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A Kredily alternative built for manpower & staffing

Last updated 30 August 2026 ยท figures about Kredily are sourced and linked below

Kredily is a popular free-forever HR and payroll system for Indian SMBs, covering payroll, attendance, leave and compliance. The honest comparison here is not about price, both are free at the entry point. It is about fit: ZeniaHR is built for firms that deploy workers across client sites, where attendance happens at the post and each client is invoiced separately.

Short version: choose Kredily if you are a single-office SMB wanting free, general HR and payroll for your own staff. Choose ZeniaHR if you deploy a workforce across many client sites and need multi-site attendance, contract-labour compliance and per-client invoicing, also free at the entry point, for your first 100 workers.
 ZeniaHRKredily
Built forManpower, staffing, security & facility firms deploying workers across client sitesSingle-office SMBs wanting free general HR & payroll
Free planUp to 100 workers, free forever, manpower workflowFree forever, unlimited employees (general HR/payroll)
Payroll with PF / ESI / PT / TDSYesYes
Attendance at client posts (biometric, geo-tagged)Yes, at every postAttendance & leave, office-centric
Per-client invoicing for deployed staffYes, built-in moduleNot advertised
Contract-labour (CLRA) workflow & registersYes, designed for itNot advertised
Multi-site deployment & worker transfersYesNot advertised
In marketNew (2025), single focused productBengaluru; large SMB user base (per Kredily)
Entry priceFree to 100 workers, then per workerFree forever; paid Payroll OS ₹1,249/mo, Professional ₹1,749/mo
Kredily details from kredily.com/pricing (accessed August 2026). "Not advertised" means we found no such capability promoted for Kredily, not that it is impossible. Compare both against your own requirements before deciding.

Where Kredily is strong

To be fair, Kredily's free plan is genuinely generous. It is one of the few Indian HR tools that is free forever for unlimited employees, and it covers the core an office SMB needs: payroll with PF, ESI, PT and TDS, attendance, leave, employee self-service and compliance. It has a large user base and is a good starting point for a single-office company that wants to move off spreadsheets without paying anything.

Its design centre is general office HR and payroll, not a workforce deployed across many client sites.

Where ZeniaHR is different

Because both tools are free at the entry point, the real question is fit. ZeniaHR is built for businesses that deploy workers across client sites, and that changes the workflow.

See how it works for security agencies, facility management, or the manpower software overview.

Which should you pick?

Pick Kredily if you are a single-office SMB that wants free, general HR and payroll for your own employees and do not bill clients per deployed worker.

Pick ZeniaHR if you place workers across multiple client sites and need multi-site attendance, contract-labour compliance and per-client invoicing, also free to start. 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 Kredily alternative?

For manpower and staffing firms, yes. Both offer free plans, but Kredily is general office HR and payroll, while ZeniaHR is built for deployed workforces, with multi-site attendance, contract-labour compliance and per-client invoicing on one worker record.

Is Kredily really free?

Yes. Kredily offers a free-forever plan for unlimited employees, with paid plans for advanced features. ZeniaHR is also free at the entry point, for up to 100 workers, with the manpower deployment and client-billing workflow built in.

What does ZeniaHR add for a manpower business?

Attendance captured at each client post, per-client man-day invoicing reconciled against payroll, contract-labour (CLRA) registers, and worker transfers between clients on one record. These are workflows a general office HRMS is not built around.

Can I move my data from Kredily 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.

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Kredily is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with ZeniaHR. All references are based on publicly available information from kredily.com accessed in August 2026, and are provided for comparison and general information only. Product details and pricing change; confirm current information on their official website before deciding.