NepalHRM vs RigoHR
RigoHR has built HR and payroll software in Kathmandu since 2010 and names banks and business groups as customers. NepalHRM charges less per employee, has no minimum and starts free for up to 10. Below: RigoHR's own published facts as of 4 November 2026, 40 staff costed on each, and the cases where RigoHR 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
Minimum commitment
None. Pay for the people you employ, add or remove them any month, and cancel with no annual lock-in
Payroll for 40 staff, one year
Business: 40 × NPR 99 × 12 = NPR 47,520 billed monthly, or NPR 39,600 paid yearly (charged for 10 months). Before 13% VAT
Setup and implementation
Self-serve sign-up with a 30-day free trial on paid plans. Free onboarding and data migration come with every plan
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 RigoHR
Short answer: RigoHR is the established enterprise choice and NepalHRM is the lower-cost one. RigoHR publishes two per-employee prices, Grow at Rs 150 and Premium at Rs 250 a month (shown against crossed-out Rs 180 and Rs 320), and each is subject to a minimum monthly commitment that its sales team confirms, with implementation quoted on top. NepalHRM bills NPR 99 a month per employee on Business, its plan with payroll, from the first employee and with no minimum, and its Startup Program is free for up to 10 people without payroll. Both cover PF, CIT, SSF and TDS and both work in Bikram Sambat dates, so the real differences are price, what each plan bundles, and how much enterprise proof you need. Every RigoHR cell below names the rigohr.com page it came from, read on 4 November 2026.
| Capability | RigoHR | NepalHRM |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Grow Rs 150 and Premium Rs 250 per employee a month, shown against crossed-out Rs 180 and Rs 320. Enterprise, for more than 500 employees, is a tailored quote (pricing page, read 4 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 |
| Minimum commitment | Every plan is subject to a minimum monthly commitment. Sales confirms the amount, billing period and employee-count rules (pricing page and FAQ, 4 Nov 2026) | None. Pay for the people you employ, add or remove them any month, and cancel with no annual lock-in |
| Payroll for 40 staff, one year | Grow: 40 × Rs 150 × 12 = Rs 72,000. Premium: 40 × Rs 250 × 12 = Rs 120,000. Before any top-up to the minimum, the implementation fee and tax | Business: 40 × NPR 99 × 12 = NPR 47,520 billed monthly, or NPR 39,600 paid yearly (charged for 10 months). Before 13% VAT |
| Setup and implementation | No software purchase price. Implementation is a separate part of the rollout, with its fee, migration scope, configuration, testing and training set in a written quote (FAQ) | Self-serve sign-up with a 30-day free trial on paid plans. Free onboarding and data migration come with every plan |
| What the payroll plan bundles | Grow: employee records, leave and attendance, overtime and allowance, payroll and taxes, approval flow, 2FA, self service, notices and messages, basic letters, geo-fenced mobile app, standard reports. Appraisal, shift schedule, helpdesk and training are Premium (pricing page) | Business: payroll plus recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, performance and OKRs, training, helpdesk, documents, assets, shifts, overtime, loans and expense claims |
| Statutory payroll | Payroll and taxes covers salary, allowances, TDS, SSF, CIT, gratuity, bonus, settlement and payslips; the payroll page adds provident fund and computes TDS on projected annual income with mid-year corrections (FAQ and payroll page) | PF, CIT, SSF and TDS on every run. The eTDS file is generated in the IRD format for you to upload, and HR prints each employee's Tax Deduction Certificate with the deposit vouchers |
| CIT and tax planning | Employees see their projected annual tax in self service. Employee change request and tax planning is a Premium feature (payroll and pricing pages) | CIT Optimizer on Business: the Tax Planner shows the CIT contribution that minimises each employee's TDS before the run closes |
| Nepali calendar | Leave, attendance and reporting work in both Bikram Sambat and Gregorian calendars, including branch-specific holiday calendars (leave and time page) | Bikram Sambat and AD across payroll, leave and reports, on the Shrawan to Ashad fiscal year |
| Attendance devices | Biometric devices you already own, the web, or the mobile app with geo-fencing. The page names no device brands (leave and time page) | ZKTeco, Hikvision and Sintech (Realand) devices, plus geo-fenced clock-in from the Android or iOS app, on Essential and up |
| Group of companies | Companies in one group can run separate subscriptions with linked access and reporting, and each extra company pays an additional company fee instead of its own minimum (core HR page) | Multi-company and multi-entity on Enterprise, at a custom rate |
| Hiring | Vacancies and applicants run through RigoJobs, a separate product that passes selected hires into RigoHR (hiring page) | Recruitment (ATS) and a careers page, inside Business |
| Sign-in and certification | 2FA in Grow; Google, Microsoft or Okta SSO in Premium. Rigo Technologies states it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (pricing page and FAQ) | Two-factor sign-in on Enterprise, which a company can make required. NepalHRM holds no ISO/IEC 27001 certificate |
| Track record | In Kathmandu since 2010. States 100K+ employees onboarded, 500+ enterprises and Rs 300 crore of pay processed monthly (company page) | Launched in 2026 in Kathmandu, with a much shorter public customer list |
| Interface language | No Nepali-language option is described on its home, pricing, FAQ, payroll, core HR or leave and time pages (read 4 Nov 2026) | Web app in English or Nepali on every plan, switched from the account menu |
RigoHR details were read on rigohr.com on 4 November 2026: the pricing, FAQ, company and customers pages, the payroll page, and the core HR, leave and time, and hiring product pages. RigoHR does not publish its minimum commitment or implementation fee, and its pricing page does not say whether prices include VAT. NepalHRM prices exclude 13% VAT. Plans change, so confirm current prices and features 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.
Payroll at NPR 99, no minimum
Business includes Nepal payroll at NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first employee with no minimum commitment. Forty staff paid yearly cost NPR 39,600 before VAT, against Rs 72,000 a year at RigoHR's Grow rate before its minimum and implementation fee.
Talent modules in the base plan
Performance, OKRs, training, helpdesk and tasks sit inside Business. RigoHR lists appraisal, helpdesk and training in Premium at Rs 250, and goals and KPI tracking, learning and tasks as Enterprise add-ins.
Start without a sales call
The Startup Program is free for life up to 10 employees: records, leave, biometric attendance and the mobile app, without payroll. Paid plans open with a 30-day free trial, and onboarding and data migration cost nothing.
CIT Optimizer 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 RigoHR, Answered
The questions buyers ask before they move, answered without a sales call.
Four cases, going by what each vendor publishes. First, you need references at bank or business-group scale. RigoHR's customers page names Global IME Bank with more than 4,000 employees on every module, along with Kumari Bank, IME Group, Golchha Group, MAW Group and Prabhu Mahalaxmi Life Insurance, and its company page says it has built HR and payroll software in Kathmandu since 2010. That is the strongest customer proof we have found on any Nepali HR vendor's site, and NepalHRM, launched in 2026, cannot show a list like it yet. Second, your vendor security review asks for a certificate: Rigo Technologies states it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and NepalHRM holds no such certificate. Third, you want single sign-on or two-factor sign-in below the top tier: RigoHR lists 2FA in Grow and Google, Microsoft or Okta SSO in Premium, while NepalHRM keeps two-factor sign-in for Enterprise. Fourth, you want the vendor to run the rollout for you: RigoHR's customer success team runs implementation as a quoted project, while NepalHRM is self-serve with free onboarding help.
RigoHR's pricing page, read on 4 November 2026, lists Grow at Rs 150 and Premium at Rs 250 per employee per month, each shown against a crossed-out Rs 180 and Rs 320, and Enterprise as a tailored quote for organisations with more than 500 employees. Every plan is subject to a minimum monthly commitment, and its FAQ asks you to confirm the amount, billing period, employee-count rules, add-ins and taxes with sales. There is no software purchase price, but implementation is quoted separately. The page does not say whether the prices include VAT.
At list prices, for one year. RigoHR Grow: 40 × Rs 150 = Rs 6,000 a month, or Rs 72,000 a year. RigoHR Premium: 40 × Rs 250 = Rs 10,000 a month, or Rs 120,000 a year. Add the implementation fee, any top-up to the minimum commitment and tax as quoted. NepalHRM Business, the plan with payroll: 40 × NPR 99 = NPR 3,960 a month, so NPR 47,520 over twelve monthly bills or NPR 39,600 paid yearly, because a yearly plan is charged for 10 months. With 13% VAT the yearly figure is NPR 44,748. The bundles differ: Grow includes 2FA but not appraisal, and Business includes performance, recruitment and training but keeps two-factor sign-in for Enterprise.
Yes, going by what each publishes. RigoHR's FAQ says its payroll covers salary, allowances, TDS, SSF, CIT, gratuity, bonus, settlement and payslips, its payroll page lists provident fund and computes TDS on projected annual income with mid-year corrections, and it generates bank transfer files by bank. NepalHRM calculates PF, SSF, CIT and TDS on every run, generates the eTDS file in the IRD format for you to upload, prints each employee's Tax Deduction Certificate with the deposit vouchers, and its CIT Optimizer shows the contribution that minimises an employee's TDS.
At list prices NepalHRM is: NPR 99 against Rs 150 per employee a month for a plan with payroll, and RigoHR adds a minimum monthly commitment and a quoted implementation fee, which weigh most on a small headcount. A team of 10 or fewer that only needs employee records, leave, biometric attendance and the mobile app pays nothing on NepalHRM's Startup Program, which has no payroll. RigoHR describes Grow as for small businesses and startups, so ask its sales team for the minimum before you compare totals.
Yes. RigoHR's core HR page says companies under one group can use separate subscriptions with access, reporting and shared structures linked, and that each additional company pays an additional company fee instead of a separate minimum commitment; its pricing page also lists group company structure as an Enterprise add-in. NepalHRM runs several companies or entities from one login on its Enterprise plan, at a rate quoted for your scale.
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Start the New Fiscal Year on NepalHRM
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