Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Offrd is HR and payroll software for small companies in Itanagar. You produce offer letters, onboarding kits, payslips, and exit papers in minutes, with EPF, ESI, and gratuity built in. Arunachal Pradesh charges no professional tax, so payroll here carries one less deduction. Start with 50 free credits.
Setup under two minutes. Built to run on a phone and a patchy line.
Itanagar is a government town first. Around the offices sit the businesses that keep a capital running: contractors and suppliers, schools and coaching centres, clinics and pharmacies, shops, and a steady churn of construction and power projects out in the hills. Many of them field a team on a site and a smaller crew in town.
The HR load is the same as anywhere, only thinner on hands. One person, often the owner, signs the offers and worries about the payslips. English and Hindi are both common in Itanagar, so a clean letter and a phone friendly payslip read fine here. The drag is the manual work behind them, not the people receiving them.
Most companies scaffold this out of Word and Excel. It works while the team is small and one person remembers every detail. It gets brittle the moment you grow, or the moment that person is away. A folder of templates carries no memory of last month, so every letter and every payslip starts as a fresh decision instead of a settled one.
Same jobs, run two different ways. The left column is the manual routine most Itanagar offices know. The right is the same step inside Offrd. Read it across, row by row, and the difference is less about features than about where your hours go.
Rebuild a Word file, hope the clauses are current, format by hand.
Fill a short form, get a branded compliant PDF you can send the same day.
EPF and ESI worked out in a sheet, checked line by line, fingers crossed.
EPF, ESI, and gratuity from the figures you set. No professional tax line, since Arunachal has none.
Paper forms on day one, photocopies of Aadhaar and PAN, a slow first morning.
The hire submits documents online ahead of travel, and you approve them in the platform.
A register at the site, retyped into a sheet at month end.
Atndnz takes a QR or location check in from site and office, and the payslip reads it.
Requests in chat threads, a balance held in someone's memory.
The request goes to one manager by email, and the balance updates itself.
Recompute the final pay from scratch and hope it matches the offer.
The full and final settlement pulls from the salary heads you set at the start.
Here is the local detail that matters most. Arunachal Pradesh does not levy a state professional tax. Many states do, and their payslips carry a monthly professional tax line. In Itanagar you skip it. That is one fewer slab to track and one fewer return for your accountant. It is a small saving on paper, but it removes a recurring task and a recurring chance to enter a figure wrong.
The central rules still apply, and Offrd handles them. EPF runs at 12 percent from each side. ESI adds 3.25 percent employer and 0.75 percent employee on wages up to 21,000 rupees a month, filed with ESIC. Gratuity is taken from basic pay. The provident fund return goes to EPFO, and your accountant files it from the clean export Offrd gives you.
The wider framework shifted on 21 November 2025, when the four Labour Codes took effect. 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 a letter you send already sits on the right footing. The codes are published by the Ministry of Labour and Employment. You set the figures once in a structured HR document, and the maths repeats the same way each month.
Policies are the other piece owners put off. The harassment law from 2013 asks for an Internal Committee and a written policy once you reach ten employees, and that duty does not wait for you to feel ready. Offrd drafts the policy from a short questionnaire. You answer plain questions and it produces a POSH policy, a leave policy, and a code of conduct in your company name, without a consultant fee per page. The text reads like yours, because the answers are.
Arunachal Pradesh sits under the Inner Line Permit, so movement into the state carries a step that most of India does not have. That makes onboarding before travel genuinely useful, not just tidy. A candidate hired from outside the state can finish the paperwork while the permit and the journey are still being sorted, so the start date does not slip.
A new hire submits Aadhaar, PAN, and bank details from wherever they are, and you review and approve them before the first day. By the time they reach Itanagar, the file is complete and the first morning is about work. You can create a sample offer letter to see the format before you commit.
Project work pulls the other way, toward sites scattered across the hills. Offrd keeps the dispersed team and the town office on one record, so a supervisor on a site and a clerk in the head office show up in the same payroll run. Nothing falls between the two. When a project wraps and the crew moves on, their exit letters and settlements come from the same record you started them on, so the numbers match without a recount.
Two ways to pay. Pay per document at 99 rupees, with nothing owed in a month you issue nothing. Or move to the subscription at 50 rupees per active employee a month once the volume is steady. Every account opens with 50 free credits, so you can run a real offer and a real payslip before you spend a rupee.
A quick example. Issue six documents in a slow month, say two offers and four payslips, and that is 594 rupees on the pay per document plan. With twenty five active staff in a busy stretch, the subscription at 50 rupees each is 1,250 rupees a month and covers everything you produce. You stay on whichever route is cheaper for the month you are in.
You are not buying review cycles, an applicant pipeline, or an expense module you would never switch on. For a lean Itanagar business, that restraint keeps the bill honest. The pricing plans set out both routes, the support team can help you pick, and attendance through the Atndnz app is included on a paid plan.
Correct. Arunachal Pradesh does not levy a state professional tax, so that line never appears on an Itanagar payslip. Offrd leaves it out and still computes EPF, ESI, and gratuity in full, so the rest of the payslip is complete and correct.
Yes. Site and office staff sit in the same account, mark attendance the same way, and appear in one payroll run. A supervisor in the field and a clerk in town are handled together, not in two separate systems.
It is the common case here. A founder or an office manager runs Offrd without training. There is no setup project and no consultant. You register, add a few details, and send your first document the same afternoon.
Yes. Staff import from a CSV, and everything exports back out as a CSV, payroll history included in EPF return formats. Documents download as PDFs you keep. Nothing is locked in, so trying it carries no risk.
Offrd is used by 4,000+ companies across 350+ cities in India and has won SoftwareSuggest awards for customer choice and support. With no lock in and documents you keep as PDFs, the downside of trying it is small.
Open an account, take your 50 free credits, and send a compliant offer letter today. You pay only when you generate.