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A database of your own
Your company gets its own database, not a shared table with a company column. That is what makes an export complete and a deletion final.
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Built for Indian payroll — PF, ESI, PT and TDS
Your whole HR department,
in one place
Attendance, leave, payroll, hiring and everything after it — twenty-three modules on one employee record, so month end is a review, not a reconstruction.
- 14-day free trial
- No card required
- Your data stays yours
The month-end scramble
Most companies do not have an HR problem. They have a joining-it-up problem.
ATTENDANCE & PAYROLL
Attendance lives in one place, payroll in another
- No more manual muster exports
- Attendance flows directly into payroll
- Fewer errors at month-end
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How Kuzhu works
One system. Everything connected.
Kuzhu connects the people, processes and compliance work that normally live across separate HR systems.
One record
Everything reads and writes the same employee
A transfer updates payroll. A resignation opens exit clearance and lists the laptop to collect. A punch missed on Tuesday shows in Friday’s payroll preview. Modules that share one record cannot drift apart — that is the whole trick.
- One profile, twenty-three modules deep
- Career events flow everywhere at once
- No exports between your own systems
One approval engine
Policy that enforces itself
Leave, expense claims, purchase orders and salary revisions all route through chains you configure once — by amount, by department, by role. Delegation covers absences. The audit trail writes itself.
- Multi-level chains with conditions
- Approve from phone or email
- Every decision on the record
Compliance built in
Indian payroll, not a translation
PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS are computed inside the payroll run, on the attendance and leave the system already holds. Registers, challans and returns come out ready for filing — not as a spreadsheet project.
- PF · ESI · PT (state-wise) · TDS
- Returns-ready registers every month
- Payslips your staff can actually read
What changes
The work that disappears
When your people, processes and payroll work from the same system, a surprising amount of HR work simply stops existing.
Before
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With Kuzhu
to run payroll, not a week
Attendance, leave and expenses are already in the system, so a run is a review rather than a rebuild. Most teams close in a single sitting.
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Outcome
1 day
✓
spreadsheets in the chain
The muster, the leave register and the salary sheet stop being three files that disagree. One record, one number, one place to correct it.
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Outcome
Zero
✓
of HR questions answered by the employee
Payslips, balances, letters and policies are where people can reach them, so the queue outside the HR desk gets shorter on its own.
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Outcome
80%
✓
change on the record
Who approved the raise, when the exit was accepted, what the settlement deducted and why. An audit stops being an archaeology project.
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Outcome
Every
✓
Less coordination. Less chasing. More actual HR work.
Kuzhu HRMSOne platform, twenty-three modules
Start with one problem.
Connect everything else.
Every module works from the same employee record. Add capabilities as your organisation grows without creating another system to maintain.
One connected platform
Employee record
One source of truth
People
The employee record, and everything that happens to it.
Connected to record
Money
What people cost, claim, buy and are given.
Connected to record
Growth
Bringing people in, and helping them get better.
Connected to record
Data flows once. Every module stays in sync.
Android and iOS
Built for the people
who never open a laptop.
Shop-floor, field and store staff run their whole HR life from the phone: punching in, asking for leave, reading the payslip. Managers approve from the same app. A system half your company cannot reach is half a system.
Every employee
Punch in at the gate
GPS-tagged punch from the phone, alongside the biometric device. Works for the shop floor and the field.
Every employee
Leave in two taps
The balance is on screen, the request goes to the right manager, and the answer comes back as a notification.
Every employee
Payslip in one
Published to the app every month with the breakup. No email to HR, no printout.
Managers
Approve between shifts
Leave, expense claims and regularisations, approved from the notification without opening a laptop.
Works on any Android or iPhoneSame login as the webHindi and English
Kuzhu at a glance
One system. A lot less friction.
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modules on one platform
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employee record shared by all of them
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statutory regimes in payroll — PF, ESI, PT, TDS
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monthly uptime target, an SLA on Enterprise
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Built to work quietly in the background.
Who runs on it
Built for how your
industry actually works.
A factory with three shifts has different HR requirements from a software company with hybrid teams. Kuzhu adapts through configuration, not custom development.
Industry 01
IT & software services
Salaried teams, hybrid attendance, appraisal cycles that actually close.
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Kuzhu configuration
Your workforce, your rules
Work-from-home and hybrid rules per person, not per company
Automatically applied to your workforce
Appraisal cycles with calibration and increment letters
Automatically applied to your workforce
Billable-project cost views your finance team can reconcile
Automatically applied to your workforce
No custom development required
Indian statutory, inside the run
Compliance is not a module you buy later.
PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS are computed while payroll runs. The same numbers flow into registers, challans and returns — without a second reconciliation exercise.
PF
Provident Fund
Employee and employer contributions, EPS split, ECR file ready to upload.
Included in payroll
ESI
Employees’ State Insurance
Wage-ceiling logic, contribution periods, and the return in the format the portal wants.
Included in payroll
PT
Professional Tax
State-wise slabs applied by work location, not by company address.
Included in payroll
TDS
Income Tax at source
Old and new regimes, declarations, proof verification and Form 24Q quarter by quarter.
Included in payroll
LWF
Labour Welfare Fund
Where the state levies it, deducted on the right months at the right rate.
Included in payroll
Gratuity
Gratuity & bonus
Accrual through service, and statutory bonus computed against eligibility.
Included in payroll
Why Kuzhu
The decisions we made
on purpose.
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Compliance that computes itself
PF, ESI, PT and TDS inside the payroll run, with challans and returns your accountant already knows. Not a plug-in. Not a partner.
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Your brand, your domain
hr.yourcompany.com with your logo and colours. The people using it every day should see your company, not your vendor.
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Approvals that actually hold
Who signs off what is configured once and enforced everywhere — leave, expenses, purchase orders, salary revisions.
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Built for the phone too
Shop-floor and field staff punch in, apply for leave and get their payslip from a phone. A system half your company cannot reach is half a system.
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You can leave
Export everything, in formats you can open, whenever you want. We would rather earn the renewal than hold the data hostage.
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Customer stories
What changed once HR
started working together.
Customer voice01 / 03
1 afternoonto close payroll, down from four people for most of a week
“Payroll used to take four of us the better part of a week. Last month one person closed it in an afternoon, and the PF challan came out of the run instead of out of a spreadsheet.”
Meera Nair
Head of HR, Manufacturing · 340 employees
From the people using Kuzhu
Verified Customer Ratings
What HR leaders say about Kuzhu HR & Payroll.
Honest ratings from verified companies running attendance, biometric machines, and monthly payroll across India.
4.9
From 12 customer reviews
Direct WhatsApp & phone support
“Customer support actually answers phone calls and WhatsApp”
With our previous vendor, raising an issue meant waiting 48 hours in a ticket queue. With Kuzhu, our designated account manager answers within minutes. The migration from our old software took just two weeks with zero data loss.
BC
Bhavna Chawla
HR Director, Zenith Retail Brands
Real-time reimbursement flow
“Expense claims with receipt capture streamlined reimbursement”
Our lab sample collection executives file travel claims with receipts photographed on the spot. Managers approve in real-time, and reimbursements flow straight into the payroll payout. Very clean implementation with exceptional customer support.
GT
Gaurav Tandon
Chief Financial Officer, Apex Health Diagnostics
Dedicated database isolation
“Dedicated database per company and clean REST API”
From a security and architectural standpoint, having a dedicated database rather than a multi-tenant shared table was a key factor in choosing Kuzhu. The REST API made it easy to connect our internal engineering tools for single-sign on and onboarding hooks.
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Karthik Sundaram
Chief Technology Officer, OmniReach Cloud Technologies
80% drop in repetitive queries
“Cut 80% of routine HR questions within the first two weeks”
Employees used to message HR daily for leave balances, salary slips, and investment proof status. Once we rolled out the Kuzhu employee portal, employees found everything on their phones. Our repetitive query inbox dropped by over 80%.
PR
Priyadarshini Rao
Lead HR Business Partner, Edura Learning Systems
Grew from 12 to 95 smoothly
“Started on the Free plan, smoothly upgraded as our team expanded”
We started with Kuzhu’s free tier when we were just 12 employees. It had everything: attendance, leave, records, and mobile app without any arbitrary trial expiry. As we crossed 50 people, moving to the Growth plan with automated payroll took less than a day.
HP
Harish Patel
Founder & Managing Director, Nirmaan Precision Engineering
100% audit-ready records
“Maker-checker approvals and audit trails pass every compliance review”
Being a financial services entity, our auditors scrutinise every salary increment, reimbursement, and clearance. Kuzhu provides an immutable audit trail of who approved what, when, and from which IP. Document generation for increment and promotion letters is instantaneous.
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Sunita Kulkarni
Head of People Operations, FinTech Vantage Solutions
Reviews are from active companies using Kuzhu, published with their permission and verified by month-end payroll execution.
Explore all 12 customer reviews & ratingsThe first month
See the system
come together.
Each week adds another part of the employee journey until everything works from one connected record.
ImplementationWEEK 01
PEOPLE02
Bring people into the flow
Attendance & leave
AttendanceLeave
Connected
PAYROLL03
Connect payroll
Salary & compliance
PayrollPF / ESI
Connected
GO LIVE04
Go live
Launch & support
ValidateTrain
Connected
Building your system01 / 04
01Week 01
Set the foundation
Employee records, organisation structure and core policies come together first. This creates the single source of truth that every Kuzhu module will use.
- Import and validate your complete employee master data
- Configure departments, locations, designations and reporting managers
- Set up organisation hierarchy and role-based access
- Configure company policies, working days and holiday calendars
- Map employee types, employment status and joining information
- Review data with your implementation team before moving forward
02Week 02
03Week 03
04Week 04
Works with what you have
Keep your systems.
Connect them through Kuzhu.
Your biometric device keeps sending punches. Your accounting system keeps receiving journals. Your bank keeps receiving the file it expects. Kuzhu connects the work in between.
Your systems
Biometric devices
Attendance
Bank payment files
Payroll
Kuzhu
HR · Payroll · Compliance
Connected
Connected through Kuzhu
Where it goes
Razorpay
Billing
WhatsApp Business
Communication
No rip-and-replace. Just connect what already works.
Kuzhu integrationsSwitching
Moving from something else?
Here is what changes, and how long it takes.
Every move follows the same shape: import, configure, one parallel payroll, then switch. Nobody is asked to change on faith.
Security and data
Your payroll data,
treated like payroll data.
Salaries, PAN numbers and bank details are the most sensitive records a company keeps. Here is where they live, who can see them, and how you get them back.
Hosted in India
Your data stays in the country, on infrastructure we run for you.
One database per company
Not a shared table with a company column. An export is complete and a deletion is final.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
TLS on every connection, AES-256 on disk. Nothing travels or sits in the clear.
Hosted in India
Your data stays in the country, on infrastructure we run for you.
One database per company
Not a shared table with a company column. An export is complete and a deletion is final.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
TLS on every connection, AES-256 on disk. Nothing travels or sits in the clear.
Hosted in India
Your data stays in the country, on infrastructure we run for you.
One database per company
Not a shared table with a company column. An export is complete and a deletion is final.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
TLS on every connection, AES-256 on disk. Nothing travels or sits in the clear.
Role-based access
Who sees salaries, PAN and bank details is a permission you grant, not a default.
Every change on the record
Before, after, who and when, for salaries, approvals and letters. Exportable when the auditor asks.
Daily backups, tested restores
Encrypted backups every day, restores rehearsed, and a 99.9% uptime target.
Role-based access
Who sees salaries, PAN and bank details is a permission you grant, not a default.
Every change on the record
Before, after, who and when, for salaries, approvals and letters. Exportable when the auditor asks.
Daily backups, tested restores
Encrypted backups every day, restores rehearsed, and a 99.9% uptime target.
Role-based access
Who sees salaries, PAN and bank details is a permission you grant, not a default.
Every change on the record
Before, after, who and when, for salaries, approvals and letters. Exportable when the auditor asks.
Daily backups, tested restores
Encrypted backups every day, restores rehearsed, and a 99.9% uptime target.
You can leave. Export everything you own, in formats you can open, at any time and for 90 days after you go.
Read the privacy policyPricing
Free up to 15 employees.
Then priced on your headcount.
No setup fee, no minimum contract, no card to start. Larger plans are quoted on the call against your real numbers, because a rate card is wrong the day it changes.
Free forever
Basic
Up to 15 employees
Free
For life, for one company up to 15 people
- Employee records & org structure
- Attendance with mobile punch
- Leave applications & balances
- Payslip & document storage
Starter
Up to 50 employees
Per employee
Quoted on your headcount, 14-day trial
- Everything in Basic
- Shift scheduling & week-offs
- Attendance policies & regularisation
- Leave policies per employment type
Most chosen
Growth
Up to 250 employees
Per employee
Quoted on your headcount, 14-day trial
- Everything in Starter
- Payroll with PF, ESI, PT & TDS
- Recruitment (ATS) & onboarding
- Performance & appraisal cycles
Need many locations, several legal entities or an SLA? Enterprise is on the pricing page.
Free tools
The calculators and tables
payroll people keep open.
PF, ESI and CTC worked out with the current rules, professional tax by state, every statutory due date in one calendar, and the words explained. No sign-up.
Questions and doubts
The things people ask first,
and the ones they do not say out loud.
The doubts that quietly end most conversations, answered directly, then the questions everyone asks. The full list is on the FAQ page.
The honest answer01 / 08
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We already have something. Switching sounds painful.
It is a month, and week three is a parallel payroll run against your current system so you can see the numbers agree before you commit. Nobody is asked to switch on faith.
Answered by the Kuzhu team
Browse questions
Select a questionKStart with your real workflow
Bring us the mess.
We'll show you what changes.
No polished slides. No imaginary employee data. Walk us through how your HR actually works today and see where Kuzhu can take the work off your team.
30 minutes · Your numbers · Your questions
What happens in the demo
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Show us the current setup
Attendance, payroll, approvals — whatever is creating the most work.
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We map it to Kuzhu
You see exactly how the workflows connect instead of hearing a feature list.
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Decide if it fits
If Kuzhu is not the right answer, we will tell you.
A real conversation, not a sales script
Ready when you are.
Kuzhu HRMS