Pocket HRMS alternatives
A straight comparison with SignHR — what each costs, what moves if you switch, and where Pocket HRMS is genuinely the better answer.
Why people look for Pocket HRMS alternatives
- The Premium tier starts at a hundred employees, so a team of sixty that has outgrown Standard has nowhere sensible to go inside the product.
- The published rates are billed annually, which is a year's commitment at a point when many teams are still deciding.
- Teams that want modern self-service — an app employees actually open, rather than a payroll back office — tend to look at newer products.
Head to head
SignHR vs Pocket HRMS
Pick SignHR if
Teams that do not want to commit to a year up front, whose headcount sits awkwardly against the fifty-employee blocks, and whose attendance and leave need to feed payroll inputs without month-end reconciliation.
Pick Pocket HRMS if
Teams around fifty employees who are comfortable committing annually — Pocket HRMS's published entry pricing is then genuinely keen — and who want an established Indian payroll and statutory engine with a simple three-tier structure.
| Capability | SignHR | Pocket HRMS |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Per employee | ₹2,995/mo per 50, billed annually |
| Monthly billing without annual commitment | Yes | Not published |
| Core HR | Yes | Yes |
| Time & Attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Leave Management | Yes | Yes |
| Onboarding | Yes | Yes |
On price: The published rate is billed annually, and the top tier needs 100+ employees — so a 60-person team falls between plans.
Full comparison — 14 more rows, pricing and migrationWhat to compare on
- Payroll depth for the money
- Pocket HRMS is bought for payroll. Anything replacing it has to be at least as reliable there, whatever else it adds.
- How the price behaves as you grow
- The tier gap between fifty and a hundred employees is the specific problem people hit. Check what a rival charges at sixty, not at fifty.
- Whether employees will use it
- A payroll system finance likes and employees avoid pushes every leave request and payslip query back through HR.
What you get with SignHR
23 modules on one platform, priced per employee with no headcount minimum. Punches arrive from ESSL, Hikvision, ZKTeco biometric devices, from the mobile app, or from on-device face recognition — and they feed the same record that leave, shifts and payroll inputs read from.
Core & AI
Your people data, self-service, and an Agentic HR on top.
Time & Attendance
Punches, leave, rosters, and the approvals they trigger.
Talent & Lifecycle
From first interview to final letter.
Pay & Operations
Payroll inputs, expenses, assets, and the work around them.
Platform
Reporting, integrations, access control, and multi-location.
Where SignHR is the wrong choice
- Younger product than the incumbents, with a smaller partner and consultant ecosystem.
- Global payroll is not run in-house — multi-country HR is supported, but statutory payroll computation is India-first.
- Some integrations named on our roadmap are not shipped yet; the integrations page marks which.
Frequently asked questions
Pocket HRMS publishes Standard at ₹2,995 a month and Professional at ₹4,495 a month, each covering fifty employees and billed annually, with additional employees at ₹60 and ₹90. The Premium tier is quoted and requires a hundred employees or more.
You pay the per-additional-employee rate — ₹60 on Standard, ₹90 on Professional — until you reach a hundred, at which point Premium becomes available on a quote. Teams that dislike this shape usually move to per-user pricing: Zimyo, Zoho People, or SignHR's per-employee rate with no bracket at all.
greytHR has the longest track record with Indian statutory filing and is the most direct like-for-like swap. factoHR and SignHR both treat statutory work as core rather than as a paid module. Whichever you choose, run one live parallel payroll cycle before you cut over.
Kredily's core plan is free forever for unlimited employees, and factoHR is free for up to twenty. Both put payroll processing and compliance forms behind paid tiers, so check that the free plan covers what you are actually using Pocket HRMS for before assuming it is a swap.
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