AIONDATA product · India

AionHRMS: cloud biometric attendance, leave and payroll

AionHRMS is AIONDATA’s attendance, leave and payroll software for Indian companies that own, or are buying, eSSL, ZKTeco or Realtime biometric terminals. The terminal sends each punch to the cloud itself, so there is no attendance PC to keep switched on, and every site reports into one register that payroll reads directly.

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At a glance

Terminals
eSSL, ZKTeco and Realtime
Connection
iClock/ADMS for eSSL and ZKTeco; Realtime’s native protocol
Verification
Face, fingerprint, card or PIN
Apps
Web console and employee portal; Android app
Price
Free up to 10 employees, then from ₹25,000 a year
Data
Hosted in India by default

Punches go from the terminal to the cloud

Desktop attendance software pulls punches onto one office PC, so a second branch, a switched-off PC or a lost database breaks the register. With AionHRMS the terminal pushes every punch itself, over iClock/ADMS for eSSL and ZKTeco and over Realtime’s native protocol for Realtime, tagged with its site, its terminal and how the person was verified. Compatibility is confirmed for the exact model and firmware before rollout.

Moving off eSSL’s desktop software is covered in AionHRMS as an eTimeTrackLite alternative, with matching notes for ZKTeco biometric terminals and Realtime biometric machines. The guide to connecting an eSSL biometric machine to the cloud walks through the terminal’s own menus, and what to check when a biometric machine shows offline answers the most common support call.

What AionHRMS does today

Everything below is live for every company on AionHRMS.

Payroll from punches

Salary is calculated from attendance: per-employee duty times, single or double shift, a grace period and a late policy you define. Overtime and weekly-off work pay are optional, salary advances are tracked and recovered, and PF and new-regime TDS deductions can be switched on to appear on the payslip.

Leave

Leave types, quotas, holidays and weekly offs set for a department or a single employee, plus short leave, comp-off and manager approvals. Approved paid leave flows into payroll.

Employee portal and Android app

Staff check attendance, payslips and documents and request attendance corrections in the browser portal or the AionHRMS app on Google Play. Where a location enables it, they can also punch from the phone inside a geofence.

HR letters

Offer, appointment, salary revision, relieving and other letters generated as PDFs from templates HR maintains.

Company assets

Company property tracked by holder, with repairs, returns and what a leaver still has to hand back.

Reports and registers

Eleven reports, including location-wise attendance and late deductions, each exportable as CSV or Excel, plus the Form 26 and Form 21 registers as PDFs.

The AionHRMS product tour shows each screen, the AionHRMS changelog dates every release, and the attendance management system overview explains how attendance, shifts and payroll fit together.

What AionHRMS does not do

  • Statutory filing. PF and TDS deductions are computed, but PF ECR, ESI and TDS returns stay with your accountant.
  • ESI and professional tax. Neither is computed.
  • Leave encashment and the statutory leave-with-wages register.
  • An iOS app. iPhone users open the employee portal in the browser.
  • An MCP server for AI agents, or outbound webhooks. Both are in development, not shipped.

The AionHRMS product facts page keeps this list current and dated.

Pricing

A flat annual subscription by headcount band, not a monthly fee per employee.

HeadcountPriceIncludes
Up to 10 employeesFreeOne terminal, one site
Up to 100 employees₹25,000 a yearUnlimited terminals and sites
Up to 500 employees₹50,000 a yearUnlimited terminals and sites
More than 500 employeesQuotedUnlimited terminals and sites

Prices exclude GST. There is no setup charge, and the subscription is invoiced only after your devices are live. Current terms are on the AionHRMS pricing page.

Field data from 281 terminals

In October 2026 AIONDATA published four weeks of real punches from its attendance platform: 968,421 punches from 281 terminals between 14 September and 11 October 2026. Those terminals belong to 268 fitness and wellness centres that run on AdviceFit and one company on AionHRMS, so the numbers describe the platform and the hardware in the field, not AionHRMS customers.

94.6%

of punches reached the server within a minute; the median took 4.3 seconds

13.8%

of terminal-days had a punch arrive more than 15 minutes late

53 / 41 / 5

per cent of terminal punches by face, fingerprint and card

The method, seven findings and a CSV published under CC BY 4.0 are in the biometric attendance field data report.

Built on the AdviceFit attendance platform

AionHRMS runs on the same attendance platform as AdviceFit, AIONDATA’s software for fitness businesses: the same engine, database and device protocols. That platform has handled biometric attendance for more than 1,000 locations over more than ten years. These are platform figures accumulated across AIONDATA’s products, not AionHRMS customer counts; AionHRMS itself went live in August 2026.

Setup, payroll rules and device questions are answered in the AionHRMS help centre. AIONDATA also builds AionHRMS integrations that post payroll to Tally, QuickBooks or an ERP.

Try it on the terminals you already have

Send your terminal model and headcount through aionhrms.com for a written compatibility check and quote.