HR, payroll, and project time finally in one place.
Clan runs HR, payroll compliance, and project time tracking for digital agencies, IT and software consultancies, and marketing shops with a fast-moving, project-billed team. PF, ESI, and TDS calculated automatically. Leave approved on WhatsApp. Free up to 10 employees, then pay only for who's active.
No credit card. Setup in 30 min. Free up to 10 employees.
Sound familiar?
Before Clan
- ✗ Time tracking tool and payroll tool don't talk to each other
- ✗ Full and final settlement calculated by hand for every fast exit
- ✗ Freelancers and full-timers managed in two different systems
- ✗ Leave and shift-swap requests lost in a client WhatsApp group
- ✗ Attendance across a client site or a hybrid team hard to verify
- ✗ PF/ESI/TDS recalculated manually for a mixed workforce
After Clan
- ✓ Project time logged against every task, split billable vs non-billable
- ✓ Full and final settlement calculated correctly, on the 2-day statutory clock
- ✓ Freelancers assigned to projects; full-timers run through payroll — one account
- ✓ Leave and shift-swap approved on WhatsApp in seconds
- ✓ Geo-fencing and IP restrictions cover any client site or remote team
- ✓ PF, ESI, and TDS calculated automatically, every payroll cycle
Compliance for a mixed, fast-moving team.
Calculated automatically for full-time staff every payroll cycle, no CA dependency for routine runs. Freelancers and contractors who invoice separately aren't run through statutory payroll deductions, but you can still assign them to projects and track their work in the same account as your core team.
Built for how agencies actually staff projects.
- Billable vs non-billable time, next to payroll — the optional Activity Tracker add-on (₹59/employee/month) logs time from the desktop app against every project and task and splits it into billable and non-billable work, so utilization sits in the same account as attendance and leave instead of a separate subscription.
- Project tracking built into HR — assign tasks by client or project, see who's over capacity, and check who's on leave before committing a team to a new brief, without switching to Trello or Asana.
- Fast, correct exits — the full and final settlement calculator nets out salary, leave encashment, gratuity, and notice recovery in one number, inside the 2-working-day payout window the Code on Wages, 2019 now requires.
- Geo-fenced attendance for client sites — geo-fencing and IP restrictions cover a team working from a client's office, a co-working space, or home, so attendance stays verifiable without a fixed desk.
What it costs as your headcount moves
At 8 employees: Free (Launchpad plan, up to 10)
At 25 active employees: ₹2,225/mo (Growth, ₹89/active employee)
At 50 active employees: ₹4,450/mo (Growth)
Activity Tracker is a per-employee add-on at ₹59/month, enabled only for the people you want to monitor. See full pricing.
FAQ
Common questions about HR software for agencies.
Does Clan work if we have a mix of full-time employees and freelancers?
Yes. Clan runs payroll, PF, ESI, and TDS compliance for your full-time and part-time staff. Freelancers and contractors who invoice separately aren't run through statutory payroll deductions, but you can still assign them to projects and track their work alongside your core team in the same account.
Can we see billable and non-billable hours next to payroll?
Yes, with the optional Activity Tracker add-on (₹59/employee/month). It logs time from the desktop app against every project and task and splits it into billable and non-billable work, so utilization sits in the same account as attendance and leave rather than a separate time-tracking tool.
How does Clan help with the fast hiring and exits common at agencies?
Offer letters and HR policies can be generated from a template in minutes, and the full and final settlement calculator nets out salary, leave, gratuity, and notice recovery in one number for a quick, correct exit — required within 2 working days of the last day under the Code on Wages, 2019.
Can Clan track attendance for a team working from a client site?
Yes. Geo-fencing and IP restrictions let you define approved clock-in zones for a client's office, a co-working space, or a hybrid work-from-home setup, so attendance stays verifiable without everyone being on one premises.
Is project tracking in Clan a full replacement for Trello or Asana?
For agencies that need practical task assignment, deadlines, and project-vs-person visibility next to HR data, yes — without a separate subscription. It is not a sprint-planning tool with the ceremony overhead of Jira, by design.
Is Clan suitable for a small agency, or is there a minimum team size?
Clan is built for organisations with 10 to 150 employees, which covers most independent agencies and consultancies in India. It's free up to 10 employees, so a small studio can start immediately and pay only as headcount grows.
Closer to an in-house engineering or product team than a client-billed agency? See Clan for IT companies. Early-stage and bootstrapped? See HR software for startups. For project assignment and time tracking on their own, see Clan project management, or compare Clan to Keka.
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