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Entity setup takes six months. Ours already exists.

Hire in India on our entity in five days, or incorporate your own and wait. Here is what each route costs, who carries the liability, and when your own entity is the right call.

Hire in India on our entity in five days, or incorporate your own and wait. Move an existing India team across without breaking tenure. Here is what each route costs, who carries the liability, and when your own entity is the right call.

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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.

Two routes into India.

Six rows decide it: time, paperwork, filings, liability, cost shape and the exit. Your own entity on the left, ours on the right.

Your own entity

On our entity

First hire starts
Month 6, at the earliest
Day 5
Paperwork before that
Name approval, MCA filing, PAN and TAN, PF and ESI codes, a bank account, a payroll vendor
A signed brief
Monthly filings
PF, ESIC, PT and TDS, yours to file
Filed and evidenced by us
A late filing
Yours. PF interest at 12% a year, damages up to 25% more
Our liability, not yours
Cost shape
Incorporation, then a CA, a payroll vendor and a compliance consultant
$149 per employee per month
Leaving
Winding up your company
No exit fee, no lock-in

Your own entity
First hire starts Month 6, at the earliest
Paperwork before that Name approval, MCA filing, PAN and TAN, PF and ESI codes, a bank account, a payroll vendor
Monthly filings PF, ESIC, PT and TDS, yours to file
A late filing Yours. PF interest at 12% a year, damages up to 25% more
Cost shape Incorporation, then a CA, a payroll vendor and a compliance consultant
Leaving Winding up your company

On our entity
First hire starts Day 5
Paperwork before that A signed brief
Monthly filings Filed and evidenced by us
A late filing Our liability, not yours
Cost shape $149 per employee per month
Leaving No exit fee, no lock-in
Month 1
Name approval, DIN, DSC
Month 2
MCA incorporation filing
Month 3
PAN, TAN, GST
Month 4
PF and ESI codes
Month 5
Bank account, payroll vendor
Month 6
Earliest date someone can start

One late filing keeps getting more expensive.

PF interest at 12% a year, damages up to 25% more, from the day you missed.

We are the employer of record on those filings. The notice comes to us.

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One late PF challan, left unpaid 12% interest plus damages
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Illustrative accrual on a single missed challan for a small team. Your figure depends on wage base and delay.
Who the notice is addressed to
Your own entity You
On our entity Versatile

Past a size, your own entity wins. The last FAQ answer says where that line sits. Model your own numbers in the EOR versus entity calculator.

Your EOR should disappear into the background.

Your team works for you. We handle India. You manage your people exactly as you do everywhere else, and the employment, payroll and statutory side stops being your job.

You run

  • Your employee's work and priorities
  • Goals, feedback and performance
  • Pay, promotion and scope

We handle

  • The employment contract, in our name
  • Payroll on the 30th, payslips with it
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS, filed and evidenced
  • Leave, exits and final settlement

You run
  • Manage your employee day to day
  • Set the goals and review the work
  • Decide pay, promotions and scope
  • Run your company the way you always have

We handle
  • The employment contract and relationship
  • Monthly payroll and payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filings
  • India HR administration and records
  • Statutory leave, exits and settlements
  • Employment paperwork questions from your team

When something happens in India, it is ours.
A PF notice arrives We handle it
Payroll needs correcting We fix it
A compliance question We tell you what happens next

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

Hire for culture fit, not just the résumé.

We interview for communication, ownership and time-zone fit. You meet a shortlist, not a stack of CVs.

A retention coach for your India team.

We flag pay drift, scope creep and quiet disengagement while it is still fixable.

An account manager for your employee.

Payslips, PF, ESI, leave, Form 16. Your employee asks us, not you.

Change the employer, not the employee's history.

Tenure, gratuity and PF carry across. Same pay date, new employer on the contract.

Hire for culture fit, not just the résumé.

We interview for communication, ownership and time-zone fit. You meet a shortlist, not a stack of CVs.

Shortlist in nine days. One thing most EORs stop short of.

A retention coach for your India team.

We flag pay drift, scope creep and quiet disengagement while it is still fixable.

Hiring is the start. Keeping the person is the win.

An account manager for your employee.

Payslips, PF, ESI, leave, Form 16. Your employee asks us, not you.

You stay their manager, not their help desk.

Moving someone across

Change the employer without making the employee pay for it.

Moving from your entity to ours, or ours to yours later, is a paperwork change on our side, not a reset of the employee's record.

Tenure Kept
Gratuity clock Kept
PF and UAN Continuous
Payroll gap 0 days

200 people moved in a single payroll cycle, zero days lost.

Supporting evidence

The entity, in writing, before you sign.

Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, incorporated in Bengaluru in 2022.

  • 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

The certificates, sent as PDFs. No sales sequence afterwards.

200

people moved onto our entity in a single payroll cycle, with UAN continuity kept

33

invoices in 26 months for one client, zero cycles missed and zero escalations

5 days

from a signed offer to a first payslip, not six months

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.

What clients say.

Founders and operators employing people in India through us, in their own words.

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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

Two ways to work with us.

Employ someone you already picked, move your existing India team across, or have us find the person. Same team, same entity, one invoice either way. No setup fee, no exit fee, no lock-in.

Employer of Record

No entity in India
$149 /employee/mo

Falls to $129 for every employee once you pass 20. Billed monthly in your local currency, no lock-in.

Start hiring
  • Employment on our entity
  • PF, ESI, TDS and PT filed monthly
  • Invoiced in your currency, one bill
  • 5-day onboarding
  • Named compliance manager
  • Dedicated payroll lead
  • Employee portal and payslips
  • Entity transfer when you are ready
  • Employment on our entity
  • PF, ESI, TDS and PT filed monthly
  • Invoiced in your currency, one bill
  • 5-day onboarding
Four more things it covers
  • Named compliance manager
  • Dedicated payroll lead
  • Employee portal and payslips
  • Entity transfer when you are ready

Twenty or more people, or a team you want moved onto our entity? Speak to sales.

Recruitment

You need us to source
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid-senior roles. 15% for senior, custom for director and VP. Bring your own candidate and there is no fee.

Send us a role
  • Shortlist in 9 days
  • Market pay benchmarks before you offer
  • Interview scheduling handled
  • Invoiced on day 90 of their tenure
  • 15% for senior roles
  • Custom for director and VP
  • No fee if you bring the candidate
  • They join on our entity, or yours
  • Shortlist in 9 days
  • Market pay benchmarks before you offer
  • Interview scheduling handled
  • Invoiced on day 90 of their tenure
Four more terms
  • 15% for senior roles
  • Custom for director and VP
  • No fee if you bring the candidate
  • They join on our entity, or yours

Director, VP or a whole function to build out? Speak to sales.

Past twenty employees

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Automatic on employee twenty-one. No renegotiation, no annual commitment.

Every employee includes

  • Employment contract in our name
  • Payroll and itemised payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filed
  • Gratuity funded from day one
  • Group health cover via our insurance partner
  • One invoice in your currency
  • Onboarding, background check, Form 16
  • Exits and final settlement

The rate drops at twenty employees

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Automatic on employee twenty-one. No renegotiation, no annual commitment, and the same entity underneath.

What every employee includes

  • Employment contract in our name
  • Payroll and itemised payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filed
  • Gratuity funded from day one
  • Group health cover via our insurance partner
  • One invoice in your currency
  • Onboarding, background check, Form 16
  • Exits and final settlement

Recruitment is 12% of annual CTC for junior and mid-senior roles, invoiced on day 90. Gross salary and statutory contributions are billed at actuals with no markup. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network and are billed separately. Model your own numbers in the EOR versus entity calculator.

What buyers ask before choosing.

Eight questions from nearly every first call, answered the way we answer them there. The last one is where we tell people not to buy.

What does setting up our own entity involve?

Six months, in practice. Name approval, MCA filing, PAN and TAN, PF and ESI codes, a bank account and a payroll vendor, in that order, and capital is locked up before anyone can start work. Month 6 is the earliest date a hire can begin.

Do you own the India entity?

Yes. Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, incorporated in Bengaluru in 2022. Every PF, ESIC and Shops and Establishments registration is in that name, and we send the certificates before you sign anything.

Does an EOR create permanent establishment risk?

The employment relationship sits with us, not you. You buy a service from an Indian company, so you do not have people employed in India. Your commercial terms with us sit alongside the employment contract, and IP assigns to you through it.

What happens if a filing is late?

It is our liability, not yours. PF interest runs at 12% a year with damages of up to 25% more, all charged to the employer of record, and that is us. On your own entity, that is you.

What is the real monthly cost?

$149 per employee per month, falling to $129 once you pass twenty people. No setup fee, no exit fee and no minimum term. Gross salary and statutory contributions are billed at actuals with no markup. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network and are billed separately.

What currency do you invoice in?

Yours. One invoice a month covering salaries, statutory costs and our fee, converted at the RBI reference rate on the invoice date. The rate used is printed on the invoice and we add no spread.

Can we start on your entity and move to our own later?

Yes, that is the normal path. Start on our entity now, incorporate when the size justifies it, and we transfer the team across preserving tenure, gratuity accrual and PF continuity through each employee's UAN. We have moved a two hundred person team without a missed payroll day.

When is an EOR the wrong answer?

If you already run a compliant Indian entity with payroll in place, an EOR adds a layer you do not need. If the work is one short project under three months, a contractor engagement is usually cheaper than employment, and we will say so. What we will not do is help you keep long-term full-time people on contractor paper, because that is where misclassification exposure comes from.

Longer reading: EOR India 2026 · EOR India playbook · Pay employees in India

Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours, not an autoresponder.

We use these details to respond to your enquiry.

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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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