FundRaksha HR gives Kanpur employers GPS check-in on employees' own phones (only inside the office radius, one phone per employee), leave, shift rosters and a payroll that computes PF, ESI, PT at nil and TDS, with payslip PDFs and PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files. Uttar Pradesh profession tax: none on salaries that we could find. Plans cost ₹49, ₹79 or ₹99 per employee per month plus GST, with a 30-day free trial.
Kanpur's workforce and its HR problems
Leather and footwear, textiles and hosiery, engineering and fabrication, plastics, and defence and ordnance supply are the main employers. Tanneries and footwear units run shifts with large crews; hosiery peaks before winter; defence suppliers need tidy compliance records.
There is no profession tax on salaries in Uttar Pradesh that we could find, but PF and ESI apply to almost every factory worker.
- Large shifts where one register is passed around
- Advances to workers recovered without a record
- Seasonal hiring in hosiery units
- Compliance papers asked for by defence and PSU buyers
Uttar Pradesh payroll rules for a Kanpur employer
We could not find any profession tax levied on salaried employees in Uttar Pradesh, so UP payroll normally runs with PT at nil. If some of your staff work from offices in other states, their PT follows the state where they work.
Shops and establishments. Shops and commercial establishments are covered by the Uttar Pradesh Dookan Aur Vanijya Adhishthan Adhiniyam, 1962. The Labour Department takes online registration and renewal under its labour Acts at uplabouracts.in. The four Labour Codes have been in force since 21 November 2025; state Shops and Establishments Acts continue alongside them.
ESI covers employees earning up to ₹21,000 a month (employee 0.75%, employer 3.25%); PF is 12% from each side. Check cases with the PF and ESI calculators.
How FundRaksha HR handles it in Kanpur
- Shift roster and rules on Pro; ZKTeco or eSSL biometric on Enterprise
- Salary advances with instalments, shown on payslips
- Excel import and company-code invites for seasonal joiners
- PF ECR and ESI files and payroll Excel each month
Admins work from the mobile app or the web console, and PAN, Aadhaar and bank numbers are encrypted and masked.
Worked example: a Jajmau footwear unit with 110 workers
A footwear maker has 110 workers on two shifts, all within ESI, with an eSSL device at the gate. Fifteen workers have advances of ₹6,000, recovered at ₹1,500 a month. Before the winter season it adds 20 temporary workers for three months.
On Enterprise at ₹99 per employee, it pays ₹10,890 a month plus GST, rising to ₹12,870 in the peak months. Gate punches feed attendance, advance recoveries are automatic, and PF ECR and ESI files come out of each run.
Getting started: a one-week checklist
- Import employees from Excel and invite them with your company code.
- Add each Kanpur office, plant or site with its GPS radius.
- Set attendance rules, holidays, week-offs and shifts.
- Enter salary structures and confirm the Uttar Pradesh PT treatment on a test month.
- Run payroll, check payslips, then download the PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files.
See the salary slip format, FundRaksha in Kanpur and the plans.
Sources
- hr.fundraksha.com (features, checked 21 October 2026)
- hr.fundraksha.com/pricing (plans and 30-day free trial, checked 21 October 2026)
- www.esic.gov.in/coverage (wage limit ₹21,000 a month)
- uplabour.gov.in (online registration and renewal under labour Acts, uplabouracts.in)
- src/seo/data/cities.js (city industries)
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21. Information for Indian businesses; not legal advice.