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Why HRMantra

More than 180 reasons to opt for world class HRMantra over ANY OTHER HR & Payroll softwares IN THE WORLD-HRMantra is the WORLD's MOST POWERFUL HR & PAYROLL SOFTWARE.

No other vendor can claim even 20 features that are superior to HRMantra

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Salient Features

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Homepage	HRMantra`s homepage can be fully configured by all users to personalize to their liking. For e.g. they can decide the placing of the sections (tiles); expand or collapse each section or even change the skin color and how they would like to be welcomed	Mostly quite rigid with just 1 color scheme
2	Organizational Hierarchies / org units / employee categories	In HRMantra, you can create any number of hierarchies helping you to create any kind of analysis on employee groups like company, location, department, division, grade, designation, SBU, profit center etc basis	Quite limited number of hierarchies upto 8 thereby putting a lot of restrictions on data analysis & reducing the flexibility of configuring the software to all your org units. So for a business having more than 300 employees, such softwares are obsolete
3	Employee, managers & HR self service Portal	From the common homepage, you can easily set the ESS, MSS & HR self service. So the employees need to look at just 1 page for all their ESS functions	Employees, managers and HR logins are generally separate with different looks. So if someone is an approver, he has to click in a specific module to check whether he has to grant some application thereby wasting his time & delaying the response time
4	Dashboards	HRMantra has customizable 3 D real time updatable Business Intelligence dashboards in each module. It has over 35 chart types and 16 color palletes.	Dashboard if available is either with very limited number of charts and is not specific to a module
5	Escalations	It has fully flexible escalation matrices in all modules using powerful formula builders with time based triggering features.You can send email & SMSes to select approvers. In case the escalation flow is changed, you can redistribute it in 1 click	Generally any application is routed to a person and there are limited fixed number of escalation levels that can be set.So for a business having more than 300 employees, such softwares are redundant
6	Does the vendor have a mobile version? This will enable a true employee on the move	HRMantra is the world`s 1st HR software to have a mobile version working on any cellphone having any browser. We have received the top 10 mobile app award from NASSCOM & IAMAI for the same. Employees can do their main self service functions like applying leave, OD, OT, attendance regularisation and all kinds of helpdesk thru their cell phones and approving it thru SMS i.e. SMS based workflows. This frees the employee from being depended on using a PC for HR work and thus truly any and all employees including workers become truly online! Available on Android & IOS	Not available in most products. So the HR software usage is limited to very few employees and in limited time thus reducing your productivity and speed of decision making.
7	Does the vendor give lifetime support for the software?	Yes provided free of cost. So it is like buying a Nano car and over a period of time getting it upgraded to a Mercedes free of cost	Mostly No. Some give about 3 years support for a particular version and after that the client has to buy for the new version at a huge cost again. And mostly within those 3 years, the client has to live with the features provided on as is where is basis
8	Does it provide video tutorial in all pages for easy learning?	Yes thereby the users do not need to go thru boring lengthy help documents. This reduces the efforts by the HRD to train its employees	Mostly not available.
9	Does it have setup wizards for easy and fast implementation?	Yes. So barring some technical formula builders, the client`s HR team can do the entire setup themselves saving huge cost and time required for implementation	Mostly not available.
10	Is the pricing comfortable for SMEs?	Yes HRMantra pricing is suitable even for 50 employees firm and since the setup could be done by the client themselves now, the go live cost is nearly zero in such scenarios.	Most charge a one time service fee ( for configuration, Data upload, UAT and training for 30 man days @ Rs 8000 per day) of Rs 2,40,000+ a one time setup fees of Rs 75000 adding upto Rs 3.15 lakhs.
11	Is there any hidden cost in adding any new legal entities?	Absolutely no. Very transparent pricing based on active employees. Complete career graph across a group of entities.	Most charge extra for an additional company and many are not able to even transfer employee data from 1 company to other also!.
12	Is the HR & Payroll software completely web based?	Yes thereby giving tremendous benefits and cost benefits. Thus there is no headache on client PCs. No reloading of exes when the package is updated	Payroll module is mostly not web based limiting the usability of the software. Thus many functions like tax computation, etc cannot be done by employees on online basis. Such payroll softwares are developed on obsolete client server technologies.
13	Is the vendor ISO 27001:2005 certified firm showing highest data security standards worldwide?	Yes so you know that your data cannot be leaked	No making your confidential employee information highly vulnerable to be poached by your competition
14	Is the software available on a monthly pay per use basis from VM servers based in an Tier IV datacenters with full DR?	Yes	Mostly Not available
15	How easy is it to go to your desired form?	You are able to reach all your pages in 1 click -a dream for any web based software.	It takes a lot of time to find the form going through a series of menus, sub menus and tabs increasing the headache of remembering the flow. Mostly you have to click on the module button first; wasting your precious time
16	Number of free reports provided	350+ pre-configured phenomenally detailed editable reports. Users can add or change reports themselves without extra cost.	Mostly less than 100 reports. If you want changes in the reports you will have to tell the vendor to change and they will charge you extra for the same
17	Amount of time invested in developing the software?	Over 1000 man years since the year 1998 giving us a strong domain expertise and the product has all best business practices in place and features that are must-have and it has become a very mature and easy to set product for any firm of any size in any industry	Quite less time invested in the development thereby the client has to waste colossal amount of time and money in explaining their requirements, fixing bugs, doing testing etc thereby becoming a guinea pig in the process as also imparting domain knowledge. Any such product with less than 10 years spent in its development will just not have the expertise or worth your money.
18	Event reminders on the main portal page?	over 26+ types of event reminders like birthday / wedding anniversary / retirement / confirmation dates etc. Employees can also create custom date triggers like their insurance policy expiry dates with provision to remind x number of days, months or years before it is due. It comes by way of Email, SMS or Popup alerts.	very very limited triggers if at all available
19	Value added features in the mobile version	Calling and sending emails & SMSs to employees, discussion board, buy & sell, volunteering, blogs,jokes, image gallery, Ideas, blow whistle, leave, OD, OT, Attendance applications and approvals, viewing payslips,chat, dashboards, helpdesk, suggestion box, opinion poll,planner etc	Mostly Not available.
20	Activity rules setting based on employee groups (hierarchies). Rules setting remapping is easy?	Grouping can be done on 100+ activities like payroll, leave, attendance, salary etc. Remapping can be done in seconds.	Grouping facility if at all available can be done on very few activities and only for limited modules. In many products it has to be done employee-wise thereby HRD has to be remember which rules are relevant for all new joinees thereby wasting their precious time and many times leading to errors. It thus makes such products unsuitable for a large multi location multi hierarchy business.
21	Number of preformatted letter purpose templates	HRMantra has over 125 such templates across all modules thereby giving the users a personalised response	There are much lesser such templates
22	GPS tracking feature	You can monitor on real time the position of your employees using GPS on their smartphones & also use it for their attendance time-in & time-out features. It also tracks the IMEI number of their mobile.	Mostly Not available

HRIS

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Number of predefined fields per employee-more the fields better and more powerful will be your HRIS	More than 450 fields for query purposes making Employee related decision making process quite fast.It is virtually like a complete Kundli in your hands thereby helping you understand your employees better.	Generally less than 250 fields so if you want to add more fields, it will push up customization costs. HRIS is thus at least 50% less effective compared to HRMantra.
2	Can you do instant chatting with employees who are online	Yes thereby reducing the cost of communication	Mostly not available
3	Org charts based on direct & indirect reporting as also on employee reporting to. all based on queries	Available. Dual reporting also possible.If a CEO has a manager and his driver reporting to him directly the positioning of the driver in the org will be much lower than the manager.	Either not available at all or if available it is not in depth
4	Is there a maker checker facility?	Yes.All the employees can keep updating their information as & when required thereby reducing data entry job of the HRD and also maintaining a clean and validated database.	Mostly missing which increases a lot of HR mundane workload and does not guarantee updated and approved data.
5	Does it have employee transfer workflow?	Yes	Mostly not available
6	My task, opinion poll, suggestion box, contacts, jokes, home page message etc	Yes-handled from the main portal page	Mostly not available
7	Can a list of employees be automatically assigned to a user for e.g. can a head of a dept see only his subordinates data?	In HRMantra, you can do auto assignment of all employees based on various hierarchies like company, department, designation, location etc to be able to speedily manage HRIS. You can also do manual assignment as also import assignment data	Mostly not available
8	Can it handle inter company transfers and maintain the same emp code. So as to provide a complete career history of an employee.	Yes making the HRIS process very easy. Seamless automatic leave,attendance,claims, payroll, investment etc data transfer when an employee is transferred from 1 company to another. You can decide whether you want to keep the old employee code or assign the new employee code to the employee. All the rules of the new position automatically gets set to this employee	Mostly not available thereby causing a lot of manual interventions resulting in erroneous data.
9	Does it have various employee networking features	HRMantra has employee , image gallery -private and public,SMS grouping and address group (to be used for calling or sending emails),	Mostly Not present.
10	Can a lady file a complaint against someone harassing her or can a person inform the management about any kind of fraud without worrying about his identity disclosed?	Yes in HRMantra any employee can air his thoughts on any topic by making his feedback on anonymous basis also	Mostly not available
11	Employee Reporting chart	It has fantastic way of displaying the employee reporting charts by expanding or collapsing it as per your desired view consisting of such employees photo, designation and a brief profile.It also generates a tree structure.	Mostly not available
12	When an employee`s reporting manager changes, does it allow import thru excel	Yes	Mostly not available

Induction management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Induction module designer	Available and fully parameterized	Very limited features
2	Induction policies feedback form	Available and fully parameterized. You can use it wonderfully for getting ISO certifications as all documents have the version number, document number, issue date, facility to be released on the login page to be seen by all the employees. You can also decide whether it should be compulsorily seen by all the relevant employees & whether you want to take feedback from employees on the contents in various forms.	Very limited features

Opinion polls & Surveys

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Can a client create any kind of survey or poll with graphical display of results also?	Yes with ability to create multiple surveys in categories & sub categories	Mostly No

Knowledge Management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Mechanism for Learning management, Knowledge Storage, Dissemination & Authentication	Yes. All the documents, video tutorials, hyperlinks etc. that you want all the employee to learn can be set for compulsory reading and also tests can be conducted to examine whether they have acquired the knowledge.	Mostly not available
2	Discussion Board	Employees can initiate discussions on any topic & anyone can answer or provide feedback	Mostly not available

Recruitment management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does the staffing module have comparison of salaries with existing employees and salary fitments?	Yes	Mostly No
2	Candidate data import from jobsites like naukri.com, monster.com, timesjobs.com	Yes and from any other such jobsites as well giving you a great bang for money	Mostly not possible
3	Can job positions in the company be published to consultants & they be allowed to upload CVs directly?	Yes	Mostly not possible
4	Candidate Reference Feedback form	Available. You can create a customised candidate feedback form for reference checks. The referee has to just click on an hyperlink in his email sent through HRMantra software & answer the objective questions which is then automatically stored in the candidates databank.	Mostly not possible
5	Does it have a requisition workflow?	Yes a workflow for new joinees or existing replacements with connectivity with manpower budgeting	Mostly not possible
6	Can it fetch resumes submitted on your website	Yes. We create a link on the desired page in the clients website from which candidate data is automatically posted to the HRMantra software	Mostly not possible
7	All the formal correspondence with the candidates like the offer letters etc goes through an approval process	Available	Mostly not available
8	Does it have a detailed manpower budgeting system based on recruitment year & cycle?	Yes	Mostly not available
9	Can employees apply for internal job positions (IJP) in the company or refer buddies?	Yes	Mostly not available
10	Can powerful interview scheduling be done?	Yes	Mostly not available
11	Does it have integration with resume parser?	Yes	Mostly not available

Online Psychometric tests

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Can any kind of Online Psychometric, IQ etc Tests be conducted for Candidates and Employees on any topic?	Yes. You can create `N` number of topics, `N` number of levels with randomized questions. We have already provided 3 readymade Psychometric tests available ( ego state scale, role efficacy test and climate survey test)	Mostly not available
2	Can you set Time Bound tests with Multi - Choice or subjective parameters?	Yes. You can schedule the test with or with out a time frame with subjective or objective answering and the same can be notified to the candidates through email.	Mostly not available
3	Does it have the functionality of setting negative marking and cut off marks?	Yes. The system has the functionality of negative marking and cut off marks.	Mostly not available
4	Can a basket of topics be merged for creating a test?	Yes. You can select `x` number of questions from one topic and `y` number topics from another topic to feature in a test.	Mostly not available
5	Can you upload an image for conducting Picture Thematic Test?	Yes	Mostly not available
6	Can it import questions of the online test papers?	Yes	Mostly not available

Exit management and Full & Final Settlement

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Can Full & Final Settlement be done from the front end?	Accurate, in-depth, fully automated and online	Not up to the mark and mostly offline.
2	Can an Exit Interview be done Online?	Yes. Employee can fill his Exit Interview form.	Mostly not available
3	Can you set different Exit interview questions for different hierarchies?	Yes	Mostly not available
4	Can Exit Form be escalated to Multiple levels and can conditional policies be set between levels?	Yes	Mostly not available
5	Can it also trigger a mail for exit clearance email can be sent to the relevant employees?	Yes	Mostly not available
6	Whether it can do the replacement online for the exited employee leading to transfer of all responsibilities to the respective replacements.	Yes	Not Available
7	Does it have a Resignation application approval workflow ?	Yes	Mostly not available
8	In case such assets are not returned by the employees, at the time of their exit does it mention it in the FFS?	Yes	Mostly not available
9	When you need to fill mass exit forms, does it provide import / export for speeding it up?	Yes	Mostly not available

Shifts management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Is 31 hour day concept available?	Yes enabling an employee who time-in is today at 11pm and time-out is tomorrow at 7am to be marked present full day for today	Mostly No
2	Can any number of shifts be created	Yes	Mostly No
3	Can it create flexi shifts, semi flexi shifts, Half day shift apart from fixed shifts?	Yes	Mostly No
4	Can auto shift rostering be done for any set of employees	Yes	Mostly No
5	Can default shift be automatically assigned to a new joinee	Yes	Mostly No
6	Can daily,weekly, monthly shift rostering be done using import/export	Yes	Mostly No

Attendance management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Late / Early / OT calculation depth	Quite in-depth rules based on hierarchies and options to deduct leave / salary on fixed or multiple values of time or salary amounts with cascading effects	Sketchy
2	Method of attendance reading	All methods of attendance can be captured using biometric, swipe cards, log-in log-out, thru android or IOS App or manual register.	Lesser methods available
3	Can it pick up attendance data from a swipe card system automatically on real-time online basis from all locations?	Yes giving you instant analysis as to who has come at what time using web services. It thus saves time, money and mistakes in adding employee data again in the access control system. We have recently also added attendance tracking thru webcam attached to a PC kept at the reception or also from a cell phone which not only reduces costs dramatically but also helps track attendance dramatically on the fields	Not possible increasing the headaches of collating attendance data from different regions. And also increasing the manpower required to update employee data in the access control system. Attendance thru webcam not available
4	Employees can themselves fill up the attendance record and submit to their HOD for approval	Through attendance regularisation form	Mostly not present
5	Can it create any kind of weekly off combinations for Monday to Sunday based on whether it is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, even monthly, odd monthly, even yearly or odd yearly?	Yes	Mostly no
6	Can a set of employees chose the maximum number of Holidays he can avail in a year?	Yes	Mostly no
7	Can it accept a master permission attendance card for time-in and time-outs?	Yes	Mostly no
8	Can attendance regularization Application be used for daily activity tracking?	Yes. All employees get to enter the work they have done against a job function	Mostly no
9	Can it calculate monthly deficit hours and deduction rules?	Yes based on hierarchies and options to deduct leave / salary on fixed or multiple values of time or salary amounts with cascading effects	Mostly no
10	Does it have condonement Facility?	Yes	Mostly no
11	Does it have the facility of import / export of the swipe card data	Yes	Mostly no
12	Does it have the workflow for extra hours worked?	Yes	Mostly no
13	Does the vendor have attendance service installed on clients PC to post attendance as & when required without sharing their server IP with the vendor?	Yes	Mostly no
14	In OT application, do the applicant gets the facility to get the extra hours worked in salary or leave.	Yes	Mostly no
15	Does it have the workflow for On Duty (out of of office work)?	Yes	Mostly no
16	Does it have the workflow for optional holidays?	Yes	Mostly no
17	Does it have the workflow for extra hours correction?	Yes	Mostly no
18	Can it pickup attendance thru web cam which is very suitable for small or branch offices?	Tes	Not available

Leave management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Leave rules depth	HRMantra has a global leave structure with over 70 conditions, 7 formulae builders & crores of ready made possible combinations-The depth has to be seen to be believed. We can set leave module for any global business operating across 100s of countries however complex in hours. It has provision for leave minimum & maximum eligibilities, balance, carry forward, lapsation, encashment etc. It has powerful sandwiching, prefix, suffix, intimation, deduction & display rules including supportings.We can set paid leave rules for any firm worldwide in less than an hour!	Very limited leave conditions can only be set ( We challenge any HR product to show more than even 20 % of HRMantra`s depth). So to the client, it means that it makes perfect sense to simply opt for HRMantra over any other such software.
2	Leave accounting year	You have the flexibility of setting it differently for different employees for every leave type	You cannot set it upto individual employee level
3	Can leave encashment be done on an online basis?	Yes	Mostly No
4	Does it have formula builders to handle any kind of rule settings for any hierarchies	It has phenomenal formula builders to create balance leave calculations, maximum leaves carry forwardable and encashment complexities of any firm of any size in any industry worldwide.	Mostly No
5	Can leave credit be done on an online basis?	Yes	Mostly No
6	Does it have Leave workflow?	Yes	Mostly No
7	Leave application form simplicity & depth	Once you select your leave type (for e.g CL), it will show you its balance & also automatically open the "From Date" control. So it becomes very easy to select "From Date" & when it is selected, the "To Date" calendar automatically pops up striking out dates earlier than the "From Date". When you select the "To Date", it will show the total number of leave days & in orange color, it shows extra days added in the leave days due to Sandwiching, prefix or suffix rule. You can also select in "Part of the day" whether you want to take full day,first half day or second half or quarter day leave & which quarter day leave.	Such flexibility is not present in any software globally

Project management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does it have detailed project management module	Yes. You can create client profile and create multiple projects for each client with estimated time of completion and project costs and number of people required with what skills.	Mostly No
2	Can you email the timesheet to the client for approval	Yes	Mostly No
3	When the timesheet is approved, does the time- in time-out get updated in the attendance for that date automatically	Yes	Mostly No
4	Does it have Project Timesheet workflow?	Yes	Mostly No
5	Can it import client database?	Yes	Mostly No
6	Can you import project timesheets filled up to save time?	Yes	Mostly No

Helpdesk / Workflow Administration

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does it generate a ticket number when a particular request is submitted and does the applicant get email on the request closure?	Yes. This faciliy can be used to create any user defined workflows like IT desk, travel desk etc.	Mostly Not Available

Claim and reimbursement management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Is claim management Available?	Very complicated issues of exempted and carry forwardable claim heads based on monthly & yearly calculations can be easily done	Even if the salary related reimbursible claims like medical, LTA etc are available, it cannot handle complicated cases
2	Claim management depth	It is a wonderful flexible claim system. One can create a basket of reimbursement heads and can pay off in any of the pay head in any month with bill entry provision to be split across multiple months. You can set periodic entitlements & payout frequencies. The input units can be set as also the period when such forms can be filled up	Mostly No
3	Can claim data be imported?	Yes	Mostly No

Travel and expense management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Can it create travel expense heads based on different hierarchies and set per day or per trip limits using powerful formula builders?	HRMantra has a global travel management policy with 100s of conditions, 4 formulae builders & crores of ready made possible combinations-The depth has to be seen to be believed. We can set travel module for any global business operating across 100s of countries however complex in hours.	Mostly missing
2	Can it create dynamic city classifications like metro, tier 1, tier 2, rural areas etc	Yes	Mostly missing
3	Can all employees fill up their daily expense applications for approval?	Yes	Mostly missing
4	Can travel, expense, accomodation policies be based on per day limit / per trip limit / per unit limit / per month basis using formulae for different employee groups?	Yes	Mostly missing
5	Once the travel plan has been approved does it automatically update as On Duty in the attendance for those days	Yes	Mostly missing

Asset management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does it have a provision for storing details of assets issued to employees like name, asset value, taxable value and also when such asset was returned by an employee and in what condition?	Yes	Mostly not available
2	Does it have the facility of importing asset stocks?	Yes	Mostly not available
3	Does it have the facility of importing asset allotted details?	Yes	Mostly not available

Payroll management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Complex payroll conditions it can handle & Number of options that are given per Head of Pay	HRMantra has a global payroll structure with over 40 conditions, 3 formulae builders & crores of readymade possible combinations-The depth has to be seen to be believed. We can set payroll module for any global business operating across 100s of countries however complex in hours for e.g. whether HRA is to be included in arrears, increments, FFS, FCP, CTC etc.	Very limited payroll conditions can only be set (We challenge any global HR product to show more than even 40 % of HRMantra`s depth). So to the client, it means that it makes perfect sense to simply opt for HRMantra over any other such software. Other products limit your flexibility and increase your data entry work. It shows the depth in which a vendor has understood the complications prevalent in payroll.
2	Flexible Pay changeable by employees online	Yes	Mostly not available
3	Can payroll processing be done from many locations using a centralized database server?	Yes since payroll module is fully integrated and fully web based and location wise employees payroll can be done	Mostly not possible increasing the headaches of collating processed data from different regions. It also results in many errors due to manual entries and even simple headcount reports may not tally as distributed databases are created by different people and are updated at different times. Such data is always discounted by the top management and they have to always factor in some errors in their MIS projections due to such issues.
4	Salary processing steps	in very easy 3 steps as it is highly automated	Quite rigid spread across many steps with lots of manual data entries leading to time wastage
5	Are all the salary recoveries & adjustment in payroll automatic or has to be done manually module wise?	Fully automated increasing the speed of payroll processing, saving your time and money and removing errors caused due to manual data entries.	You have to do all the adjustments manually increasing your drudgery
6	can arrears payment be done in salary or outside the salary?	Yes both methods possible	Thru salary only
7	Can arrears calculations be done on an online basis from the front end?	Yes	Mostly missing
8	Does it handle multi currency payroll	Yes	Mostly missing
9	Is the vendor also ready to do payroll processing for you if required	Yes at very competitive rates	Mostly no
10	Can it handle complicated Increment & Union agreement calculations?	Yes. Slab wise increment available	Mostly missing
11	Can you work on multiple accounting years?	Yes you can keep shifting between different accounting years in a same window. A user can also work on multiple accounting years at a time	Mostly no
12	Can it process salary per employee in less than 1 second?	Yes. We are using multithreading technologies using which salary processing of employees belonging to different locations can be done simultaneously in separate threads reducing the time taken	Mostly no
13	Can you do e- Filing of 24Q return (regular & correction)?	Yes	Mostly no
14	Can Full & Final Settlement data be imported?	Yes	Mostly no

Income Tax management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	TDS calculation workflow	All employees can do their income tax estimation accurately and easily with proper FRV calculation	Not up to the mark and handled with difficulty
2	Is Income Tax Estimation affected by Govt Budgets?	Not at all. It is fully parameterized. When the finance budget gets passed in the parliament; the new income tax rates gets updated within days by us	Yes
3	Can all employees fill up the investment declaration forms & their HODs approve the same online?	Yes	Mostly No
4	Does it have import facility for investment data capturing?	Yes	Mostly No

Statutory Compliances

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	All statutory reports and challans of PF, ESIC, PT, LWF, Income tax available with E-TDS integration?	All available and fully integrated with e-TDS	A lot of such statutory forms not available and clients will have to do the e-TDS integration

PF trust, gratuity & superannuation management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does it have the facility of maintaining exempted firms PF trust, gratuity and superannuation fund and required challans?	Yes	Mostly No
2	Can it handle PF loans taken by employees?	Yes	Mostly No
3	Does it have an EMI calculator?	Yes	Mostly No

Bonus, Loan & advances management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does it calculate bonus calculations	Yes	Mostly No
2	Does it calculate complicated loan calculations on simple, reducing or on PMT methods?	Yes	Mostly No
3	Can the EMI so calculated be paid by cash or the period changed or interest calculation modified after the loan has been granted to the employee?	Yes	Mostly No
4	Does it have a formula builder to calculate loan entitlements based on experience of the employee or his salary or age or grade etc?	Yes	Mostly No
5	Can loans granted be imported?	Yes	Mostly No

Confirmation & performance management with succession planning

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Is the appraisal system fully present? (360 degree / KRA`s / Competencies / TCD / BSC etc) and is entirely flexible?	Yes. any system of performance evaluation is possible. Bell curve analysis can be done	The depth is not there
2	Does the appraisal module have options of giving scientific ratings to the total competency group / individual / final and overall basis?	Yes	Mostly No
3	Is succession planning module available?	Yes using the color band theory	Mostly No
4	Can it import KRAs?	Yes	Mostly No
5	Can it import competencies?	Yes	Mostly No
6	Does it have the confirmation process?	Yes	Mostly No
7	Does it have the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)?	Yes	Mostly No
8	Can it create different performance review periods for separate employees?	Yes	Mostly No
9	In performance evaluations if an employee is weak in certain skills then can he be nominated for such competency development method?	Yes	Mostly No

Training management

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Can it create a training calendar based on hierarchies	Yes	Mostly No
2	Can it store estimated and actual costs incurred on training programs?	Yes	Mostly No
3	Can the training cost components be created using formula builders	Yes	Mostly No
4	Can an employee fill up his training needs online?	Yes	Mostly No
5	Can an employee fill up the training feedback form after he has attended the same?	Yes	Mostly No
6	Can a faculty fill up the training participants evaluation form after the program has been finished?	Yes	Mostly No
7	Can the HRD shoot off mail to all or selected employees to participate in a training program?	Yes	Mostly No

Security Features

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Number of security features	over 20 important features like password pattern, password size etc making your system quite secure	Quite less features making your sensitive employee data vulnerable and easily hackable
2	Does the software has IP locking facility?	Yes thereby you can prevent users from logging into HRMantra from undesired PCs	Mostly No
3	Audit log for all activities like login, logout, add, edit, delete, and mass process	Present with various filter options and viewing of initial and final state from the front end. This saves the headache of viewing all database at any time.	Not present from the software front-end Only experienced I T professionals having an access to the back-end can run queries on the database and find out results painstakingly

Technology

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Does the software have an inbuilt report designer?	Yes provided free of cost	Mostly No. You might have to purchase a 3rd party report designer like crystal report ( which costs more than Rs 1.50 lakhs)
2	Is the vendor comfortable in adding features and is it added in the same software for all the clients ?	HRMantra willingly accepts requests to add features since it makes the client`s work that much more automated. New features asked by a client are added in the same software which are then given to the existing clients thereby giving more value for money-it is like paying for a Nano and over a period of time getting a Mercedes in lieu of it	They prefer to dish out what is available in the existing package and do not encourage more features. New features if at all agreed to be added are done separately for each client i.e. it is customized. So if the different client wishes to add some feature which they have already developed for a different client and since each such installation is a customized one, you will have to keep paying the vendor for every small new feature-so your meter is always on.
3	Simplicity and accuracy of import and export of processed and unprocessed data in batch mode	Yes. Templates cannot be manipulated by the branches and data gets collected in a very organized manner in a user friendly excel, PDF digitally signed, XML or CSV interface	Not up to the mark
4	Does it have the facility of an intranet mail server	Yes. You can avoid the cost of purchasing a third party mail servers in an intranet environment which is not connected to the internet. You can also configure all your private email accounts like Gmail, Yahoomail etc in the software by just 1 time creating the user name and password and you do not need worry about session timeouts or typing your passwords again and again. It is also very easy to jump from 1 mail account to another so HRMantra becomes like your Blackberry.	Missing
5	Is the software using multi threading technologies	Yes thereby users who are doing their ESS like leave application etc are not affected by mass processing work like payroll processing	Mostly not available
6	Does it have single sign on facility	Yes thereby you do not need to give feeding your user name and password for multiple applications in the same domain	Mostly not available
7	Interface with other ERP / CRM / accounting software`s possible	Interface with an accounting software is done by creating a JV file. Interface with any ERP / CRM software`s can be done by exporting data in an XML format	Lots of such features not possible
8	Is it a pure browser based software?	Yes. It is developed using C# on ASP.NET technologies	A lot of such softwares are still developed on obsolete client server technologies
9	In SaaS, is it multi tenancy based?	Yes. A common HRMantra software application is accessed by multiple clients having separate database schemas	Mostly No
10	Is the software using a strong RDBMS?	Yes. It is based on MS SQL 2016	Many vendors still have versions on MS Access, My SQL etc databases which are not only slow but have lots of limitations

Common features

#	Feature	HRMantra	Any Other HR & Payroll Software
1	Context sensitive help on every page with detailed transaction steps explained in the manual	Yes	Help not up to the mark
2	Masters based on date of effect?	Yes	Mostly Missing
3	Does it have a search engine on the employee, candidate and leave database using simple AND and Or criteria	Yes. So the HRD is not depended on the IT dept for any help in creating any kind of MIS	Mostly Missing
4	Does it have 100s of inbuilt greeting cards and provision to add your own greeting cards	Yes	Mostly Missing
5	Does it have 100’s of motivational thoughts of the day	Yes	Mostly Missing
6	Does it have FAQs in various processes & pages?	Yes	Mostly Missing
7	Does it have a setup wizard in all modules for easy and faster implementation?	Yes	Mostly Missing
8	Does it have SMS facility to send messages to candidates & employees?	Yes	Mostly Missing
9	Does it have proper time zone feature for e.g if the applicant for holiday is in India but the approver is based in Dubai, does it correctly handle date & time differences?	Yes in HRMantra, it will show the time & date of the user	Mostly Missing

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