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What an outsourcing service in India should actually include.

Every outsourcing service is really five services stapled together: finding people, employing them, paying them, keeping them compliant and equipping them. Vendors staple the five into one opaque rate. We sell them unbundled, priced in the open, so you can see exactly what each layer costs and drop the ones you do not need.

An outsourcing service is five services in a trench coat: recruit, employ, pay, comply, equip. We unbundle them and price each in the open.

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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.

The five layers, bundled versus unbundled.

Same five jobs either way. The difference is whether you can see, price and swap each layer on its own.

Bundled vendor service

Versatile unbundled service

Finding people
Included, quality unverifiable
12% of CTC, shortlist in nine days, skippable
Employing them
On the vendor's terms, invisible to you
$149 a month, contract shared with you
Paying them
Inside the blended rate somewhere
Salary at cost on an itemised invoice
Compliance
Assumed, rarely evidenced
Challans and filings available on request
Equipment and workspace
Vendor office, vendor laptop
Your spec, procured at cost
Swapping a layer
Impossible without leaving
Each layer stands alone

Bundled vendor service
Finding people Included, quality unverifiable
Employing them On the vendor's terms, invisible to you
Paying them Inside the blended rate somewhere
Compliance Assumed, rarely evidenced
Equipment and workspace Vendor office, vendor laptop
Swapping a layer Impossible without leaving

Versatile unbundled service
Finding people 12% of CTC, shortlist in nine days, skippable
Employing them $149 a month, contract shared with you
Paying them Salary at cost on an itemised invoice
Compliance Challans and filings available on request
Equipment and workspace Your spec, procured at cost
Swapping a layer Each layer stands alone
Day 1
Pick your layers: all five or just employment
Day 9
Shortlists delivered if recruiting is in scope
Day 15
Offers accepted, contracts issued on our entity
Day 20
Onboarded, equipped and on the payroll system
Month 1
First itemised invoice: salary, statutory, fee
Ongoing
Add or drop layers as your needs change

What hides inside a bundled outsourcing invoice.

When five services collapse into one hourly number, you cannot tell whether recruiting was any good, whether payroll ran on time or what the employment layer actually costs. The bundle is priced for the vendor's convenience, not your visibility.

Unbundled, each layer carries its own price and its own evidence: shortlist quality you interviewed, payslips you can inspect, challans you can request.

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Illustrative composition of a bundled hourly rate Share of a typical blended rate that is not worker salary
55% Salary
25% Vendor overhead
15% Vendor margin
5% Unallocated
Illustrative decomposition of a blended outsourcing rate. Actual splits vary widely by vendor, role and contract; the point is that you are rarely shown one.
Visibility per model
Five layers, one number You audit nothing
Five layers, five prices You audit everything

A service you cannot decompose is a service you cannot audit. Ask for the layer prices and watch what happens. Rebuild any bundled quote layer by layer with the EOR versus entity calculator and see what the staple was costing you.

Who runs each layer when you unbundle with us.

You take the layers that need your judgement. We take the layers that need an Indian entity and a compliance team.

You run

  • Layer selection and the budget per layer
  • Management of the people themselves
  • Any layer you prefer to keep in-house

We handle

  • Recruiting, when you switch that layer on
  • The employment layer on our entity
  • Payroll and statutory execution
  • Equipment procurement at cost

You run
  • Choose the layers
  • Manage the team
  • Keep what you like
  • See every price

We handle
  • Recruit on demand
  • Hold employment
  • Execute payroll
  • File on schedule
  • Procure equipment
  • Process exits

When something happens in India, it is ours.
Which layers are in scope Yours, changeable anytime
Employment and statutory duty Foo Falcon Technologies
The people and their work Yours from the first day

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

Layers you can decline

Bring your own candidates and skip the recruiting fee entirely. Buy laptops yourself and skip procurement. The service contracts by the layer, so you never pay for a component you did not use.

Prices printed on each layer

Recruiting at 12% of annual CTC, employment at $149 a head monthly, salaries and statutory at documented actuals, equipment at invoice cost. Four numbers cover the entire service.

Evidence attached to every layer

The employment layer produces contracts you can read, the payroll layer produces payslips and challans, the compliance layer produces filing receipts. Each layer proves itself monthly instead of asking for trust.

A service that ends gracefully

Unbundling extends to leaving: take the employment layer to your own entity when ready and the rest of the service steps aside without penalties or handover fees.

Layers you can decline

Bring your own candidates and skip the recruiting fee entirely. Buy laptops yourself and skip procurement. The service contracts by the layer, so you never pay for a component you did not use.

An honest service survives being bought in pieces.

Prices printed on each layer

Recruiting at 12% of annual CTC, employment at $149 a head monthly, salaries and statutory at documented actuals, equipment at invoice cost. Four numbers cover the entire service.

Four visible numbers beat one blended one.

Evidence attached to every layer

The employment layer produces contracts you can read, the payroll layer produces payslips and challans, the compliance layer produces filing receipts. Each layer proves itself monthly instead of asking for trust.

Paperwork you can pull is the only real SLA.

Moving someone across

Retiring the service layer by layer.

As you grow, layers migrate in-house one at a time. Recruiting can go to your TA team, equipment to your ops, and finally employment to your own entity, each without touching the others.

People and reporting Kept
Compensation structures Kept
Compliance through migration Continuous
Service interruption 0 days

The last layer to leave transfers the employees with tenure intact.

Supporting evidence

Audit the entity behind the employment layer.

Our employment layer runs on Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru, MCA-registered in 2022 with a public filing history. Statutory extracts and challans are shared with any client who wants them.

  • 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

Layer-by-layer evidence available every single month.

200

heads migrated into our employment layer at once

33

client accounts on our monthly payroll layer

5 days

for the employment layer to absorb a new 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 bought the layers, not the bundle.

On what changed when the blended rate was replaced by five prices they could actually read.

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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

The unbundled rate card.

Each layer priced alone. Compose the service you need and ignore the rest.

Recruitment layer

Optional, switch on per role
12% of annual CTC

12% junior and mid, 15% senior, leadership by scope. Invoiced at day 90 and waived when you source the candidate.

Scope my layers
  • Nine-day shortlist per brief
  • Compensation benchmarking
  • Screening and culture checks
  • Interview logistics
  • Offer negotiation
  • Invoice held to day 90
  • Free replacement search
  • Feeds the employment layer directly
  • Nine-day shortlist per brief
  • Compensation benchmarking
  • Screening and culture checks
  • Interview logistics
Plus four more inclusions
  • Offer negotiation
  • Invoice held to day 90
  • Free replacement search
  • Feeds the employment layer directly

The only layer with a success-based price.

Employment layer

The core of the service
$149 /employee/mo

Falls to $129 beyond twenty heads. Carries payroll, compliance and insurance sub-layers inside it at no extra fee.

Price this layer
  • Indian employment contracts
  • Monthly payroll and payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS execution
  • Group health insurance
  • Gratuity accrual
  • Leave systems
  • Exit and settlement handling
  • Transfer-out path built in
  • Indian employment contracts
  • Monthly payroll and payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS execution
  • Group health insurance
Plus four more inclusions
  • Gratuity accrual
  • Leave systems
  • Exit and settlement handling
  • Transfer-out path built in

Salary and statutory pass through at documented actuals.

Past twenty heads on the employment layer

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Only the employment layer has volume pricing; it steps down at head twenty-one. The recruiting layer's percentages are flat.

Sub-layers inside the employment fee

  • Payroll execution
  • Statutory filings
  • Insurance admin
  • HR documentation
  • Leave tracking
  • Reimbursements
  • Compliance calendar
  • Account management

Volume pricing

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Employment layer drops to $129 past twenty heads.

Inside the employment fee

  • Payroll execution
  • Statutory filings
  • Insurance admin
  • HR documentation
  • Leave tracking
  • Reimbursements
  • Compliance calendar
  • Account management

Statutory employer add-ons run about 13% to 17% over salary at actuals. To price your own layer combination against any bundled quote, use the EOR versus entity calculator with real salaries.

Outsourcing services in India, unbundled and answered.

What buyers ask once they see the service split into layers.

Why unbundle an outsourcing service at all?

Because bundles hide failure. If retention is poor or payroll slips, a blended rate gives you no way to see which layer broke. Unbundled, every layer has its own price and its own monthly evidence, so problems surface at the layer that caused them.

Can we really skip layers we do not need?

Yes, and clients regularly do. Companies with strong internal sourcing use only the employment layer at $149 a month. Companies with an India entity already sometimes use only recruiting at 12%. Nothing obliges you to buy the full stack.

What does the full five-layer service cost?

For a typical hire: a one-time 12% of annual CTC for recruiting, $149 monthly for employment with payroll and compliance inside it, salary and roughly 13% to 17% statutory add-ons at actuals, and equipment at invoice cost. Every element appears separately on the invoice.

How is quality enforced without an SLA document?

Each layer produces artefacts you can verify: shortlists you interview yourself, employment contracts you read, payslips and challans you can pull. We find inspectable evidence disciplines a service better than a penalties page nobody invokes.

Is this just an EOR with extra steps?

The employment layer is an EOR. The difference is the packaging: instead of selling employment and pretending the rest is free, we price recruiting, equipment and the pass-throughs openly around it so the whole service can be audited.

How quickly can the service start?

Employment-only starts as fast as your candidate can sign: onboarding takes five days. With recruiting switched on, add nine days to shortlist and about a week of interviews. Most full-stack engagements have people working inside a month.

What happens to the service when we open an entity?

The layers retire in whatever order suits you, and the employment layer transfers your people to your entity with continuity of service. There is no termination fee on any layer at any time.

Longer reading: Outsourcing work to India, the hub guide · HR outsourcing for India teams · How to pay employees in India

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