About
The story behind payora
Built by a solo founder who watched small businesses struggle with spreadsheet payroll — and decided to fix it.
Every small business in India
deserves real payroll software.
Walk into any small business with 5 to 50 employees in India and you will find the same thing — a payroll Excel file passed around on WhatsApp, full of broken formulas, manual PF calculations, and a prayer that TDS was done right.
The big platforms like Keka and GreytHR are built for enterprises. They are powerful, but also complex, expensive, and overwhelming for a 15-person team that just needs to pay salaries correctly.
payora was built to fill that gap — a platform that is simple enough for a team of 5, powerful enough for a team of 50, and built from the ground up for Indian compliance.
What we believe
Payroll is not optional
Every employee deserves to be paid correctly, on time, every month. Software should guarantee this, not make it harder.
Compliance is not a feature
PF, ESI, TDS, PT — these are not add-ons. They are the baseline. Every plan includes the compliance your business needs.
Small does not mean simple
A 20-person company has the same compliance obligations as a 2,000-person company. The software should handle the complexity, not the owner.
AI should save time, not create work
AI Insights surface anomalies and trends automatically. No dashboards to configure, no reports to build. Just answers.
Built in India, for India
payora is not an American HR tool with an India bolt-on. Every feature — from the financial year starting in April to alternate Saturday configurations to Professional Tax slabs by state — is built into the core architecture.
We understand that Indian payroll is uniquely complex. PF wage ceilings, ESI contribution rates, TDS regime choices, PT state variations — these are not edge cases. They are the default. And payora handles all of them.