I run MyGymDesk, a gym & studio management platform in India. Payroll kept coming up as a problem our customers had — and not only the gyms. A salon owner pays stylists on commission. A clinic pays doctors by session. A restaurant runs shifts. Every one of them was exporting attendance to Excel, working out commissions by hand, guessing at PF and ESI, and paying a CA to check the arithmetic. Generic HR software is built for offices with fixed salaries. It doesn't understand attendance that arrives from a punch, or a commission structure that's different for every person. So MGD Payroll starts at the punch. Attendance becomes salary without anyone retyping it. Commission rules are defined once and calculated every month. PF, ESI, PT and TDS are computed to Indian rules, and it produces the PF ECR and ESI return files your CA needs. Free forever up to 5 employees — with actual payroll on it, not a crippled tier. The thing that surprised me building it: almost every bug we found was silent. Numbers that looked right and weren't. Most of the work went into proving things rather than writing them. Would genuinely like to hear from anyone running payroll for a small team — what still breaks for you?

MGD Payroll

Payroll Management Simplified

Payroll Management Simplified