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HR, attendance and payroll that understand a factory floor.

Biometric punches pair themselves, a night shift that ends at 4 a.m. still belongs to the night it began, and payroll pays monthly, per-day and piece-rate workers in one run — with PF, ESI, PT and TDS worked out for you.

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Ravi PatelLoom operator, Unit 2 · Night shift 20:00–04:00

Night

Paid time: 7h 38m
Break: 33m
Muster: N 1.0 day

4 punches received from gate device GATE-2
Paired IN → OUT → IN → OUT; the 33-minute gap counted as break
04:07 next morning closed the shift it belongs to
Muster updated: 22 Sep = Night, ready for payroll

How it works

From a thumb on the reader to money in the bank

Every step feeds the next, so HR checks exceptions instead of re-typing registers.

Punch
Biometric devices push punches over our API, employees punch from their phone inside the geo-fence, or punches arrive from your Merci ERP.
Pair & shift
IN and OUT alternate properly. Several cycles in a day are kept; overnight punches close the right shift.
Muster
A day-by-day register per unit: present, night, half-day, leave, week-off, on-duty. Rebuilt nightly.
Payroll
Monthly, per-day, hourly and piece-rate in one run, with OT, incentives, fines, loans and statutory deductions.
Pay & file
Payslips on the portal, a bank transfer file, one cheque for many, and PF / ESI / PT / TDS challans tracked to filing.

Attendance & shifts

A muster that reads like your register, per unit

Each plant keeps its own employees, shifts and working-hour rules. Switch to All units whenever the owner wants the whole company.

Day shift and night shift on one date count as two attendances
Late coming, early going and overtime worked out from the shift
Employees raise punch corrections; supervisors approve with a trail
Half-days, sandwich rules, holidays and week-offs applied automatically

September muster

Employee	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	Days
Ravi Patel	P	P	N	N	N	WO	N	N	7
Meena Solanki	P	P	CL	P	P	WO	P	½	5.5
Imran Shaikh	P+N	P	P	A	P	WO	P+N	P	8
Kavita Rao	P	OD	OD	P	P	WO	P	P	7
Suresh Yadav	P	P	P	P	SL	WO	P	P	6

PPresentNNightP+NTwo shifts ½Half-dayCLLeaveODOn dutyAAbsent

Payroll & compliance

Payroll for every way you pay

A weaver on piece-rate, a helper on daily wage and a manager on monthly salary — one run, one register, one bank file.

Production pay settles only unpaid lines; part-done work bills next month
Loan EMI through the bank and EMI taken in cash are kept apart
EPF with the wage ceiling, ESI, state-wise PT slabs, TDS on both regimes, LWF
Pay many employees with one cheque or NEFT, with a printable advice

Payslip · September 2026Meena Solanki, Unit 1 · Per-day wage

26 days

Earnings

Wages 26 × ₹62016,120

Overtime 6 h930

Production 1,240 m1,860

Gross18,910

Deductions

EPF 12% (on ₹15,000)1,800

ESI 0.75%142

Professional tax200

Loan EMI via bank1,000

Total3,142

Net pay to bank₹15,768

₹500 loan EMI collected in cash is shown separately and never enters the bank file.

Employee self-service

Employees help themselves, on their own phone

The self-service portal works in any mobile browser, so the queue at the HR window gets shorter.

Punch in from the phone, inside the unit's geo-fence
See today's punches and the month's attendance
Apply for leave or on-duty, and track the approval
Ask for a punch correction with a reason
Download payslips and documents, submit expense bills

Good morning, Meena

TodayIN 07:58Day shift, on time

Apply leave Payslips Fix a punch Attendance

Casual leave4.5

Sick leave6

Earned leave12

Leave request sent to your supervisor

Everything included

Everything an HR desk actually does

Pick an area to see what is inside. Every screen is filterable by unit and every report exports to CSV.

One employee record from joining day to full and final settlement.

Employee master with statutory IDs and two bank accounts
Family and nominees
Salary-structure history
Documents stored securely, opened by signed link
Issued assets and their return
Contract and jobber workers with a contractor master and licence tracking
Transfers between units
Exit, clearance and full & final

Integrations

Plugs into what you already run

Already on Merci ERP? Your employees, punches, salary structures, leave, loans and past payroll come across — nothing is re-typed, and your ERP is never written to.

Merci ERP projectRead-only, incremental, repeatable

Biometric devicesPush punches to our punch API

HR deskMasters, approvals, corrections

Merci HRMS Attendance enginePayroll & statutoryYour own isolated workspace

Employee portalPayslips, leave, punches

Bank file & cheque adviceReady to upload or print

PF, ESI, PT, TDS challansTracked to filing

Security

Your people's data, kept like payroll should be

A workspace of your own

Each company's data is kept apart. Nothing is ever shared between customers.

Hosted in India

The application and its database run in a Mumbai data centre.

Every change on record

An append-only audit trail shows who changed what, and when.

Never locked out of your data

If a renewal slips, the workspace turns read-only for a grace period first.

Pricing

Plans for every size of workforce

Every plan includes the employee self-service portal and unlimited payslips.

Yearly save 17% Monthly

Starter

Attendance & leave for a single unit

₹9,990

per year · up to 25 employees

1 unit / plant
3 HR users
Biometric attendance & muster
Leave & approvals

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Questions HR teams ask us

Which biometric devices work with it?

Any device or middleware that can post punches over HTTPS to our punch API, using a key from Settings → Punch devices. Punches that already land in your Merci ERP come across with the sync. Unknown device IDs are reported back, and the affected days are re-mustered straight away.

We already use Merci ERP. Do we have to re-enter everything?

No. We connect to your existing project, read it without ever writing back, and bring across employees, punches, salary structures, holidays, leave, loans and past payroll. A dry run shows what will change before anything is imported.

Does it really handle night shifts and double shifts?

Yes. An OUT punch the next morning closes the shift it belongs to, and that shift is credited to the date it started. A worker who does a day shift and a night shift on the same date gets two attendances, and per-day payroll pays both.

We have more than one plant. Can each keep its own data?

Yes. Employees, muster, shifts, working-hour rules and payroll are kept per unit, HR users can be limited to their own unit, and owners can see all units together.

Can employees use it on their phones?

Yes. The employee portal works in any mobile browser, with no app to install: punching in within the unit's geo-fence, attendance, leave, punch corrections, payslips, documents and expenses.

What happens if our subscription lapses?

You get renewal reminders 15, 7, 3 and 1 day before expiry. After that the workspace stays readable for a grace period, so your records are never stranded.