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For established teams that need room to grow
+ 18% GST · ₹5,899 inclusive
150 employees included, then ₹30 per extra employee/month
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For most of our customers the real alternative is not other software — it is the ₹2,000 a month their accountant charges to do this in Excel. This is cheaper, and the records stay in your account rather than in someone else's inbox.
More than 1,000 employees, or a CA managing payroll for 10+ clients? We onboard larger teams and CA partners by hand — custom roles, multi-entity and partner pricing are set up directly.
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For filings and tax advice, yes. For the monthly grind — computing deductions, producing payslips, keeping the numbers straight — VetanBandhu does the work most accountants would otherwise bill you hourly for. We compute and document; we do not move money and we do not file on your behalf.
Close this month's books
Free for teams of 5 or fewer. No card, no demo call, no sales follow-up.