Aizawl, Mizoram
Offrd is HR and payroll software for small companies in Aizawl. You generate offer letters, onboarding kits, and payslips in minutes, with EPF, ESI, gratuity, and Mizoram professional tax built in. Attendance and leave sit in the same place. Start with 50 free credits, no card needed.
Setup under two minutes. Works on the phones your team already carry.
Most companies in Aizawl run lean. One person often holds HR, admin, and a slice of accounts, sometimes the founder. Hiring happens in bursts, a few people a quarter, then a quiet stretch. The work is real even when the headcount is small.
Mizoram has a workforce that suits software. Literacy sits above 91 percent in the 2011 Census, among the highest in the country, and English is widely read. So a payslip people can open on a phone, or an offer letter sent as a clean PDF, lands well here. The friction is rarely the staff. It is the tooling.
The usual setup is a folder of Word templates and a payroll sheet that someone copies forward each month. It works until it does not. A formula breaks. A clause goes stale. The person who knew the file leaves, and the knowledge walks out with them.
You see the same pattern across the city. A handloom or handicraft unit with a dozen weavers, a family run shop near Bara Bazar, a school or a coaching centre, a small services firm taking government and private work. Different trades, one shared need: the basics done right without a payroll specialist on the bench.
The first tax of doing HR by hand is time. An offer letter rebuilt from scratch, a payslip checked line by line, a leave balance reconciled from a chat thread. None of it is hard. All of it adds up, and it usually lands on the one person who can least spare an afternoon.
The second tax is error. Payroll in India is a thicket of small rules. EPF runs at 12 percent from the employee and 12 percent from the employer. ESI adds 3.25 percent employer and 0.75 percent employee on wages up to 21,000 rupees a month. A wrong figure is not just a correction, it can mean a notice. The penalty rarely fits the size of the slip.
The third tax is timing. When you are hiring against a start date and the offer is stuck in a queue behind everything else, the candidate waits. Good candidates do not wait long. A slow letter can lose you the hire you spent weeks finding.
Yes, and this is where a local tool earns its place. Mizoram levies professional tax under the Mizoram Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, 1995. The slab is small, capped at 2,500 rupees a year, but it has to be right and it has to show on the payslip.
Offrd applies the correct state slab when it builds each payslip, next to EPF, ESI, and gratuity computed from basic pay. You enter the numbers once. The maths runs the same way every month, which is the whole point of a structured HR document rather than a fresh edit.
One honest line on scope. Offrd does the calculation and gives you clean, export ready figures. The challan itself is filed with the Mizoram Taxation Department, and your accountant handles that filing, the same as your EPF returns with EPFO and ESI with ESIC. Offrd hands the CA tidy data instead of a tangled sheet.
The statutory ground also shifted recently. The four Labour Codes took effect on 21 November 2025, and they make a written appointment letter the norm and set basic pay at half of total wages. Offrd builds salary structures on that 50 percent basic rule, so the letters you send already sit on the right footing. You can read the codes at the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Onboarding is online. A new hire submits Aadhaar, PAN, and bank details from a phone before the first day, and you review and approve them in the platform. The first morning is then about the work, not a stack of forms.
This matters more in Mizoram than in most places. The state sits under the Inner Line Permit, so movement in and out carries a step that other states do not have. Collecting documents and signatures before someone travels takes a brittle, last minute scramble off your plate. By the time they reach the office, the file is complete.
From there the document lifecycle is one path. Offer, confirmation after probation, increment, and the exit letter with a full and final settlement all pull from the same salary heads, so a number you set in the offer carries through to the last payslip. When you want to test the writing, you can create a sample offer letter before you commit to anything.
Bulk work is where this earns back the afternoon. Confirm a group after probation, or push an increment cycle across the team, and you produce the letters together instead of one weary copy and paste at a time. Each one still carries the right name, date, and figures, because they come from the record, not from memory. An agency turning interns into full time staff feels this most.
Attendance comes bundled through Atndnz, included free on a paid Offrd plan. Staff mark themselves present with a QR code or a location check, which suits a shop on Bara Bazar and a site team on the edge of town equally. You get a clean monthly record without chasing anyone.
Leave is deliberately plain. A request goes to one manager, who gets an email and approves or declines. No approval chains, no escalation matrix, no settings nobody will ever configure. For a team of twenty, that restraint is the feature, not a gap. If you want the attendance side on its own, the Atndnz app stands alone too.
More than most owners expect. The rule that bites earliest is the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act of 2013. It requires an Internal Committee once you reach ten employees, with a written policy to match. Miss it and the exposure is real, not a footnote.
Offrd builds these from a short questionnaire. You answer plain questions and it drafts a POSH policy, a leave policy, a code of conduct, and others, in your company name. No consultant fee per document, and no template lifted off the internet that may not hold. The policy reads like yours because the answers are yours.
Two ways to pay, and you pick what fits. Pay per document at 99 rupees, with nothing owed in a month when you issue nothing. Or move to the subscription at 50 rupees per active employee a month once volume picks up. Every new account opens with 50 free credits, so you can run a real offer and a real payslip before you spend.
That model reads well for a small Aizawl firm with an uneven calendar. You are not buying modules for performance reviews or an applicant pipeline you will never switch on. You are paying for the paperwork you actually produce. The full pricing plans lay out both routes, and the support team can walk you through which one suits your numbers.
Offrd runs in the browser and on a phone, and the screens are light. You do not need a fast line to issue a letter or open a payslip. For attendance, staff mark themselves from the Atndnz app, which keeps the data load small.
No. A founder or an office manager runs it without training. There is no setup project and no consultant call. You register, add a few details, and issue your first document the same afternoon.
Yes. You can import staff details from a CSV, and you can export everything back out as a CSV at any time, including payroll history in EPF return formats. Nothing is locked in, so there is no risk in trying it.
It does. Probation, confirmation, increment, separation, and the full and final settlement are all in the platform, and the settlement reads from the same salary heads as the monthly payslip. The figures stay consistent end to end.
Offrd is used by 4,000+ companies across 350+ cities in India, and it has won SoftwareSuggest awards for customer choice and support. Your documents download as PDFs you keep, and all data exports as CSV, so you are never locked in.
Open an account, claim your 50 free credits, and send a compliant offer letter today. Pay only when you generate.