We only compare on capabilities we actually ship. Below: how PeopleVizio stacks up against the two real buying alternatives for an early-stage Indian company — a stack of point tools, or spreadsheets and chat approvals.
Twelve things PeopleVizio ships today that aren't standard across the category. Each is backed by a specific product feature, not a marketing claim.
Tenant isolation enforced at the ORM
Every entity carries a tenant ID. Hibernate injects `WHERE tenant_id = current` on every JPA query — so cross-tenant access via the ORM is impossible, not just discouraged. Most HRMSes rely on application-layer checks; we enforce it one layer deeper.
Audit log with before-and-after permission diffs
Every administrative mutation is logged. Role changes additionally capture the exact permission set before and after — so a security reviewer can see what a role gained or lost, not just that 'someone edited a role'.
One unified approvals queue
Leave, expense, attendance regularisation, and promotion approvals all run through one workflow engine with one queue. Managers don't context-switch between three module-specific approval surfaces.
SLA-based escalation, by default
A scheduled job runs every 15 minutes, finds overdue tasks, and escalates them — not as a paid add-on or a custom workflow you have to build. It's wired in.
Lifecycle events as first-class records
HIRE, TRANSFER, PROMOTE, SEPARATE, and CONFIRM each write a LifecycleEvent with a before/after snapshot of the employee. You don't reconstruct history from change logs — it's already there.
Bulk resume upload with email dedupe
Drag-and-drop up to 50 PDF / DOC / DOCX / RTF / TXT files (10 MB each). Apache Tika extracts text; regex pulls email, name, and phone for dedupe. Candidates are auto-created or merged by email.
Public career site per tenant
Every tenant gets a branded public career page at /careers/{tenantCode} with a public apply endpoint — no login required for visitors, no third-party career-site product to integrate.
In-product rewards wallet and catalogue
Recognitions, badges, points, wallet, leaderboard, and a redemption catalogue all live inside PeopleVizio. No separate rewards platform to procure or integrate.
Pluggable adapters where it matters
Resume parsing and job-board distribution sit behind interfaces. Use the default Apache Tika extractor today; swap in Affinda, Sovren, RChilli, Textkernel, or an LLM adapter when you choose to.
India-first by default
PF and TDS in payroll. India financial year (April–March). New vs old tax regime selected in the employee tax declaration. No add-on, no country pack to buy.
Letter templates in the box
Offer, relieving, and experience letters generate from Markdown / HTML templates with variable interpolation. Stored against the employee record. No external document tool required.
Tenant API keys with revoke and rotate
Scoped programmatic access for each tenant. Keys are first-class objects in tenant settings — revoke them, rotate them, audit who used them.
If you're evaluating against a named HRMS today, here's how we position. We compare on publicly verifiable attributes and on PeopleVizio's own shipped capabilities — not on invented feature claims about other vendors.
A note on fairness. Vendor feature sets change. The summaries below reflect each competitor's public positioning and the kind of customer they typically serve — verify specific feature claims directly with each vendor before you decide.
Keka: India mid-market HRMS with strong UX, popular with Indian SaaS and services companies.
Where PeopleVizio fits
PeopleVizio is leaner, with strict ORM-level tenant isolation and an audit log that captures before/after permission diffs on role changes. India payroll (PF + TDS) and tax-regime intake are in the box.
GreytHR: India-focused HRMS with deep payroll heritage, established across Indian SMB and mid-market.
Where PeopleVizio fits
PeopleVizio is built around lifecycle events and a unified approvals engine. India payroll (PF + TDS) is in the box; the rest of HR — recruitment with bulk resume upload, performance, learning, rewards, helpdesk — comes from the same platform.
Zoho People: Part of the Zoho One suite; broad HR functionality at competitive per-employee pricing.
Where PeopleVizio fits
PeopleVizio is a single-purpose HRMS, not a suite. That focus shows in lifecycle events with before/after snapshots, an audit log with role-change diffs, and SLA-based approval escalation as a default — not an add-on.
Darwinbox: India-origin enterprise HRMS targeting larger Indian and APAC organisations.
Where PeopleVizio fits
PeopleVizio is positioned below Darwinbox in scope and price. If you're an early-stage or mid-market company that doesn't need a sales-led enterprise rollout, PeopleVizio offers the same modules at a smaller, more transparent surface — pluggable resume parser, pluggable job-board distributor, in-product rewards wallet.
BambooHR: US-headquartered SMB-focused HR platform with strong UX and core HR records.
Where PeopleVizio fits
PeopleVizio is India-first. PF and TDS are in payroll out of the box; the tax declaration intake supports the new vs old regime; the India financial year (Apr–Mar) is the default. If your headquarters is in India, that matters.
If the alternative is a stack of point tools or spreadsheets and chat approvals, here's the honest side-by-side.
Single source of truth for employee data
One record per employee, with lifecycle events writing before/after snapshots.
Tenant isolation at the ORM layer
Hibernate `@TenantId` on every query — cross-tenant access via JPA impossible.
Eight standard roles + custom roles with permission codes
TENANT_ADMIN, HR_MANAGER, ASSISTANT_HR, HR_EXECUTIVE, PAYROLL_ADMIN, HR_ADMIN, MANAGER, EMPLOYEE — plus custom.
Audit log on every administrative change
Tenant-wide activity feed; role changes capture before/after permission diffs.
One unified approvals queue
Leave, expense, attendance regularisation, promotion — one queue, one engine.
SLA escalation built in
Scheduled job every 15 minutes escalates overdue approvals.
India payroll (PF + TDS) in the box
India FY (Apr–Mar). New vs old tax regime in employee declaration.
Tax declaration intake
Employees submit regime + investment proofs annually.
Per-employee payslip PDFs
Generated per run with the tenant's branding.
Bulk resume upload with email dedupe
Up to 50 files, Tika text extraction + regex dedupe.
Public career site per tenant
Branded /careers/{tenantCode} with public apply endpoint.
Letter templates (offer, relieving, experience)
Markdown / HTML with variable interpolation, saved against employee.
Recognitions, wallet, leaderboard, catalogue
All in-product. No separate rewards platform required.
Helpdesk with SLA, CSAT, knowledge base
Categorised tickets with first-response and resolution SLAs.
Performance: cycles, goals, calibration, PIP
Cycle phases, cascading goals with KRs, calibration view, PIP.
Per-tenant API keys (revoke + rotate)
Scoped programmatic access from tenant settings.
Pre-built dashboards
Attrition, hiring funnel, leave trends, payroll cost, headcount.
Per-tenant branding
Logo, favicon, primary/accent colour, tagline in tenant settings.
Quickstart wizard for new tenant admins
Branding → org → workflows → roles → first hire → invite team.
Single source of truth for employee data
One record per employee, with lifecycle events writing before/after snapshots.
Tenant isolation at the ORM layer
Hibernate `@TenantId` on every query — cross-tenant access via JPA impossible.
Eight standard roles + custom roles with permission codes
TENANT_ADMIN, HR_MANAGER, ASSISTANT_HR, HR_EXECUTIVE, PAYROLL_ADMIN, HR_ADMIN, MANAGER, EMPLOYEE — plus custom.
Audit log on every administrative change
Tenant-wide activity feed; role changes capture before/after permission diffs.
One unified approvals queue
Leave, expense, attendance regularisation, promotion — one queue, one engine.
SLA escalation built in
Scheduled job every 15 minutes escalates overdue approvals.
India payroll (PF + TDS) in the box
India FY (Apr–Mar). New vs old tax regime in employee declaration.
Tax declaration intake
Employees submit regime + investment proofs annually.
Per-employee payslip PDFs
Generated per run with the tenant's branding.
Bulk resume upload with email dedupe
Up to 50 files, Tika text extraction + regex dedupe.
Public career site per tenant
Branded /careers/{tenantCode} with public apply endpoint.
Letter templates (offer, relieving, experience)
Markdown / HTML with variable interpolation, saved against employee.
Recognitions, wallet, leaderboard, catalogue
All in-product. No separate rewards platform required.
Helpdesk with SLA, CSAT, knowledge base
Categorised tickets with first-response and resolution SLAs.
Performance: cycles, goals, calibration, PIP
Cycle phases, cascading goals with KRs, calibration view, PIP.
Per-tenant API keys (revoke + rotate)
Scoped programmatic access from tenant settings.
Pre-built dashboards
Attrition, hiring funnel, leave trends, payroll cost, headcount.
Per-tenant branding
Logo, favicon, primary/accent colour, tagline in tenant settings.
Quickstart wizard for new tenant admins
Branding → org → workflows → roles → first hire → invite team.
Plenty of HRMSes ship these. We don't yet — and we will not pretend otherwise. When any of these change, this page is where we'll say so.
Native mobile app
The portal is web-responsive and the attendance geo-fence works in mobile browsers. No iOS / Android binary today.
SSO / SAML / SCIM
Authentication is JWT today; single sign-on is on the roadmap.
E-signature on offer letters
PDF letters today; direct e-sign is on the roadmap.
Accounting / LMS / payroll-vendor integrations
Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Email and SMS notification channels ship today. Named accounting / LMS / external-payroll adapters arrive as customers ask.
Production-grade ML attrition model
We ship a deterministic, explainable risk scorer today with a pluggable AttritionSignal SPI. An ML-trained signal can be added without changing the dashboard.
Visual no-code workflow builder
Workflow definitions exist as a CRUD API; a drag-and-drop visual editor is on the roadmap.
SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certifications
Not held today. We will say so on /security until they are.
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