HR Software in Bangalore

HR Software in Bangalore

EasyHR is a cloud HR and payroll platform used by Bangalore SMEs across SaaS, IT services, biotech, retail, and BFSI back-offices. We handle Karnataka Professional Tax, the Karnataka Shops & Commercial Establishments Act 1961, and statutory deductions out of the box. Our Bangalore team can come set you up in person, and pricing starts at ₹60 per employee per month. No minimum headcount.

What’s different about running HR in Bangalore

Bangalore HR has a few patterns you don’t find in the same combination anywhere else.

The workforce skews younger and more tech-fluent than other Indian cities. Engineers and product folks expect the HR app to work the way Slack and Notion do, not the way a 2010 enterprise tool does. If your HRMS is a friction source, it bleeds into engagement scores fast.

Most companies span multiple campuses. A typical 300-person Bangalore business has its main office on Outer Ring Road or in Whitefield, a smaller team in Koramangala or Indiranagar, and probably one off-site team in HSR Layout or Electronic City. Add field staff for sales, support, or implementation across the city, and your attendance system needs to handle five different micro-locations cleanly.

Karnataka also raised its Professional Tax exemption threshold in April 2025. The cutoff went from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 monthly salary. A lot of payroll software products still have the old slab loaded, which means HR teams are either over-deducting or chasing reconciliation each cycle.

And Bangalore traffic is its own variable. Two-hour commutes between Whitefield and Electronic City made hybrid work permanent here long before COVID. The attendance system has to handle home selfie attendance some days and office geofence other days without HR rebuilding the policy each week.

EasyHR is built around these realities. The defaults assume Bangalore SME, configurable for the rest.

Karnataka compliance, ready out of the box

Set the office location to Karnataka and the statutory rules switch on with the post-April-2025 slabs already loaded.

Professional tax (Karnataka, FY 2026-27)

Monthly salary	PT (₹)
Up to ₹24,999	Nil
₹25,000 and above	200 (300 in Feb)

The exemption threshold went up from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 effective April 1, 2025. A meaningful chunk of Bangalore’s salaried population is now exempt. EasyHR handles the cutover so you don’t have to chase it.

The annual cap stays at ₹2,500 (₹200 a month for 11 months and ₹300 in February). EasyHR deducts the right amount each month, generates Form 5 and Form 5A returns, and remits before the 20th of the following month. Late-payment interest of 1.25% per month is tracked so finance gets a heads-up before a notice arrives.

Karnataka Shops & Commercial Establishments Act 1961

The attendance and leave engine handles the parts that hit you day to day:

• 9-hour daily and 48-hour weekly limits on work
• A break required after 5 continuous hours
• One full weekly holiday for every employee
• 12 days of casual leave per year
• 12 days of sick leave per year
• 1 day of earned leave for every 20 days worked

Karnataka also requires earned leave encashment at exit. If an employee leaves with unused EL, you have to pay it out, and failing to do so is a violation. EasyHR tracks balances, applies the encashment formula at separation, and includes it in the final settlement automatically.

Registration under the Act is required within 30 days of starting business. New customers get help with the eKarmika registration and renewal cycle as part of onboarding.

The full statutory feature list is on the payroll software page.

Bangalore industries we work with

The HR workload varies a lot across sectors here, so the configuration does too.

For SaaS and product companies in Whitefield, ORR, HSR Layout, Koramangala, and Indiranagar, the work is around remote-first onboarding, asset issue and return, OKR cycles, performance reviews, and stock option tracking that ties into the payroll record.

IT services customers (Infosys-belt EPIP and the larger campuses out near Electronic City) need shift-based attendance for 24/7 support teams, project-billing timesheets, multi-location consolidated payroll, and clean audit trails for client billing reconciliation.

Biotech and life sciences companies in the Bangalore-Hosur belt and the Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre area need GMP training records, certification tracking for lab staff, and shift rotations that handle controlled-environment work.

For BFSI back-offices and captive operations in MG Road, JC Road, and ORR, the configuration covers KYC-grade verification, regulatory training compliance, and asset issue and return for compliance-sensitive devices. There’s more on the BFSI HR software page.

D2C retail and quick-commerce customers headquartered in Bangalore (with warehouses across the city and field staff at scale) use field-force GPS attendance, geofencing for warehouse zones, rotational shift handling, and split payroll for warehouse versus office staff.

Startups in the early-stage ecosystem (anywhere from Indiranagar coffee shops to JP Nagar offices to Domlur HQs) typically need fast onboarding, simple performance reviews, and pricing that scales as headcount grows. More on the IT and SaaS fit.

What this looks like in practice

Take a 280-employee Bangalore SaaS company (we’ll keep them anonymous). Their main engineering office is on ORR near Marathahalli, the GTM team works out of a smaller Indiranagar office, and customer support runs as a 24/7 rotation with a few people on-site at the main office and most working from home.

Their monthly payroll runs as a single pass. The Karnataka PT exemption applies to about a third of the team after the threshold change. Engineers on Bangalore and Bay Area payroll get appropriate splits through the multi-entity setup. Stock-option vesting events flow into the payroll record without manual reconciliation.

Through the year, attendance handles the campus mix without HR touching it. Engineers in office two days a week show up on the office geofence; the rest of the week they appear on home selfie. The 24/7 support team gets shift-based attendance with overtime rules tracked against Karnataka S&E Act caps.

Performance reviews run twice a year on a structured cycle. Manager nominations, peer reviews, calibration, and final ratings all sit in EasyHR with evidence captured throughout the cycle, not constructed at review time.

Compliance work that used to take a week per quarter (PT remittance, statutory return generation, annual S&E Act renewal, EL encashment audits) now runs as single-click reports.

Why teams here pick EasyHR

There’s a Bangalore team. We do in-person implementation across Bangalore, including the major IT belts in Whitefield, ORR, Electronic City, Koramangala, HSR Layout, and Indiranagar. Most setups finish in 7 to 14 days.

We’re Karnataka-aware from day one. The post-April-2025 PT slab, S&E Act rules, EL encashment requirements, and the Karnataka-specific holiday calendar are all pre-configured. You don’t spend the first week of implementation explaining state-specific rules to a customer success rep who’s never run a Karnataka payroll.

Pricing starts at ₹60 per employee per month, billed in INR with clean GST on invoices. There’s no minimum-employee cliff. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

You can reach us by phone at +91-99302-05985 during business hours, or schedule an in-person demo at your office.

It’s a single product. HR, attendance, payroll, and statutory compliance all sit in one place, not Zoho People plus Zoho Payroll, not greytHR plus a separate compliance tool. One invoice, one admin console, one upgrade path. If you’re comparing, we have writeups on Keka, greytHR, and Zoho People.

What people usually ask

Does EasyHR handle the new ₹25,000 Karnataka PT threshold? It does. The April 2025 amendment is loaded, so anyone earning under ₹25,000 a month is correctly exempt. No manual override, no continued deduction at the old slab.

What does it cost for a Bangalore SME? ₹60 per employee per month on the Starter tier. There’s no minimum headcount, so a 12-person team pays for 12 people. The pricing page has the tier breakdown.

Can I run payroll for multiple Bangalore offices from one account? Yes. Whether your offices are separate legal entities (HQ at ORR, branch at Koramangala, factory in Bommasandra) or branches under one entity, the payroll consolidates while per-location reporting stays clean for audits.

Does it work for engineers and field/warehouse staff? Both. Selfie plus GPS plus geofencing for field, sales, and warehouse staff. Office geofence for engineering teams. Biometric integration where it’s already in place. One platform, one report.

Do you handle Karnataka’s earned-leave encashment requirement? Yes. Balance is tracked from day one, the encashment formula is applied at exit, and it flows into final settlement automatically. We’ve seen too many manual final settlements miss this and create awkward conversations.

How long does implementation take? Usually 7 to 14 working days for a 50- to 250-person company. The Bangalore team can do in-person setup at your office. We also run one parallel payroll cycle before cutover so you can compare outputs against your previous system line by line.

Can I migrate from Keka, greytHR, or Zoho People? Yes, we do migrations off all three regularly. Standard scope is employee master, year-to-date payroll history, leave balances, document attachments, org structure, and statutory entity setup. Migration is included in onboarding, no separate fee. Five to ten working days end to end.

Does it integrate with our existing biometric devices? Most likely yes. EasyHR integrates with the common biometric vendors (eSSL, Mantra, Realtime, Matrix, ZKTeco). If your setup is more unusual, the implementation team can confirm during scoping.

Get in touch

The fastest way to see EasyHR with your data is to talk to the Bangalore team.

Call +91-99302-05985 during business hours, or start a 14-day free trial and we’ll set up a Bangalore-specific demo within one business day.