Reading punches

✦ Jupeak People · HR & Payroll

Attendance marks itself.
Payroll runs itself.
You just approve it.

Punch by GPS, selfie, biometric or CCTV face — leave flows straight into the salary sheet, PF, ESI and TDS are computed as you go, and payslips reach every phone. Free up to 10 staff.

₹30
Per employee, per month
10
Staff free — forever, not a trial
7
Ways to mark attendance
18+ yrs
Building business software
Why salary day hurts

A register, a WhatsApp group and one very long Excel.

How most SMBs run payroll

Three disconnected systems and one person who cannot take leave in the first week of the month.

  • Attendance in a paper register, typed up at month end
  • Leave approved on WhatsApp, remembered by nobody
  • Salary in Excel — one wrong formula, everyone notices
  • PF, ESI and TDS worked out by hand, late
  • Payslips printed, signed, handed over, lost

How it works here

One system, one source of truth. Attendance lands as it happens and salary is a consequence of it, not a re-entry of it.

  • Punch lands live — GPS, selfie, biometric or CCTV face
  • Leave applied in the app → auto-adjusts the salary sheet
  • Salary structures set once, applied every month
  • PF, ESI, PT and TDS computed in the run
  • Payslips dispatched to every phone, on their own
Zero re-entry is the whole point. Every hour your team spends copying attendance into a salary sheet is an hour paid for twice — once to record it, once to retype it. Here the punch IS the input to payroll.
However your people actually work

Seven ways to mark attendance. No queue at the gate.

A shop floor, a field team and a head office do not attend the same way. Pick per office, per shift, or let people use whichever fits — it all lands in the same register.

01

Mobile punch with GPS

Location stamped on the punch — right for field staff and site teams

02

Selfie punch

A photo with the punch, so “someone else marked me” ends

03

CCTV face attendance

Your existing cameras mark attendance — nobody stops to punch at all

04

Face recognition

Enrol once, recognised after — contactless, no shared device

05

Biometric device

Keep the fingerprint machine you already bought; punches sync in

06

Shifts & overrides

Night shifts, split shifts and one-off changes without breaking the month

07

Regularisation request

Missed a punch? Staff request, manager approves — the register stays honest

08

Holiday & weekly-off calendar

Set once per office; the register and payroll both respect it

The month, at a glance

The attendance register that fills itself.

Present, absent, half day, late, leave, holiday, week-off — for every person, every day of the month, built from punches as they happen. This is the sheet payroll reads, and nobody types it.

Payable days, computed

Present + ½ half-day + paid leave + week-offs + holidays — the number payroll actually multiplies

Late & early-out discipline

Counted against each employee's own shift grace, not a blanket rule

Shift-aware

Night and split shifts read correctly instead of breaking at the day boundary

Excel out, any month

The register your CA or auditor asks for, exported in one click

Regularisation trail

Every correction shows who asked, who approved and when

Feeds payslip generation

The same figure flows into the run — no second sheet, no reconciliation

Leave

Applied on a phone. Settled in the salary sheet.

Staff apply from the app and see their own balance. The manager approves in one tap. The balance updates, the register updates, and payroll takes the deduction — with nobody carrying a number from one place to another.

Staff self-service

Apply for leave, see the balance, download payslips — without asking HR

Leave types & accrual

Casual, sick, earned — your own policy, applied consistently

Salary day

One run. Everybody's salary.

Set each person's structure once — basic, HRA, allowances, deductions — and the monthly run applies it against the attendance that actually happened. Advances, loans, bonuses and adjustments are picked up in the same pass. Review, approve, pay.

Salary structures

Components set per employee, or in bulk for a whole grade

Advances & loans

Instalments recovered automatically, month after month

Bonus & adjustments

One-off additions and deductions, inside the same run

Salary revision

Effective-dated increments, with the arrears worked out

Full & final settlement

Exit dues, recovery and gratuity settled in one statement

Bank payment file

Pay the whole team from the run, not from a retyped list

Compliance

PF, ESI, PT and TDS — worked out, not remembered.

The statutory side is where a spreadsheet quietly becomes a liability. Contributions are computed inside the run, the EPFO ECR file is generated for upload, income tax runs off each employee's declarations, and Form 16 comes out at year end.

EPFO ECR file

Generated from the run, ready to upload — not assembled by hand

Form 16

Year-end certificates for the whole team

Tax declarations

Staff declare investments; TDS follows what they actually declared

Statutory calendar

What is due, and when — so a due date is never a surprise

Gratuity

Eligibility and liability tracked as service accrues

Audit trail

Who changed a salary, and when — append-only

The part your staff see

Payslips that arrive without being asked for.

Approve the run and payslips dispatch themselves — no printing, no signing, no queue outside the accounts room on the 7th. Staff open the app and see this month and every month before it.

  • Automatic dispatch after the run is approved
  • Self-service history — every payslip they have ever been paid
  • Own attendance & leave balance, without asking HR
  • Expense and travel claims raised from the phone
  • Form 16 available to download at year end
Why this matters more than it sounds. Most payroll questions an SMB owner answers are not hard — they are “what was my PF this month” and “how many leaves do I have left”. Answer them once, in the app, and the interruptions stop.
MY PAYSLIPS
June 2026
Net paid · credited 02 Jul
Download
Leave balance
Casual 4 · Sick 3 · Earned 11
Apply leave
This month
Present 22 · Leave 2 · Late 1
My attendance
Staff self-service
The rest of HR

It doesn't stop at salary.

Everything around the employee lifecycle is in the same place, on the same people master — so a joiner is set up once and an exit is closed once.

Employee directory & register

One profile per person — personal, statutory, bank, documents

Onboarding

A joining checklist that actually gets completed

Recruitment

Openings and candidates through to the offer

Document vault

Contracts, IDs and certificates against the employee

Departments, designations, offices

The structure your policies and reports hang off

Training & skills matrix

Who has been trained on what, and who is missing it

Field tracking & tour plans

Where the field team went, from their own punches

Travel & expense claims

Raised on the phone, approved, paid through payroll

Targets & commission

Incentive worked out from real numbers, not memory

Policy manual

The rules everyone signs up to, in one readable place

Commercials · The rate card

₹30 per employee. Free up to 10 staff.

One line covers HR and Payroll together — attendance, leave, salary, PF/ESI/TDS and payslips. All prices exclude GST — 18% GST applicable.

ComponentRateBasisNotes
Jupeak People — HR & PayrollAttendance (GPS · selfie · biometric · CCTV face), shifts, leave, payroll runs, structures, statutory, payslips, self-service ₹30/ employee / monthFree up to 10 staff
Admin userThe person who actually runs HR and payroll ₹150/ admin / month1st admin free
AI Platform optionalAsha, Copilot and AI across every module ₹75/ user / month5,000 tokens free, one-time

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Commercials · Paid add-ons

Switch on only what you use.

Each add-on is optional and independent of the others, billed on the same chargeable headcount as the base rate. Nothing here is required to run attendance, leave or payroll. All prices exclude GST — 18% GST applicable.

Add-onPriceBasisWhat it does
Auto statutory filing₹10/ employee / month PF ECR, ESI, PT and TDS 24Q + Form 16 filed for you — instead of the ₹2,000–4,000 a month you pay a CA to do it
1-click salary disbursal₹8/ employee / month Pay every employee to bank or UPI in seconds — no bank files to upload, no wrong-account errors
Recruitment / ATS₹12/ employee / month Openings, candidate pipeline and offers — on the same people master, so a hire becomes an employee without re-entry
Training / LMS₹8/ employee / month Courses and completions tracked against each employee, feeding the skills matrix
Performance, OKRs & 360°₹10/ employee / month Goals, appraisal cycles and 360° reviews against the same employee record
Expense & travel claims₹8/ employee / month Claims raised on the phone, approved by the manager, and paid out through the payroll run
Biometric device sync₹199/ company / month Plug in an eSSL or Mantra device and punches flow into payroll live — no Excel in the middle

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Commercials · Worked examples

What that actually comes to.

On the left, the base rate on its own. On the right, the same 25-staff business with three add-ons switched on — every figure worked out so you can check it.

Base rate only
Your teamPer monthPer year
8 staff, 1 adminHeadcount is 10 or fewer — free₹0₹0
25 staff, 1 admin25 × ₹30 · admin free₹750₹9,000
50 staff, 2 admins50 × ₹30 = ₹1,500 + 1 paid admin ₹150₹1,650₹19,800
100 staff, 3 admins100 × ₹30 = ₹3,000 + 2 paid admins ₹300₹3,300₹39,600

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Loaded — 25 staff, 1 admin, 3 add-ons
LineWorkingPer month
Jupeak People — base25 × ₹30₹750
Auto statutory filing25 × ₹10₹250
1-click salary disbursal25 × ₹8₹200
Expense & travel claims25 × ₹8₹200
Admin user1st free₹0
Per month₹1,400

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₹16,800 a year — 25 staff on the register, and past 10 every one of them is chargeable. Drop an add-on and its line simply disappears from the bill.
What the others charge

The same job, for a fraction of the invoice.

Published list pricing, compared on a 30-staff business. Rates as researched in July 2026 — check them yourself before you sign anything, ours included.

ProductRoughly, for 30 staffWhat you get for it
Jupeak People₹10,800 / yrHR + payroll + statutory + attendance incl. CCTV face, and the rest of Jupeak One alongside it
greytHR≈ ₹30,000 / yrPayroll and core HR
Keka≈ ₹1,20,000 / yrHR suite, priced per employee per month
Zoho Payroll + People₹12,000 / yr +Free ≤10 employees; attendance and leave sit in the paired People plan, charged separately

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The honest version. The cheap ones are cheap because they do payroll and stop. The expensive ones are expensive because they are built for 500-person companies with an HR department. This is priced for a business where the owner still signs the salary sheet — and it comes attached to billing, GST, stock and CRM on the same login, which is the part none of them can match.
The return

What it costs. What it gives back.

Arithmetic, not a promise — assumptions printed beside each line. Modelled on a 30-staff business paying ₹10,800 a year — all 30 chargeable once you pass 10, one admin free.

Work that disappearsHow we get thereHours / year
Typing the attendance registerPunches already are the register2 hours a month copying and checking · 12 months24
Building the salary sheetThe run applies structures to real attendance6 hours every salary day · 12 months72
PF / ESI / TDS workingComputed in the run; ECR generated3 hours a month · 12 months36
Answering “what's my balance?”Staff self-service answers it1.5 hours a month of interruptions · 12 months18
Hours returned, every year150

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₹30
Per employee per month — under ₹1 a day
150 hrs
≈ 19 working days returned each year
₹72
Cost per hour reclaimed (₹10,800 ÷ 150)
And the error you don't make. One wrong PF month, one missed ECR upload or one mis-stated Form 16 costs more in interest, penalty and goodwill than a year of this. Time saved is the small part of the case; not being wrong is the large part.
Getting started

Live before next salary day.

Employee import, structure setup and team training are included at no additional charge.

01

People in

Employees imported with their structures, statutory numbers and bank details

02

Attendance on

Shifts, holidays and the punch method that suits each office

03

Parallel run

One month run alongside your existing sheet, and reconciled line by line

04

Go live

Payslips dispatched, staff app handed out, statutory filings from the system

Getting started · The terms

Free forever under 11 staff.

Not a trial and not a cut-down edition — the same product.

Prices exclude GST — 18% applicable

18% GST is charged on the tax invoice as applicable.

Billing

Monthly or annual in advance, on the headcount actually on the payroll that month.

Free trial

14 days of everything, no card required.

30-day money-back guarantee

Full refund of the subscription — no questions, no forms. Setup or migration work already delivered is not refundable.

Admin users

The first admin is free; further admins are ₹150 each per month.

AI usage

The AI Platform is optional at ₹75 per user per month; 5,000 AI tokens are free as a one-time welcome offer, and further usage is metered at cost.

Statutory scope

PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS are computed and the EPFO ECR file is generated for upload — on the base plan, filing on the government portal remains yours (or your CA's) to submit, while the Auto statutory filing add-on files them for you.

Your data is yours

Export any time. Tenant-isolated, encrypted in transit, append-only audit trail.

Support

WhatsApp-first on +91 70808 14044, with a named person on your account.

Live before next salary day

“Your staff already came to work.
The software should be the easy part.”

Under 11 staff, it costs nothing. Over 11, it costs less than a cup of tea per person per month. Either way, next salary day takes an afternoon instead of a week.