Independent advisory · since 2019

Buying HR software
shouldn't take six
months.

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.

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The problem with HR tech buying

Choosing HR software is brutal.
And the cost of choosing wrong is brutaler.

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.

"
63%

of mid-market HR teams regret their HRMS purchase within 24 months — usually for reasons that were knowable upfront.

"
18L

average sunk cost of switching HR platforms once you've signed — data migration, retraining, productivity loss, license overlap.

How HRsays works

From "we need an HRMS"
to a confident decision — in a week.

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.

Tell us about your team

A 3-minute brief: company size, current stack, what's broken, what you'd love, your budget envelope. The more candid, the better.

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An analyst picks up your brief

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.

Same day

We share a shortlist of 3

Three best-fit vendors with honest trade-offs — what each does brilliantly, where each falls short, indicative pricing, and what to ask in demos.

Within 48 hrs

You decide. We stay neutral

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.

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Why HRsays — and not a Google search

The internet has opinions.
You need judgement.

Review sites are rented. Affiliate blogs are paid. Vendor sales calls are sales calls. We're not any of those.

Genuinely independent

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."

We've done the homework

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."

You save the time, not us

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."

Software we cover

The whole people-tech stack,
independently mapped.

From core HRIS to niche tools for offsite payroll — if it's part of how you run HR in India, we've reviewed it.

Core HRMS

Employee database, org charts, document management, helpdesk.

32 vendors evaluated

Payroll & Compliance

Salary processing, PF/ESI/PT/TDS, Form 16, statutory reports.

28 vendors evaluated

Time & Attendance

Biometric, geo-fenced, shift rosters, OT calculation, leave policies.

22 vendors evaluated

Applicant Tracking (ATS)

Recruiting, JD generation, candidate pipeline, interview scheduling.

24 vendors evaluated

Performance & OKRs

Goal cascades, 360° reviews, calibrations, 9-box, continuous feedback.

18 vendors evaluated

Engagement & R&R

Pulse surveys, eNPS, peer recognition, rewards catalogues.

16 vendors evaluated

Learning (LMS)

Course catalogs, certifications, learning paths, compliance training.

14 vendors evaluated

Expense & Reimbursement

FBP, claim workflows, GST handling, corporate card integrations.

12 vendors evaluated
How we evaluate vendors

A 47-point
analyst rubric — refined since 2019.

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.

Sample vendor scorecard
How a typical Tier-1 HRMS scores on our rubric
Product depth
Core HRMS & employee lifecycle 9.2 / 10
Payroll & statutory engine 8.7 / 10
Performance & engagement 7.4 / 10
Customer experience
Implementation & onboarding 8.1 / 10
Support response (audited) 7.9 / 10
Mobile ESS adoption 8.6 / 10
Trust & security
SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPDP readiness 9.5 / 10
Pricing transparency 7.2 / 10

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Vendors pay us a flat referral fee when a recommendation we make turns into a customer. It's the same fee for every vendor in our network — so we have zero incentive to push one over another. We only recommend vendors we'd be comfortable putting on our own company's payroll.
No. Your contact details stay with HRsays. We share the vendor shortlist with you, and you decide who to reach out to and when. The only person who'll contact you is the analyst working on your brief.
Listing platforms show you what's available; we tell you what's right. They monetize through paid placements and lead-sharing with vendors who outbid each other. We monetize only on successful matches. Our shortlist is three vendors based on judgement — not 47 vendors based on who paid for the top slot.
We'll still tell you. Our shortlist will mention the best-fit vendor regardless of whether they're a paying partner. We track the entire Indian HR tech market in our research, not just our network. Your recommendation reflects our actual analysis — that's the whole point.
A person. Every brief is read by an analyst from our team — most of whom have spent 8-15 years in HR ops, payroll, or HR-tech product roles. The shortlist memo you receive is hand-written, not auto-generated.
Yes — our published vendor reviews, deep-dive reports and HRMS comparison guides are freely available. Subscribe to the newsletter and you'll get them in your inbox each Tuesday. The form is only if you'd like a personalized shortlist for your specific situation.
Our primary research depth is for India. We do cover major global platforms (Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, Deel) where they're sold in India or used by Indian buyers, especially for ATS, EOR and global payroll. If you're hiring across markets, mention it in your brief.
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