NepalHRM vs Yak HRM
Yak HRM is the HR system CodeBright builds in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, with Vianet Communications and Konnect Nepal as named users. Below: what its own site and store listings said on 4 November 2026, what 40 staff cost on NepalHRM, and when Yak HRM 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, with biometric attendance and without payroll. Essential NPR 60 and Business NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first employee; 13% VAT on top
Payroll plan for 40 staff, one year
Business: 40 × NPR 99 = NPR 3,960 a month, so NPR 47,520 over 12 monthly bills or NPR 39,600 paid yearly (charged for 10 months). NPR 44,748 with VAT
Statutory payroll
PF, CIT, SSF and TDS on every run. The eTDS file comes out in the IRD format for you to upload, and each employee gets a Tax Deduction Certificate with the deposit vouchers
Bikram Sambat dates
BS and AD side by side in payroll, leave and reports, on the Shrawan to Ashad fiscal year
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 Yak HRM
Short answer: Yak HRM suits a company that wants its HR desk run as tickets and its system adjusted by the people who wrote it, and NepalHRM suits one that wants Nepal's payroll rules and the price in writing before the first call. Yak HRM's site lists twelve modules, from Attendance / Biometric and HR Payroll to Manpower Requisition, Travel & Dearness Allowance and an Employee Help Desk, on the web, Android and iOS. It publishes no price, and the pages we read do not name PF, CIT, SSF, TDS or the Bikram Sambat calendar, which may mean that detail is kept for the demo. NepalHRM publishes both: NPR 99 per employee a month for its payroll plan, and the deductions by name. Every Yak HRM cell below says which page it came from.
| Capability | Yak HRM | NepalHRM |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None. The site has no pricing page (/pricing returns 404) and every call to action is Book a demo (yakhrm.codebright.com.np) | Startup Program free up to 10 employees, with biometric attendance and without payroll. Essential NPR 60 and Business NPR 99 per employee a month, billed from the first employee; 13% VAT on top |
| Payroll plan for 40 staff, one year | Not stated on the pages read. Ask CodeBright for a written quote at 40 employees, with any setup fee, to set against the figure opposite | Business: 40 × NPR 99 = NPR 3,960 a month, so NPR 47,520 over 12 monthly bills or NPR 39,600 paid yearly (charged for 10 months). NPR 44,748 with VAT |
| Statutory payroll | The HR Payroll card covers defined calculations, automation, salary adjustments, advances, pay slips, reports and forms. PF, CIT, SSF and TDS are not named on the pages read (home page) | PF, CIT, SSF and TDS on every run. The eTDS file comes out in the IRD format for you to upload, and each employee gets a Tax Deduction Certificate with the deposit vouchers |
| Bikram Sambat dates | Not mentioned on the home, about, demo, contact or privacy pages, or in either store listing | BS and AD side by side in payroll, leave and reports, on the Shrawan to Ashad fiscal year |
| Attendance hardware | The Attendance / Biometric card tracks check-in and check-out times, absences, late arrivals, early departures and holiday work. No device brand is named (home page) | ZKTeco, Hikvision and Sintech (Realand) devices on Essential and up. ZKTeco devices can sync through an edge agent that stores every punch locally first, so an internet outage does not lose a day |
| Phone app | On Google Play (1K+ downloads, updated 5 Oct 2026) and the App Store (version 2.0.1, 8 Oct 2026), both listing Vianet Communications as developer. Play describes location-aware check-in, leave and holiday tracking, a directory and push notifications | Android and iOS on every plan. On Essential and up staff clock in from the phone, even offline: the punch syncs once the phone reconnects |
| Field work | The 2.0 release notes (24 Sep 2026) mention enhanced field visits, and the privacy policy (updated 23 Feb 2026) uses location for clock-in, clock-out and field-visit check-ins | Geo-fenced office locations with a 25 m to 2,000 m radius on Essential and up; GPS field tracking on Enterprise |
| Travel and allowances | Travel & Dearness Allowance Management assigns employees to projects and tasks for expense calculation, and configures and exports CUG details (home page) | On Business: pre-trip travel requests that print as a Travel Authorization Form, per-diem rates by location tier, mileage by vehicle type, and payout on the next payslip |
| Requests and approvals | Employee Ticket Management: staff raise leave, time, OT and replacement leave requests, and admins raise transfers, role changes and requisitions. Supervisors approve overtime and pull OT reports (home page) | Leave approvals on every plan. Overtime on Essential and up, priced by category: Regular 1.5x, Night 1.75x, Weekend 2.0x, Holiday 2.5x |
| Exits | Employee Termination records the notice period and termination date, and each request is approved or rejected (home page) | Offboarding on Business: a 9-stage exit pipeline that records the resignation date and the last working day |
| Employee questions | An Employee Help Desk where staff raise issues and ask HR or management for help (home page) | Helpdesk on Business. Grievances and anonymous surveys on every plan, the free one included |
| Interface language | The App Store listing gives English as the app's language, and the site does not describe a Nepali option | Web app in English or Nepali on every plan, switched from the account menu |
| Who builds it | CodeBright Pvt. Ltd., Prera Business Center, Jawalakhel: a software house stating 10 years in business, 50+ projects and more than 8 years of work for Vianet (about and contact pages) | Yoddha Lab builds NepalHRM, with support from Kathmandu in Nepal time |
Yak HRM details were read on 4 November 2026 from yakhrm.codebright.com.np (home, about, book a demo, contact and privacy policy pages; /features and /pricing returned 404), codebright.com.np, and the Yak HRM listings on Google Play and the App Store. Where those pages are silent the table says so, which is not evidence that Yak HRM 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.
The price before the demo
Business, the plan with Nepal payroll, costs NPR 99 per employee a month from the first employee with no minimum. Forty staff on a yearly plan pay NPR 39,600 before VAT. Yak HRM's site quotes no figure, so its side of that sum starts with a call to CodeBright.
Statutory terms by name
PF, CIT, SSF and TDS are calculated on each run, the eTDS file comes out in the IRD format, and the Tax Planner shows the CIT contribution that lowers an employee's TDS under Section 63.
BS dates, no second calendar
Payroll periods, leave balances and reports carry Bikram Sambat and AD dates and close on the Shrawan to Ashad year, so finance never keeps a Gregorian copy in a spreadsheet.
No lost punches
The ZKTeco edge agent writes every punch to local storage before upload, and the phone app accepts offline clock-ins, so a dropped connection at the office or on a site visit leaves no gap in the month's attendance.
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 Yak HRM, Answered
The questions buyers ask before they move, answered without a sales call.
Three cases, going by what each vendor publishes. First, your business looks like its reference customers. Yak HRM's home page names Vianet Communications and Konnect Nepal, CodeBright's portfolio describes Konnect Nepal as a rural ISP and includes an employee field app for ISP businesses, and the app's 2.0 release centres on field visits and ticket handling. Second, you want the people who wrote the system to adjust it for you: CodeBright is a custom software company that describes its work as tailored solutions, and Vianet's HR head says in a home-page testimonial that the system can be customised as required. NepalHRM is a self-serve product: your HR team configures it within published plans. Third, you want one ticket queue for everything, from leave and overtime to transfers, role changes and manpower requisitions, which is how Yak HRM describes its Employee Ticket Management.
Yak HRM does not publish a price. On 4 November 2026 its site had no pricing page (yakhrm.codebright.com.np/pricing returned a 404), every page we read carries a Book a demo button, and the free downloads on Google Play and the App Store say nothing about the subscription behind the app. To compare, ask CodeBright for a written figure at your headcount, with any setup, customisation or support fee broken out, and set it against NepalHRM's published rates: NPR 60 per employee a month on Essential and NPR 99 on Business, from the first employee, plus 13% VAT.
On Business, the plan with payroll: 40 × NPR 99 = NPR 3,960 a month. Paid monthly that is NPR 47,520 a year. Paid yearly it is NPR 39,600, because a yearly plan is charged for 10 months, or NPR 44,748 with 13% VAT. A team that only needs attendance, leave and overtime can stop at Essential: 40 × NPR 60 = NPR 2,400 a month, or NPR 24,000 a year paid yearly before VAT. The free Startup Program covers at most 10 people and carries no payroll, so it is not an option at 40. Yak HRM's figure cannot sit beside these because it is not published.
Its pages do not say either way. The HR Payroll module is described as handling defined calculations, automation, salary adjustments, advances, pay slips, reports and forms, and the demo page promises to keep you aligned with company policies and legal standards, but no Nepali deduction is named on the site or in the store listings. That is a question for the demo, not a gap we can confirm: ask to see a payslip carrying both SSF shares, a CIT deduction and a full year of TDS. NepalHRM states its coverage: PF, CIT, SSF and TDS on every run, the eTDS file in the IRD format, and a Tax Deduction Certificate per employee.
The website is run by CodeBright Pvt. Ltd. of Prera Business Center, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, its footer reads Designed by CodeBright Pvt. Ltd., and CodeBright's own site lists Yak HRM Web and the Yak HRM App in its portfolio. Both store listings, though, name Vianet Communications as the developer, and CodeBright's about page says it has worked with clients like Vianet for over 8 years. Before you sign, ask which company holds your contract and your data, and who answers support calls.
Five questions cover what its website leaves open. What does it cost a month at our headcount, and is there a minimum or a setup fee? Does payroll calculate PF, CIT, SSF and TDS, and does it produce the eTDS file for the IRD? Can we see and enter dates in Bikram Sambat? Which biometric device brands does it read, and what happens to punches when the office internet is down? Can staff use it in Nepali? NepalHRM answers each in public: NPR 60 or 99 per employee from the first with no minimum, all four deductions and the eTDS file, BS and AD dates, ZKTeco, Hikvision and Sintech (Realand) devices with a local buffer on the ZKTeco edge agent, and English or Nepali on every plan.
Looking at Other Options Too
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