Productivity-based payroll and HR for Indian trade & field-service businesses, on a compliance-first foundation. It meets a small crew where they are today — and is architected to scale into full statutory HRMS as the business grows.
Government-standard by designBuilt on the 8-hour productive workday — the statutory standard under India's OSH Code 2020, in force from the new Labour Codes (Nov 2025).
Standard payroll basis26 working-days × 8 hours — the same basis used by Zoho, greytHR, and RazorpayX.
Productivity reconciliationStaff check in and out; a 9-hour span is 8 productive hours plus a compliant meal and rest break. Work logged to jobs, plus honestly-declared non-project time, reconciles to 8 hours — full pay.
Fair by designHonest workers are never underpaid. A half-day floor prevents harsh docking.
Responsibility, not surveillanceStaff can always declare idle time and still be paid — but declaring it makes real productivity visible, which motivates filling the day with real work. Transparency, not punishment.
AuditableBanking-grade traceability across every pay run.
The statutory module is architected but not yet delivered — framed here as what Contexta HRMS is built to become, not what it does today.
Statutory HRMS that scalesCompliance-ready architecture for EPF, ESI, Professional Tax, and TDS — activated per business as headcount and obligations require.
Rules-as-data, multi-stateStatutory rates and slabs are configuration per state, so a law change is a data update, not a code release.
Filing-ready outputsBuilt to generate challans, returns, and payslips for each business to submit.