Comparison
greytHR has 20+ years of Indian payroll edge cases in production — that's the moat. EmployeeSight is the modern alternative: same Indian-compliance depth, plus workforce intelligence on a single employee record and a UI your finance team won't dread on the 30th.
The detail
| Feature | EmployeeSight | greytHR |
|---|---|---|
| Indian payroll compliance | ||
EPF, ESI, PT, TDS, Form 16, Gratuity, Bonus Act | ||
Twenty-eight state PT slabs auto-applied | ||
Factories Act §59 overtime auto-flagged | Partial | |
Contract Labour (CLRA) RC tracking | Partial | |
| Workforce intelligence | ||
Time tracking (active/idle, app categorisation) | Partial | |
Screenshots with privacy-first defaults | – | |
Private hours (zero record on server) | – | |
Geo-attendance for field staff | Partial | |
| Platform & data | ||
One employee record across HR + Work data | Partial | |
Cross-module reports (attendance ↔ payroll ↔ productivity) | Partial | |
API access for custom integrations | ||
DPDP Act 2023 compliance posture published | ||
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Where greytHR wins
Honest comparisons matter. These are three scenarios where greytHR is the defensible choice — said out loud.
Scenario · 01
Switching established Indian-payroll vendors mid-fiscal-year is a real cost. If greytHR is closing your payroll on time and Form 16 lands by 15 June without drama, the migration upside has to clear that bar.
Scenario · 02
greytHR has been live since the late 1990s — there are statutory edge cases (older state-specific exemptions, transition rules) they've seen and we haven't. If you've hit one of those and need it handled tomorrow, they're the safer choice.
Switching
We’ve done this enough times that the path is boring. Your free first payroll review and engineering Slack channel are included.
Use the employee-master export and salary-structure export from greytHR's admin panel — these are the two CSVs we need.
We translate greytHR salary heads to EmployeeSight heads, preserving compliance defaults (PF basis, ESI eligibility, PT state).
Run payroll in both systems for one month; reconcile to the rupee. Common reconciliation items: gratuity accrual basis, LWF state coverage, mid-month joiner proration.
Switch payroll-of-record to EmployeeSight on the next cycle. greytHR becomes read-only for archive purposes.
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