Choosing the right greytHR plan- Starter vs. Paid Plans

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As your organization evolves, so do your HR and payroll requirements. greytHR is designed to scale alongside your business, ensuring that your HR processes remain efficient and compliant no matter your size. Let us explore how the Starter Plan compares to the Growth, Essential, and Premium plans and why upgrading can empower your team to focus on what matters most—your people and your growth.

greytHR Starter plan 

The Starter plan is perfect for startups and small businesses beginning their HR journey. While it offers essential features to get you started, its capabilities are limited by design—ideal for basic needs but not built to support growth.

Features:

• Basic Core HR: Maintain employee records and handle fundamental HR tasks.

• Payroll Management: Manage simple payroll processes for small teams.

• Leave & Attendance Management: Basic tools for leave requests and attendance tracking.

• Employee Portal: Limited access for employees to view their details on the web and mobile.

Why stick with Starter? If your team is small and your needs are basic, the Starter Plan is an excellent way to explore HR management without any financial commitment.

greytHR Essential plan 

The Essential plan is a natural next step for businesses expanding their teams and processes.It offers advanced payroll, automation, and insightful reporting to streamline operations and support smarter decision-making.

Pricing

₹2495 per month for 50 employees, with ₹45 for each additional employee.

Features:

• Core HR Basic: Maintain employee records, manage documents, run paperless onboarding and separation workflows, and handle confirmation workflows.

• Payroll Management: Fully automated payroll with statutory compliance (PF, ESI, PT, TDS) and downloadable payslips.

• Leave Management: Advanced leave policies, real-time tracking, approvals, via web/mobile.

• Employee Portal (ESS): Full access for employees to view payslips, apply for leave, mark attendance, and access documents via web and mobile.

• Task & Workflow Automation: Automate onboarding, exit, and approval workflows with customizable checklists.

• Reports & Dashboards: Gain insights with 100+ pre-built reports and powerful dashboards for payroll, attendance, and HR analytics.

• AI Chatbot Support: Let “Bella,” the virtual assistant, help employees with common HR queries and actions.

Optional add-ons: 

Expense Management: ₹35 PUPM

REST API: ₹15 PEPM

SSO (SAML): ₹10 PEPM

Recruit: ₹2,500 per recruiter

Alumni Portal: ₹20 PUPM

greytHR Growth plan

The Growth plan helps you streamline complex HR operations with automated workflows and a structured exit process—ideal for fast-growing organizations. It also gives you greater control and visibility over attendance, roles, and employee lifecycle activities.

Pricing

₹4495 per month for 50 employees, with ₹85 for each additional employee.

Features:

• Core HR Advanced: Includes everything in Core HR Basic, plus employee asset tracking and Letters & Mail Merge.

• Advanced Workflows: Create and automate multi-step approval processes for tasks like transfers, role changes, and internal requests.

• Onboarding: Personalized, paperless onboarding workflows to set up new hires efficiently. 

• Exit Management: Manage resignations, clearances, and final settlements with a streamlined, automated process.

• Advanced Attendance: Capture attendance using biometric integrations, manage shifts, handle remote/hybrid work, and track anomalies.

• Multi-location Management: Handle HR operations across multiple branches or locations efficiently.

• Role-based Access Control: Define who can see and do what, ensuring data security and clarity in responsibilities.

Optional add-ons:

• Expense Management: ₹35 PUPM

• PMS Standard: ₹35 PUPM

• PMS Advanced: ₹45 PUPM

• REST API: ₹15 PEPM

• SSO (SAML): ₹10 PEPM

• Multi-Company Support: ₹15 PEPM

• GeoMark+: ₹50 PUPM

• GPS Live Tracking (includes GeoMark): ₹140 PUPM

• Visage / KIOSK Management: ₹20 PUPM

• Time Sheets: ₹35 PUPM * Coming Soon

• Recruit: ₹2,500 per recruiter

• Alumni Portal: ₹20 PUPM

greytHR Premium Plan

The Premium plan offers complete control and flexibility for mid-sized and large organizations that need enterprise-grade HR operations, tight security, and seamless data flow across systems. It bundles all core and advanced features natively — with no add-on costs for most capabilities.

Pricing

Contact us for a quote.

Features:

• Includes all features from Starter, Essential, and Growth tiers.

• Core HR Advanced: Full employee lifecycle management including asset tracking and Letters & Mail Merge.

• Expense Management: Built-in expense submissions with multi-level approvals and audit trails.

• PMS Advanced: Set, track, and evaluate employee goals to drive performance and development.

• Single Sign-On (SSO): Secure login via SAML-based authentication through platforms like Google Workspace or Azure AD.

• REST API Access: Connect greytHR with other business tools using REST APIs for seamless data exchange.

• Multi-Company Support: Manage multiple companies or legal entities under a single greytHR account with consolidated reporting.

• GeoMark+: Location-based attendance tagging, included natively.

• Visage / KIOSK Management: Facial recognition-based attendance, included natively.

• Time Sheets: Built-in timesheet tracking for project and work-hour management.

Optional Add-ons:

• GPS Live Tracking (includes GeoMark): ₹140 PUPM

• Recruit: ₹2,500 per recruiter

• Alumni Portal: ₹20 PUPM

Why scaling with greytHR matters?

As your business grows, so do your challenges—but HR shouldn’t be one of them. Upgrading to a paid greytHR plan ensures your operations are built not just for today, but ready to scale with tomorrow’s demands.

Starter vs. Paid Plans – What You Get

Benefits of a paid plan

1. Performance Management (PMS): Set, track, and evaluate employee goals to boost performance and drive engagement. Available as an add-on on Growth, and included in Premium.

2. Recruitment Module: Streamline your hiring process with integrated tools that reduce time-to-hire and improve candidate management. Available as an add-on across all plans at ₹2,500 per recruiter.

3. Scalable Features: Easily manage expanding teams and complex workflows without adding manual overhead.

4. Automation: Automate tasks like approvals, payroll processing, and attendance to save time and reduce errors.

5. Enhanced Accuracy: Features like GeoMark+, GPS live tracking, and Visage / KIOSK Management minimize discrepancies in attendance tracking.

6. Built-in Compliance: Stay audit-ready with tools that help you meet statutory requirements and avoid penalties.

7. Advanced Integrations: Seamlessly connect greytHR to your existing systems through a robust REST API and SSO — available as add-ons on Essential and Growth, and included natively in Premium.

Transform your HR operations

With greytHR’s paid plans, you gain more than advanced features—you unlock a scalable, secure, and adaptable platform that grows with your business. Say goodbye to manual HR work and hello to automation, accuracy, and compliance at every stage of growth.

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