Stop being the HR department. Keep the visibility.
You approve leave at midnight, run payroll on a Sunday and sign letters someone else should have drafted. ZekoHR takes the work off your desk and leaves the decisions on it, free for a year.
Up to 50 employees free for 12 months. No card, no sales call.
What you are doing that you should not be
Approving everything
Every leave request and expense claim lands with you because there is no one else. Managers approve for their teams; approval rules route expenses by amount; you see only what crosses the limit.
Running payroll yourself
A spreadsheet and a bank upload at month end. Payroll runs with pre-flight checks, an accountant or office manager prepares it, and you review the register before finalising.
Hoping nothing goes wrong
A dispute, a labour notice, a resignation with a counter-claim. Letters, policy acknowledgements, documents and the audit log mean the record exists before you need it.
An afternoon to set up, then it runs
India-ready defaults, every module on from day one, roles so you are not the only approver, and a dashboard that shows pending actions and who is out. After the free year, from ₹10 per user per month with a GST invoice and no minimum.
- Set up in an afternoon; invite the team the same day
- Managers approve; you see only what crosses a limit
- Payroll you review, not run; rollback if a line is wrong
- Audit log, letters and acknowledgements for the day you need them
Illustration of a founder dashboard with pending actions and payroll status.
What changes in the first month
Week one
Invite everyone, make team leads Managers, make the office manager an HR Manager. Leave requests stop arriving in your chat.
Week three
Expense rules route claims to managers up to a limit and to you above it. You approve three things a week instead of thirty.
Month end
The run is prepared by someone else. You open the register, check the pre-flight warnings, finalise. Payslips go out without you.
When ZekoHR is not the right choice
You want a dashboard of HR analytics
The dashboard shows pending actions, who is out and celebrations. There is no report builder or headcount and attrition analytics; those numbers come from exports today.
You are under ten people
A spreadsheet is fine at that size and our comparison page says so. Come back when it stops being fine.
You want the vendor to run it for you
There is no implementation service. The product is self-serve by design; the free year is how you find out whether that works for you.
Common questions
Can I see everything without doing everything?
Yes. An Admin sees every record, run and log. Approvals go to managers and HR; expense rules send you only what crosses the limit you set.
What does it cost after the free year?
₹10, ₹20 or ₹30 per user per month depending on plan, billed in rupees with a GST invoice. No setup fee, no minimum, and offboarded people stop being billable immediately.
What happens to our data if we leave?
You keep read-only access and your data is retained for 90 days before being purged. Exports exist for the payroll register, expense reports and the audit log.
How honest is the marketing?
We publish our security gaps, say when a spreadsheet is the better choice, and list on every solutions page when ZekoHR is not the right fit. Check any claim against the product; the free year is there for that.