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A greytHR alternative for companies that want HR, payroll, CRM and finance in one place
greytHR is HR and payroll software. Workdome does HR and Indian statutory payroll as well, in the same product as the CRM, the accounts, projects, recruiting and learning. Everything sits on one employee directory with one permission model, so the people in payroll are the same people who own deals and log hours.
Fit
Who should switch, and who shouldn't
Moving payroll takes planning and at least one month run twice. Whether that is worth it depends on what else you run.
Workdome is likely a good fit if
- You keep HR, sales and accounts in different products. Workdome joins them: an accepted offer becomes an employee record, and the billing customer in Finance is linked to its CRM account.
- Statutory payroll and GST are both on your plate. PF, ESI, professional tax and salary TDS run in payroll; GST returns, vendor TDS and e-invoicing run in Finance.
- Microsoft Teams is where approvals happen. Leave requests and approvals, balances, standups and service requests all work as Teams commands.
- You want a record of who saw personal data. Access is scoped by role and by record, and the PII access log shows who opened which employee's details, and when.
Stay where you are if
- HR and payroll are all you need, and they run smoothly. The case for Workdome is fewer systems. With only one, there is little to gain.
- You need a mobile app on every employee's phone. Workdome is used in the browser and in Microsoft Teams, with no separate app to install.
- You want returns filed straight from the payroll system. Workdome prepares the ECR and ESIC files and the Form 16 and 24Q data for you to review, upload and file.
- Google is your sign-in. Workdome's single sign-on is Microsoft only today.
What Workdome does
Payroll and HR, plus the rest of the company
What Workdome covers on the HR side, and what it adds on the same records.
HR and statutory payroll
- Provident fund
- Contributions calculated in the run, and the ECR file in EPFO's ECR 2.0 format.
- ESI
- Contributions calculated, with the monthly contribution file in ESIC's template.
- Professional tax
- State slabs, including Kerala's half-yearly cycle, with a statement for the return.
- Income tax
- Salary TDS under the old and new regime, employees' declarations and proofs, Form 16 Part B and 24Q annexures.
- Leave to exit
- Leave with accruals, attendance and shifts, goals and reviews, and the full and final settlement with gratuity. HR module.
The rest of the company
- Sales
- Leads, deals and pipelines, with lead scoring, territories and sales quotas. CRM.
- Accounts
- A double-entry ledger with invoices, bills, banking, GST and e-invoicing through ClearTax. Finance.
- Hiring
- Jobs, a career page, interviews and offers, ending in an employee record. Recruiting.
- Delivery
- Projects, task boards, milestones and timesheets. Projects.
- Training
- Courses, certificates, assignment rules and compliance exports. Learning.
Each statutory rule has a free calculator built from the same code: PF, ESI, professional tax, income tax and gratuity.
Migration
How the move from greytHR works
Workdome has no direct greytHR connector. You export spreadsheets from your current system and load each one through an import screen that returns a row-by-row report of anything it could not take.
1. Pick the cutover month
The start of a month, after a payroll you have closed, keeps the comparison clean. The start of the financial year is cleanest of all.
2. Employees and statutory details
Load the employee master, with bank details, from CSV or Excel, then PF, UAN, ESI and PAN numbers. Columns with no home in Workdome are listed back to you.
3. Leave balances and holidays
Load balances one row per employee and leave type, or as a report with a column per leave type. Load the holiday calendar; re-running it does not create duplicates.
4. Salary structures by hand
Recreate salary components and structures in Workdome, then check them against a recent payslip for a few employees in each grade.
5. Year-to-date figures
For a mid-year move, load the year-to-date earnings and tax declarations from a spreadsheet. Workdome suggests the column matches, you confirm on a preview, and the rest of the year's TDS is calculated on the full year.
6. Run one month twice
Process one payroll in both systems and compare before switching. Assets and leads can be loaded from spreadsheets whenever you are ready.
Try it with your own employees
A demo runs on a tenant of your own, so you can load a sample of your team and run a payslip before deciding anything.