Other Indian HR & Payroll

Feature HRMantra
Software's
1 Number of fields per More than 350 fields for query purposes Less than 250 fields so if you want to
employee-more the fields making Employee related decision add more fields, it will push up
better and more powerful will making process quite fast . Thereby customization costs. HRIS is thus at
be your HRIS savings lots of money also least 50% less effective compared to
HRMantra.
2 Does the software have an Yes provided free of cost Mostly No. You might have to purchase
inbuilt report designer? a 3rd party report designer like Seagate
crystal report ( which costs Rs 3.50
lakhs)
3 Is the HR & Payroll software Yes thereby giving tremendous benefits Payroll module is not web based
completely web based? and cost benefits. Thus there is no limiting the usability of the software.
headache on client PCs. No reloading of Thus many functions like tax
exes when the package is updated computation, etc cannot be done by
employees on online basis. Such
payroll softwares are developed on
obsolete client server technologies.
4 Is the software available on a Yes reducing your cost of I T setup to Mostly Not provided.
monthly pay per use basis virtually zero giving you peace of mind
from an ISO 27001 since you do not have to worry about
datacenter? backup and viruses and it can be used
24*7*365. You also do not have to worry
about power cutoffs in your head office
affecting the software usage across the
country-so business continuity is assured
5 Can you send SMS from the Yes vastly improving reporting times No
software to your employees? thereby reducing time required for
business decisions
6  Can you do instant chatting Yes thereby reducing the cost of Mostly not available
with employees who are communication
online  
7 Are the workflows email Yes. For e.g. a user receives an email in Mostly No
driven his inbox and in case approval required
there is a hyperlink in the body of that
email-so when the user clicks on that link,
it will direct him to the HRMantra login
page and after he gives the user name
and password, he will be automatically
taken to the leave approval page.
8 How easy is it to go to your You are able to reach your form within 2 It takes a lot of time to find the form
desired form? clicks -a dream for any web based going through a series of menus, sub
software. Of course you can also click on menus and tabs
your commonly used forms from the main
page using favorites link
9 Is the vendor comfortable in HRMantra willingly accepts requests to They prefer to dish out what is available
adding features and is it add features since it makes the client's in the existing package and do not
added in the same software work that much more automated. New encourage more features. New features
for all the clients ? features asked by a client are added in if at all agreed to be added are done
the same software which are then given separately for each client i.e. it is
to the existing clients thereby giving more customized. So if the different client
value for money-it is like paying for a wishes to add some feature which they
maruti and over a period of time have already developed for a different
exchanging it for a Mercedes client and since each such installation
is a customized one, you will have to
keep paying the vendor for every small
new feature-so your meter is always on.
10 Simplicity and accuracy of
import and export of
processed and unprocessed
data in batch mode
11 Is the Employee / Manager
self service available from
just 1 main page
12 Security features
13 Formula builders
14 Leave rules depth
15 Does it have a workflow
administrator
16 Rules setting based on
employee groups. Rules
setting remapping is easy?
17 Is the appraisal system fully Yes. any system of performance
present? (360 degree / evaluation is possible. Bell curve analysis
KRA's / Competencies / TCD can be done
/ BSC etc) and is entirely
flexible?
18 Does the appraisal module
have options of giving
scientific ratings to the total
competency group /
individual / final and overall
basis?
19 TDS calculation
20 Leave accounting year
21 Number of free reports
provided
22 Org charts based on direct & Available. Dual reporting also possible.
indirect reporting as also on
employee reporting to. Plus
tree structure also -all based
on queries
23 All statutory reports and All available and fully integrated with e-
challans of PF, ESIC, TDS
Income tax available with E-
TDS integration?
24 Number of options that are
given per HOP
25 Late / Early / OT calculation
Yes. Templates cannot be manipulated by Not up to the mark
the branches and data gets collected in a
very organized manner in a user friendly
excel, XML or CSV interface
Yes thereby making the task of approvals Not user friendly. One has to go in
quite fast without bothering to go into multiple pages for approvals.
multiple pages
over 20 important features making your Quite less features making your
system quite secure including a powerful sensitive employee data vulnerable and
audit trail easily poachable
Very simple to use & quite in depth and Very complex to use and with much
capable of handling any kind of less features compared to HRMantra
complicated conditions
Global leave structure with over 45 Very limited leave conditions can only
conditions with the help of formula builder be set ( less than 50 % of HRMantra's
also depth)
Yes to be able to configure any type of Mostly not available
work flow with auto timed escalations
Grouping can be done on 13 activities like can be done in much lesser modules
payroll, leave, attendance, salary etc. like payroll and leave. Mapping is rigid
Remapping can be done in seconds
The depth is not there
Yes Mostly No
Accurate and easy to do with proper FRV Not up to the mark and handled with
calculation difficulty
You have the flexibility of setting it You cannot set it upto individual
differently for different employees for employee level
every leave type
200 editable reports. Users can change 100 reports. If you want changes in the
reports themselves without extra cost. reports you will have to tell them to
change and they will charge you extra
for the same
Either not available at all or if available
it is not in depth
A lot of such statutory forms not
available and clients will have to do the
e-TDS integration
There are over 22 options per pay head Quite limited options available limiting
e.g. whether HRA is to be included in your flexibility and increasing your data
arrears, increments, FFS, FCP, CTC etc entry work
Quite in-depth rules Sketchy
26 PF Trust, superannuation
and gratuity management
27 Flexible Pay changeable by
employees online
28 Can payroll processing be
done from many locations
using a centralized database
server ?
29 Claim management
30 Can it handle complicated
Increment & Union
agreement calculations?
31 Claim management depth
32 Salary processing steps
33 Full & final settlement
34 Escalation in workflows
35 Is succession planning
module available?
36 Does the staffing module Yes
have comparison of salaries
with existing employees and
salary fitments?
37 My task, opinion poll,
suggestion box, contacts,
jokes, home page message
etc
38 Date triggers on the main
portal page?
39 Customized thoughts of the
day and other events
greeting cards available
40 Does it have detailed project Yes
management module
41 Is Income Tax Estimation
affected by Govt Budgets?
Available
Yes
Yes since payroll module is fully
integrated and fully web based and
locationwise employees payroll can be
done
Very complicated issues of exempted and Cannot handle complicated cases
carry forwardable claim heads based on
monthly & yearly calculations can be
easily done
Yes. Slab wise increment available
One can create a basket of
reimbursement heads and can pay off in
any of the pay head in any month with bill
entry provision to be split across multiple
months
in very easy 3 steps as it is highly
automated
Accurate, in-depth, fully automated and
online
Present in all modules using formula
builders and also based on auto timed
timers
Yes using the color band theory
Yes-handled from the main portal page
over 15 different types of date triggers like very very limited triggers if at all
birthday / wedding anniversary /
retirement / confirmation dates etc
Yes we have specially developed 100s of Mostly not available
thoughts of the day and greeting cards
keeping in mind the HR department
Not at all. It is fully parameterized
Mostly not available
Mostly not available
Not possible increasing the headaches
of collating processed data from
different regions. It also results in many
errors due to manual entries and even
simple headcount reports may not tally
as distributed databases are created by
different people and are updated at
different times. Such data is always
discounted by the top management and
they have to always factor in some
errors in their MIS projections due to
such issues.
Mostly not available
Mostly not available
Quite rigid spread across many steps
with lots of manual data entries
Not up to the mark and offline.
Present in lesser modules with much
lesser features
Mostly not available
Mostly not available
Mostly not available
Mostly No
Yes
42 Are all the salary recoveries Fully automated increasing the speed of You have to do all the adjustments
& adjustment in payroll payroll processing, saving your time and manually increasing your drudgery
automatic or has to be done money and removing errors caused due
manually module wise? to manual data entries.
43 can arrears payment be Yes both methods possible Thru salary only
done in salary or outside the
salary?
44 Can you work on multiple Yes you can keep shifting between No. You can see only 1 year's data at a
accounting years different accounting years in a same time.
window. A user can also work on multiple
accounting years at a time
45 Masters based on date of Yes Mostly not available
effect?
46 Are workflow steps easy to Yes very easy steps on the menu as also Workflow is very difficult to understand
follow explained fully in the package
47 Amount of work spent in Over 200 man years giving us a strong Quite less
developing the software domain expertise
48 VRS scheme Available and fully parameterized Mostly not available
49 Can a list of employees be This facility is available and is very critical Mostly not available
automatically assigned to a
user for e.g. can a head of a
dept see only his
subordinates data?
50 Method of attendance Any method of attendance can be Lesser methods available
reading captured including online attendance
51 Is 31 hour day concept Yes Mostly not available
available?
52 Induction module designer available and fully parameterized Mostly not available
53 Can leave encashment be Yes Mostly not available
done on an online basis?
54 Can arrears calculations be Yes Mostly not available
done on an online basis?
55 Any kind of HR Psychometric Yes. 3 readymade tests available ( ego Mostly not available
tests available? state scale, role efficacy test and climate
survey test). More tests can be added by
the client
56 Is the sales team Yes we have developed a powerful sales Most do not have such sales software
management module linked & travel management software integrated
with the HR software with HR
57 Is the vendor developing Yes we have started working on Most have no such plans
complete ERP Software to accounts, finance & inventory
reduce your total cost of management modules
operations
58 Context sensitive help on Yes Help not up to the mark
every page with detailed
transaction steps explained
in the manual
59 Does it have the facility of an Yes. You can avoid the cost of purchasing Mostly missing
intranet mail server a third party mail servers in an intranet
environment which is not connected to the
internet
60 Can it pick up attendance Yes giving you instant analysis as to who Not possible increasing the headaches
data from a swipe card has come at of collating attendance data from
system automatically on what time. different regions.
 realtime online basis from all
locations?
61 Skin Editor to change the Available and is very user friendly Rigid
look and feel of the package
62 Interface with other ERP / Interface with an accounting software is Lots of such features not possible
CRM / accounting software's done by creating a JV file. Interface with
possible any ERP / CRM software's can be done
by exporting data in an XML format
63 Candidate data import from Yes and from any other such jobsites as Mostly not possible
jobsites like naukri.com, well giving you
monster.com, timesjobs.com a great bang for money
64 Dashboards in every module Quite powerful with graphical reports Mostly not present
with easy to configure helping in instant decision making
layouts
65 Employees can themselves Very much possible Mostly not present
fill up the attendance record
and submit to their HOD for
approval
66 Is the software using multi Yes thereby users who are doing their Mostly not available
threading technologies ESS like leave application etc are not
affected by mass processing work like
payroll processing
67 Does the software has IP Yes thereby you can prevent users from Mostly not available
locking facility logging into HRMantra from undesired
PCs
68 Does it have single sign on Yes thereby you do not need to give Mostly not available
facility feeding your user name and password for
multiple applications in the same domain
69 Can it handle inter company Yes making the HRIS process very easy Mostly not available
transfers and maintain the
same emp code
70 Can a client create any kind Yes Mostly not available
of survey or poll and get
graphical results
71 Does it handle multi currency Yes Mostly not available
payroll
72 Can a lady file a complaint Yes in HRMantra any employee can air Mostly not available
against someone harassing his thoughts on any topic by making his
her or can a person inform feedback on anonymous basis also stify"
the management about
some fraud without getting
disclosing her identity?
73 Is the vendor also ready to Yes at very competitive rates Mostly not available
do payroll and claim
processing for you if required
74 Can a user personalise the Yes Mostly not available
homepage
75 Has the vendor also Yes HRMantra has a very userfriendly Mostly not present
developed a sales CRM and powerful sales CRM software with
software enquiries linked to your website
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