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You run the team. We handle India.

Employer of record in India for companies hiring or employing people here. You manage their work. We handle the employment, payroll and compliance.

G2 Rated 4.8/5 on G2
V India team Search people, pay runs, filings
Your team
Dashboard
Employees
Onboarding
Time off
Payroll
Pay runs
Cost reports
Invoices
Compliance
Filings
Documents
Entity registrations
Hiring
Open roles
Shortlists
Your compliance manager
One named person. Replies in 4 to 6 hours.
Employees
8 / 12
67% of hiring plan
Payroll this cycle
12 / 12
Paid on the 30th
Filings
12 / 12
PF · ESI · TDS · PT
One pay run, one invoice USD
Gross salaries, 12 people $36,940
Employer PF and ESI $2,880
Professional tax and other $0.00
Versatile fee, 12 × $149 $1,788
Total billed $41,608
No FX spread. Statutory costs at actuals.
Filings this cycle
PF, ECR and challan Filed
ESI contribution Filed
TDS remittance Filed
Professional tax Filed
Quarterly TDS return Scheduled
All in the name of Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Onboarding and payroll activity Last 7 days
BE Backend engineer Day 3 of 5 · Bengaluru Offer letter signed On track
PD Product designer Day 1 of 5 · Pune KYC documents pending Action
QE QA engineer Added to this payroll PF and ESI registered Complete
EmployeeRoleLocationStatus
Backend engineer Engineering Bengaluru Onboarding
Product designer Design Pune Onboarding
QA engineer Engineering Kochi Active
Finance associate Finance Bengaluru Active
Account manager Operations Gurugram Active
Teams building in India. First hire to full team.
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Hiring in India breaks in expensive ways.

Entity setup takes six months.

Name approval, MCA filing, PAN and TAN, PF and ESI codes, a bank account, a payroll vendor.

Ours already exists. Your first hire starts in five days.

BE Backend engineer Bengaluru Offer signed
Two more signed, all waiting on an entity that does not exist yet.
Incorporation, SPICe+ In progress
Month 1 Name approval, DIN, DSC
Month 2 MCA incorporation filing
Month 3 PAN, TAN, GST
Month 4 PF and ESI codes
Month 5 Bank account, payroll vendor
Month 6 Earliest date someone can start

One late filing keeps getting more expensive.

PF interest at 12% a year, damages up to 25% more, from the day you missed.

We are the employer of record on those filings. The notice comes to us.

One late PF challan, left unpaid 12% interest plus damages
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Illustrative accrual on a single missed challan for a small team. Your figure depends on wage base and delay.
Who the notice is addressed to
Your own entity You
On our entity Versatile

A reseller sits in the middle.

Global platforms reach India through a local partner you never contracted with.

We are the Indian company. One contract, one employer.

PD Product designer Pune Your hire
Employed by a local partner company you never contracted with.
Signature page, two parties
GP Global Platform Inc. Delaware, the company you pay
LP Local Partner Pvt Ltd Bengaluru, the company that employs your hire
Your name is on neither line.

Three vendors, none of them talking.

A recruiter, a payroll vendor, a compliance consultant. None accountable for the others.

One team owns hiring, payroll and compliance. Three names you can call.

R Recruiter Shortlist by Friday? separate
PV Payroll vendor Send me the attendance sheet separate
CC Compliance consultant PF query still pending separate
With us: a recruiter, a finance associate and an account manager. Three names, one stack, one invoice.

Switching partners resets everything.

Roles, pay bands, notice periods, all explained from scratch to whoever comes next.

The same three people stay with you as you grow.

Your old account team Gone
Roles, pay bands, notice periods, who is on what. All of it in their heads, none of it written down for you.
New partner, month one Onboarding you
Context transferred
0%

Your EOR should disappear into the background.

Who does what
You run
Your employee's work and priorities
Goals, feedback and performance
Pay, promotion and scope
We handle
The employment contract, in our name
Payroll on the 30th, payslips with it
PF, ESIC, PT and TDS, filed and evidenced
Leave, exits and final settlement
Hire for culture fit, not just the résumé.

We interview for communication, ownership and time-zone fit. You meet a shortlist, not a stack of CVs.

A retention coach for your India team.

We flag pay drift, scope creep and quiet disengagement while it is still fixable.

An account manager for your employee.

Payslips, PF, ESI, leave, Form 16. Your employee asks us, not you.

Change the employer, not the employee's history.

Tenure, gratuity and PF carry across. Same pay date, new employer on the contract.

Supporting evidence
Want to verify the entity behind all this?

Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, 2022. Seven registrations in our own name.

Incorporation
GST
EPFO code
ESIC
Shops and Establishments
PAN and TAN
Udyam MSME
Signed, dated PDFs in one business day. No sales sequence afterwards.
200
people moved onto our entity in a single payroll cycle, with UAN continuity kept
33
invoices in 26 months for one client, zero cycles missed and zero escalations
5 days
from a signed offer to a first payslip, not six months
G2 4.8 / 5 from teams hiring their first person in India, and teams who moved an existing one onto our entity.

What clients say.

Founders and operators employing people in India through us, in their own words.

Video
Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
Video
Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Two ways to work with us.

Employer of Record
No entity in India
$149 /employee/mo

Falls to $129 for every employee once you pass 20. Billed monthly in your local currency, no lock-in.

Employment on our entity
PF, ESI, TDS and PT filed monthly
Invoiced in your currency, one bill
5-day onboarding
Named compliance manager
Dedicated payroll lead
Employee portal and payslips
Entity transfer when you are ready
Start hiring
Twenty or more people, or a team you want moved onto our entity? Speak to sales.
Recruitment
You need us to source
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid-senior roles. 15% for senior, custom for director and VP. Bring your own candidate and there is no fee.

Shortlist in 9 days
Market pay benchmarks before you offer
Interview scheduling handled
Invoiced on day 90 of their tenure
15% for senior roles
Custom for director and VP
No fee if you bring the candidate
They join on our entity, or yours
Send us a role
Director, VP or a whole function to build out? Speak to sales.
Past twenty employees
$149 $129 per employee / month

Automatic on employee twenty-one. No renegotiation, no annual commitment.

What every employee includes
Employment contract in our name
Payroll and itemised payslips
PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filed
Gratuity funded from day one
Group health cover via our insurance partner
One invoice in your currency
Onboarding, background check, Form 16
Exits and final settlement
Recruitment is 12% of annual gross for one hire, 15% for a team, billed on day ninety. Statutory contributions are billed at actuals. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network, billed separately. Run your own number in the EOR versus entity calculator.

What founders ask first.

Do you own the India entity? +

Yes. Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, incorporated in Bengaluru in 2022. Every PF, ESIC and Shops and Establishments registration is in that name, and we send the certificates before you sign anything.

Does this create permanent establishment risk? +

The employment relationship sits with us, not you. You buy a service from an Indian company, so you do not have people employed in India. Your commercial terms with us sit alongside the employment contract, and IP assigns to you through it.

What happens if a filing is late? +

It is our liability, not yours. PF interest runs at 12% a year with damages of up to 25% more, all charged to the employer of record, and that is us. The compliance manager tells you before you hear it from anyone else.

How fast can someone start? +

Five business days from a signed brief to a live employee where the person is already identified. Recruitment adds around nine days to a shortlist.

What is the real monthly cost? +

$149 per employee per month, falling to $129 once you pass twenty people. No setup fee, no exit fee and no minimum term. Gross salary and statutory contributions are billed at actuals with no markup. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network and are billed separately.

What currency do you invoice in? +

Yours. One invoice a month covering salaries, statutory costs and our fee, converted at the RBI reference rate on the invoice date. The rate used is printed on the invoice and we add no spread.

Can we move our existing India team over? +

Yes. Transfers preserve tenure, gratuity accrual and PF continuity through the employee's UAN. We have moved a two hundred person team without a missed payroll day.

When is an EOR the wrong answer? +

If you already run a compliant Indian entity with payroll in place, an EOR adds a layer you do not need. If the work is one short project under three months, a contractor engagement is usually cheaper than employment, and we will say so. What we will not do is help you keep long-term full-time people on contractor paper, because that is where misclassification exposure comes from.

Your first India hire, live in five days.

What the first call covers 30 minutes

Thirty minutes with the compliance manager who would own your account. No script, no obligation.

A written cost breakdown
Entity documents before the call
PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
No follow-up sequence
Book a call
Pick a time yourself, or ask in the form and we send a calendar invite with a Meet link, in your timezone.
versatile club +

You run the team. We handle India.

Employer of record in India for companies hiring or employing people here. We handle the employment, payroll and compliance.

G2 Rated 4.8/5 on G2
Teams building in India. First hire to full team.
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Hiring in India breaks in expensive ways.

Five of them cost months or money before anyone has started. Tap one to see what it looks like, and what happens on our entity instead.

Entity setup takes six months.

Name approval, MCA filing, PAN and TAN, PF and ESI codes, a bank account, a payroll vendor.

Ours already exists. Your first hire starts in five days.

BE Backend engineer Bengaluru Signed
Two more signed, all waiting on an entity that does not exist yet.
Incorporation, SPICe+ In progress
Month 1 Name approval, DIN
Month 2 MCA incorporation
Month 3 PAN, TAN, GST
Month 4 PF and ESI codes
Month 5 Bank, payroll vendor
Month 6 Earliest start date

One late filing keeps getting more expensive.

PF interest at 12% a year, damages up to 25% more, from the day you missed.

We are the employer of record on those filings. The notice comes to us.

One late PF challan, left unpaid
12% interest plus damages
₹6.2k Day 1
₹41.5k Day 30
₹1.84L Day 90
₹3.12L Day 180
Illustrative accrual on a single missed challan for a small team.
Who the notice is addressed to
Your own entity You
On our entity Versatile

A reseller sits in the middle.

Global platforms reach India through a local partner you never contracted with.

We are the Indian company. One contract, one employer.

PD Product designer Pune Your hire
Employed by a local partner company you never contracted with.
Signature page, two parties
GP Global Platform Inc. Delaware, the company you pay
LP Local Partner Pvt Ltd Bengaluru, the company that employs your hire
Your name is on neither line.

Three vendors, none of them talking.

A recruiter, a payroll vendor, a compliance consultant. None accountable for the others.

One team owns hiring, payroll and compliance. Three names you can call.

R Recruiter Shortlist by Friday? separate
PV Payroll vendor Send me the attendance sheet separate
CC Compliance consultant PF query still pending separate
With us: a recruiter, a finance associate and an account manager. Three names, one stack, one invoice.

Switching partners resets everything.

Roles, pay bands, notice periods, all explained from scratch to whoever comes next.

The same three people stay with you as you grow.

Your old account team Gone
Roles, pay bands, notice periods, who is on what. All of it in their heads, none of it written down for you.
New partner, month one Onboarding you
Context transferred
0%

Your EOR should disappear into the background.

Your team works for you. We handle India. You manage your people exactly as you do everywhere else, and the employment, payroll and statutory side stops being your job.

You run

Your employee's work and priorities
Goals, feedback and performance
Pay, promotion and scope
Run your company the way you always have

We handle

The employment contract, in our name
Payroll on the 30th, payslips with it
PF, ESIC, PT and TDS, filed and evidenced
India HR administration and records
Leave, exits and final settlement
Employment paperwork questions from your team
When something happens in India, it is ours.
A PF notice arrives We handle it
Payroll needs correcting We fix it
A compliance question We tell you what happens next

One named compliance manager who already knows your team, your payroll history and your filings. Nothing to re-explain, and nothing passed between teams.

Account manager Median first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinator Brief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associate Filings on time 8 / 8

Hire for culture fit, not just the résumé.

We interview for communication, ownership and time-zone fit. You meet a shortlist, not a stack of CVs.

Shortlist in nine days. One thing most EORs stop short of.

A retention coach for your India team.

We flag pay drift, scope creep and quiet disengagement while it is still fixable.

Hiring is the start. Keeping the person is the win.

An account manager for your employee.

Payslips, PF, ESI, leave, Form 16. Your employee asks us, not you.

You stay their manager, not their help desk.
Moving someone across

Change the employer, not the employee's history.

Tenure, gratuity and PF carry across. Same pay date, new employer on the contract.

Tenure Kept
Gratuity clock Kept
PF and UAN Continuous
Payroll gap 0 days
200 people moved in a single payroll cycle, zero days lost.
Supporting evidence

Want to verify the entity behind all this?

Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, 2022. Seven registrations in our own name.

Certificate of Incorporation
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
GST registration
Goods and Services Tax
EPFO establishment code
Employees Provident Fund Organisation
ESIC registration
Ministry of Labour and Employment
Shops and Establishments licence
Government of Karnataka
PAN and TAN
Income Tax Department
Udyam (MSME) registration
Government of India
Signed, dated PDFs in one business day. No sales sequence afterwards.
200
people moved onto our entity in a single payroll cycle, with UAN continuity kept
7
statutory registrations in our own name, so the liability on every filing is ours and not yours
5 days
from a signed offer to a first payslip, not six months
G2 4.8 / 5 from teams hiring and employing in India on our entity.

What clients say.

Founders and operators employing people in India through us, in their own words.

Video
Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
Video
Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

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Two ways to work with us.

Employ someone you already picked, move your existing India team across, or have us find the person. Same team, same entity, one invoice either way. No setup fee, no exit fee, no lock-in.

Employer of Record
No entity in India
$149 /employee/mo

Falls to $129 for every employee once you pass 20. Billed monthly in your local currency, no lock-in.

Employment on our entity
PF, ESI, TDS and PT filed monthly
Invoiced in your currency, one bill
5-day onboarding
Four more things it covers+
Named compliance manager
Dedicated payroll lead
Employee portal and payslips
Entity transfer when you are ready
Start hiring
Twenty or more people, or a team you want moved onto our entity? Speak to sales.
Recruitment
You need us to source
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid-senior roles. 15% for senior, custom for director and VP. Bring your own candidate and there is no fee.

Shortlist in 9 days
Market pay benchmarks before you offer
Interview scheduling handled
Invoiced on day 90 of their tenure
Four more terms+
15% for senior roles
Custom for director and VP
No fee if you bring the candidate
They join on our entity, or yours
Send us a role
Director, VP or a whole function to build out? Speak to sales.

The rate drops at twenty employees

$149 $129 per employee / month

Automatic on employee twenty-one. No renegotiation, no annual commitment.

What every employee includes

Employment contract in our name
Payroll and itemised payslips
PF, ESIC, PT and TDS filed
Gratuity funded from day one
Group health cover via our insurance partner
One invoice in your currency
Onboarding, background check, Form 16
Exits and final settlement
Recruitment is 12% of annual gross for one hire, 15% for a team, billed on day ninety. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network, billed separately. Run your own number in the EOR versus entity calculator.

What founders ask first.

Do you own the India entity? +

Yes. Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, incorporated in Bengaluru in 2022. Every PF, ESIC and Shops and Establishments registration is in that name, and we send the certificates before you sign anything.

Does this create permanent establishment risk? +

The employment relationship sits with us, not you. You buy a service from an Indian company, so you do not have people employed in India. Your commercial terms with us sit alongside the employment contract, and IP assigns to you through it.

What happens if a filing is late? +

It is our liability, not yours. PF interest runs at 12% a year with damages of up to 25% more, all charged to the employer of record, and that is us. The compliance manager tells you before you hear it from anyone else.

How fast can someone start? +

Five business days from a signed brief to a live employee where the person is already identified. Recruitment adds around nine days to a shortlist.

What is the real monthly cost? +

$149 per employee per month, falling to $129 once you pass twenty people. No setup fee, no exit fee and no minimum term. Gross salary and statutory contributions are billed at actuals with no markup. Insurance, laptops and workspaces come from our partner network and are billed separately.

What currency do you invoice in? +

Yours. One invoice a month covering salaries, statutory costs and our fee, converted at the RBI reference rate on the invoice date. The rate used is printed on the invoice and we add no spread.

Can we move our existing India team over? +

Yes. Transfers preserve tenure, gratuity accrual and PF continuity through the employee's UAN. We have moved a two hundred person team without a missed payroll day.

When is an EOR the wrong answer? +

If you already run a compliant Indian entity with payroll in place, an EOR adds a layer you do not need. If the work is one short project under three months, a contractor engagement is usually cheaper than employment, and we will say so. What we will not do is help you keep long-term full-time people on contractor paper, because that is where misclassification exposure comes from.

Your first India hire, live in five days.

What the first call covers 30 minutes

Thirty minutes with the compliance manager who would own your account. No script, no obligation.

A written cost breakdown
Entity documents before the call
PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
No follow-up sequence
Book a call