Where GreytHR is strong
It is worth being fair: GreytHR is a capable, established product. Greytip Software has run it since 1994, it serves more than 20,000 paying businesses, and it offers a broad suite: recruitment, onboarding, payroll with PF, ESI, PT, LWF and TDS, leave, attendance, performance management, an employee self-service portal with a mobile app, and an AI assistant. On Capterra it holds around 4.3 stars, with users praising the integrated payroll and the ease of getting started. If you run a general small or midsize company from one or a few offices, it is a sensible choice.
Some reviewers on Capterra also report occasional performance issues and support that routes through a shared help desk rather than a dedicated contact. Those are user opinions, not our claims, and every product has trade-offs, so weigh them against your own trial.
Where ZeniaHR is different
ZeniaHR is not trying to be a broader HR suite. It does one thing: run the workforce for businesses that deploy workers across client sites. That shapes every part of the product.
- Attendance is captured at the post, biometric and geo-tagged, then flows straight into payroll and PF/ESI with no re-keying.
- Per-client invoicing is built in. The same deployment data that drives pay also produces a separate invoice for each client, based on the staff placed there.
- One worker record carries onboarding, ID cards and documents, leave, payroll and statutory compliance, so a contractor running thousands of workers across sites is not stitching tools together.
- Free for your first 100 workers, not 25, and with no history cap, so a growing staffing firm can run real operations before paying anything.
General horizontal HR suites, GreytHR included, are typically built around a single office where everyone clocks in at one place. Manpower businesses are the opposite, and that is the gap ZeniaHR fills. See how it works for security agencies and facility management, or read the contract labour compliance guide.
Which should you pick?
Pick GreytHR if you are a single-site small or midsize business that wants a broad, proven HR platform with recruitment, performance reviews and self-service, and you do not bill clients per deployed worker.
Pick ZeniaHR if you place workers across multiple client sites, need multi-site attendance feeding payroll and PF/ESI, want to invoice each client for the staff deployed there, and want to start free at a real scale. See ZeniaHR pricing or book a demo.
Built only for manpower & staffing
Run multi-site attendance, payroll, PF/ESI compliance and per-client invoicing on one worker record. Free for your first 100 workers.
Frequently asked questions
Is ZeniaHR a good GreytHR alternative?
For manpower and staffing firms, yes. GreytHR is a broad HR suite for general small and midsize businesses; ZeniaHR is built for companies deploying workers across client sites, with multi-site attendance, payroll, PF/ESI compliance and per-client invoicing on one worker record.
Does GreytHR have a free plan?
Yes, a free Starter plan for up to 25 active employees with a 13-month history limit. ZeniaHR's free plan covers up to 100 workers with no history cap.
Is ZeniaHR cheaper than GreytHR?
For a business with many workers, usually at the entry point: ZeniaHR is free up to 100 workers, while GreytHR's free plan stops at 25 and paid plans start at ₹2,495 per month for 50 employees plus a per-employee charge. Compare both against your own headcount.
Can I move my data from GreytHR to ZeniaHR?
Yes. Worker master data, salary structures and attendance can be imported from spreadsheets during onboarding. Book a demo and the team will map it to your setup.