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HR software for Manipur SMEs: your questions, answered
Offrd generates offer letters, payslips with PF, ESI, and Manipur professional tax, and runs attendance for businesses in Imphal and across the state. Pay 99 rupees per document or 50 rupees per employee per month, with 50 free credits on signup. Below are the questions Manipur employers ask us first.
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Which HR questions do Manipur employers search for?
Does Manipur levy professional tax on salaries?
Yes. Manipur levies professional tax under the Manipur Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, 1981. For salaried employees the tax is payable by the employer, deducted at source, per the official FAQ of the state's Taxes and Excise Organization. Registration and payment run through the online portal at professionaltax.mn.gov.in. Rates follow the gazetted schedule, so confirm the current slab with your CA.
Do shops in Imphal need Shops and Establishments registration?
Yes. The Manipur Shops and Establishments Act, 1972 requires every employer to register the shop or establishment. The registration is valid for one calendar year and must be renewed every calendar year, a requirement added by the 1992 amendment. Operating unregistered invites penalties, so renewal belongs on your January checklist.
What does HR software cost for a small Manipur business?
With Offrd you pay 99 rupees per document, or 50 rupees per active employee per month on subscription. Every new account starts with 50 free credits, and the Atndnz attendance app is bundled free for paying users. There is no setup fee and no minimum headcount, which suits teams of 5 to 75 people.
Can Offrd put PF, ESI, and Manipur PT on one payslip?
Yes. Offrd computes EPF at 12 percent for employer and employee up to the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling, ESI at 3.25 percent employer and 0.75 percent employee up to 21,000 rupees gross, and a professional tax line per the state schedule, all on one payslip, every month, without a spreadsheet.
How fast can an Imphal business start using Offrd?
Setup takes under 2 minutes in a browser. Enter company details, import employees by CSV, and send your first offer letter the same day. No implementation project, no training calls, no consultant. If you get stuck, support that understands Indian SME realities is an email away at service@offrd.co.
Why Manipur's small businesses are worth building software around
Manipur had 178,102 enterprises registered on the Udyam portal as of 28 February 2026, per a Ministry of MSME reply tabled in Parliament (PIB, 2026). The state's economy runs on agriculture, handloom and handicraft, textiles, tourism, and a growing services layer, with handloom, handicraft, and bamboo products among its major exports, according to the Strategic Investment Plan for Manipur under RAMP (Ministry of MSME, 2024).
One number in that plan stands out. Over 47 percent of Manipur's MSME workforce is women, well above the national average, per the same Ministry of MSME document. Weaving clusters, Ima Keithel traders scaling into registered firms, boutique garment units in Imphal. When these businesses formalise, the first paperwork they need is an appointment letter, a payslip, and a leave record. That is precisely the unglamorous territory Offrd covers.
A weaving unit converting ten artisans to salaried staff can issue all ten appointment letters in an afternoon with the offer letter generator, then run monthly wages through the payslip generator with PF, ESI, and PT computed per the rules above. Attendance for a shopfront in Paona Bazar and a workshop in Wangkhei sits in one report through the bundled Atndnz app with QR check in and GPS. And when a senior weaver retires after years of service, the gratuity calculator shows the payout before the settlement letter goes out.
What statutory duties does a Manipur employer carry?
| Obligation | What it means in Manipur |
|---|---|
| Professional tax | Levied under the 1981 Act. Employer deducts and pays for salaried staff. Online portal: professionaltax.mn.gov.in. |
| Shops registration | Manipur Shops and Establishments Act, 1972. Register, then renew every calendar year. |
| EPF | 12 percent employer and 12 percent employee, capped at the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling. |
| ESI | 3.25 percent employer and 0.75 percent employee on gross wages up to 21,000 rupees a month, where the scheme applies. |
| Gratuity | Wages multiplied by 15 multiplied by years, divided by 26, with a 20 lakh rupee ceiling. |
| Appointment letters | Mandatory under the Labour Codes in force since 21 November 2025. |
Tracking these by hand is a part time job nobody in a 20 person company actually has. Offrd's statutory compliance engine keeps the central rules current, applies the state specific lines, and hands your CA clean export ready data for filings. The division of labour stays sensible: the software does the arithmetic, the CA does the filings, and you run the business.
How does the employee lifecycle run inside Offrd?
The lifecycle in practice looks like this. A candidate accepts on the phone, and the offer letter goes out the same day with a salary annexure that balances itself to the CTC, Basic defaulting to 50 percent under the Code on Wages. Onboarding verifies Aadhaar, PAN, and bank details before the joining date, and the appointment letter follows, which matters because written appointment letters are mandatory under the Labour Codes in force since 21 November 2025.
Month by month, attendance flows in from the Atndnz app, leave requests go to one manager by email, and payroll runs with PF, ESI, PT, and gratuity accrual computed. Probation ends, and the confirmation letter generates from the same record. A good year passes, and the increment letter does too. When someone eventually moves on, the full and final settlement pulls from the same salary heads as every payslip before it, with a reference ID and standard deduction heads, so the parting is documented rather than disputed.
Each document along the way costs 99 rupees on pay per use, or nothing extra on the 50 rupees per employee monthly plan. Either way the record stays consistent, searchable, and exportable, which is what an auditor, a bank, or a buyer's due diligence team will eventually ask for.
How hard is it to switch from manual paperwork?
Most Manipur businesses that join Offrd are not leaving another HRMS. They are leaving a folder of Word files and one overworked Excel sheet. The switch is therefore an afternoon: create the account, upload the employee CSV, review the generated salary structures, and send whatever document is pending first. There is no implementation project because there is nothing to implement, and no training because the screens read like the documents they produce.
If the platform ever stops fitting, leaving is as plain as arriving. Records export as CSV at any time, payroll history exports include EPF return formats, and your documents are PDFs you already hold. No lock in, no exit fee, no hostage data. We would rather earn the renewal each month than engineer the cage, and pay per document pricing keeps us honest about that.
What Offrd deliberately leaves out
No OKR module, no 360 reviews, no recruitment pipeline beyond resume screening and prehire, no expense management. Those modules are why other HRMS quotes balloon, and most Manipur SMEs would never switch them on. Offrd does documents, payroll, attendance, leave, and policies, full lifecycle from offer to full and final settlement, and stops there. That restraint is what keeps the price at 99 rupees a document and the setup under 2 minutes. If you outgrow us into a 300 person enterprise with a dedicated HR team, we will say so plainly, and your data will export cleanly to whatever you choose next.
What does Offrd cost a 20 person Imphal firm?
A 20 person Imphal firm issuing 4 documents a month spends 396 rupees on pay per use, or 1,000 rupees a month on the per employee subscription with unlimited generation and payroll for everyone. Either figure is less than one consultant drafted letter, which typically runs 500 to 2,000 rupees, and a fraction of full HRMS suites whose monthly minimums start near 3,000 rupees regardless of headcount. There is no setup fee, no annual contract, and the Atndnz attendance app rides along free for paying users. The 50 free credits on signup cover your first real documents, so the evaluation costs nothing but an afternoon. Run the numbers against whatever you spend today on consultants, printing, and the hours someone loses to Excel each payroll month, and the decision tends to make itself. If the maths still feels abstract, book a demo and bring last month's payroll sheet. Seeing your own numbers flow through the platform settles the question faster than any page of copy, and the demo costs nothing either.
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Questions? Write to service@offrd.coLast updated: 12 September 2026