Cloudesk HR & payroll
Everything a growing Indian business needs to look after its people. Keep every employee's record, let them check in and apply for leave from their phone, run payroll with PF, ESI, professional tax and an income-tax estimate in a few clicks, and hire from your own careers page.
Real screenshots from Cloudesk HR, using a demo workspace with 14 demo employees. Their October attendance before today was added as demo data; leave, claims, payroll, hiring and reviews were created through the app.
How it works
Name, job, manager, salary and bank details — or bring in your restaurant staff in one click. Invite them and they get their own space to check in, apply for leave and download payslips.
People check in and out, apply for leave and file claims; managers approve from their home page. Holidays, weekly offs and late marks are worked out for you.
Pick a month and payroll is worked out from salaries, attendance and approved claims. Add a bonus, finalise, download the bank file and the register, and payslips appear for everyone.
The tour
01Home
Everyone lands on a home that fits their role: your own check-in, leave and claims waiting for your OK, who's in, late or off today, the latest payroll, announcements, birthdays, work anniversaries and holidays.
02People
Job, department, location, manager, probation, salary, bank and statutory numbers in one place, with a history of joins, promotions, transfers and salary revisions. New joiners get a checklist; people who leave get one too.
03Org chart
Set each person's manager and the org chart draws itself. Managers see and approve for everyone below them — and nobody can be made their own boss by accident.
04Attendance
People check in and out from any browser. Late marks follow your shift and grace period, short days become half days, and the month sheet shows the whole team — present, late, leave, holiday, weekly off and absent.
05Leave
Your own leave types with yearly or monthly accrual and carry-forward. Balances are live, clashes are caught, the manager gets an email, and the who's-off calendar and holidays are a tab away.
06Self-service
Invite people with the Employee role and they see only their own HR: check in, balances, their month, leave requests, claims and payslips — and they can update their phone, address and bank details themselves.
07Payroll
Pick a month and everyone's pay is worked out from their CTC, attendance and unpaid leave, with PF, ESI, professional tax and an income-tax estimate. Add bonuses or deductions, hold anyone's salary, then finalise.
08Payslips
A clean, printable payslip with earnings, deductions, paid days and the employer's PF and ESI — visible to the employee in their own space the moment you finalise.
09Hiring
Open a role and it appears on your public careers page with an apply form. Candidates land on a board from applied to offer; rate them, keep notes, and Hire turns them into an employee with their joining checklist.
10Performance
Goals with progress, and review cycles where people rate themselves first and their manager second. The manager's rating stays hidden from the employee until the review is done.
11Reports
Headcount through the year, joiners and leavers, attrition, average tenure, the team by department, location and type, payroll cost by month and leave taken.
12Your rules
Choose how CTC splits into Basic and HRA, whether PF is capped at ₹15,000, ESI, professional tax by state and the income-tax estimate. Shift times, work week, leave types, checklists and letter templates are yours too.
In detail
Plan the week's shifts (night shifts too); lateness is checked against the shift, and time past it is found at check-out, approved and paid through payroll at your overtime rate.
We'd rather be upfront than surprise you later:
Only if you want them to check in, apply for leave or see payslips themselves. Invite them with the Employee role and they see just their own HR space — not your projects, store or CRM.
Yes. Bring your Horeca staff into HR in one click; when they unlock the till with their PIN, they're marked present for the day.
Unpaid leave and absent days count fully, half days count as half. You can also choose to treat a working day with no check-in as absent. Salary is pro-rated for people who join or leave mid-month.
Yes, while it's a draft: add a bonus or deduction, hold someone's salary, or recalculate after fixing attendance. Once finalised the numbers are locked.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, picked from each person's work location. You can switch professional tax off for other states.
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