Frappe HR

Frappe HR: open-source HR and payroll, on Frappe Cloud.

From the first interview to the last payslip, in one system.

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Attendance
Leave
Salary structures
Loans and advances

Payroll runEvery employee, at once

Salary slipsEarnings and deductions

ERPNext booksAuto-posted, by cost centre
Bank transferSalary to each account
EmployeesOn WhatsApp or by email

Credential: Frappe Certified Partner (opens in a new tab)
Licence: Open source. No per-employee fee
Statutory compliance: EPF, ESI, PT, LWF and tax regimes

What Frappe HR is

It covers hiring, attendance, leave, expenses, appraisals and payroll, through to the full and final settlement. Frappe HR (also called Frappe HRMS) is open source and runs on the same platform as ERPNext, so it works on its own or posts straight into your books.

What it replaces

The muster registerAttendance from the biometric and the phone
Leave asked for on WhatsAppApplied, approved and balanced in the app
The salary sheet in ExcelA payroll run from salary structures
PF and ESI worked out by handRegisters ready for ECR and ESI returns
Bills stapled to a claim formClaims with the receipt, approved online

What Frappe HR does

Eight stops, in the order a person moves through the company.

Recruitment
From the vacancy a manager raises to the offer a candidate signs.
Joining to exit
Every employee's record, from the first day to full and final.
Shifts and attendance
Every punch, from the biometric or the phone, lands on one sheet that payroll reads.
Leave
Your leave policy, written once and applied to everyone it covers.
Expense claims
Claims and advances, approved and settled through the books.
Performance
Appraisals scored by a formula you set.
Payroll
A monthly run from your salary structures, with the working shown on every slip.
Mobile app
The part of HR most employees touch, on the phone they already carry.

Statutory compliance

Statutory payroll for India, worked out from each employee's work state and salary.

Professional tax on each state's own slabs.
Labour Welfare Fund on each state's own schedule.
ESI with the wage ceiling built in, including the higher ceiling for employees with disabilities.
EPF at the statutory 12%, with voluntary top-ups and contribution on actual wages.
Tax regimes compared for each employee, who picks one and declares exemptions; surcharge comes with marginal relief.
Registers ready to file for EPFO ECR, ESI returns and state LWF.

Frappe HR's general ledger for a payroll date, with salary and payroll payable posted as journal entries per employee, and over it the Provident Fund Deductions report for July listing each employee's PF amount, additional PF and total.

The mobile app

A web app: it opens in the phone's browser and can be added to the home screen.

Check-in. In and out from the phone, with the location if you want it.
Leave and holidays. Balances, applications and the next holiday.
Expenses and advances. Claimed and approved from the phone.
Salary slips. Every slip and the year to date, downloadable.
Approvals. Requests waiting on you, in one panel, with a notification when one arrives.

Three phone screens from the Frappe HR mobile web app: the home screen with team leave requests waiting, an expense claim of ₹4,900 with Reject and Approve buttons, and a leave application with Reject, Review and Approve options.

Custom built to your HR policy

Where your policy has a rule Frappe HR doesn't, we add it, and payroll reads the result.

Short leaveA few hours off, counted against a monthly limit you set.
Late policyThree late marks in a month become half a day's leave, or whatever your rule says.
OvertimeHours past the shift, paid through payroll at your rate.

What it costs

Hosting on Frappe Cloud

Managed by Frappe, with updates and backups handled. We set it up and support it.

Unlimited employees on every plan. No per‑employee fee.

Plans starting as low as: ₹410 + GST a month

Implementation

Quoted per project: salary structures, opening balances, attendance integration, a month's parallel run and training.

We quote once we know your headcount, your HR policies, and where attendance data comes from.

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Questions

How do we know the first payroll is right?

For one month, Frappe HR runs payroll alongside the way you run it now. You switch over once its salaries match yours.

Is Frappe HR free?

The software is free and open source. What you pay for is hosting and the work of implementing it: salary structures, opening balances and attendance. If ERPNext already runs on your Frappe Cloud site, it is free to install there too.