HR software for Meghalaya SMEs: the old way and the Offrd way
Offrd gives Shillong and Meghalaya businesses one platform for offer letters, payslips with PF, ESI, and professional tax, attendance, and HR policies. Pay 99 rupees per document or 50 rupees per employee per month, with 50 free credits on signup and setup in under 2 minutes.
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What changes for a Shillong employer
Meghalaya had 74,087 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 Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy 2024, published by the Department of Commerce and Industries, puts trade, tourism, high value agriculture, and a knowledge based economy at the centre of its growth plan, with incentives running to December 2034. Hotels, homestays, coaching and edtech ventures, IT services, cafes, and clinics. Shillong's employer mix is services heavy, young, and growing.
Every one of those employers runs the same back office, either by hand or with software. Here is the side by side.
The old way
The Offrd way
The Meghalaya specifics most software ignores
Professional tax is real in Meghalaya. The state levies it under the Meghalaya Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, and a 2022 amendment, published in the Gazette of Meghalaya, moved the rates out of the Act's schedule and into government notifications. Employers other than government entities must obtain a certificate of registration. The state's online portal for these procedures is megtaxation.nic.in. Because rates now travel by notification, hard coded slab tables in generic payroll tools go stale without warning. Offrd keeps the PT line configurable so your payslips follow the current notification, not last year's blog post.
Registration under the Meghalaya Shops and Establishment Act is mandatory for every establishment, valid for the calendar year, and renewable every calendar year. Minimum wages move too: the Labour Commissionerate published revised rates effective 1 April 2026 on its official notification list. None of this is difficult individually. Collectively it is a steady drip of small deadlines that a one person HR desk in a 30 person company tends to lose track of.
Built for the 5 to 75 person company
Offrd is HR document and operations software for Indian SMEs, used by 4,000+ companies across 350+ cities. The platform covers the full lifecycle: offer, onboarding with Aadhaar, PAN, and bank verification, monthly payslips, attendance and leave, increment letters, and full and final settlement. EPF runs at 12 percent for employer and employee up to the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling, ESI at 3.25 and 0.75 percent up to 21,000 rupees gross, and gratuity follows the statutory formula, all computed inside the product. The ESI and PF compliance guide explains the central rules in plain language if you want the workings.
Pricing has no gristle in it. 99 rupees per document on pay per use. 50 rupees per active employee per month on subscription. 50 free credits when you sign up, no setup fee, no minimum headcount, and the Atndnz attendance app free for paying users. A Shillong cafe with 12 staff and a Tura trading firm with 60 pay in proportion to what they use, which is not how monthly minimum HRMS pricing works.
What Offrd does not do also matters. No OKRs, no 360 reviews, no expense module, no deep recruitment pipeline. Those belong to enterprise suites and enterprise budgets. The honest trade is fewer modules, faster setup, and a price a small business can defend to itself.
Three Shillong scenarios, one back office
A 14 person cafe and bakery runs on rosters and part timers. The owner issues appointment letters once through Offrd, tracks attendance by QR at the counter, and runs payslips on the 50 rupees per employee plan. Renewal of the Shops and Establishments registration stops being a March surprise because the records are in one place and January is on the calendar.
A coaching institute with 25 teachers and counsellors hires in waves before each academic season. Offers go out in batches, increments follow results, and the POSH policy that every institution needs came out of the policy builder's questionnaire in one sitting rather than a consultant's invoice.
A 40 person IT services firm in Shillong's growing knowledge sector, the same sector the MIIPP 2024 policy is built to expand, uses the full lifecycle: offer, onboarding with verified Aadhaar, PAN, and bank details, monthly payroll with the PT line, and full and final settlement when someone leaves for Bengaluru. The founder reads one attendance report instead of three WhatsApp threads.
Different businesses, same pattern: the paperwork became routine, and the time went back into the business. That is the whole product in a sentence, and it is why the switch from spreadsheets rarely takes more than an afternoon. Upload a CSV of employees, review the generated structures, send the first pending document. If you ever leave, everything exports as CSV and your documents are PDFs you already hold.
Frequently asked questions
Does Meghalaya levy professional tax on salaries?
Yes. Meghalaya levies professional tax under the Meghalaya Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, substantially amended in 2022. Employers must obtain a certificate of registration, and rates are now set by government notification rather than a fixed schedule in the Act. The state's online portal for procedures is megtaxation.nic.in. Confirm the current notified rates with your CA.
Do Shillong businesses need Shops and Establishments registration?
Yes. The Meghalaya Shops and Establishment Act requires every establishment to register. Registration is valid for the calendar year and must be renewed every calendar year. The Act was published in 2004 with a corrigendum reading it as the Act of 2003, and the Labour Commissioner's office administers it.
Are there current minimum wage notifications in Meghalaya?
Yes. The Meghalaya Labour Commissionerate published revised minimum wage rates effective 1 April 2026, under notification No. LE&SD.9/2023/Pt/26 dated 1 May 2026. Check the official meglc.gov.in notification list for the rates that apply to your scheduled employment.
What does Offrd cost for a small Meghalaya business?
99 rupees per document on pay per use, or 50 rupees per active employee per month on subscription. New accounts start with 50 free credits and there is no setup fee. The Atndnz attendance app is bundled free for paying Offrd users.
Can Offrd handle PF, ESI, and Meghalaya PT together?
Yes. EPF at 12 percent for employer and employee up to the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling, ESI at 3.25 percent and 0.75 percent up to 21,000 rupees gross, and a professional tax line per the state's notified rates all appear on one generated payslip.
When a bigger system is the right call
If your organisation runs past 200 people with a full HR team, formal appraisal cycles, and multi level approval requirements written into policy, an enterprise HRMS is the better tool and we will tell you so directly. The same goes if automated statutory filing is your single largest pain, since Offrd hands clean data to your CA rather than filing on your behalf. For the rest, which in Meghalaya means the overwhelming majority of the state's 74,087 registered enterprises, the equation favours the smaller, sharper tool: five modules that work on day one, a price that scales with use, and no module graveyard you paid for but never configured. Sign up, spend your 50 free credits on real documents, and judge the fit on your own payroll month rather than a salesman's deck.
Retire the spreadsheet before the next payroll month
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Questions? Write to service@offrd.coLast updated: 10 June 2026