Payroll and attendance software in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam's workforce and its HR problems

Steel and heavy engineering, pharmaceuticals (Pharma City), port logistics and shipping, seafood exports and IT services are the main employers. Contractors and service providers to large companies and PSUs make up a big share of the city's small businesses.

Seafood processing adds a seasonal, largely women workforce. Logistics firms near the port run round-the-clock operations with rotating shifts.

• Crews spread across three or four client sites with no reliable attendance
• Site in-charges filling registers at the end of the week
• Seasonal workers in processing units joining and leaving every few weeks
• PF and ESI challans prepared from paper registers

Andhra Pradesh payroll rules for a Visakhapatnam employer

Andhra Pradesh levies profession tax on salaries under its 1987 Act, and the employer deducts it from monthly salary and pays it to the Commercial Taxes Department. We could not open the current salary schedule on the department's portal (apct.gov.in) on 21 October 2026, so confirm the slabs there or with your CA before the first payroll run rather than copying a figure from a blog.

Shops and establishments. The Andhra Pradesh Shops and Establishments Act, 1988 applies to shops and commercial establishments. Registration is with the state Labour Department, labour.ap.gov.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 Visakhapatnam

• Each client site added as a location with its own radius, so check-in works only at that site
• One phone locked per employee, so a supervisor cannot mark a whole crew present
• Employees added by Excel import and invited with a company code
• PF ECR and ESI files from the payroll run on Pro

Admins work from the mobile app or the web console, and PAN, Aadhaar and bank numbers are encrypted and masked.

Worked example: a fabrication contractor with crews at three sites

A fabrication contractor has 70 workers at three client sites and 8 office staff. Each site is set up as its own location; a worker checks in on their own phone when they reach the gate. The attendance record shows who worked where on which day, which is also what the contractor needs when it reconciles its own bills.

On Pro at ₹79 per employee (₹6,162 a month plus GST), payroll produces PF ECR and ESI files and payslip PDFs. Andhra Pradesh PT is deducted at the state slab, which the contractor confirms on apct.gov.in before the first run.

Getting started: a one-week checklist

1. Import employees from Excel and invite them with your company code.
2. Add each Visakhapatnam office, plant or site with its GPS radius.
3. Set attendance rules, holidays, week-offs and shifts.
4. Enter salary structures and confirm the Andhra Pradesh PT treatment on a test month.
5. Run payroll, check payslips, then download the PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files.

See the salary slip format, FundRaksha in Visakhapatnam 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)
• apct.gov.in (Commercial Taxes Department, Andhra Pradesh)
• labour.ap.gov.in (Labour Department, Andhra Pradesh)
• src/seo/data/cities.js (city industries)