NepalHRM vs Agile HRMS
Agile Solutions, a Microsoft partner in Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu, builds its HRMS on Dynamics 365 Business Central and sells a 17-module edition to banks. Here is what agile.com.np lists as of 5 November 2026, how buying it differs from a NepalHRM subscription, and when Agile is the better pick.
- Free up to 10 employees
- Free onboarding support
NepalHRM at a glance
Published price
Startup Program free up to 10 employees. Essential NPR 60 and Business NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first; 13% VAT on top
Platform
A standalone cloud HRMS in the browser and on Android and iOS; no ERP licence underneath
How it is delivered
Self-serve sign-up, a 30-day trial on paid plans, and free onboarding and data migration on every plan
Statutory payroll
PF, SSF, CIT and TDS on every run, the eTDS file in the IRD format, and each employee's Tax Deduction Certificate printed with the deposit vouchers
Payroll on Business and Enterprise plans
What a Nepali buyer is actually checking for
- eTDS
- Generated in the IRD format
- BS + AD
- Bikram Sambat fiscal year
- NPR 0
- Records and leave for up to 10 employees
- NPR 99
- Payroll per active employee, from the first
NepalHRM vs Agile HRMS
Short answer: Agile HRMS is an HR and payroll layer on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, delivered by a consulting partner, and NepalHRM is a standalone cloud HRMS you sign up for yourself. Agile's banking edition lists 17 modules, Core Banking System integration, Active Directory single sign-on, embedded Power BI and staff loans with EMIs deducted in payroll, and says the bank owns its data, code and customisations. Its payroll article covers Section 87 withholding, the 1% Social Security Tax kept in its own payable account, and SSF contributions prepared for upload. Neither HR page shows a price; both end in a demo request. NepalHRM prints NPR rates, deducts PF, SSF, CIT and TDS with the IRD's eTDS file, and needs no ERP underneath. Each Agile cell names the agile.com.np page it came from, read on 5 November 2026.
| Capability | Agile HRMS | NepalHRM |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None on the HRMS or banking HRMS pages, which end in a request for a demo or a free consultation (read 5 Nov 2026) | Startup Program free up to 10 employees. Essential NPR 60 and Business NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first; 13% VAT on top |
| Platform | Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The banking edition stacks a self-service portal, Power BI, an approval engine and 17 HR modules on the ERP (HRMS and banking HRMS pages) | A standalone cloud HRMS in the browser and on Android and iOS; no ERP licence underneath |
| How it is delivered | A partner project: Agile Solutions offers ERP implementation, support and maintenance, project rescue and upgrades from Dynamics NAV to Business Central (home page) | Self-serve sign-up, a 30-day trial on paid plans, and free onboarding and data migration on every plan |
| Statutory payroll | Section 87 salary tax withholding, the 1% Social Security Tax tracked to a separate payable account, and SSF contributions linked to each SSF number and prepared for upload (payroll article, 12 May 2026) | PF, SSF, CIT and TDS on every run, the eTDS file in the IRD format, and each employee's Tax Deduction Certificate printed with the deposit vouchers |
| Retirement, insurance and CIT | Provident fund and gratuity with fixed or percentage contributions; life, medical and property insurance premiums with tax-deductible calculations. CIT is not named on the pages read (banking HRMS page) | CIT Optimizer on Business: the Tax Planner shows the CIT contribution that minimises each employee's TDS before the run closes |
| Nepali calendar | Bikram Sambat date support for leave provisioning, fiscal-year reporting and date calculations, plus branch-wise holidays (banking HRMS page) | Bikram Sambat and AD across payroll, leave and reports, on the Shrawan to Ashad fiscal year |
| Bank systems | Core Banking System integration for staff data, salary accounts, loan deductions and staff verification, and pre-configuration for Nepal Rastra Bank directives (banking HRMS page) | Salary transfer files for NIC Asia, Nabil, Global IME, NBL and more; NepalHRM's pages list bank files, not a core banking link |
| Sign-in | Active Directory single sign-on into the self-service portal (banking HRMS page) | Two-factor sign-in on Enterprise, which a company can make required |
| Branches and transfers | Inter-branch transfers with handover and takeover, supervisor acknowledgement and deputation tracking, under central HR with branch-level autonomy (banking HRMS page) | Each branch can have its own attendance approver, and a holiday can be set for chosen branches only |
| Attendance hardware | Supports all major biometric devices, collected centrally across branches; no brand named (banking HRMS page) | ZKTeco, Hikvision and Sintech (Realand) devices; an edge agent stores punches from older ZKTeco units while the internet is down |
| Appraisal and travel | 365 Appraisal with KPI scoring, 360-degree feedback and a bell curve; travel requests with per-diem, cash advances and multi-currency expenses (banking HRMS page) | 360 feedback with anonymous peer, report and client answers on Business; pre-trip travel requests with an advance that settle into an expense claim |
| Ownership and scale | The bank owns all data, code and customisations, on a platform said to scale from 50 to 5,000+ employees (banking HRMS page) | A hosted subscription: NepalHRM runs and updates the software, and you pay per employee |
| Phone app and language | Staff use the self-service portal from any device; a separate phone app and a Nepali interface are not described on the pages read | Android and iOS apps for check-in, leave, claims and payslips; web app in English or Nepali on every plan |
| References | NIC Asia Bank describes its HR digitised with Agile on Dynamics NAV; Agni Group, IME Motors and Toyota Nepal speak to its ERP work; 100+ businesses (HRMS and home pages) | Launched in 2026 in Kathmandu, with a much shorter public customer list |
Agile HRMS details were read on 5 November 2026 on agile.com.np: the HRMS solution page, the banking HRMS page, a payroll article dated 12 May 2026, the home page and the about page. Agile quotes prices per customer, so none appear here. Where its pages are silent the table says so, which is not evidence that Agile lacks the feature. NepalHRM prices exclude 13% VAT. Confirm current details with each vendor before you decide.
Built for Nepal, End to End
Four things NepalHRM puts in writing that a buyer usually has to ask a salesperson for.
No ERP project first
Sign up in the browser, reinstall the Nepal tax defaults and import staff with free onboarding support. There is no ERP to license or implement before the first pay run.
Priced per employee, in print
Essential NPR 60 and Business NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first with no minimum. Forty staff on Business paid yearly cost NPR 39,600 before VAT.
An app on every phone
Staff check in, apply for leave, claim expenses and download payslips in the Android and iOS apps, and a check-in made with no signal syncs with its original time within 24 hours.
CIT and the eTDS file
The Tax Planner shows the CIT contribution that minimises each employee's TDS before the run closes, and the eTDS file comes out in the IRD format, ready for you to upload.
Switching HR Software Is Where the Pain Actually Is
Feature lists are the easy part of the decision. What decides whether a switch goes well is the migration itself, and almost none of it is about which platform has more modules.
- Moving mid-year means recalculating tax that has already been deducted
- Leave and CIT opening balances get rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet
- Employee data leaves the old system in one shape and the new one expects another
- The old system stays open for months because nobody trusts the new numbers yet
Move at the Fiscal-Year Changeover
Ashad to Shrawan is the cleanest moment to switch. You start the new year with clean opening balances and skip the mid-year tax recalculation entirely.
What you get on the way in
- Free onboarding support imports employees and configures Nepal tax defaults
- One click reinstalls the Nepal tax slabs, so the first run starts from correct rates
- Most teams complete their first payroll run within their first cycle
- A 30-day free trial of every feature, so you can run a payroll before you pay
From Sign-Up to Your First Payroll Run
The same four steps whichever system you are leaving. Free onboarding support runs alongside all of them.
- Day 1
Set up the company
Sign up, add your company details, and reinstall Nepal tax defaults so the slabs, PF and SSF rates start from the current IRD figures.
- Week 1
Bring your people across
Free onboarding support helps import employees, salary structures and leave balances from whatever you are running today.
- First cycle
Run one period in parallel
Process a full payroll period alongside your current system and reconcile the two before you switch the old one off.
- Ongoing
Close the year in one place
The eTDS file in IRD format, payslips on the mobile app, and bank transfer files for NIC Asia, Nabil, Global IME, NBL and more.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
No Hidden Fees
The Startup Program is free forever for up to 10 employees, for records, leave and biometric attendance. Essential (NPR 60) adds phone clock-in, shifts and overtime, and Business (NPR 99) adds payroll, billed per active employee from the first, with no minimum commitment and no per-module charges.
- All core HR modules
- Nepal payroll compliance
- PF, SSF, CIT & eTDS
- Biometric integration
- Free onboarding support
- Regular feature updates
- Multi-company on Enterprise
- BS + AD calendar
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What You Are Actually Switching To
Every module runs on the same employee record, so attendance, leave and payroll never need reconciling against each other.
Nepal payroll
PF, CIT, SSF and the eTDS file in IRD format, on Bikram Sambat periods.
Biometric attendance
ZKTeco and Hikvision devices, plus GPS punch from the mobile app.
Leave management
Policies, accruals and multi-level approvals on the Nepali calendar.
Recruitment
Jobs, candidate pipeline and interview scheduling in the same system.
Transparent NPR pricing
Every plan and what it includes, published in Nepali rupees.
Free for small teams
Up to 10 employees run the Startup Program free for life: employee records, leave, biometric attendance and the mobile app, with free onboarding.
Switching for the new fiscal year? Read the fiscal-year switching guide for the order the migration should happen in.
Your Team Gets It on Every Device
Employees check in, apply for leave, submit claims and download payslips from the app. Managers approve from the same place, which is usually what decides whether an HR system still gets used after month one.
NepalHRM vs Agile HRMS, Answered
The questions buyers ask before they move, answered without a sales call.
Four cases, going by what Agile Solutions publishes. First, your finance already runs on Business Central or Dynamics NAV: Agile builds HR on the same ERP, and its home page offers NAV to Business Central upgrades. Second, you are a bank or financial institution: the banking edition lists Core Banking System integration, Nepal Rastra Bank directives, inter-branch transfers with deputation tracking and staff loans with EMIs deducted in payroll, and NIC Asia Bank describes its HR digitisation with Agile. Third, you want to own and reshape the system: Agile says the bank owns all data, code and customisations, with Power BI, Teams and Active Directory sign-in in the same Microsoft stack. Fourth, you employ thousands across many branches: the banking page says the platform scales from 50 to 5,000+ employees. NepalHRM is a subscription with set modules per plan, and it launched in 2026.
Agile does not publish a price. Its HRMS and banking HRMS pages, read on 5 November 2026, end in a request for a product demo or a free consultation. Because the product runs on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ask for a quote that separates Microsoft licences, Agile's HR modules, implementation and customisation, and yearly support, so it can be set against a per-employee subscription over the same number of years.
Count three years with every fee in. For 40 employees on NepalHRM Business, a yearly plan is 40 × NPR 99 × 10 months = NPR 39,600, or NPR 44,748 with 13% VAT, so three years come to NPR 118,800 before VAT; billed monthly, one year is NPR 47,520. On the Agile side, add Business Central licences, implementation, customisation and support for the same three years. We cannot show that figure, because Agile quotes each customer.
Its pages cover most of the set. The payroll article of 12 May 2026 describes Section 87 withholding, the 1% Social Security Tax ring-fenced in its own payable account, and SSF contributions linked to each employee's SSF number and prepared for upload; the banking page adds provident fund, gratuity and insurance deductions under the Income Tax Act. CIT and the eTDS file are not named on the pages read, so ask to see both in the demo. NepalHRM deducts PF, SSF, CIT and TDS on every run and generates the eTDS file in the IRD format.
Agile's banking page says it supports all major biometric devices and collects attendance centrally across branches, without naming a brand, so ask which models it reads. NepalHRM validates ZKTeco, Hikvision and Sintech (Realand) devices. Devices that can push send each punch directly; older ZKTeco machines connect through the NepalHRM edge agent on an office computer, which stores punches while the internet is down.
No. NepalHRM is a standalone cloud HRMS: nothing to license from Microsoft and no ERP to deploy. You sign up, reinstall the Nepal tax defaults and run payroll from the browser. If payroll has to post straight into Business Central, that is Agile's home ground; NepalHRM's pages list bank transfer files, not an ERP link.
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Start the New Fiscal Year on NepalHRM
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- Nepal IRD compliant
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