We've spent the last five years studying every HR & payroll platform that matters in India — how they price, where they break, who they actually fit. Tell us about your team in 3 minutes, get 3 hand-picked vendor recommendations in 48 hours. No spam calls. No affiliate junk. Free for you, always.
HR & Payroll platforms independently evaluated by our analyst team
Companies advised — from 20-person startups to 8,000-person enterprises
Average evaluation time saved per customer vs. doing it yourself
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Most HR & payroll switches take 4-6 months of evaluation — demos with 12 vendors, spreadsheets nobody reads, decisions made on feature checklists and slick sales decks. Two years later, half the buyers are looking again.
HRsays exists because there's a smarter way: ask the people who've already done the homework.
of mid-market HR teams regret their HRMS purchase within 24 months — usually for reasons that were knowable upfront.
average sunk cost of switching HR platforms once you've signed — data migration, retraining, productivity loss, license overlap.
No demos with 14 vendors. No sales spam. Just a careful brief, a curated shortlist, and answers to the questions you'd never know to ask.
A 3-minute brief: company size, current stack, what's broken, what you'd love, your budget envelope. The more candid, the better.
A human (not a chatbot) reviews your requirements, cross-checks our vendor research, and identifies the 8-10 platforms worth a closer look for your situation.
Three best-fit vendors with honest trade-offs — what each does brilliantly, where each falls short, indicative pricing, and what to ask in demos.
Talk to the vendors directly (we don't get in the middle). Need a sanity check during evaluation? We're a Slack message away. No commitment, ever.
Review sites are rented. Affiliate blogs are paid. Vendor sales calls are sales calls. We're not any of those.
We don't take affiliate fees. We don't take placement fees from vendors. Our analyst team is paid to be right — not to be friendly. If a vendor is wrong for you, we'll tell you, even if they pay us.
"They told us to not go with the vendor we'd already half-decided on. That single piece of advice probably saved us a year."
Five years. 120+ platforms. Real onboardings observed. Customer support response times measured. Implementation horror stories collected. We know which vendor's payroll module breaks at 500 employees — and which one quietly scales to 10,000.
"Their analyst knew our finalist vendor's product better than the vendor's own demo team."
A typical HRMS evaluation eats 40-60 hours of HR's calendar over 3 months. We compress that into a curated shortlist in 48 hours. You still pick the vendor — we just dramatically shrink the universe of "maybes".
"It's like having a friend who happens to be a Gartner analyst, except the friend has actually used the products."
From core HRIS to niche tools for offsite payroll — if it's part of how you run HR in India, we've reviewed it.
Employee database, org charts, document management, helpdesk.
Salary processing, PF/ESI/PT/TDS, Form 16, statutory reports.
Biometric, geo-fenced, shift rosters, OT calculation, leave policies.
Recruiting, JD generation, candidate pipeline, interview scheduling.
Goal cascades, 360° reviews, calibrations, 9-box, continuous feedback.
Pulse surveys, eNPS, peer recognition, rewards catalogues.
Course catalogs, certifications, learning paths, compliance training.
FBP, claim workflows, GST handling, corporate card integrations.
Every vendor goes through the same scorecard: real product walkthroughs, customer reference calls, support response audits, statutory compliance reviews, security posture checks, and 5 anonymized implementation interviews.
We re-evaluate the full list every quarter. The market moves; our research has to move with it.
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"We'd already burned three months talking to seven vendors and were no closer to a decision. HRsays gave us a shortlist of three in under two days — with a one-page memo on why each was a fit, where each fell short, and the exact pricing range to negotiate to. We signed with one of them eleven days later."
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You don't need another vendor pitch. You need a candid, expert opinion on which three platforms are actually worth your team's time.
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