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HR & payroll that works the way your company does

Approvals that follow your org chart, payroll built on your own salary structure, attendance that deducts leave on its own — all configured around your company, not a fixed template.

  • Free for up to 10 people
  • No card needed
  • Built for Indian payroll
  • Your own salary heads & leave types
  • April–March or any fiscal year
  • Unlimited approval steps
  • Encrypted sensitive fields
  • Your own Google Drive backups
One platform

Everything HR runs on, from hire to exit

The day-to-day and the once-a-month, in one place your whole team already knows how to use.

Approvals that follow your org chart

Leave, comp-off, profile changes, asset requests and imports go to the right person automatically — the employee's senior by default, or any chain you design by designation or by person.

How approvals work →

Payroll on your salary structure

Salary heads you define, pro-rated for loss of pay, with payslips generated and emailed for you — plus PF, Professional Tax, formulas, monthly inputs, month locks and ready-to-file reports (PF ECR, PT, ESI, TDS, Form 16) when you need them.

See payroll →

Attendance & leave

Import your biometric sheet — leave days come off the right balance on their own. Or let staff clock in only at the office, with a live photo, and have managers approve the month.

Comp-off, done right Add-on

Worked a Sunday or a holiday? Request the day back, get it approved, use it like any other leave.

Documents on autopilot

Payslips, offer and appointment letters generated from your own templates — never typed by hand.

Recruitment to onboarding

A careers portal candidates sign in to, interview rounds with schedules and ratings, offers with approvals, joining forms — then they join Employees and the team says welcome.

Secure by default

Encrypted, masked sensitive fields, idle-lock and protected logins — plus authenticator-app sign-in, approved-devices-only login and a browsable audit log when switched on.

Import, export, undo

Bring data in from Excel with row-level checks — and delete an import to cleanly undo everything it did Add-on.

A closer look

Designed around real HR days

The situations that usually end in spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads — handled inside the product.

Approvals

Requests always reach the right person — even when they're on leave

Every request goes to the employee's reporting manager out of the box. When you need more, design the route yourself: by designation or by specific people, with as many steps as it takes.

  • Chains by role or person Add-on — a Developer's leave goes to their Team Lead, then the Manager, then the Director.
  • Cover while you're away Add-on — hand your approvals to a colleague for set dates; every decision records who acted for whom.
  • Nothing gets stuck — if an approver leaves, their pending requests move to their own senior automatically.
Payroll

A month of payroll in one click — and it stays final

Build salaries from the heads you define, pro-rated for loss of pay. Add Provident Fund and Professional Tax calculators, generate everyone's payslip at once, refresh when something changes, and lock the month when it's done.

  • PF & Professional Tax Add-on — PF with wage ceiling; PT slabs by state, gender and month.
  • Month sheet Add-on — see every employee's payslip status, generate the missing ones, refresh the changed ones.
  • Month locks Add-on — once locked, nothing can quietly change a payslip you've already sent.
Attendance & leave

Import the sheet. The balances take care of themselves.

Bring in your biometric or day-wise attendance sheet exactly as it is. Leave codes come off the right leave balance on their own — half days count as half — and a day already covered by an approved leave request is never counted twice.

  • Your own attendance codes — P, W, PH, PL, HDPL… each with its pay value and leave type.
  • Comp-off with expiry Add-on — weekend and holiday work earns a day back; unused days lapse after the period you choose.
  • Undo an import Add-on — delete it and every record it added is removed, every value it changed is restored.
Documents

Letters and payslips that look like yours

Every payslip, offer letter and appointment letter is generated for you from a professional default — or from your own layout, designed by dragging fields onto the page Add-on, and emailed with wording you control Add-on.

  • Always current — a payslip reads the employee's latest profile and bank details every time it's downloaded.
  • Preview before sending — see the exact PDF before it goes out, then send to one person or everyone at once.
Get started

Up and running in an afternoon

No implementation project, no consultants. Set it up the way you already work.

Register your company

Pick your web address — your team logs in at setuwork.com/your-company, with your own logo and colours.

Shape it to your org

Add designations, teams, leave types, salary heads and attendance codes — or import your employees straight from Excel.

Invite your team

Send credentials in one click. Requests, approvals, attendance and payslips start flowing right away.

Included from day one

  • Employee directory & org chart
  • Leave, holidays & attendance codes
  • Payroll, payslips & bulk payslip email
  • Payslips, offer & appointment letters
  • Offboarding & final settlement
  • Policies & announcements
  • Excel import & export
  • Encrypted fields & idle-lock

Plus add-on capabilities — PF & Professional Tax calculators, custom approval flows, comp-off, month locks, document designer and more — switched on for your company when you need them. See all features →

Questions

Frequently asked

Is SetuWork really free?

Yes — companies with up to 10 people use the full platform for free, with no card needed to register. Larger teams can reach out after registering and we'll work out a plan that fits.

Does it handle Indian statutory payroll?

Yes. With the payroll formula add-on switched on for your company, Provident Fund (with the wage ceiling) and Professional Tax (your state's slabs, including gender- and month-specific rules) are calculated automatically. Company GST, PAN, TAN and CIN details have their own place on your profile, and you can run on an April–March year.

Can we keep using our biometric attendance device?

Yes. Import its export as it is — including the day-per-column sheet format — and SetuWork matches each row to the right employee, applies your attendance codes and updates leave balances. Self-service clock-in/out is available too, but you don't have to use it.

What happens to approvals when a manager is on leave?

They can hand their approvals to a colleague for the dates they're away; the colleague sees everything waiting on them and each decision records who acted on whose behalf. If someone leaves the company, their pending requests move to their own senior automatically.

Where is our data, and is it safe?

Every company's data is kept separate, sensitive fields are encrypted and masked by default, and with the audit log add-on every change is recorded. You can also back your data up automatically to your own Google Drive.

Bring your whole HR operation into one place

Register in minutes. Free for teams up to 10 people — no card required.