SignHR vs sumHR
Both avoid the bracket arithmetic the rest of the Indian market runs on. The difference is what you get for the per-head rate.
Why teams choose SignHR
- Shift scheduling and rostering for teams that do not all work nine to five
- Biometric device ingestion and face attendance, not just an app punch
- Assets, recruitment and approval chains in the same record
- Built-in Agentic HR assistant
Where sumHR is strong
- One published annual figure and nothing else to work out — the clearest price in the market
- Deliberately light, which is genuinely the right answer for a small office team
- Less product to administer, so less to configure and less to ignore
Feature comparison
Feature-by-feature
| Feature | SignHR | sumHR |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Per employee, per month | ₹1,428 per employee per year |
| Minimum seat count | None | None published |
| Core HR | ||
| Time & Attendance | ||
| Biometric device ingestion | ESSL, Hikvision, ZKTeco | Not advertised |
| Face / selfie attendance | Not advertised | |
| Shift Management | Not advertised | |
| Leave Management | ||
| Onboarding | ||
| Payroll | Payroll-ready (compute inputs) | Payroll processing |
| Agentic HR (AI Assistant) | ||
| Approval Workflows | Basic | |
| Geo Tracking | Not advertised | |
| Asset Management | Not advertised | |
| Task & Project Management | Not advertised | |
| Recruitment | Not advertised | |
| Mobile App | ||
| Self-service Portal | ||
| Reports & Analytics | ||
| Free HR Calculators | 15 tools | Not published |
What each one costs
SignHR
- Core HR
- Published per employee, per month
- No headcount minimum, no setup fee, no lock-in. Modules are added on top.
- Agentic HR
- Flat monthly add-on
- Priced per company rather than per seat, so it does not scale with hiring.
sumHR
- All-in-one
- ₹1,428 per employee per year
- The only figure sumHR publishes — a single annual per-head rate for the whole product.
Read the fine print: ₹1,428 a year is ₹119 per employee per month, which at 50 employees is above greytHR and Pocket HRMS. One clean number is not automatically the cheapest.
What moves if you switch
- Employee records
- SignHR has no bulk employee import today — people are added one at a time, so budget for that rather than assuming a CSV load. Export your directory from sumHR first so you have the data to work from, and talk to us before you plan the cutover.
- Leave balances
- Export current balances and post them as opening adjustments against each employee's ledger. Accrual history itself does not transfer.
- Attendance history
- This one does transfer. SignHR has an attendance import with a downloadable template, so historic punches can be loaded for reporting continuity — most teams bring in the current financial year and archive the rest.
- Documents
- Bulk-download from sumHR and re-upload per employee. There is no direct connector between the two products.
- Payroll history
- Does not transfer. Keep your sumHR payslip archive — SignHR computes payroll inputs going forward rather than restating past runs.
Who should pick which
Pick SignHR if
Teams that need more than a light HRMS — shifts, biometrics, assets, recruitment — and are not a single-location office team where the light product is genuinely enough.
Pick sumHR if
Teams that only need a light HRMS — a small office working from one location — where sumHR's deliberately small product is the right amount of software and the clearest price in the market.
Questions
₹1,428 a year works out to ₹119 per employee per month, which at 50 employees is above greytHR and Pocket HRMS. One clean number is not automatically the cheapest — compare at your headcount and against the depth you actually need.
Partly, and the honest answer matters here. Leave balances and attendance history do transfer — balances as opening ledger adjustments, punches through SignHR's attendance import and its template. Employee records do not: SignHR has no bulk employee import today, so people are added one at a time. Documents are a bulk download from sumHR and a re-upload per employee, and payroll history stays where it is. Talk to us before you plan the cutover.
It is deliberately light, which is a feature for a small office team — less to configure, less to administer, less to ignore. If that is your situation, sumHR is a legitimate choice rather than a weaker one.
Our take
Should you switch to SignHR?
sumHR's simplicity is a feature, not a gap, and for a thirty-person office that works from one location it may well be enough. The comparison turns on whether you have shift, field or factory staff: that is where a light HRMS stops and where attendance depth starts to matter. Compare at your headcount — sumHR's ₹1,428 a year is ₹119 a month per employee, which is not the cheap end of this market once you total it.
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