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Keep it — add ProHQ

ProHQ vs greytHR

Cloud HRMS and payroll with deep Indian statutory compliance. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process — offline, in the field, in your team's language — and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: India · 1994 (Greytip)
PRICING MODEL: Per-employee tiered subscription with a genuine free tier up to 25 employees; relatively cheap and tuned for Indian SMB budgets.
BEST FOR: Indian small-to-mid businesses and startups needing payroll plus statutory compliance done right.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What greytHR is genuinely good at.

Statutory compliance depth

Automates PF/ECR, ESI challans, state PT, eTDS, one-click Form 24Q and signed Form 16, LWF and gratuity.

Full HRMS suite

Payroll, leave, attendance, onboarding, exit, HR letters and self-service in one platform, not payroll-only.

Field mobile attendance

Self-service app with GPS live tracking, geofence and selfie capture aimed at field and sales staff.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

greytHR

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work — not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

✓

Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens — site, road, shop floor — with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

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One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to — not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process — included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

greytHR is loved for getting Indian payroll and statutory filing automatically right — real depth ProHQ doesn't replicate. But it's a fixed-module HR/payroll silo, not a process engine that mirrors the whole operation, and despite GPS field capture it isn't offline-first. HR runs beside operations, not inside one process.

HR/payroll silo

Records plus fixed HR modules, not a model of the whole business operation.
Not a process engine

Workflows are fixed HR module flows, not an arbitrary state-machine mirroring how the operation runs.
Not offline-first

Cloud-based with field GPS capture, but online-dependent — not a local-first sync architecture.
Light performance module

Performance management is a newer, lightweight widget rather than a core strength.

THE INDIA REALITY

India-built in Bengaluru and India-first; its deep local payroll/statutory engine is the core moat, with rupee pricing and a free tier up to 25 employees.

KEEP IT — ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

Keep greytHR as your payroll and compliance engine, and run the operation on ProHQ alongside it. Onboarding, approvals, assignments and finance flow through one process while greytHR keeps the statutory side filed and clean.

INTEGRATION

Bring your greytHR data with you

greytHR has a public OAuth2 REST API (employee, leave, attendance, salary) with SDKs; ProHQ syncs employee records and approval outcomes so greytHR stays authoritative for payroll.

Need to keep greytHR in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding — which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching greytHR, on the process engine

Where greytHR leads today, here's what we're building — so it works offline and in the field too:

Geo/selfie attendance as a process tool
Leave requests through stage approvals
Onboarding and exit checklists on stages

THE VERDICT

India's compliance workhorse — keep it for payroll, but it's a silo, not your operation.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from greytHR for how you work. That conversation is free.

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