Built for Delhi NCR businesses across Connaught Place, Saket, Nehru Place, Karol Bagh, Gurgaon and Noida. TDS Section 192 across both regimes, Form 12BB declarations, PF and ESI on the 15th, Delhi LWF, bank-portal CSV for HDFC / ICICI / Axis. No Professional Tax — Delhi, Haryana and UP do not levy PT. Free plan available.
No PT to track (Delhi / Haryana / UP). Multi-office payroll for NCR groups with Connaught Place + Gurgaon + Noida presence — built in.
Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh do not levy Professional Tax. Disable the PT component once at the salary structure level. The Compliance Calendar PT fallback row can be dismissed once you have confirmed your state has no PT obligation.
New and old regime side-by-side. Slabs, 87A rebate, marginal relief at ₹7L, surcharge tiers (10/15/25/37%), 4% health-and-education cess. FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 pre-loaded. Form 12BB declarations capture the regime per employee.
Delhi NCR rents are high — HRA exemption under Section 10(13A) is meaningful. Form 12BB captures rent paid, landlord PAN where annual rent crosses ₹1 lakh, plus 80C / 80D / Section 24 / 80CCD(1B) / 80E / 80G. Attestation workflow with audit trail.
Create → Attendance (LOP grid + CSV import) → Compute → Review → Approve & Disburse. Same wizard for a 15-person Connaught Place consultancy and a 200-person Nehru Place IT firm.
Salary expense to P&L; PF / ESI / TDS payables on the balance sheet; Delhi LWF (₹0.75 employee + ₹2.25 employer per half-year, collected in June and December) posted to a separate LWF Payable account. Books reconcile against the payroll register every close.
Bank account numbers AES-GCM encrypted at rest. PAN and Aadhaar masked in the UI. Bank-portal CSV download MFA-gated and HMAC-signed. Data stored in AWS Mumbai (ap-south-1) — RBI data-localisation satisfied for Delhi NCR fintech and payment-aggregator clients.
Built for how Delhi NCR actually runs multi-office payroll.
Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh do not levy Professional Tax. Disable the PT component once at the salary structure level; the Compliance Calendar PT fallback row can be dismissed once you have confirmed your state has no PT obligation.
Delhi HQ in Connaught Place, branch in Gurgaon, warehouse in Noida — all three offices under one tenant. PF / ESI registrations per state; salary structures per office; one ledger. The trial balance reconciles across NCR.
Delhi rents support significant HRA exemption under Section 10(13A). Form 12BB captures rent paid, landlord PAN where required, and feeds the exemption into the TDS Section 192 computation — old-regime employees benefit accurately, no manual calculation.
Delhi GSTIN starts with state code 07. ReadyBooks runs GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, e-invoicing, and payroll on the same ledger. The CA who signs off books gets one login for everything.
Delhi NCR is the most distributed payroll market in India. The same group will commonly have a Connaught Place head office, a Gurgaon back-office, a Noida tech team, and a warehouse in Bawana or Manesar — four offices across three states (Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh). None of those three states levies Professional Tax, which simplifies the Compliance Calendar compared to Karnataka, Maharashtra, or Tamil Nadu. But PF and ESI still apply state by state, and TDS Section 192 applies uniformly to every employee regardless of where the office sits.
ReadyBooks runs this multi-office payroll on a single tenant. Each office can have its own salary structure (Delhi salaries vs Gurgaon back-office rates vs Noida tech band), but the wizard runs the same way. PF and ESI registrations are tracked per state. TDS, salary expense, and net salary payable post to one ledger so the trial balance reconciles cleanly across NCR. The Compliance Calendar surfaces PF (15th), ESI (15th), and TDS (7th) — no PT row because none of the three NCR states levies it.
Delhi NCR's payroll mix splits across roughly four employer archetypes. Trading and wholesale (Sadar Bazaar, Karol Bagh, Chandni Chowk, Naya Bazaar) — typically 15-100 employees, low-to-mid basic wages with significant overtime, full PF / ESI coverage for the workforce. Service businesses in Connaught Place, Saket, and Nehru Place — IT services, consulting, legal firms, digital agencies — 10-150 employees, mid-band salaries with significant HRA optimisation (Delhi rents are high), regime mix skewed old-side. Gurgaon and Noida tech offices — funded startups, product engineering offices of global firms, IT services delivery centres — 50-1,000+ employees, high-band salaries with significant variable components, mixed regime distribution. CA firms in Greater Kailash, South Extension, Janakpuri — managing 20-100 client tenants with small per-client payroll.
ReadyBooks covers each archetype on the same product. The same wizard, the same TDS engine, the same Compliance Calendar. What differs is the salary structure template (trading vs services vs tech), the attendance flow (manual LOP vs biometric CSV), and the regime distribution. PT does not factor for any Delhi NCR archetype because Delhi, Haryana, and UP do not levy it.
Multi-office NCR groups (Connaught Place HQ + Gurgaon + Noida) are common. ReadyBooks supports a single tenant covering all three offices, with separate PF / ESI registrations per state and per-office salary structures. The trial balance reconciles across the group; bank-portal CSV can be generated per office or for the combined group.
Delhi NCR mid-band service-business salaries (₹6-25 lakh CTC) are the sweet spot for old-regime optimisation. HRA exemption under Section 10(13A) is meaningful — Delhi rents at ₹25,000-₹60,000 per month are common, which translates to ₹2-5 lakh of annual HRA exemption depending on basic salary and rent paid. Section 80C maxed out via PPF + ELSS + life insurance + home loan principal. Section 24 home loan interest (Delhi NCR property purchases are common at this band) up to ₹2 lakh for self-occupied property. Section 80D mediclaim. 80CCD(1B) NPS additional.
ReadyBooks captures all of this digitally via Form 12BB. The TDS engine applies the right slabs (old regime 0/5/20/30%, new regime 0/5/10/15/20/30%) per the employee's choice, applies the Section 87A rebate (₹25,000 new regime up to ₹7 lakh, ₹12,500 old regime up to ₹5 lakh), marginal relief at the new-regime ₹7 lakh threshold, and the 4% cess. Mixed-regime teams (some employees on new, some on old) are handled in the same run cycle.
For high-band Delhi NCR salaries (Gurgaon funded startups, Nehru Place senior consulting partners) crossing ₹50 lakh, the surcharge engine kicks in automatically — 10% above ₹50 lakh, 15% above ₹1 crore, 25% above ₹2 crore. Marginal relief at each surcharge tier ensures the marginal tax on the next rupee never exceeds 100%.
A Delhi NCR group with offices in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida typically holds three separate PF registrations (one per state) and three separate ESI registrations. Each registration covers the employees physically based at that office. Multi-office employers should not consolidate registrations across states because the regional PF and ESI commissioners are state-specific.
ReadyBooks tracks the PF registration number, EPFO regional office, and ESI registration number per office at the Statutory Settings level. Each payroll run computes PF and ESI per employee based on their assigned office; the corresponding amounts post to the right payable account in the ledger. PF challan ECR file is generated per registration; ESI challan is generated per registration.
Inter-state employee transfers (Delhi office to Gurgaon office) are common in NCR. The PF Universal Account Number (UAN) follows the employee; the new office's PF registration adds the employee to their ECR from the transfer date. ReadyBooks supports the office-change flow at the employee level without breaking the PF / ESI continuity.
A typical Delhi NCR business migrating to ReadyBooks comes from one of three places — Greytip / Keka / Zoho Payroll (mid-sized firms), a custom Excel workbook the founding accountant set up (small businesses), or Tally Prime with payroll bolted on (legacy traders). The migration approach: import employee master data (PAN, Aadhaar, bank account, joining date, basic + HRA + structure components) via CSV. Bring across the last 2-3 pay cycles for trial balance continuity. Re-attest Form 12BB declarations digitally so the audit trail starts fresh.
The bank-portal CSV format change is usually the simplest part of any migration. ReadyBooks generates the standard 22-column format that drops directly into HDFC NetBanking Corporate, ICICI Corporate Internet Banking, SBI Yono Business, and Axis CIB. Most Delhi NCR firms are already on one of these portals; the one-time format reconfiguration at the bank end takes about 10 minutes with the bank ops team.
Multi-office NCR migrations are slightly more involved because PF and ESI registrations need to be tracked per state. The recommended approach: set up the tenant with the head office (typically Connaught Place / Delhi) as primary; add Gurgaon and Noida as additional offices with their own PF / ESI registrations; assign employees to their respective offices in the employee master.
Salary structure templates per role; LOP grid for warehouse attendance. PF and ESI computed automatically per employee; no PT to worry about. HDFC NetBanking CSV closes the run on the 30th.
Single ReadyBooks tenant covers all three offices. PF and ESI registrations tracked per state. Salary structures per office; one ledger; one trial balance. No PT to disable — Delhi / Haryana / UP do not levy it.
Multi-client dashboard surfaces compliance status across all 45 clients. PF and TDS challans recorded inside each tenant. Articled clerks prepare runs; partners approve before posting. The Compliance Calendar only shows PT for clients in PT states (mostly none for Delhi NCR).