Carrom

Payroll for remote teams

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Carrom helps remote teams 🌍Hire and onboard full-time employees from different countries 📝Provide locally compliant work contracts 🎁Provide benefits stipulated by local laws 💰Pay their salary in local currency Scale your remote team and stay compliant.
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Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
Hello Product hunt, At Carrom, we are building a payroll software for remote teams. 🌏🌍🌎 📝Our story Keerthi and I are software engineers working in remote teams and have seen many companies face this problem. We will help remote teams hire and onboard legally compliant, full-time employees, and pay their salaries. 🤔Why? Remote work has changed our lives. Our vision is to make employment in remote teams easy. We believe that Carrom is the first step towards it. Remote work could be the norm, and not an option - at least in a large percentage of tech companies. Slack, Zoom and a lot of other wonderful tools have made collaboration easy. Our goal is to make people-ops for remote teams easier. 💻The journey We have encountered a lot of failures on our way to building this solution (which is still far from perfect) - have been working on this problem for more than a year. We are currently in beta. We were also fortunate to connect with a lot of smart people on the way and learn a lot more about how different remote teams are working. 🚀We are deciding to launch very early because we could use a lot of feedback from the Product Hunt community. If you are working in or running a remote team, we would love to talk to you. If you have any feedback or questions, always write to us at support@carrom.io or DM us via twitter.
Fajar Siddiq
@carrom @iamsooraj WOW!!!! congratulations on the launch! Finally is here. This is beautiful for Remote Work.
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@carrom @fajarsiddiq Thanks a lot! I really hope remote works become the norm. The ethical thought behind it is bringing equal opportunity to talents spread across the world. It's cliche - but more like world without borders. 🙈
Joe Kurian
SendOut
Awesome ❤️. But how do you make sure that the hires are legally compliant?
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@joekuriank We have some local partners in different countries(accountants, HR firms etc) to act as employer of record. Local employment is done through this and we make sure everything is according to local employment laws. Taxes, benefits and everything else. Currently have this in around 23 countries.
Joe Kurian
SendOut
Jamie Hanratty
Metro Retro
@joekuriank @iamsooraj This looks great, I'm sure you have an extremely interested audience here on PH. 23 countries seems a very good number compared to what I've seen available through other products. How many countries were you realistically aiming to have at this stage? If I may ask, what has been the most difficult part of building Carrom so far?
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@joekuriank @jamie_hanratty very good and tough question to answer. The number of countries increased mostly because of people(pilot customers) trying to hire from that country, and us trying to find a local partner in the specific country. There were no specific goals, but we don't want to expand further at least for a short while. Hardest things? A lot. Mainly there are lot of operational work involved and we are just two people sitting in a room. Dealing with people is a lot harder than building software (at least for us as developers) Add to that the complications of weird employment laws in different countries. Lot of things are still a mystery to us tbh. We are figuring many things as we go. I hope that answers the question at a superficial level. If you have more questions I'm happy to answer :)
Ivan Braun
Icons8
@joekuriank @iamsooraj > Currently have this in around 23 countries. which ones?
Keerthi Jayadevan
Maker
We got asked a few times about the name Carrom. (Kah-Rum) : It is a board game : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca... When starting all the carrom men(the round thingies) are in the center. Much like a co-located team. As the game progress, they are scattered all across the board, with one common goal of reaching the pockets. Just like a remote team. Hence the name Carrom.
Nithin David thomas
Chatwoot
Is there any reason why sign ups are behind a request ?
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@webofnithin Yes! There are a lot of operational stuff along with this software. For example: To make sure the hires are legally compliant. We are a really small team and can only handle a certain number of requests at a given time! Spoiler alert: No AI, No Blockchain 😅
Keerthi Jayadevan
Maker
Really excited to finally launch on PH! :) Working remotely has really changed our personal lives, and we really want to make remote work the default option at least for a big percentage of tech teams out there!
Ellen Choi
I was thinking that the world needs this! It seems tricky to get it right because payroll is so contingent upon local labor laws. Large payroll companies have gotten this wrong during expansion. How do you ensure high fidelity in compliance with a small startup team? tbh this would be my biggest reservation in using a startup for something like this, because getting this wrong can be an astronomical headache for me as the founder/owner.
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@lnchoi Yes, we totally agree with you. Building out this solution was very complicated, and have multiple pieces to it. This is also the reason why we are doing it slow and narrowed down our focus to small-medium remote teams. We have been working in remote teams ourselves and have come across different situations. Software is an abstraction of lot of underlying human work. At this point it is hard to automate, but that would be the long term goal. Working with local experts. - We know that we cannot be the expert of all this. So we are are working with experts from each country. Taking it slow right now - We are trying to give beta access to a small set of users at a time, figure out their needs and expand the solution accordingly. This would let us build a solid solution one step at a time. We are also working on a directory of countries, laws, mandatory benefits, prices etc(a big project by itself) to bring maximum transparency to the whole process. Your concern is true, and this is hard. But we have to start somewhere and work our way up from there. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to answer if you have more questions :)
Ellen Choi
@iamsooraj have you thought about baking in the partnership model more explicitly into the solution? If they have APIs perhaps you can take more of a payroll provider aggregator approach. This would require a lot of biz dev, but I can see this giving best of all worlds...tap into local payroll providers infrastructure & expertise while having an easily aggregated remote team mgmt model on top of it.
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@lnchoi Yes, this is already thought of and certainly the direction this would take at some point. The hard thing we faced here is with the APIs. Most of country specific payroll solutions lacks good APIs. That is why we got started with the current model. Few markets like UK, US will have good solutions which we can plug into, but if we move more towards smaller countries, this is not the case. But yes, this is certainly in our radar.
Ellen Choi
@iamsooraj makes sense, good luck!
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@lnchoi Thank you! :)
Nikita Gorskih
Interesting. Do you support bank integration? If yes, which banks?
Sooraj Chandran
Oyster™
Maker
@nikita_gorskih Not bank directly! We support Transferwise integration - if you have a Transferwise business account, you can use it to make payments.
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