One USD invoice per employee per month
No multiple line items, no statutory breakdown buried in service charges, no FX adjustment row. One number per employee. Books stay in USD. Auditor reads it on the first pass.
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One USD invoice. Audit-ready accruals. No FX markup.
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For CFOs, Finance Directors, Controllers building India team payroll into your books. One USD invoice. Audit-ready statutory liability accruals mapped to your GL. No FX markups. No hidden line items.
You inherited an India payroll structure that was set up before you joined. The accruals on the books don't match the actual statutory liabilities. The previous EOR's invoices have FX markup buried inside the line items. The year-end audit triggered four follow-up questions about gratuity provisioning.
You need an India payroll vendor whose books reconcile cleanly to yours, whose invoices an auditor can read on the first pass, and whose statutory accruals you can defend in due diligence.
No multiple line items, no statutory breakdown buried in service charges, no FX adjustment row. One number per employee. Books stay in USD. Auditor reads it on the first pass.
Monthly accrual report: PF employer contribution, ESIC employer contribution, Gratuity provisioning, Profession Tax, Labour Welfare Fund. Mapped to your specific GL accounts. Roll-forward reconciliation included.
Every invoice uses the RBI reference rate on invoice date. Our EOR fee is a separate USD line, not absorbed into FX. Your auditor can reconstruct INR → USD on every transaction.
Signed Form 16 per employee + ECR (PF) + ESIC challans + gratuity actuarial valuation + TDS quarterly returns + Profession Tax remittance records. On your audit calendar.
Series B fundraise triggers India payroll diligence. We deliver the diligence packet within 48 hours: 6 months of statutory accruals + every Form 16 + every ECR + employee-by-employee reconciliation. Your diligence cycle doesn't stall on India.
If you graduate from EOR to your own Indian Pvt Ltd, we hand off UAN + ESIC + gratuity records at $0 fee. Statutory liability accruals transfer cleanly. No double-counting, no missed handoff.
The previous EOR's invoices had an "FX adjustment" line that varied by $200-$800 per employee per month. Our auditor flagged it on every cycle. Versatile uses the RBI reference rate on invoice date and lists the EOR fee separately in USD. The auditor didn't ask a single FX question this year.
EOR is the contract layer. The other seven things that make India hiring work are also on our books. One MSA, one invoice, one accountable entity.
Offer letter, PF UAN, ESIC IP all under Foo Falcon's PAN. Your hire is on our books, not a partner's.
Sourcing, screening, interviews. $99/position, $1,199/mo dedicated recruiter, or contingent on placement.
Group health (₹5L floater, family), accident, term life. Day-1 coverage, no waiting period, no separate vendor.
Laptop, monitor, peripherals. Locally procured, delivered before Day 1. Pass-through cost, no markup.
Welcome call, document collection, policy walkthrough, first-paycheck schedule. Five-day SLA. Three-day fastest.
Monthly run, PF + ESIC + PT + TDS, Form 16, gratuity. Eight statutory items on every payslip.
EPFO + ESIC inspections, Section 7A inquiries, audit-ready records. Inspectors come to us, not you.
Notice, F&F, gratuity, asset recovery, experience letter, UAN continuity. Clean exit, every time.
Four operational benchmarks, refreshed monthly. These are not aspirations. They are the floor.
Three engagements that show how this works in practice. Different ICPs, different scales, same EOR mechanics.
How ePublishing switched EOR providers inside one payroll cycle. UAN continuity, gratuity vesting kept intact, engineers never noticed the swap.
Read the full case →How a global tech leader scaled an India design team through Versatile, with compliance handling that held up to internal audit.
Read the full case →How Swiggy consolidated their India design and engineering hiring under one EOR. 33 invoices in 26 months, single consolidated USD invoice.
Read the full case →Foo Falcon Pvt Ltd. Running India payroll since June 2022. Four years on the books. The team behind the numbers below is the same team you email.
Named compliance lead on every account. Email replies in 4-6 hours from the same India payroll specialists who run your filings · not from a tier-one help desk.
Founder & CEO · Bengaluru
Ex-[prior employer]. Director of the entity since incorporation. DIN 09654072. On every client Slack channel.
Compliance Lead · Bengaluru
Named on every client account. Drafts EPFO replies, reviews every payslip, signs the statutory filings. The reason zero notices have landed in 36 months.
Senior Payroll Specialist · Bengaluru
Runs payroll on the first of every month. Forty-seven payslips, zero misses in the last twelve cycles. Owns UAN, ESIC, and gratuity continuity.
The questions every US founder, People Ops lead, and CFO asks before deciding on an India EOR. Detailed FAQ below; this is the snapshot.
Sign one MSA with Versatile. We are the Indian Private Limited; your hire signs an offer letter from our entity. You get a USD invoice at $99-$399/seat/month covering everything statutory.
START WITH US →5 business days from offer signed for the typical first hire, including PF and UAN registration. Fastest documented onboarding: 3 days. Generic global EORs typically take 2–3 weeks for the same scope.
GET A QUOTE →Use an EOR until you are at 20–30 India employees. Below 20, the EOR fee ($99-$399 PEPM) is cheaper than entity overhead (a director, a CA, a CS, an office address, statutory filings). Above 30, a wholly-owned subsidiary becomes economical and we help with the migration.
EOR VS ENTITY, IN DETAIL →Versatile: $99-$399 per employee, per month. Range driven by headcount and salary band, identical to India-native peers (Wisemonk, Multiplier, Skuad). No setup fee. No exit fee. First month is on us.
Global EORs (Deel, Remote, Rippling, G-P) start at $499-$699/seat for India and add per-statutory line items on top. Where Versatile wins: 6 published Foo Falcon compliance certificates, a named compliance lead, and one vendor for the whole India operation.
SEE THE MATH VS DEEL →Most India EORs do not publish their CIN, their GSTIN, or their ESI code. We do, plus the Udyam registration, the PAN, the TAN, and the actual government-issued certificates as PDFs. Click any of them to verify the entity is real, current, and active on the official Government of India portals.
Most "EORs" pass through to a third-party Indian entity you never see. We are the entity. The CIN, GSTIN, ESI code, and Udyam registration above are all on the contract counterparty of every offer letter we issue.
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Read →Dear founder,
If you are hiring your first engineer in India, the part nobody warns you about is not the talent. It is the eight statutory filings, the New Labour Code rebase, and the EPFO inspection notice that arrives in month three.
Versatile exists so a US founder can hire in India the way they hire in California. Sign a contract on Monday. Have a payslip on the first. Get a USD invoice that an auditor can read. Our compliance team owns every step.
If that is the kind of partner you want, our team email is on every contract: [email protected]. Write to us before you sign. We reply in 4-6 hours.
One USD invoice per employee per month. Three lines visible: (1) employee gross salary converted at RBI reference rate, (2) Versatile EOR fee, (3) statutory employer contributions (PF + ESIC + gratuity provisioning + LWF). No FX markup. No bundled service charges. Your auditor reconstructs INR → USD on every transaction.
Yes. Onboarding includes a 30-minute call to map your specific GL accounts to our standard accrual categories: Salaries & wages, Employer PF contribution, Employer ESIC contribution, Gratuity expense, Profession Tax, Labour Welfare Fund. Monthly accrual report uses your GL chart of accounts.
Signed Form 16 per employee, ECR (PF) returns for every month, ESIC challans, gratuity actuarial valuation, quarterly TDS returns, Profession Tax remittance records, leave encashment computations, bonus computations. Delivered on your audit calendar.
Yes. 48-hour turnaround. Series B / Series C diligence cycles. We've delivered diligence packets to lawyers at top-tier firms (Cooley, WSGR, Latham, Goodwin). No back-and-forth required during the diligence cycle.
Tell me about your first hire. I will reply on email inside 4-6 hours, with a draft offer letter attached. Then my support team takes the depth.