Coworking Member Perks for 91Springboard, BHIVE, Awfis and Innov8

Which coworking spaces qualify?

Four operators are covered today. Each of the first three has its own page with member specific detail; BHIVE members claim from this page directly.

Startups sitting inside incubators, accelerators or state startup missions are handled under a separate cohort programme, see Offrd for incubators. A community not named here can still write in; eligibility for other spaces is decided case by case.

Do small employers in India have to run provident fund?

Only once twenty employees are on the rolls, unless the establishment opts in voluntarily. Plenty of companies register earlier because candidates ask for it and because it is easier to start clean than to backfill contributions later.

The part that catches people out is the universal account number. An employee who has worked before already has one, and it has to be linked rather than a second one created. Two active numbers for the same person is one of the more tedious things to unwind with the fund office.

what a universal account number is

What does the Shops and Establishments Act require of a India employer?

Registration with the state labour department, usually within a window of starting business that the state sets, often around thirty days. From there the Act governs daily and weekly working hours, the weekly off, breaks, opening and closing times, leave and holidays, and the records to be kept.

Because every state has its own Act, a rule of thumb carried from another state can quietly be wrong. The shape is similar everywhere. The numbers are not.

what the Shops and Establishments Act covers

What does the employer have to do before Form 16 can be issued?

Deduct tax under section 192 every month, deposit it by the due date, and file the quarterly salary return so the deposits show against each employee permanent account number. Part A is generated from those filings, so a quarter filed late or with a wrong number produces a certificate that does not match what the employee sees on the tax portal.

Most of the correction work at companies in India traces to permanent account numbers entered wrongly at joining. Collecting and verifying that in the joining kit is the cheap point to fix it.

the quarterly salary return

What maternity leave does an employee get?

Twenty six weeks of paid leave for the first two children under the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 as amended in 2017, and twelve weeks from the third child onward. Up to eight of those weeks can be taken before the expected date of delivery. Adoptive and commissioning mothers get twelve weeks in the circumstances the Act sets out.

The Act applies to establishments with ten or more employees, and entitlement needs eighty days of work with the employer in the twelve months before the expected date of delivery.

the policies a small Indian employer needs

What is the perk worth?

Every new Offrd account, member or not, starts with 50 free credits at signup. One document costs one credit, so that is fifty letters or payslips before any payment. The coworking perk adds one of the following on top, your choice:

• 50 additional credits, applied in your first month. Useful if you stay on pay per use at ₹99 per document.
• One subscription month at no charge, if you take the ₹50 per active employee per month plan. Useful for teams that run payroll and attendance on the platform from day one.

One claim per company account, whichever option you pick.

How claiming works

There is no coupon field anywhere. The process is manual on purpose, and short:

1. Create your company account at offrd.co/company_details.
2. Email service@offrd.co naming your operator, branch and city, and which of the two benefits you want.
3. The team checks the membership by hand and switches the benefit on, normally within one working day. You get a confirmation email.

What you get in the product itself

The perk is only worth claiming if the product underneath fits a small team. Offrd covers the employee paperwork cycle for Indian companies: offer letters with annexures, onboarding with Aadhaar and PAN verification, payslips with EPF, ESI and professional tax computed, attendance through the bundled Atndnz app, HR policies from a guided builder, and exit letters with full and final settlement. Resume screening before the offer stage runs at prehire.offrd.co. Setup takes under two minutes and there is no implementation call.

Questions about the coworking perk