Evaluating a factoHR alternative?
factoHR is an established Indian HR-and-payroll platform with particular strength in workforce-heavy deployments. PeopleDeck meets the same buyer with a per-employee, payroll-spined model; compared honestly below.
Where the two products stand
factoHR offers Indian payroll, attendance and HR with a footprint that includes workforce-heavy and field-heavy organisations; verify its current module map and packaging on their pages. PeopleDeck brings the same statutory seriousness with a different organising principle: everything per employee with nothing plan-gated, the payroll engine as spine with workings printed on every payslip, and self-serve adoption from a free start. Both take attendance hardware and shift complexity seriously; the separation happens on model, explainability and the seams between modules.
How to run this evaluation
If your workforce is shift-heavy, make the attendance-to-payslip path the test: rosters, device punches, overtime rules, and the payslip lines they produce — replayed on both products with a real fortnight's data. Add one exit and one arrears case. PeopleDeck's free start covers our side; have factoHR demonstrate the identical path and verify plan inclusions on their current material.
The side-by-side, honestly
Concrete claims below are about PeopleDeck only. For the other column, we state category facts and what to verify. Products change, so check current details on their own pages before you decide.
| Dimension | PeopleDeck | factoHR; verify on their pages |
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| Product shape | One platform for payroll, attendance, leave, onboarding to FnF, records and self-service, bought self-serve by any business | Established Indian HR-payroll platform, strong in workforce-heavy deployments; verify current scope |
| Payroll & statutory | PF, ESI, PT and TDS applied on every payslip; upload-ready ECR and return files generated. Filing stays with you | Statutory payroll offered; verify coverage, workings visibility and formats for your registrations |
| Pricing model | Per employee, per month, in ₹. Whole platform included, rate shown transparently at sign-up, start free | Check their current published packaging, no claim made here |
| Attendance & leave | Rosters, rotating shifts, biometric, web and mobile punches; attendance feeds payroll directly | Attendance strength including devices; verify your hardware and shift patterns specifically |
| Onboarding to exit | Joining checklists to a computed full-and-final statement with every line's working shown | Lifecycle modules offered; verify FnF depth against your exit volume |
| Self-service | Payslips, balances, declarations, claims and Form 16 data in every employee's hands | ESS and mobile offered; verify what shift workers can do from a phone |
| Getting started | Self-serve sign-up; import employees, run a parallel month, go live when it reconciles | Typically guided; confirm implementation expectations with their team |
What switchers say they were actually looking for
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The attendance-to-payslip seam
In shift-heavy payroll, the join between attendance and computation is where hours vanish and disputes breed. PeopleDeck makes the roster the wage input — approved hours become payslip lines without an export in between.
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Workings a supervisor can defend
When a loader questions overtime, the payslip's printed arithmetic (shifts, rates, rules) settles it on the floor. Explainability is a shop-floor feature, not a finance nicety.
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Per-employee, even at workforce scale
Headcount-proportional pricing suits workforces that surge and shrink: the seasonal two hundred cost for the season, not for the licence year.
PeopleDeck in depth: the payroll engine · statutory compliance · per-employee pricing
Migrating without a bad payday
Workforce-scale migration runs site by site: masters and structures first, then each site's shift rules and device feeds, with one wage cycle in parallel per site before cutover. The template from the first site carries the rest.
Reconcile at the payslip level, including overtime and differential lines; that is where shift payrolls actually differ. Month-boundary go-live per site keeps every establishment's records clean. Keep the old system readable until the audit cycle closes; a clean cutover leaves you more defensible than before it.
The boundary that decides it
PeopleDeck is a standalone HRMS any business signs up for, priced per employee, per month, with PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS applied to every payslip and upload-ready return files generated, never filed behind your back. If you are an education institution comparing ERP-bundled payroll instead, that is a different product shape: see SchoolDeck staff payroll for schools or CampusAlly payroll for colleges, licensed per institution.
Frequently asked questions
Does PeopleDeck handle biometric devices and shift complexity?
Yes — device, web and mobile capture feed rosters with rotation patterns, differentials and OT rules priced in configuration. Verify your specific hardware on both products; that check is cheap and decisive.
How do the products differ for a factory or field workforce?
Test the seams: roster change to payslip line, device punch to computed OT, site close to statutory file. Products in this class match on checklists and separate on how little human glue those paths need.
Can we migrate multi-site operations gradually?
Site by site is the recommended path: one site's parallel month becomes the template, and each establishment cuts over on its own month boundary.
What about contractor workforce evidence?
PeopleDeck keeps principal-employer evidence (contractor registrations, challans, aligned headcounts) organised per site; the contractors' own payroll stays theirs. Verify how any alternative models the same boundary.
What should we verify on factoHR's side?
Current packaging, device compatibility for your sites, workings visibility on payslips, and implementation expectations, from their current pages and team.
Shift-heavy payroll, spine-first.
Run a parallel month on your own data — the reconciliation decides, not the brochure.
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