What HR software costs a Balasore business: Rs 99, worked out
Offrd prices HR software two ways for Balasore SMEs: Rs 99 per document with no monthly commitment, or Rs 50 per active employee per month as a subscription. Both include compliant letters, payslips with EPF, ESI and Odisha PT computed, and exits. The Atndnz attendance app is free for paying users, and new accounts start with 50 free credits.
Balasore's employers sit along a coastal industrial corridor, units in the industrial estates, processors, fabricators, transporters and the trading firms that serve them. Businesses here judge tools on price before anything else, which is fair. So this page leads with the price and works outward: what it includes, what it excludes, and what it comes to for three realistic firm sizes.
What does an employer in Balasore have to file, and with whom?
A business in Balasore answers to Odisha for some of this and to central law for the rest. Balasore district is the district for the local part.
Confirm this before you rely on it. Any of this can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office with the department, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser on what actually applies to you. General information only, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with these offices. Last checked 12 September 2026. Corrections to service@offrd.co, please.
What does Balasore's employer base actually look like?
Balasore sits between two major petrochemical investment regions, Haldia and Paradeep, a positioning the district's own profile states as fact, and its large scale base includes Birla Tyres and Emami Paper Mills.
Eight large scale industries in total, spanning tyres, paper, calcium silicate and asbestos manufacturing.
Rs 53,108.88 lakh cumulative investment and 61,293 employment through 2018-19.
827.78 acres combined, with 152 of 262 total units currently working.
The dry fish cluster at Chandipur alone counts 176 MSMEs, alongside stone carving, wood carving and jute products clusters.
Offices a Balasore employer deals with
MSME and Udyam registration for the district.
Shops and establishment registration and labour compliance.
Odisha Labour DeptGST and commercial tax registration for employers.
Odisha GST DeptManages the district's eight industrial estates.
Confirm this before you rely on it. Figures come from the district's 2019-20 profile with core industry data as of 2018-19, no newer official recount was found for these clusters. 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.
Why does attendance decide the payslip?
Because days paid drives everything below it. Loss of pay reduces gross wages, which reduces the employee state insurance contribution, and reduces basic pay, which reduces the provident fund contribution. A payslip built before attendance is final has to be reissued, and a contribution return built on it has to be corrected.
For a company in Balasore the sequence is fixed: close attendance, apply approved leave, then run payroll. Reversing those steps is the usual reason a month gets reworked.
What should an increment letter say?
The effective date, the revised annual figure, the revised component breakup, and whether any arrears are payable for months already run. If the designation is changing too, say so explicitly rather than letting a new title appear in the salary letter without comment.
The component breakup is the part small companies skip. A revision that raises the allowance and leaves basic pay untouched changes take home more than it changes provident fund, and employees notice.
Frequently asked questions
Which district handles filings for Balasore?
In Balasore. Filings for a Balasore employer go to offices appointed for that district rather than for the town.
Who collects professional tax from a Balasore employer?
Not levied in Odisha
How are days paid calculated in a month with loss of pay?
Most Indian employers use calendar days in the month as the denominator, some use a fixed 26 or 30. Whichever is chosen, it has to be applied consistently and stated in the policy, because the two methods give different answers.
What the price includes
Everything below is inside the base price on either plan. No add on charges, no per module fees, no setup fee.
| Area | What you get |
|---|---|
| Documents | Offer and appointment letters with annexures, probation confirmations, increment letters, separation letters, all generated from the employee record with an AI editor for phrasing |
| Payroll | Payslips computing EPF, ESI, gratuity accrual and the Odisha PT slab from each CTC, with salary structures that auto balance, and EPF ready files for your accountant |
| Attendance and leave | Atndnz app with QR check in, GPS, geofencing and biometric sync, feeding payroll directly, plus one manager leave approval by email |
| Onboarding and hiring | Digital collection and verification of Aadhaar, PAN and bank details, and Pre-Hire resume screening that scores and ranks applicants |
| Exits | A full and final settlement module with reference IDs, draft to approved lifecycle, and payouts drawn from the same heads as the payslip |
| Policies and year end | A questionnaire driven builder for POSH, leave and conduct policies, and Form 16 generation from your TRACES Part A plus locked tax declarations |
What the price excludes, on purpose
Clarity about the edges keeps the price honest. Offrd does not do performance reviews, OKRs or engagement surveys. It does not run expense claims, a helpdesk or an asset register. It does not host career pages or schedule interviews, and its recruitment coverage stops at the pre hire screening stage. It computes statutory deductions but does not deposit PT with the Odisha treasury or file EPF, ESI or TDS returns, which stay with your accountant, per the obligations the Odisha Commercial Tax department and the EPFO place on employers.
If a vendor quotes you a lower headline for a bigger suite, check the floor. Most carry monthly minimums or per module add ons that a 25 person unit ends up funding without using. The absence of those lines is the discount here.
One exclusion deserves its own sentence because units here ask about it: Offrd does not disburse salaries into bank accounts. It computes the payroll and gives you the figures; the transfer runs through your own bank as it does today. Firms whose single biggest pain is automated payment and statutory filing are better served by a payroll first product, and it is cheaper to know that on this page than after a purchase.
Three Balasore firms, three bills
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A 12 person trading firm that hires twice a year
Two hires might mean six documents, plus a policy set and the odd letter, say 15 documents a year. On pay per use that is about Rs 1,485 a year. The 50 free signup credits would in fact cover the first year outright. A subscription makes no sense at this size, and the platform will not push you toward one.
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A 35 person processing unit with monthly payroll
Here the subscription earns its place: 35 employees at Rs 50 is Rs 1,750 a month, or Rs 21,000 a year, with payslips, attendance through Atndnz, letters and exits all inside. Compare that against the going rate for even one day a month of a payroll consultant's time in a district town, and against the cost of one EPF error.
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A 70 person fabricator across two sites
Rs 3,500 a month on subscription. Two sites mean two QR codes and a geofence each, one attendance ledger, one payroll run. The alternative at this size is usually a full HRMS at several times the price, or a payroll clerk. Offrd sits in between, covering the paperwork while the owner keeps the headcount lean.
All figures are list prices as of August 2026. The pricing page is the live source.
Why cheap does not mean thin here
The price stays low because the scope stays fixed, not because corners are cut on the compliance floor. Written appointment letters for every worker, mandatory under the labour codes since 21 November 2025 per the Ministry of Labour and Employment, generate in minutes. The payslip engine carries the current EPF and ESI rates and the Odisha slabs so your unit's wage records stand up to a bank's or principal employer's scrutiny. The settlement module closes exits with arithmetic an auditor can retrace.
4,000+ companies across 350+ Indian cities pay these prices and nothing more, and Offrd has generated over Rs 7 billion in offer letter value.
State slabs and the other city pages live on the Odisha hub.
The price of doing nothing, for comparison
Every pricing page should be honest about the third option, which is changing nothing. It has no invoice, so it looks free. Its costs arrive in other clothes. An EPF deduction taken on the wrong wage base for a year becomes arrears plus interest when noticed. A worker without an appointment letter is a finding the moment a labour officer samples your files, and written letters have been mandatory since the labour codes took effect in November 2025. A disputed exit with no settlement arithmetic can consume more owner hours than a year of subscription costs, and sometimes a lawyer.
Then there is the slow tax nobody itemises: the hour per drafted letter, the accountant's day rebuilding the wage sheet, the evenings reconciling a register against pay. A 35 person unit leaks a working week a month this way without anyone deciding to spend it. Against that ledger, Rs 1,750 a month is not a new cost. It is a smaller number replacing a larger, hidden one.
Before you buy anything, ours included, ask any vendor three questions. What is the monthly floor if my headcount drops? Which features on the demo are separate line items? And what happens to my documents if I stop paying? Offrd's answers: no floor on pay per use, none, and every document already generated is a PDF in your hands.
A fourth question suits the coastal corridor specifically: does the price hold when the workforce swells for a project and shrinks after? Units here staff up against orders and trim in slack months. A per active employee rate follows that curve in both directions, where a seat contract keeps billing for the workforce you no longer have.
Pricing questions, answered straight
Are there hidden charges beyond Rs 99 or Rs 50?
No. No setup fee, no implementation charge, no per module add ons, and Atndnz is included free for paying users. On pay per use, an onboarding costs 15 credits, and the credit prices are listed openly.
Can we switch between the two plans?
Yes. Firms often start on pay per document, see their monthly volume, and move to the per employee subscription when it becomes the cheaper line. The direction reverses just as easily.
Is there a minimum headcount or a minimum bill?
No. A five person firm paying per document has no monthly bill at all in a month it generates nothing. That is the difference from suites with seat floors.
What does the demo cost?
Nothing. Book a slot and someone walks you through the product on your own use case. The 50 free credits then let you test with real documents before any payment.
On the subscription, who counts as an active employee?
People on your rolls that month. Someone who exits mid month stops counting from the next cycle, so the bill tracks your true headcount rather than a contracted seat number.
If GST or our registrations change, does anything break?
No. Company particulars are editable in the account, and documents generated after a change carry the updated details. Old documents remain as issued, which is what an audit trail should do.
Do prices differ for Balasore versus metro companies?
No. Rs 99 a document and Rs 50 per employee are flat across India. A district town firm pays exactly what a Bengaluru startup pays.
Run the numbers on your own firm
Count your yearly documents, multiply by Rs 99, and compare it with what the paperwork costs you today in hours and consultant fees. Then test the difference free.