FundRaksha HR gives Surat 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 and TDS, with payslip PDFs and PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files. Gujarat profession tax: levied on salaries and collected by the municipal corporation inside city limits. Plans cost ₹49, ₹79 or ₹99 per employee per month plus GST, with a 30-day free trial.
Surat's workforce and its HR problems
Synthetic textiles and sarees, diamond cutting and polishing, embroidery and jari work, chemicals and dyes and packaging are the city's main employers. Processing houses in Pandesara and Sachin run around the clock; diamond units have large floors of workers on fixed hours.
Profession tax in Surat is administered by Surat Municipal Corporation, which takes employer registration and enrolment online. Gujarat's labour welfare fund also applies.
- Day and night shifts with no clean record of who worked which
- Advances to workers recovered by memory
- High joining and leaving between seasons
- One register shared by everyone, with obvious buddy punching
Gujarat payroll rules for a Surat employer
Gujarat levies profession tax on salaries, and inside a municipal corporation's limits the corporation collects it from employers. Surat Municipal Corporation, for example, takes employer registration and enrolment online on its own website, and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation publishes the profession tax forms and rules on ahmedabadcity.gov.in. Take the current salary slab from your corporation before the first payroll run; we have not quoted figures we could not confirm there.
Labour welfare fund. Gujarat has a labour welfare fund under the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953, run by the Gujarat Labour Welfare Board. Registration and payment are online at glwbcrm.gujarat.gov.in. It is not among FundRaksha HR's listed files, so diarise it.
Shops and establishments. Shops and offices are covered by the Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019. Separately, the Labour Department asks establishments with ten or more workers to register on its Shram Setu portal (shramsetu.gujarat.gov.in) under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. 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 Surat
- Shift roster and rules on Pro; forgotten check-outs are closed at night and flagged
- Salary advances recovered in instalments
- Excel import for bulk joiners and a company code to invite them
- One phone per employee, or on Enterprise, ZKTeco or eSSL biometric punches
Admins work from the mobile app or the web console, and PAN, Aadhaar and bank numbers are encrypted and masked.
Worked example: a Pandesara processing house with 140 workers
A processing house runs day and night shifts with 140 workers earning ₹12,000 to ₹20,000 a month, all within ESI. It already has an eSSL biometric device at the entrance. Twenty workers have advances of ₹8,000 each, recovered at ₹2,000 a month.
On Enterprise at ₹99 per employee (₹13,860 a month plus GST), biometric punches feed attendance, the roster assigns shifts, and the advance instalments appear on every payslip. PT follows Surat Municipal Corporation's schedule and Gujarat LWF is paid to the Board.
Getting started: a one-week checklist
- Import employees from Excel and invite them with your company code.
- Add each Surat office, plant or site with its GPS radius.
- Set attendance rules, holidays, week-offs and shifts.
- Enter salary structures and confirm the Gujarat 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 Surat 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)
- www.suratmunicipal.gov.in/OnlineServices/ProfessionalTaxRC/Enroll (SMC profession tax regi
- ahmedabadcity.gov.in/Uploads/FormsFonts/ProfessionalTax/prof_tax_rule_3.pdf (AMC professio
- glwb.gujarat.gov.in (Gujarat Labour Welfare Board, Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953)
- col.gujarat.gov.in (Shram Setu registration, ten or more workers)
- src/seo/data/cities.js (city industries)
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21. Information for Indian businesses; not legal advice.