The Zeba story
We never set out to build HR software.
We just got tired of our own spreadsheets.
This is how a small IT services team in India ended up building a payroll and HRMS platform that 500+ companies now run on.
First, we built software for other people.
In April 2022 we started an IT services company, building web and mobile products for clients. Good work, growing team, and a quiet problem growing right alongside it.
Someone had to track who was in, who was on site, who was on leave, and what everyone was owed at month end. So that someone made another spreadsheet. Then another.
One place for our people
So we built the tool we wished existed.
Everything we tried was too heavy, too scattered, or clearly not made for the way Indian teams work. So Zeba began as our own internal system for people, attendance and payroll.
Our team
was the first customer
Our payroll
was the first real test
Our mistakes
became the roadmap
We ran on Zeba for months before we ever asked another business to trust it.
2024
Doors open
Then other founders started asking.
Friends, clients and people we met along the way saw it running and asked the same thing: can we use that?
Demand grew beyond our own team, so in 2024 we opened Zeba to everyone and made it our main focus. The side project became the product.
The spreadsheet is now a platform.
500+
Companies
50,000+
Employees tracked
4,80,000+
Payslips processed
50+
Cities
What we promised ourselves
- 01
Use it ourselves first.
If our own team will not live in it every day, it does not ship.
- 02
Built for how India works.
Statutory payroll, shifts, sites and festival-season reality, not a western template.
- 03
Quiet for employees.
Check in, see a payslip, apply for leave. Done in seconds, no training needed.
- 04
Your data stays yours.
Encrypted, access controlled, and never treated as a product.
We want HR to feel like the easiest part of running a business, not the part you dread on the last day of the month.
Co-Founder, Zeba
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Client stories
What our clients say about us
Teams across India use Zeba to simplify attendance, payroll, and everyday HR - here’s what that looks like in practice.
“Implementing Zeba cut our manual work in half. From tracking attendance to running payroll, everything is automated now. It’s been a massive time-saver for our team.”
Raman
Founder, Kestrel Analytics
“The self-service portal is great because employees can manage their own data, which takes a lot of work off HR's plate. Check-in and check-out are incredibly easy.”
Nitin Kumar
HR Manager, Varma Constructions Pvt Ltd
“Managing records, leaves, and reviews used to be a headache. Zeba gave us one place to handle it all, and the reporting features actually make sense.”
Amit Roy
Educational Consultant, K2Y India
“Payroll used to take us two full days every month. With Zeba it’s done in hours, and compliance feels far less stressful for a growing Indian team.”
Priya Sharma
Operations Head, The Energy Company
“Our field staff clock in with location tracking, and managers finally trust the attendance data. Support helped us go live without disrupting the week.”
Sandeep Mehta
Director, Sundaram Power Systems
“We switched from spreadsheets and never looked back. Leave approvals, shifts, and payslips are all in one flow - our HR team finally has time for people, not paperwork.”
Ananya Iyer
People Partner, Lumora Retail