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Background verification in India, without hiring a second vendor.

Companies searching for background verification providers usually need the same five checks: identity, PAN, bank, education and employment history. We run all five as a standing stage of EOR onboarding, so every person who joins your team through us is verified before their first working day, not after.

Identity, PAN, bank, education and employment history, verified inside the 5-day onboarding. No separate BGV vendor to manage.

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G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

Teams building in India. First hire to full team.

Standalone BGV vendors versus verification inside onboarding.

Dedicated screening firms do good work, but bolting one onto your hiring flow adds a vendor, a queue and a gap between offer and verified start. Compare the two shapes.

Separate BGV vendor

Verification inside Versatile onboarding

Coverage
Menu of checks, priced and ordered individually
Five core checks bundled into every onboarding
Turnaround
Five to fifteen working days after documents arrive
Runs in parallel inside the 5-day window
Chasing documents
Your HR chases the candidate
Our onboarding flow collects them once
When it happens
Often after joining, discrepancies found late
Before day one, always
Cost structure
Per-check fees, per candidate, plus vendor minimums
Included in the $149 monthly EOR fee
Accountability
Vendor reports, you interpret and act
We verify, we flag, we hold the start if needed

Separate BGV vendor
Coverage Menu of checks, priced and ordered individually
Turnaround Five to fifteen working days after documents arrive
Chasing documents Your HR chases the candidate
When it happens Often after joining, discrepancies found late
Cost structure Per-check fees, per candidate, plus vendor minimums
Accountability Vendor reports, you interpret and act

Verification inside Versatile onboarding
Coverage Five core checks bundled into every onboarding
Turnaround Runs in parallel inside the 5-day window
Chasing documents Our onboarding flow collects them once
When it happens Before day one, always
Cost structure Included in the $149 monthly EOR fee
Accountability We verify, we flag, we hold the start if needed
Day 1
Offer accepted; document collection opens
Day 2
Aadhaar-based KYC and PAN validation complete
Day 3
Bank account verified by penny-drop
Day 4
Education records checked with issuing bodies
Day 5
Employment history confirmed; hire cleared to start
Ongoing
Verification file archived with the employee record

A false CV discovered late costs more each month it survives.

Industry screening reports consistently find discrepancy rates near 10% in Indian employment checks, concentrated in inflated tenure and titles. The longer a misrepresented hire stays, the more expensive the unwind: salary paid, access granted, work to redo, and a replacement search from zero.

Verification before day one converts all of that into a single withdrawn offer. That is the entire argument for doing it inside onboarding rather than after.

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Illustrative cost of a misrepresented hire by discovery time Salary, rework and re-hiring costs for one mid-level role
$0 Pre-join
$7,000 Month 2
$14,500 Month 4
$23,000 Month 6
Illustration for one mid-level hire on a typical Bengaluru package. Actual figures depend on salary, access level and time to replace.
Who carries the discrepancy when it surfaces
Unverified direct hire, found at month six You, in salary and rework
Verified during Versatile onboarding Offer withdrawn, cost near zero

The awkward truth of the BGV industry: reports frequently land after the person has already joined. Verification that arrives late is documentation, not protection. Deciding whether to build hiring infrastructure or use ours? The EOR versus entity calculator prices the whole stack, screening included.

The five checks, and who does what.

You decide the bar and what a red flag means for the offer. We run the checks, document the results and hold the start date until you have them.

You run

  • The hiring decision itself
  • Policy on what fails a check
  • Exceptions, approved case by case

We handle

  • KYC, PAN and bank verification
  • Education and employment history checks
  • Discrepancy flags with evidence attached
  • The verification archive per employee

You run
  • Choose the candidate
  • Set the red lines
  • Rule on exceptions
  • Confirm the start

We handle
  • Verify identity
  • Validate PAN
  • Confirm the bank account
  • Check the degrees
  • Call past employers
  • Archive the evidence

When something happens in India, it is ours.
Running and documenting all five checks Versatile executes
Interpreting a flagged discrepancy Joint, evidence on the table
Proceed or withdraw decision Always yours

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

Verification is a stage, not a product

Because screening lives inside the onboarding pipeline, it cannot be skipped under deadline pressure, and it finishes inside the same five days. Nobody starts unverified because starting is what the verification gates.

No per-check meter running

Standalone vendors price per check, which quietly pressures teams to skip the expensive ones. Our five-check set is part of the $149 monthly employment fee, so the depth of screening never depends on budget week.

Evidence, not just a verdict

A flag comes with the underlying evidence: the registry response, the employer's written confirmation, the mismatch itself. You rule on the facts rather than trusting a vendor's summary line.

Continuity after the check

The verification file stays attached to the employee record we maintain as the employer, so audits, client security reviews and future re-verification requests are answered from the archive in hours.

Verification is a stage, not a product

Because screening lives inside the onboarding pipeline, it cannot be skipped under deadline pressure, and it finishes inside the same five days. Nobody starts unverified because starting is what the verification gates.

The gate is the guarantee.

No per-check meter running

Standalone vendors price per check, which quietly pressures teams to skip the expensive ones. Our five-check set is part of the $149 monthly employment fee, so the depth of screening never depends on budget week.

Screening depth should not be a procurement decision.

Evidence, not just a verdict

A flag comes with the underlying evidence: the registry response, the employer's written confirmation, the mismatch itself. You rule on the facts rather than trusting a vendor's summary line.

You see what we saw.

Moving someone across

When a check comes back with a flag.

Discrepancies are handled as decisions, not dramas. We present the evidence, you choose among proceeding, probing further or withdrawing, and the paper trail records the reasoning either way.

Offer status during review Kept
Candidate communication Kept
Evidence trail Continuous
Extra vendor invoices 0 days

Most flags resolve within two working days.

Supporting evidence

We submit to the same scrutiny we run.

The employer running these checks is Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd of Bengaluru, on the public MCA record since 2022. Verify the verifier before trusting the process.

  • Incorporation
  • GST
  • EPFO code
  • ESIC
  • Shops and Establishments
  • PAN and TAN
  • Udyam MSME
What we verify
  • Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • GST Goods and Services Tax
  • EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
  • ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
  • PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
  • Udyam MSME Government of India

Our own GST and MCA extracts, sent before you ask.

200

verified people brought over in a single client migration

33

active clients with monthly INR payroll handled by us

5 days

to a verified, employed, payroll-ready hire

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Clients who stopped juggling screening vendors.

On folding verification into onboarding and never chasing a BGV report again.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

Screening priced at zero, employment priced flat.

The five-check verification set has no separate price because it ships inside every EOR onboarding. Here is the fee it ships inside of.

Recruitment with verification

We source and screen the hire
12% of annual CTC

12% for junior and mid searches, 15% senior. Invoice waits until day 90; the checks never wait at all.

Brief a role
  • Nine-day shortlist with pay data
  • Pre-offer reference soundings
  • All five checks before day one
  • Discrepancy evidence packs
  • Interview logistics handled
  • Day-90 invoicing
  • Free replacement search
  • Verified handoff into employment
  • Nine-day shortlist with pay data
  • Pre-offer reference soundings
  • All five checks before day one
  • Discrepancy evidence packs
Plus four more inclusions
  • Interview logistics handled
  • Day-90 invoicing
  • Free replacement search
  • Verified handoff into employment

Sourced your own candidate? Verification still runs free inside onboarding.

Employer of Record

Employment with built-in screening
$149 /employee/mo

$129 monthly beyond twenty heads. KYC, PAN, bank, education and employment checks included per hire.

Onboard a hire
  • Verification inside 5-day onboarding
  • Employment on our Bengaluru entity
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filings
  • Payslips and Form 16
  • Group health insurance
  • Verification archive per employee
  • Exit and full-and-final
  • Re-verification on request
  • Verification inside 5-day onboarding
  • Employment on our Bengaluru entity
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filings
  • Payslips and Form 16
Plus four more inclusions
  • Group health insurance
  • Verification archive per employee
  • Exit and full-and-final
  • Re-verification on request

The five-check set repeats for every single joiner.

Past twenty verified heads

$149 $129 /employee/mo

The monthly fee steps down after twenty employees. Verification depth is identical at every price point.

Checks inside every onboarding

  • Aadhaar-based identity KYC
  • PAN validation
  • Penny-drop bank verification
  • Education record confirmation
  • Employment history checks
  • Discrepancy evidence packs
  • Verification file archive
  • Re-checks when clients require

Volume pricing

$149 $129 /employee/mo

$129 monthly past twenty heads, checks unchanged.

Checks inside every onboarding

  • Aadhaar-based identity KYC
  • PAN validation
  • Penny-drop bank verification
  • Education record confirmation
  • Employment history checks
  • Discrepancy evidence packs
  • Verification file archive
  • Re-checks when clients require

There is no per-check pricing to compare because there are no per-check invoices. To price the full employment stack against building your own, open the EOR versus entity calculator and include what a screening vendor would have cost.

Background checks in India, answered straight.

What companies comparing BGV providers actually want to know.

What do background verification companies in India typically check?

The standard menu covers identity via Aadhaar or passport, PAN validation, bank account ownership, education records with the issuing university, employment history with past employers, and optionally criminal record and address checks. Most corporate packages use five to seven of these, priced per check per candidate.

How do I choose between the big BGV firms?

Compare turnaround time on education and employment checks, which are the slow ones; ask what percentage of checks close inside ten days; and ask to see a sample discrepancy report. Then weigh whether you want a standalone vendor at all, or verification folded into whoever runs your India onboarding.

Which checks do you run inside EOR onboarding?

Five, on every joiner: Aadhaar-based KYC, PAN validation, penny-drop bank verification, education confirmation with the institution, and employment history with previous employers. Criminal and address checks can be added when a client's compliance framework requires them.

What discrepancy rate should we expect?

Indian screening industry reports put overall discrepancy rates around one candidate in ten, with employment tenure and job titles the most common trouble spots. Our own flags run in the same band, which is exactly why the checks gate the start date rather than trailing it.

What happens when you find a problem?

You get the evidence itself within the 5-day window: the registry mismatch, the employer's written response, whatever surfaced. The offer holds while you decide to proceed, dig deeper or withdraw. We execute your call and the record keeps the reasoning.

Do the checks slow down hiring?

No, because they run in parallel with contract signing and payroll setup inside the same five days. The rare exception is a slow-responding past employer, and we tell you on day three if a check risks running long rather than letting the start date slip silently.

Can you re-verify existing team members?

Yes. Client security reviews and enterprise sales cycles often demand refreshed checks on standing staff. Because we hold each employee's verification file, a re-check updates the delta rather than starting from a blank form.

Longer reading: Hire talent in fourteen days · Recruiting in India, full service · Hiring in India without an entity

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What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

  • A written cost breakdown
  • Entity documents before the call
  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
  • No follow-up sequence
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