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For HR leaders: India employment, run to your standards.

You own the employee experience; India should not be the market where it slips. We employ your India team on our Bengaluru entity, run payroll to a fixed monthly cadence, keep the statutory calendar green and give every employee payslips, insurance and a named point of contact, all for $149 per person per month.

Give your India employees the same experience as HQ: on-time payroll, real payslips, insurance and compliance handled at $149 a month each.

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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.

India HR improvised versus India HR operated.

The gap between the two models shows up in filing deadlines, onboarding days and the questions employees ask you.

Improvised local admin

Versatile as your India HR ops

Statutory calendar
Tracked in someone's spreadsheet
Owned by a team that files monthly
Payroll date
Drifts with founder bandwidth
Fixed cadence, every month, with payslips
Onboarding
Ad hoc, laptop maybe on day three
Five-day structured runway per joiner
Employee questions
Land in your inbox at midnight
Answered by a named account manager
Policy compliance
Templates borrowed from the internet
Contracts and letters under Indian law
Audit readiness
A scramble when the notice arrives
Challans and registers always current

Improvised local admin
Statutory calendar Tracked in someone's spreadsheet
Payroll date Drifts with founder bandwidth
Onboarding Ad hoc, laptop maybe on day three
Employee questions Land in your inbox at midnight
Policy compliance Templates borrowed from the internet
Audit readiness A scramble when the notice arrives

Versatile as your India HR ops
Statutory calendar Owned by a team that files monthly
Payroll date Fixed cadence, every month, with payslips
Onboarding Five-day structured runway per joiner
Employee questions Answered by a named account manager
Policy compliance Contracts and letters under Indian law
Audit readiness Challans and registers always current
Day 1
Policy and benefits mapped to your handbook
Day 5
Contracts templated to Indian law, approved by you
Week 2
Existing team migrated or first hires signed
Month 1
First payroll on the fixed cadence, payslips out
Month 2
Insurance cards live, leave calendars synced
Quarter 2
First compliance report lands in your inbox

What one missed statutory month costs an employer.

PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS each carry their own monthly deadline, and each missed one accrues interest and penalties independently. The amounts start small and compound while nobody is watching.

Our filing team clears the full calendar every month for every client, and the proof, challans and acknowledgements, is available to you on request rather than reconstructed after a notice.

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Illustrative penalty accrual on one unfiled month Cumulative interest and damages across four quarters
$700 Month 3
$1,700 Month 6
$2,900 Month 9
$4,100 Month 12
Illustration for a small team's combined PF and TDS exposure at typical interest and damage rates. Actual amounts depend on salaries and the specific default.
Who answers when the notice arrives
Improvised compliance Your company, alone
EOR through Versatile We hold the obligation

HR credibility is built on the boring things happening on time. Payroll date, payslip accuracy, insurance cards that work: that is the whole game. Budget the function properly with the EOR versus entity calculator and take real numbers to your CPO.

The HR split: culture stays with you, machinery comes to us.

You design the employee experience. We execute the Indian employment mechanics underneath it, to your standards.

You run

  • Culture, policies and the handbook
  • Performance cycles and calibration
  • Engagement, growth and retention

We handle

  • Employment contracts under Indian law
  • The full statutory filing calendar
  • Payroll on a fixed monthly date
  • Insurance, leave and exit mechanics

You run
  • Own the culture
  • Set the policies
  • Run performance
  • Drive retention

We handle
  • Draft the contracts
  • File every return
  • Pay on the date
  • Manage insurance
  • Track the leave
  • Execute exits

When something happens in India, it is ours.
The employee experience design Yours, end to end
The legal employer in India Foo Falcon Technologies
People data and records access Shared, you see everything

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

Your handbook, localised

We do not impose a generic policy pack. Your leave philosophy, probation approach and code of conduct get translated into Indian-law-compliant documents, so employees in Bengaluru read the same company as employees anywhere.

A calendar that is never yours to miss

PF on its date, ESIC on its date, TDS and professional tax on theirs. The deadlines belong to our compliance team, and the evidence trail is maintained continuously instead of assembled during audits.

Employees feel employed

Payslips that reconcile, insurance cards that work at the hospital, gratuity accruing correctly, full and final settlements done lawfully. The mechanics of dignity, handled every single month.

One escalation path

When something odd happens, a resignation, a medical claim, a notice period dispute, your team calls one named person here and it gets handled under Indian law without you learning it first.

Your handbook, localised

We do not impose a generic policy pack. Your leave philosophy, probation approach and code of conduct get translated into Indian-law-compliant documents, so employees in Bengaluru read the same company as employees anywhere.

Consistency of experience is an HR deliverable; we protect it.

A calendar that is never yours to miss

PF on its date, ESIC on its date, TDS and professional tax on theirs. The deadlines belong to our compliance team, and the evidence trail is maintained continuously instead of assembled during audits.

Green calendars are quiet; that is the point.

Employees feel employed

Payslips that reconcile, insurance cards that work at the hospital, gratuity accruing correctly, full and final settlements done lawfully. The mechanics of dignity, handled every single month.

Retention starts with the basics arriving on time.

Moving someone across

If your company later opens its own India entity.

The HR machinery transfers with the team. Records, accruals and policy documents move onto your entity in one cycle with nothing re-created from scratch.

Policies and employment terms Kept
Benefits and insurance levels Kept
Filing continuity through the move Continuous
Payroll dates missed 0 days

Employees experience a new letterhead, not a new employer relationship.

Supporting evidence

Audit the employer we would put behind your people.

Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru, MCA-registered since 2022, is the entity your employees would sign with. Its statutory record is public and we furnish challans to HR teams as routine.

  • 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

Compliance evidence on request, not on escalation.

200

staff onboarded onto our books for one client without a missed payroll

33

organisations whose India employment we operate month after month

5 days

of structured onboarding from acceptance to first working day

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.

HR leaders who handed us the machinery.

People teams on what changed when the India compliance calendar stopped being their 2 a.m. problem.

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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

What the HR function pays, in two lines.

A hiring fee when we search, a flat employment fee monthly. Both flat, both public, both budgetable.

Recruitment

We fill your India requisitions
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid requisitions at 12% of CTC, senior at 15%, leadership scoped per search. Invoicing waits for the day-90 mark.

Open requisitions
  • Requisition intake with your TA team
  • Nine-day shortlist commitment
  • Market pay data per role
  • Loop coordination and scheduling
  • Offer management to acceptance
  • Day-90 invoice protection
  • Free replacement guarantee
  • Handover into 5-day onboarding
  • Requisition intake with your TA team
  • Nine-day shortlist commitment
  • Market pay data per role
  • Loop coordination and scheduling
Plus four more inclusions
  • Offer management to acceptance
  • Day-90 invoice protection
  • Free replacement guarantee
  • Handover into 5-day onboarding

Referrals and internal candidates never incur the fee.

Employer of Record

We operate the employment
$149 /employee/mo

From head twenty-one the fee is $129. Salary and statutory employer costs appear at actuals on one itemised invoice.

Scope the team
  • Indian-law employment contracts
  • Fixed-date monthly payroll
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filings
  • Group medical insurance
  • Gratuity and bonus compliance
  • Leave and attendance records
  • Disciplinary and exit support
  • Records portable to your entity
  • Indian-law employment contracts
  • Fixed-date monthly payroll
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filings
  • Group medical insurance
Plus four more inclusions
  • Gratuity and bonus compliance
  • Leave and attendance records
  • Disciplinary and exit support
  • Records portable to your entity

Your India HR operations desk, priced per employee.

Teams beyond twenty

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Larger India teams step down to $129 per person from the twenty-first employee onward. Recruitment terms are volume-independent.

Inside the monthly fee

  • Payroll and payslip delivery
  • Statutory filings and challans
  • Insurance enrolments and claims
  • Employment documentation
  • Leave balance administration
  • Reimbursement cycles
  • Compliance calendar ownership
  • Named HR operations contact

Volume pricing

$149 $129 /employee/mo

$129 per employee monthly past twenty heads.

Inside the monthly fee

  • Payroll and payslip delivery
  • Statutory filings and challans
  • Insurance enrolments and claims
  • Employment documentation
  • Leave balance administration
  • Reimbursement cycles
  • Compliance calendar ownership
  • Named HR operations contact

Employer-side statutory contributions add roughly 13% to 17% to salary at actuals. Put your headcount plan through the EOR versus entity calculator to brief finance accurately.

The India questions HR teams bring us.

Compliance, cadence and employee experience, answered from the operator's side.

Which Indian statutory obligations does this cover?

Provident Fund, ESIC where applicable, professional tax, TDS on salaries, gratuity accrual, statutory bonus where due, and shops-and-establishments requirements. Each has its own deadline and our filing team owns all of them, with challans available to you as evidence.

Can we keep our own policies and handbook?

Yes, and we encourage it. We localise your existing policies into Indian-law-compliant contracts and letters rather than substituting a generic pack, so probation, leave and conduct rules feel like your company everywhere.

What is the payroll cadence and what do employees see?

Payroll runs on a fixed monthly date with payslips showing gross, deductions and net in full detail. Employees also see PF contributions land in their own government accounts, which is often the first time offshore staff have had that visibility.

How is onboarding handled for new joiners?

A structured five-day runway: contract signature, statutory registrations, insurance enrolment, device issue and system access, sequenced so the person is productive inside their first week rather than chasing paperwork through their first month.

How do exits and terminations work in India?

Carefully, because Indian law is employee-protective. We manage notice periods, documentation, final settlements and gratuity payouts lawfully, and we advise your managers on process before anything is communicated, which is where most India exit problems are actually created.

What visibility do we get as the HR team?

Full. Headcount, payroll registers, leave balances, filing confirmations and insurance status are all reportable to you, and a named account manager walks your team through anything unusual. You stay accountable to your business with real data, not our assurances.

Longer reading: India payroll compliance, calculated · The finance view of this model · Payroll in India, the full guide

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.

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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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