Cloud-based payroll software for India

Automate your entire payroll cycle — attendance lock to disbursement

QkrPayroll handles everything from salary structures to statutory filing: PF, ESI, PT, LWF, and TDS — so your payroll runs without errors, every month.

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5 Payroll Problems Costing Indian Businesses Hours Every Month

Attendance arrives late. Payroll runs late.

Chasing department heads for attendance confirmation on the 28th. By the time it's locked, disbursement is already delayed and employees are asking HR when salaries will hit.

One revision. Three hours of corrections.

A single salary change cascades into manual recalculations across components, statutory deductions, and payslips. What should take 5 minutes takes half a working day.

Wrong PT slab. Wrong state. Compliance risk.

Professional Tax rates differ across 18 states. One wrong configuration means incorrect
challans filed for months — with penalties that arrive long after the mistake was made.

Salary landed wrong. Employee escalated.

The mismatch between what the employee expected and what landed in their account. HR spends the first week of every month explaining discrepancies that should have been caught before disbursement.

Payroll that should take 2 days takes 5.

Finance is waiting. Management is asking. HR is firefighting. No guided process, no automated checks, no handoff control — just one person holding the entire payroll cycle together manually.

Payroll Features

Everything Your Payroll Needs, Tax Built Into One Platform

Three core modules, all connected. No data entry between systems, no compliance guesswork.

Payroll Management

QkrPayroll smart console streamlines payroll—from structure to salary slips—without missing a step. With the Payroll Wizard, it's “Perfect Payroll, Every Time.”

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Statutory Compliance

Stay audit-ready with automated PF, ESI, professional tax, gratuity, and LWF calculations, challans, and returns—all updated to current statutory rates.

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Loans and Advances

Centralize employee advance and loan requests with configurable policies, automated approvals, seamless disbursements, and EMI tracking.

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Pre-Payroll Stage

Set the Foundation for Accurate Payroll

Before payroll runs, QkrPayroll makes sure every input is verified. Attendance, pay groups, and pay cycles — all in order.

Attendance & Leave Auto-Sync

Field Team Attendance Tracking

Define Multiple Pay Groups

Multi-entity payroll setup

Handle different pay cycles

Create custom salary structures

Configure loans & salary advances

Appraisals, increments & revisions

How QkrPayroll Work

Run Payroll in 3 Simple Steps — Start to Finish

QkrPayroll 3-stage payroll locking cycle eliminates errors before they happen. Each stage locks data before the next begins — so every payroll is accurate and audit-ready.

Attendance Cycle End Stage

HR dashboard for attendance review
Error identification & corrections
Attendance locked by HR teams
Final data validation

Built for Accuracy, Designed for Flexibility

From start to finish—in just 3 simple steps.

Get notified at every stage of payroll

Pause and resume payroll processing

Never miss a step with guided workflows

Go back and make corrections before finalizing

Process employees selectively or in bulk

Lock payroll only when everything is perfect

Built for Every Stakeholder

Built for Every Stakeholder in Your Business

QkrPayroll gives each person exactly what they need — without giving them what they don't.

Track salary status in real time
No need to ask HR about payment timelines
Access payslips, tax details, and requests anytime

Also Need Full HR Management?

QkrPayroll + Full HRMS — One Platform

QkrPayroll works as a standalone payroll system and also integrates seamlessly with QkrHR HRMS — our complete HR management platform for attendance, leave, onboarding, field force management, and employee records. One platform. No data silos.

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Trusted by HR Teams Across India

Voices of Satisfaction

Roli

HR | SRSG

QkrHR has made our daily HR work so much simpler. Attendance, leave, and payroll take minutes now, not hours. It's so easy for everyone, support is quick, and our HR finally focuses on people instead of paperwork—bringing a real positive shift.

Sushant V.

Manager

QkrHR is an efficient, user-friendly HR application for daily tasks. Employees can mark attendance, apply for leave, and view balances easily. Real-time updates reduce manual processes, improve accessibility, and streamline internal workflows—making HR simpler and faster.

Pranav Goel

CEO DebtSet

QkrHR has streamlined our HR operations with a user-friendly interface and comprehensive features. Payroll, policies, and HR tasks are effortless, while integrated Field Force Management, smart workflows and customizable views save time, boost productivity, and enable smarter HR decisions.

Ashok Jade

CEO Shalimar Paints

Intec Infonet Pvt. Ltd. Pvt Ltd has carried out a really excellent and highly professional job. The team's exceptional domain and technical knowledge helped convert our requirement, which was just in the form of ideas, into a very high-end enterprise mobility solution, with real-time interface with our SAP system.

Dinesh C. Gupta

Director Capital Power

My ERP software had to be easy to use & Intec Infonet Pvt. Ltd. Pvt Ltd made that happen for me! I am dedicatedly using this software from past 2 years & not once have I encountered any problem. It also has an impeccable support team & that’s why I recommend it to others also.

Ranjith Singh

V.P Arihant Electricals

I very much appreciate the team's EFFORTs over these past years. Your experience and dedicated staff have really helped us in implementing the solution and provided a helping hand whenever there is a query raised.

Atal Bihari

Sales Head Vision Plus

Vision Plus Pvt Ltd Is using Qkrbiz from July 2015 and I am really impressed with the product features. We have streamlined our Sales and Services to a great extent and kudos to EFFORT for helping us achieve this. I highly recommend to use this World class product.

Vinita R.

Deputy Manager - HR, Intec Capital

Payroll used to be our most stressful process every month. With QkrHR, attendance flows directly into payroll, exceptions are highlighted automatically, and salary errors have almost disappeared. It's easily the smoothest payroll experience I've had in 5 years.

Priya

HR & Administration Manager, Help a Child Foundation

QkrPayroll significantly reduced our payroll processing time and manual effort. Attendance integration and exception handling have made month-end payroll faster, more accurate, and easier to manage.

Anjali

Manager - Human Resources, iVenture

Before QkrPayroll, payroll involved multiple spreadsheets and constant corrections. Today, payroll runs smoothly with automated calculations and minimal manual intervention, saving our HR team valuable time every month.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Payroll software is a system that automates employee salary processing — calculating earnings, deductions, and taxes, generating payslips, and preparing statutory filings. In India, this includes automatic PF, ESI, TDS, and professional tax computation, so HR and finance teams can run accurate, compliant payroll in minutes instead of days of spreadsheet work.

Qkrpayroll calculates PF, ESI, TDS, and professional tax automatically in every pay cycle and generates challan-ready reports for filing. Professional tax is covered across all 18 PT-levying Indian states, with state-specific slabs applied automatically — including edge cases like Maharashtra's February rate. Statutory updates are maintained in the software, so your team never tracks rule changes manually.

With Qkrpayroll, employees go live in 7 days and full implementation completes in 15 days — including data migration, salary structure setup, and statutory configuration. A dedicated point of contact on WhatsApp supports your team throughout, so switching payroll doesn't turn into a months-long IT project.

Yes. Qkrpayroll runs on a three-stage cycle: Attendance Lock, Processing, and Disbursement. Attendance and leave data — including GPS-based field force attendance — flows directly into payroll, and locking attendance before processing means no last-minute changes can corrupt a payroll run. Loss of pay, overtime, and shift data are applied automatically.

Payroll software focuses on salary processing and statutory compliance, while an HRMS covers the full employee lifecycle — attendance, leave, onboarding, appraisals, and more — with payroll as one module. Qkrpayroll is available both as standalone payroll software and as the payroll module inside QkrHR, so you can start with payroll alone and expand to the full HRMS when you're ready.

Payroll software in India is typically priced per employee per month, so cost scales with your headcount rather than a large upfront licence. Qkrpayroll follows the same model — you pay for the employees you process, and pricing adjusts as your team grows. For exact pricing for your team size and requirements, request a quote or book a demo.

Qkrpayroll is built for mid-size and growing businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and entry-level tools but don't want enterprise-grade complexity or cost. It automates PF, ESI, TDS, and professional tax across 18 states, supports multi-entity and multi-location payroll, and scales as your headcount grows — no re-implementation needed. With a 15-day full implementation and dedicated WhatsApp support, growing teams go live fast without a heavy IT project.

Yes. QkrHR Payroll is built for Indian SMEs and startups — affordable, easy to set up with a 7-day employee go-live, and scalable as your team grows. It handles everything from salary structures to compliance without needing a dedicated payroll team or specialist.

Yes — you don't have to wait for April. Qkrpayroll migrates your year-to-date payroll data, including earnings, deductions, and TDS already deducted, so Form 16, tax computations, and statutory filings stay accurate for the full financial year. Most mid-year switches complete within the standard 15-day implementation window.

Yes. Qkrpayroll supports multi-entity, multi-location payroll from a single platform — separate legal entities, state-wise professional tax slabs, and location-specific compliance are all handled in one system. This makes it a strong fit for groups of companies, CAs and payroll consultants managing multiple clients, and businesses expanding across states.

Yes. Employee self-service lets your team download payslips, view Form 16, submit investment declarations, and check tax computations from their mobile — without emailing HR. This cuts routine payroll queries sharply and keeps proof-of-income documents available to employees on demand.