The things people ask before they switch

Maharishi offers plain-English record choices, read-only answers from supported records your account can access, source links and retrieval times. It also searches tutorials. It does not approve, send, change records or automatically search every uploaded file.

From ₹49 per employee per month on Start, ₹89 on Grow (which adds payroll), ₹149 on Scale and ₹219 on Suite, billed annually. There is no base fee and no minimum number of seats, so a fifteen-person company pays for fifteen people.

Yes — free for up to 10 employees, with profiles, leave, and clock in and out from any device. No credit card. The limit is enforced when you add the eleventh person, not quietly ignored.

No. Billing follows the people who hold a login. Somebody who has left keeps their record and their payslips for your compliance, but stops counting.

You export it. Attendance, payroll, leave and your whole employee list come out as Excel from the Reports screen at any time, on every plan including Free.

Reviewed standard domestic 12% PF/ECR working files are built, including dated September 2026 transition inputs, exact unpaid-date review, payroll reconciliation and whole-file checks. Unsupported schemes require specialist review. EPFO upload, challans and acceptance remain external; a prepared file is not a completed filing. ESI and Professional Tax components remain configurable; eligibility and contribution bases need payroll review. Automated tax determination is not included.

Reviewed standard domestic 12% PF/ECR working files are built, including dated September 2026 transition inputs, exact unpaid-date review, payroll reconciliation and whole-file checks. Unsupported schemes require specialist review. EPFO upload, challans and acceptance remain external; a prepared file is not a completed filing. ESI returns, Form 16 and 24Q remain with your payroll team or adviser.

Yes, and this is the reason most teams move. Loss of pay is read straight from the attendance record — missed days, unapproved absence, half days — and pro-rated against your own payable-days basis, whether that is 26, 30 or the calendar month.

Yes. Upload it once and it appears on every payslip, offer and letter Karya produces, including ones already generated.

Yes, in your own bank's format. Upload one blank template from your bank, say which of your payroll figures fills each column, and every month's transfer advice comes out ready to upload — including the IFSC, without which no Indian bank will accept the file.

It is built for them. Shifts are 15-minute codes you assign by person or by team, a night shift that crosses midnight is filed against the right working day, and the whole month can be planned in a spreadsheet and uploaded back.

From any device — a phone, the floor's shared machine, or a supervisor punching on someone's behalf with a reason recorded. Each punch keeps the location it was made from.

Yes. HR or the person's manager can set any day to present, absent, week off, comp off, holiday or leave, with a reason that stays on the record. A punch made in error is voided rather than deleted — it stays visible, struck through, so the audit trail is never quietly rewritten.

Yes. Every scheduled day carries a work location — office, remote or hybrid — so a hybrid week is planned rather than negotiated over WhatsApp each Monday.

Yes, two ways. Upload your existing Word file and Karya fills the details inside it, so the letter keeps your letterhead, fonts and signature block. Or take just the wording into Karya and let it lay the letter out with your logo on top.

That person, their manager, and HR. Nobody else — and that is enforced by the database rather than by hiding a screen, so it holds even for somebody using the API directly.

An afternoon for a small team. Add your people, load the standard leave types and salary structure, and you can run a payroll the same day. The starting wording for letters and policies is written for Indian companies, so most of it needs reading rather than writing.

Karya installs to a phone's home screen from the browser and works offline for clocking in, so it behaves like an app without an app store. There is no native iOS or Android app yet.

Yes — score against your own quality form with fatal errors, attach the recording, give the agent a right of reply, and calibrate several auditors against the same call. This is the part built for contact centres, and generic HR software does not have it.

In a managed Postgres database with row-level security, meaning one company's records are unreachable from another company's login at the database itself, not merely filtered by the app.

No, and it cannot be built. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. HR sets a temporary password, sees it once at that moment, and is told when the person has replaced it with their own.

Every upload is checked against what it claims to be — a program renamed to resume.pdf is refused, as is anything that can run on the machine that opens it. That is not the same as anti-virus, and we would rather be precise about the difference than imply more.