Patna's service and healthcare SMEs run on lean teams. This is HR software that keeps up with that pace.
पे-रोल, हाज़िरी, और HR पत्र एक ही जगह, पटना के SMEs के लिए।
Most Patna service businesses reach 20 or 30 staff before anyone thinks seriously about HR software. By that point there is usually a backlog: employees without proper offer letters on record, attendance tracked on WhatsApp, payslips assembled by hand at month end. The clinic administrator or operations head is doing it all alongside their actual job.
Getting this sorted does not take a consultant or a separate HR hire. Offrd runs in a browser and on a phone. You add your employees, set up their salary structure, and can generate a compliant offer letter in under three minutes. Attendance runs on QR codes or location for field teams. Payslips come out at month end with PF, ESI, and TDS already calculated. The quotidian weight of paper-based HR disappears fairly quickly once the first few things are set up.
From account setup to your first payslip, most businesses are running within a day.
Takes about 10 minutes. Enter your company name, PAN, and the CTC components you use: basic, HRA, allowances. You do not need a consultant for this step.
Enter each person's name, designation, CTC, and joining date. Offrd builds their salary breakup from the structure you defined. Individual breakdowns can be edited if someone has a different arrangement.
Most Patna businesses start with offer letters for new hires or for existing staff who never received one. Attendance via QR or geo-fencing can be switched on the same day.
Once attendance is marked and leaves approved, payslips generate with PF, ESI, and TDS lines. Download as PDF or share directly with employees.
The HR problems here are specific. These are the ones Offrd solves most often.
Track attendance across Patna offices without manual registers or WhatsApp messages.
Offer letters, probation confirmations, and exit letters aligned to standard Indian HR practice.
Handle full-time, contract, and intern employees in the same account with clear records.
Month-end payslips ready in minutes, not days.
All four labour codes have applied since 21 November 2025. Three of the changes bear directly on small business HR work.
Each worker has to receive a written appointment letter under the Codes, whether they are permanent, contractual or on a fixed term. Handshake terms are no longer enough. An appointment or offer letter takes about three minutes to produce on Offrd.
Section 17(2) of the Code on Wages puts the settlement deadline at two working days from the last working day. Patna is the seat of the Labour Commissioner, Bihar, of a Labour Court and of one of the state's two Industrial Tribunals, so a complaint has a short distance to travel.
The Code on Wages carries a definition of wages with a limit built into it. Allowances excluded from wages that amount to more than half of total remuneration have the surplus added back. Patna offices that load pay with allowances and keep basic small will find the wage base, and therefore provident fund, gratuity and ESI, moving up.
Questions we hear most often from businesses getting started in Patna.
For small businesses in Patna, the right HR software should handle offer letters, attendance, and payslips without requiring a dedicated HR team. Offrd is built for this: no minimum employee count, browser-based, and the first 50 credits on signup are free. Paid plans start at Rs 99 per document or Rs 50 per active employee per month.
Register on Offrd, add your company details and the employee's designation and CTC, and select the offer letter template. The document generates in under three minutes and can be downloaded as a PDF or sent digitally. No formatting or legal knowledge needed.
Payslips generated by Offrd include separate line items for PF employee contribution, PF employer contribution, and ESI deductions where applicable. You can refer to our PF Calculation Guide and ESI Contribution Guide for current statutory rates and wage thresholds.
Yes. You can add employees from different locations under the same company account. Each branch or site gets its own QR code for attendance, and all records are visible in one consolidated dashboard.
Yes. HR software is useful regardless of team size. For teams under 20, the pay-per-use plan at Rs 99 per document keeps costs minimal. You still need proper offer letters, attendance records, and payslips, and the new Labour Codes now make appointment letters mandatory for all workers.
Most businesses complete setup in under a day. Register, add your company and employees, and you can generate your first offer letter or payslip the same day. No data migration, no installation, no IT support needed.
Yes. Since the four labour codes took over on 21 November 2025, the 29 central labour laws they replaced no longer apply. Three consequences land on a small Patna employer. A written appointment letter is required for every worker, on any kind of engagement. The settlement deadline moves to two working days from the last working day, set by section 17(2) of the Code on Wages. And where the allowances excluded from wages amount to more than half of total remuneration, the surplus joins wages, which moves the figures for provident fund, ESI and gratuity. Rules below the Codes are still being framed at both levels, so current practice runs alongside. Patna employers keep filing with the District Labour Superintendent, Patna and with their own Commercial Taxes circle. Letters first.
India-specific statutory guides relevant to Patna businesses.
Two layers apply to an employer in Patna. The local layer comes from Bihar and from Patna district. The central layer is the same everywhere in India.
Please check this before you act on it. Offices move, jurisdictions get redrawn and rates are revised, often quietly. Ring the department to confirm the address, and get your CA or labour adviser to sign off the compliance position. This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with any office named here and does not act for them. These details were verified on 12 September 2026. Send anything that looks wrong to service@offrd.co.
Patna's registered industrial base runs past twelve thousand units, with a large leather footwear cluster and a traditional bell metal trade sitting alongside newer industrial areas at Bihta.
About Rs 8.4 crore turnover and 10,000 workers, the largest cluster in the district by employment.
Around Rs 69 crore turnover and 5,000 workers, a traditional metalcraft trade.
A smaller electrical goods cluster, about 700 workers.
The district's named large scale public sector employer.
MSME and Udyam registration for the district.
Shops and establishment registration and labour compliance.
Bihar Labour Resources DeptProfessional tax registration for employers in the state.
Bihar Commercial TaxesManages the Patliputra, Fatuha and Bihta industrial areas.
BIADAConfirm this before you rely on it. Figures come from the district's 2010-11 MSME-DI profile and are dated, no newer official recount was found. Office addresses and contact details can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office and its current jurisdiction before you act on it, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser. None of this is legal or tax advice. Offrd has no connection to the offices named and does not represent them. Checked 12 September 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us at service@offrd.co.
Three things. Make sure exits can be settled within two working days, which is a data problem rather than a legal one. Look at the salary structure against the new wage definition. And keep following the state Shops and Establishments Act for leave, hours and registration, because those continue to apply.
Everything else can wait for the rules to settle. These three have an effect on the next employee who resigns.
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.
Patna sits in Patna. Labour offices are appointed district by district, so that is the line that decides who inspects you.
Incharge of the relevant Patna Commercial Taxes (State Tax) circle for the employer's office address. Patna has more circles than any other Bihar city: Patna Central, Patna North, Patna South, Patna West, Patna Special, Patliputra, Gandhi Maidan, Kadam Kuan, Danapur, Patna City East.
Not in practice yet. The state Acts and their rules continue in force during the transition, so leave entitlements, working hours and registration still come from the state Act that applies where you operate.
Offrd handles the calculation and documents. These are the government offices for registration, inspections, and escalations.