HR software for Karnataka businesses across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru and Hubli. Karnataka Professional Tax, PF/ESI/TDS payroll, GPS attendance and built-in CRM for startups and IT. Free trial — no card.
Karnataka levies Professional Tax of ₹200 per month on employees earning a monthly salary of ₹25,000 or more; those below that threshold are exempt. Avani pre-configures the exact Karnataka PT slab and auto-applies the ₹200 deduction only to eligible employees each month, based on their gross salary. No spreadsheet check, no manual slab lookup — and the PT amount is exported for easy remittance to the Karnataka commercial taxes department.
Bengaluru is India's startup and IT capital — Koramangala, Indiranagar, Whitefield, Electronic City, and Outer Ring Road are dense with SaaS startups, GCCs, unicorns, and software services firms. Avani gives fast-scaling teams everything in one place: GPS geo-fenced attendance for hybrid work, automated PF/ESI/TDS/PT payroll, leave management, performance KPIs and rankings, and a built-in CRM — replacing the typical Keka + Zoho + Jira stack that startups outgrow expensively.
Bengaluru startups can go from 20 to 200 employees in a year. Avani is designed for that pace: bulk employee onboarding, configurable salary structures with ESOP-friendly components, department and team hierarchies, and payroll that handles variable pay and incentives without breaking. As headcount grows, KPIs, rankings, and consolidated reporting keep founders and HR in control instead of buried in spreadsheets.
Beyond IT, Karnataka is a biotech and R&D powerhouse — Electronic City and the Bangalore Bio-Innovation Centre host life-sciences firms with mixed lab and office workforces. Avani computes EPF (12% + 12% on basic), ESI (0.75% employee + 3.25% employer on gross wages ≤ ₹21,000), and TDS under Section 192, generates the monthly EPFO ECR file and ESIC challan, and produces compliant salary slips — covering both knowledge workers and support staff.
Karnataka's growth extends well beyond Bengaluru — IT and services hubs in Mysuru, port and industry in Mangaluru, and the fast-rising Hubli–Dharwad belt. Avani supports multi-branch org structures with branch-wise GPS attendance, location-specific leave policies, and consolidated payroll across all Karnataka cities, so a company headquartered in Bengaluru can manage satellite teams in Mysuru or Mangaluru from one account.
Performance culture is core to Bengaluru's tech scene. Avani lets managers set monthly targets, track task and sprint completion, log sales-call volume, and generate automatic employee rankings tied to real attendance and output. Employees download their salary slips — with the Karnataka ₹200 PT line where applicable — from their own login, so HR is freed from emailing PDFs and answering payslip queries.
Karnataka levies Professional Tax of ₹200 per month on employees whose monthly salary is ₹25,000 or more. Employees earning below ₹25,000 per month are exempt. Avani pre-configures this Karnataka slab and automatically applies the ₹200 deduction only to eligible employees each month based on their gross salary, then exports the PT amount for remittance to the Karnataka commercial taxes department — no manual threshold checks.
Yes. Avani is built for Bengaluru's hyper-growth startup scene. It supports bulk employee onboarding, configurable and ESOP-friendly salary structures, department hierarchies, and payroll that handles variable pay without breaking as you scale from 20 to 200 people. It also bundles GPS attendance, leave, performance KPIs and rankings, and a built-in CRM — replacing the costly Keka + Zoho + Jira stack that startups typically outgrow.
Yes. Avani computes EPF (12% + 12% on basic), ESI (0.75% employee + 3.25% employer on gross wages up to ₹21,000), and TDS under Section 192, then generates the monthly EPFO ECR file and ESIC challan and produces compliant salary slips. This covers both knowledge workers in IT/SaaS firms and the mixed lab-and-support workforces common to Karnataka's biotech and life-sciences companies in Electronic City.
Yes. Avani supports multi-branch organisation structures, so a company headquartered in Bengaluru can manage satellite teams in Mysuru, Mangaluru, or the Hubli–Dharwad belt from a single account. Each location has its own GPS geo-fence, branch-wise attendance, and leave policies, while leadership runs one consolidated payroll and sees a statewide view of the workforce.
Most companies go live in a single day. You sign up free, add your Karnataka address (Avani auto-applies the ₹200 PT slab, PF, ESI, and TDS), bulk-import your employees, and configure salary structures. Because attendance, leave, payroll, CRM, and performance all live in one platform, there is no multi-tool integration project — even a fast-scaling Bengaluru startup can start running payroll the same day.
Yes. Karnataka levies Professional Tax (capped at ₹2,500/year under Article 276). Avani applies the current Karnataka PT slab automatically, along with EPF, ESI and TDS, on every Karnataka payslip.
Avani follows the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 for registration, working hours and leave rules, and flags salaries below Karnataka's statutory minimum wage before you run Karnataka payroll.
Teams across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi and the wider Karnataka area use Avani for GPS attendance, payroll, leave and CRM — fully cloud-based, so office, remote and field staff are all covered.
Yes. Karnataka levies Professional Tax (capped at ₹2,500/year under Article 276). Avani applies the current Karnataka PT slab automatically, along with EPF, ESI and TDS, on every Karnataka payslip.
Avani follows the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 for registration, working hours and leave rules, and flags salaries below Karnataka's statutory minimum wage before you run Karnataka payroll.
Teams across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi and the wider Karnataka area use Avani for GPS attendance, payroll, leave and CRM — fully cloud-based, so office, remote and field staff are all covered.
Statutory rates change from time to time; figures are indicative and maintained inside Avani Business OS. General information, not legal or tax advice.
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